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After tonight, I feel like I can sit back and relax and enjoy the rest of this season...

SPOILERS FOR LATEST EPISODE TO FOLLOW...

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I am LOVING this season. It's got great characters and storylines and challenges and especially Tribal Councils. Every one of them (except this latest one) has been a nail-biter IMO.

This latest TC was a let-down due to my beloved Kristina's ousting being so obvious, but the episode more than made up for it with the permanent eviction from Redemption Island of Russell earlier in it!

I love how the Zapatera 6's plan to get rid of him worked so flawlessly. And then for him to break down so wretchedly before he left...! Between that and his armpits and his early boot you'd almost think a scriptwriter couldn't have written a more humiliating season for Russell than this one. Hopefully that's the last any of us ever have to hear from him again.

But now with Kristina gone, the Zapatera 6 are definitely my favourite contestants there this season. I really hope they can stick together until the end. Rob's boring 4sum have got to go! I can't stand the way everyone on that tribe (except Kristina and maybe Phillip) just follows him around like he's some God or something. Those people need to quickly get a backbone and realise he's just using them all as pawns to further his own ends.

Well done to Matt for surviving two challenges on RI. I had a feeling from one of his confessionals a few episodes ago that they were hinting that he might go on a challenge-run there so I wonder if my instinct is going to be right? Part of me hopes to see him do that and then come back and kick Rob out of the game - but the other part really wants to see Kristina win of course. Dilemma.

I think the RI twist has been a successful one so far though and I hope it gets used again next season (or more).

It's my understanding that RI will be back next season!

Oh, Russell, your tears bring me so much joy! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Now get out, loser!

I have the distinct feeling Matt is going to pull a Fabio and do a run on these RI duels and be back in the game. I'd love to see him kick Rob out... Rob will definitely regret allowing his jealousy of the younger, prettier Matt to take over his common sense!

Sucks to see Krisitina get the boot... because Phillip is just about unwatchable. Once again Rob went against his alliance's wishes, and he will pay for it.

They need to move survivor to the island of LOST. Lets see some real survivor skills.

GO MATT GO!!!!

Still enjoying this season -

But Zapatera need to start getting it together. Though I was happy to lose Russell's two 'Manson' girls, I'm worried their losing streak is going to continue and they're going to go to the merge without the numbers.

And the only people I like on Rob's team are Andrea and (for comedy value) Phillip. I especially dislike those two lazy, entitled, 'follower' girls on his tribe so the sooner they're gone, the better.

Well done to Matt for pulling out another victory on R.I. I hope he kicks out Stephanie next too but I have a feeling his run may be about to end. If it doesn't though, and he rejoins the game only to ally straight back with Rob again - I'll be supremely disappointed. None of those players (except Kristina) are doing anywhere near enough to get rid of him.

If things continue as they are, I have little trouble predicting Rob winning this season.

OOOH! If Matt re-aligns himself with Rob, I will be colossally disappointed in him and he will deserve to lose.

IMO whomever returns from Redemption Island will have the world's biggest target on their back and better realize that right away.

Hey lash, what season is this?

Spring.

>click...Blam<

Rick it is either like the 20th or 21st season, right in that range. 2 seasons per year, IIRC.

Still not crazy about the redemption island twist... I'd rather have the tribes compete in more than one challenge in an episode...

waiting for Rob's alliance to realize they have to vote him off sooner than later... I hope Russell is still off crying somewhere...

Holy Jeez... last night's vote was brutal to watch...

Such a bizarre immunity challenge... how many times did Probst say something like, "Mike's balls were about to fall off but he caught them"?

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Gosh! Like Shark Lad said, that vote was just disturbing to watch. Rob and the Ometepes were like the wolves in that old Aesop fable, luring their prey, the sheep, into a false sense of security before turning around and eating them. Poor Matt! That may have been the most brutal vote in the history of this game.

