SURVIVOR 35: HHH

[Clueless Morgan]

Watched last night.

I am increasingly not liking Chrissy.  She comes off as really arrogant and full of herself saying stuff like how she's going to outsmart Roark, and is now probably patting herself on the back because Ryan made, IMO, a questionable move.  She doesn't seem to understand that just because you occasionally get a break that doesn't mean you're prophetic.  The one silver lining in her staying is that she still has that invalid idol in her pocket and I'm thinking (hoping) there will be some fireworks when she starts playing it off like it's real.  But I hope that that point that Ryan will have gone sour on her and her attempt to play it will backfire right in her face.

That would be most excellent.  But aside from her getting a little carried away with herself I'm kind of happy to see an older woman (a kid from my POV but any way) do well in this game.  Must be that root for the underdog thing.

I actually liked Chrissy a few episodes ago. The thing that I'm not liking about her now is all the "I'm obviously the smartest player here" horn-tooting she's doing in this episode. She seems to have a pretty hefty ego she's carrying around and I don't like that in players. At least, I don't like when they make it that known to the cameras.

Otherwise I agree that it's nice to see an older woman doing well in the game without resorting to the "Mom" role. In that respect she reminds me of Kass - another "older woman" type who broke that mold and was seen for her brashness and her willingness to be assertive, in contrast with a Dawn who might typify the "mom type" on survivor by being the caring one people go to confide in and then is hit with the whole "I trusted you and you betrayed me" backfire.

I'm disappointed Roark went home.  She looked like a player with a lot of potential.  She seemed to have a pretty cool head on her shoulders and was slow playing things, but perhaps that was her downfall.  Did we really see her talking to Ryan much?  Or did she mostly talk with the other girl?  I can't remember now.  This was the second tribal in a row where the person I thought was putting on a good showing at Tribal went home.  Maybe I'm losing my grip.

Maybe lay off the heavy drugs?

Four more weeks and I promise to lay off the ones I'm on now