My favorite is Ozzie because of how he just has it all - fitness, outdoor savvy and skill, and brains (I thought!). To me, he deserves to win...well up until he had to blab to 3 people that he has the immunity idol! What the heck was he thinking?! Did he not know that the teams would be switched up at some point? Or that his friends are going to have to be his adversaries at some point, when the players dwindle down to just a few?! And even if none of these things were to happen, it only makes sense to keep that information to yourself. ANYONE would know that without thinking, it seems to me. And when he took it from his backpack and hid it on their island/beach, I just knew they were going to have to switch camps and then he would be separated from it. But luckily for him, the new group that he is in is the one that went to the same camp he was at previously. I can see that he might think someone could sneak into his backpack and find it, since that is what happened last season, but still, hiding it on the island seemed risky too. I also like James and I like Cirie too. I know she has some 'anti-fans' and I can see why, but to me, she is playing the game smart, in the only way she has open to her. She wants to win as much as anyone, and she realizes it won't be by strength or athleticism. But, yeah - voting the strong ones off is risky too, with competitions to win. But I think it is a risk she has to take if she wants to have a chance to win. But with her stategy, Ozzie may be the next target. When it comes down to INDIVIDUAL challanges, Ozzie (Ozzy?) will be almost assured to win them all, right to the end. ALthough if James is still there, he may be right up there with Ozzy. I don't feel one way or the other about Chet, really. I realize he is NO help to his team, but then that was just HORRIBLY disrespectful of 'Tank' to purposely and disdainfully drag him along. That guy is just full of spite. Ugh! Not pretty! I don't like Parvati either. Mostly, I think, because of how she uses sex appeal and heavy flirting etc. has her weapon - her leverage to keep in the game. She did it in her other season too, and now it's the same in this one. It smacks of 'prostitution' - not in actuality, but in attitude and spirit. Joel - I really dislike how he hammered on and on at Cirie one or two episodes ago when she dared to disagree with him over how that group should vote. I realize he wanted his way as much as she wanted her view to predominate, but still, he was just so unrelenting and ugly about it. The weak ones banding together to make it farther in the game, at the expense of the stronger ones, kind of goes against what we feel is normal and right, but it certainly is inovative and a good plan for them personally. Otherwise they are just pawns to be dispatched without a thought, as soon as necessary. Oh! And I have to hand it to Amanda for catching that shark! Barehanded, wasn't it? Wow! :) Wanda in South Texas Here is a link that might be useful: The Bee Hive

I don't think that was a very smart move on the Heros part to vote off Tom, a real strong player. We will see if James recovers enough to do good in challenges. Heros just can not do puzzles, it is too bad. I am looking forward to the match-up between Boston Rob and Russell, I really hope Boston Rob stays in the game longer, he is a good leader for them. Will be really curious to see who gets voted off next on the villians. I am tired of Courtney and Sandra almost always sitting out of the challenges, enough of that already. I think they need to change the rules that you can not sit out of challenges not just back to back in the same episode but back to back to back in different episodes.

The Eguardo blindside is still my favorite blindside of all time. I actually think it was a good strategy on Bob's part. He maintained his alliance with Randy by voting for Suzie, but he bought himself some time with the other alliance. He was third man out with Corrine and Randy. Randy and Corrine became complacent when Randy was given the 'idol'. He and Corrine could have been using that extra time to work out a deal with someone in the other alliance for what happens after the last night's tribal council. Now that the onions are down to two, it'd be smart for some on the other alliance to think about flipping some of the onions to better position themselves for the final three. There are several parts to Randy's outing that made it funny - Sugar's rant - Crystal's rant - The onion's laughing at council because they thought they had pulled one over - the other alliance laughing because they knew what was actually happening - and the jury sitting there laughing. I don't know how Jeff probst kept a straight face. He had to be excited about all of the drama. I don't think Charlie and Marcus liked Randy all that much because they laughed at the 'idol' too. I can image afterwards they were like "Oh carp, he's coming back with us."

"Fabio surprised me with his little tirade about not going to reward." Fabio and Chase had had a talk earlier in the day wherein Chase promised him that he'd take Fabio with him on the reward if he won. And Fabio promised that if he won, he would choose Chase to come along. Fabio and his mother live in different states and only see each other about twice a year. As Fabio said, Holly and her husband live together, so it wasn't as big a deal for them to get to go on the reward as it would have been for Fabio and his mother. And before you bring up the fact that Holly and her husband spent their 25th anniversary apart while Holly has been playing Survivor, it really wasn't much of an anniverary reward for them if they couldn't be alone together doing the horizontal mambo. "According to the spoiler boards there was a lot that went on during tribal that wasn't shown. Jane accused Sash of something that he denied. The cameras were turned off for a while while it was discussed." I doubt the cameras were turned off for any discussion during tribal council. It's a well-known fact that those tribals usually last around and hour and a half to two hours, and have been known to last even longer than that. It's just that it's always severely edited to make it seem like it's only 15 minutes or so.