All I can say is thank goodness those people finally used their so called brain!! And they waffled about it to the last second. She should have been gone day one! I just don't get it how can you say someone is loyal when they threw all your food in the fire and you are suffering because of her and she literally can not do anything! I really don't believe she could possibly be a nuclear engineer. She lost every challenge for them even when they were so far ahead. What the heck was she doing with that flag in the basket thing? picking it up and putting it down over and over when she could feel the edge of the basket and the flag. I think she was doing it on purpose I really think her whole plan was to see how much she could screw up a tribe before being sent home. Sure seems that way. I felt so bad for the one guy on that team, he has carried them all the way and she still manages to destroy it. I had already decided if they sent him home and kept J tai I was not watching any more. Whew thank you, I can watch LOL

"I would rather have seen Noura go after that very strange tribal council." Noura really seems certifiable. Even before tribal council, when she was trying to convince Dean (?) to split the vote, and she couldn't understand that all four of them (the ones who didn't get the loved ones reward) needed to cast their votes on the same person. They even showed her with leaves spread out on the beach, to represent everyone, trying to figure out the votes! But Dean started it all at tribal, when he leaned over to Tommy and told him that he was on the chopping block. Why did he do that? He seemed genuinely irritated that he didn't get picked for the reward. But, yeah, after the way Noura spouted off at tribal, I was really hoping that everyone would say to themselves, "ok, we can get rid of Karishma next week, but Noura's got to go now." I agree with Share_Oh that the group shouldn't be allowed to move around to talk amongst themselves so much. Whispering to the person next to you is one thing, but getting up and walking around shouldn't be allowed. They should have their strategy worked out before they walk in.

"I bet the next season the no sitting out the same player in back to back challenges will be in place again." The "not sitting out the same player in back-to-back challenges" rule has always been in effect, but it only comes into play when there are two challenges in one episode, e.g, a reward challenge and an immunity challenge. So far this season, all of the challenges have been a combined reward/immunity challenge. I think that if they go back to two tribes, which they might because they're down to 12 players, so it would be two teams of 6, they could do separate challenges. Of course, since they need to devote time to the folks on Redemption Island and what happens with someone on RI trying to get fire tokens from a player still in the game, they probably don't have time for two challenges. I'm just kinda surprised that we haven't seen any of the players on Sandra's team(s) complaining about her always being the one to sit out the challenges.

It's an interesting idea. I guess to keep long time Survivor fans watching, they have to come up with different concepts. Surely the others knew that the person sent solo to the island for 2 days would be offered some kind of benefit, but wouldn't imagine the exact deal. If she decides to turn back time, I think we're in for some drama!