I forgot it was on tonight. I just can't get into it this season like I usually do.

I saw it. I have to admit that it's kind of dull. Tonight's immunity challenge was cruel, designed to burn calories big time and beat up the contestants. I find that repulsive. I don't mind when they wear them out in the water or with running, but this seemed designed just to injure them and grind down their will.

If you want to see it, it should be on On Demand. Or in maybe a week on the CBS site or app. Which is bad. They want you to pay to get it right away, which is a bad way to keep viewers loyal. If they miss one, they might just stop watching. Or go to a European site to watch it free somewhat illegally, right now. :) Much better to sell ads and let people see the shows they want.

Here's the recap

http://www.ew.com/recap/survivor-cambodia-second-chance-season-31-episode-4

I agree with Plllog, I didn't enjoy last nights challenges. I didn't enjoy seeing good people beat down. Taking Abi to the end, weeeeeell why not....it's been done before and that person won! Remember the bikini model(Jenna) that did nothing the whole show or Parvati(villian)?

I am so disgusted with Abi and her multiple personalities. Do they take her meds away when she comes on the show? And I would really like to see the list of people that voted her back on. I just don't believe they exist. I was looking at them sitting there pleading their cases to her like she is a God and thought what a stupid group there are 4 of you and one of her stop the madness right now flip it! Have her begging for her life and say NO! I just don't get it. I can only hope someone comes to their senses and learns to count.

I think Kass is the unbelievable one that's back on the show. :0) I'd hire her as my lawyer, but wouldn't want to spend time with her. #ChaosKass

Why don't they get ride of Abi???????

Because Abi can never win, so might as well keep her around.

I love this season. I like knowing all the players (or those I remember). I did not like the season where they had just a couple of returning players. And I like the seasons, like last spring, with all new people, too.

I agree with Sushipup on all points (except I'm not loving this season so far). I also like that the returnees were voted in, instead of being cast by the producers. There are far fewer "types", and while there are some favorites from the past, many of the ones selected are there more because they're interesting and memorable, I think, than because they're beloved.

I think it's interesting that a loose cannon like Abi-Maria might do better than a textbook American hero like Terry Dietz, but she might! Yes, she's annoying, and classic Survivor strategy is to keep the annoying ones around. I'm glad they've given time to what she has to say, because although she's a loose cannon, she has a very strong backbone and is pretty honest about herself. She won't work with Woo because he voted for her twice. Period. Won't consider it. It's frustrating to the people who need her for numbers because she won't work with them, and will only do what she wants. And why not? She knows that they're going to dump her first chance they get. And someone else will take her up for her warm little hand on the pen, but then she's going to vote her own way then too, unless she feels like she has to bend to survive, and maybe not even then...

Raven, they were pleading with Abi because in that one moment she was the god of their survival in the game. She's so blunt about everything else, I believe her when she says her mind isn't made up at Tribal Council. At that point, if you're on the bottom, you're pleading to your survivor god to let you survive. There's a huge amount of history that shows that the nice guy, who just lets the chips fall where they may without pleading his case, usually goes home for not showing that he wanted it enough.

I like Kass. I think I liked her the first time. I think she's a good person, bright and interesting. I get bored by the cookie cutter hero types. People like Dietz, but he doesn't reveal anything about himself. He's all buttoned up military man who uses charisma more than social skill. Kass is so socially unaware, however, that she had to read a book. And then had to plot a scenario to demonstrate her new socialiness, making that birthday present--see! it's not a fake idol! Actual sociability involves being interested in people, asking them about themselves, caring about their answers, and finding connections. I wonder if she learned any of that from Carnegie's book. I haven't read the whole book, but he took great stock in learning about the doormen's families, asking after them, etc. In other words, treat everybody you meet like someone you're interested in knowing, and someone you care about.

I, too, miss the camp life survival stuff. I think they handed out the goodies early just to make it that much tougher when they took them away from the third tribe. Which is also cruel. One of the all time best challenges was that digging in the sand for treasure chests in Season One, but the ones they run nowadays are much more visual and more dramatic, horserace style. That's to keep people tuned in. The only thing that changes season to season nowadays, given that there isn't even anything really twisty about the twists anymore, is the "characters" and their social game. And new or old players, they all know it's the social that will get them to the win.

From year one, however, I've been hooked because it plays out like a Zimbardo experiment, where people voluntarily put themselves into distressing situation. Instead of being psychologically harassed and abused by the "guards" (production staff), they're physically abused in the challenges, and make their own psychological challenges. Many many "reality" game shows, everything from Project Runway to Top Shot to Hell's Kitchen to Project Runway, make the contestants live together as roommates with limited access to communication with the outside world, so that tensions will be heightened, and they won't have their love and support systems to help them through, forcing them to rely on their inner strength. They get comfy beds, though, and good, pentilful food. On Survivor, they have deprivation, exposure, vermin and physically brutal challenges, with no outside communication at all until near the end. It strips down their personalities to the core to be so physically deprived. The result is fascinating. But if it were done at as university research, rather than a game show, it would never pass Human Subject regulations.

Oh I get why they were begging her but it's absurd when the 4 people there could have simply said OK well let's just make this easy and all write Abi's name. I have watched since the first survivor still don't like it when they keep the ones that should go away. Those that actually should stay and win get booted.

I just had a thought about a really twisty twist. Everyone of the first nine voted off thinks they're going to an exile island, maybe at a few different points around the site, and with a sack of rice. Then when the merged tribe is down to the last nine, they find out they're actually the jury, and the exiled players are a new merged tribe competing for the big prizes. :) That would be a great way to give the physical/social threats, the weaklings and the fundamentally annoying a chance to win. :)

plllog.....sick! :0) That's a whole nuther game! Kind of unfair really....lol That would freak out any future Survivor players! are you strategizing to get voted off or to stay....:0)

I've been a fan since day 1 but almost fell asleep during last night's show....I didn't like how hard the challenge was and I also wasn't pleased with who went home...But, who am I???? But, I do sit here and tell them what I think, how dumb that move was and other things I'd do different...Wonder if they need an old, 78 yr, ikd broad in next season's show and for sure this one would not run around in my underwear or a bathing suit......