I said I wanted Cirie to at least make it to final 7 and phew! I think she just managed to squeak her way through to 6! I thought, before the vote, that I might have retroactively cursed Cirie to only make it to the final 7 
This tribal was amazing. First, and perhaps this is because my brain is officially mush by the time I’ve been getting home at night, I went into tribal with no clear picture of who was being voted for – Sarah? Tai? Aubry? What was the settled plan? Was there a settled plan?
Second, the editors didn’t, to my memory, drop the hint earlier in the episode that the vote steal was non-transferable so when Sarah mentioned it at tribal it was like a bomb exploded all over Cirie, KA-BOOM! There are your great plans all blasted to smithereens before your very eyes.
The ironic thing was that she really was attempting to save Sarah with the vote steal since everyone was talking about turning on her but now Sarah probably thinks that she was trying to steal the vote to use for herself! GA!!!!
Third, it looks like Cirie's plan to console Tai so he doesn't play an idol might have worked - I would have thought after all the talk at tribal and how things blew up and how skittish Tai can be that if he had brought an idol to tribal he would have played it... but he didn't.... maybe Cirie's gambit worked and he didn't bring one? In any case, this is bad news for Cirie's chances because Tai is still in, still has two idols, knows Cirie was lying to him, and now Sarah might be turning on her, too.
I really hope Cirie can patch things up with Sarah next week because this tribal was not a good look for Cirie.
I’m glad to see that the other players picked up on Sarah’s obvious pandering to Sierra and the jury when she was fake-shocked. I hope that comes back to bite Sarah in the ass, even though I think she’s playing a pretty great game. It was stupid to be so obvious about it.
I’m also glad that there was talk about what the criteria might be for voting on the winner this season – whether it’s pure gameplay and to what degree relationships and emotion factor in to the decision. I tend to think that returning player seasons lean much more toward the best gameplayer which means if Sarah gets to the end she’ll win, even despite Cirie’s hopes that there will be a bitter jury toward her. I’m not sure of how many people on the jury will feel betrayed enough by her to overlook that she’s playing a great game.
It looks like next week we’ll see Tai having an idol-revealing breakdown. I got the impression he might have been giving Brad or Troyzan his idols, or maybe we’re setting up a Three Amigos situation like in Caramoan when Malcolm blew up tribal by having immunity and then giving his two idols to Eddie and Reynold, only in this situation it would probably be Brad winning and Tai protecting Troyzan - which means Troyzan would be the no-vote-goat.
I’m not really understanding the Michaela vote as I didn’t watch the vote-reveal at the end. My only suspicion is that Cirie held to her Tai vote, so at least she can go back to Sarah with that to her name. But I think her days are numbered.
My only hope for the rest of the season now is that only one of the threesome of Brad, Tai and Troyzan makes it to the finals, otherwise it will be an incredibly boring final tribal to what has been a really great season.
This tribal was amazing. First, and perhaps this is because my brain is officially mush by the time I’ve been getting home at night, I went into tribal with no clear picture of who was being voted for – Sarah? Tai? Aubry? What was the settled plan? Was there a settled plan?
Second, the editors didn’t, to my memory, drop the hint earlier in the episode that the vote steal was non-transferable so when Sarah mentioned it at tribal it was like a bomb exploded all over Cirie, KA-BOOM! There are your great plans all blasted to smithereens before your very eyes.
The ironic thing was that she really was attempting to save Sarah with the vote steal since everyone was talking about turning on her but now Sarah probably thinks that she was trying to steal the vote to use for herself! GA!!!!
Third, it looks like Cirie's plan to console Tai so he doesn't play an idol might have worked - I would have thought after all the talk at tribal and how things blew up and how skittish Tai can be that if he had brought an idol to tribal he would have played it... but he didn't.... maybe Cirie's gambit worked and he didn't bring one? In any case, this is bad news for Cirie's chances because Tai is still in, still has two idols, knows Cirie was lying to him, and now Sarah might be turning on her, too.
I really hope Cirie can patch things up with Sarah next week because this tribal was not a good look for Cirie.
I’m glad to see that the other players picked up on Sarah’s obvious pandering to Sierra and the jury when she was fake-shocked. I hope that comes back to bite Sarah in the ass, even though I think she’s playing a pretty great game. It was stupid to be so obvious about it.
I’m also glad that there was talk about what the criteria might be for voting on the winner this season – whether it’s pure gameplay and to what degree relationships and emotion factor in to the decision. I tend to think that returning player seasons lean much more toward the best gameplayer which means if Sarah gets to the end she’ll win, even despite Cirie’s hopes that there will be a bitter jury toward her. I’m not sure of how many people on the jury will feel betrayed enough by her to overlook that she’s playing a great game.
It looks like next week we’ll see Tai having an idol-revealing breakdown. I got the impression he might have been giving Brad or Troyzan his idols, or maybe we’re setting up a Three Amigos situation like in Caramoan when Malcolm blew up tribal by having immunity and then giving his two idols to Eddie and Reynold, only in this situation it would probably be Brad winning and Tai protecting Troyzan - which means Troyzan would be the no-vote-goat.
I’m not really understanding the Michaela vote as I didn’t watch the vote-reveal at the end. My only suspicion is that Cirie held to her Tai vote, so at least she can go back to Sarah with that to her name. But I think her days are numbered.
My only hope for the rest of the season now is that only one of the threesome of Brad, Tai and Troyzan makes it to the finals, otherwise it will be an incredibly boring final tribal to what has been a really great season.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