I can't feel too sorry for him though. The guy was a total idiot and deserved everything he got for trusting Rob again after he had already kicked him out once. The deal Mike offered him was so clearly better for him than being at the bottom of Rob's alliance but out of some ridiculous loyalty to a tribe that had already shown him that they weren't loyal to him, he led himself to the slaughter.

I definitely don't think he's going to make it back from Redemption Island this time. Matt's story is done. I'd love it if he got to go up against Rob over there though - and beat him! I want Rob out of this game.

Unfortunately that is now almost impossible to happen. He's got his followers far too tightly wrapped around his finger. I definitely think the Zapatera 5 are all out next (unfortunately). I can't see any situation that sees any of them survive. :-(

Since an Ometepe is so definitely going to win this season (IMO) the only person I can root for now is Andrea. If Rob, Ashley and Natalie are the Final 3 I will be sick.

The vote may have been brutal, but my sadistic side found it completely delightful.

I can't imagine what it must be like, being accepted onto Survivor and then to spend almost the entire game in isolation. I could almost hear that poor guy's mind snap when the vote was read. I wonder whether he thought to bring his Bible with him to Tribal Council, or he has to go back to RI with nothing.

If somehow he does somehow make it through to the end, though, I wonder whether it would work in his favor (he never really had time to get on anyone's bad side) or against him (he didn't really play the game).

Sorry Matt, I j'adore you but I stand by the above statement.

Blacula, if Andrea is smart she will flip to the other tribe NOW. That might shake it up a bit.

Feh. This season has jumped the shark. Boston Rob's stranglehold has officially become boring.

Things might perk up a little once only Rob's people are left and begin to turn on each other, but I'm all "Who cares?" now.

Bringing back well-seasoned vets to lord over the newbies is something I hope they do NOT do again.

LOVED Julie calling Rob's people a cult!

^ Totally agree. Watching Rob's boring band of sheep following his every command as to who they can talk to, when they can go to the toilet and what they can eat is not only completely boring - it's pitiful!

And the way (some of) them act all bitchy and attitudey to Zapatera as well (I'm looking at you Philip - who has well and truly jumped the shark for me. His 'crazy' routine is no longer funny or likeable anymore. He just seems like a loser to me now.) is not fun to watch.

I so don't want an egomaniacal, paranoid, narcissist like Rob to win this game - and yet, who on Ometepe deserves it more? Andrea will if she steps up. But the rest of them? Have not done one thing in 10 or whatever episodes.

Loved Julie calling them a cult too. Rob clearly didn't like it though. I wonder if he will target her next out of spite?

I hope things start shaking up next week though 'cause I can't take another boring episode like the last one.

It's pretty amazing that in all of the years that Survivor has been on, excluding the season where the tribes started off grouped along racial lines, that this past week's episode was truly the first aired featuring a discussion of or an argument surrounding race... the word "crazy" clearly brings up some deep-rooted feelings for Phillip... while it doesn't appear to take much to send him on a rant, it was fascinating to see how he was triggered... you know the producers were drooling when they got that footage as well as Jeff's "therapy session" at tribal council...

I forgot about Survivor this week. Do you think it is it worth my time to watch or is the outcome predictable?

Lash, the "crazy"/racial conversations and the subsequent interpersonal dynamics were interesting to see.

Does it seem to anyone else that Probst is stirring the pot in tribal council more than he's done in earlier seasons?

Seems about par for the course... he's been this way for many seasons now, I believe...

I think Probst handled the racial discussion very, very well, personally. While I'm sure that he gets a heads-up from the producers, his moderation of the discussion was expertly done.

But, yeah, Lash...though nothing was surprising vote-wise, I think this is a must-see episode. It will certainly be a big part of the reunion special, I'm sure.

I honestly don't know why Phillip went there. The other tribe-within-the-tribe would've reacted the same way if any of the others had approached them about the rice issue. They probably would have caused them "crazy" also, if any of them had behaved like Phillip has.

I read the recap on EW.com instead. Just can't bring myself to watch anymore, maybe around the end I will start back.

This experiment with 2 experienced players and a legion of newbs is a COLOSSAL FAIL.