SURVIVOR

[Clueless Morgan]

You just pissed off a lot of fangirls.

Truly don't care.  

It's awful.  You girls enjoy.

Meh, Joe is really Cathy's thing...

Oooh. I'm a huge fan of Survivor. This has been a great season.

Glad you could join us for the final (one-episode) stretch!

Jeremy, I'm not sure why everyone talks about him being good strategically. I think he is okay but can anyone name a great move he pulled off? And... he believes in astrology? Maybe he was joking.

Being great strategically can mean a lot of different things.  To some it's making big moves, to others it's keeping the movers and shakers out front to they take all the bullets.  If you're interested in "big moves" I would say Jeremy's biggest move was when he played his idol for Stephen - only in hindsight do we know what a bad move that would eventually be, but in the moment he was using a tool at his disposal to keep his closest ally in the game.  Stephen was Jeremy's strategy shield the way Jeremy was using Joe as a meat shield - keep movers and shakers out front and they'll always be voted out before Jeremy because they're seen as the bigger threats.  Stephen and Joe are now both gone, but Jeremy is still in.

I sometime think that people don't really appreciate the subtler game play of players like Jeremy and Kelley...

And I think he was joking about the Scorpio thing  (At least I really hope so)

Kelley saved herself from goathood with that idol play a few weeks ago. She seems to have a good social game but I haven't seen her really dominate strategy wise.

For good reason, I think.  Look at what happened to her alliance member, Cierra (and for that matter, Stephen), who tried to make those big moves that people lament that Kelley (and Jeremy aren't making - she (they) got voted out!  Kelley appears to be playing a more socially strategic game than anything - she's trying to find in-roads with people she can build a voting bloc with to stay in the game.  She's got a good story for the jury if (when?) she makes it there, too: She's found idols and played them well (we're assuming she plays her last idol well since we're assuming she made it to the jury), she's been an underdog for the entire game but survived every vote, she has a good second-chance story of being invisible her first season and wanting to redeem herself and justify why she was initially cast in San Juan del Sur... she's got a lot going for her at the end of this game.

Also, Jeremy and Kelley both still have a hidden immunity idol. This is really one of the least predictable endings I've seen so far.

I'm excited for the end.  A lot of casual fans don't like returnee seasons but they're always my favorite - the game play is always on a whole other level.


Stephen's Blog from Abi's boot episode
http://www.people.com/article/survivor-c...gomes-exit
He writes here about Tasha's game - the game we're not seeing on TV.