Survivor 40 - Winners at War

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Misterpants

Adam was being dramatic to the point of me thinking he was auditioning for a local theatre troupe. Glad he was punted.

There's no doubt that he lost his sanity that day, but at least he went out fighting and showed some desperation.


I'm not as in love with this season as I thought I would, the remaining players are pretty uninspiring .


I really want the next season to be redemption Island where they gather a group of first voted out players. I think if we want to see bad players and strategic fumbling it shouldn't be from the winners.

[Misterpants]

Yeah, it kind of went sour from the beginning when all of the older gen players realized the game had morphed into a different animal. They were trying to build relationships, be tactical, think strategically while all of the newby winners were running from person to person, alliance to alliance at hyperspeed. I'm sure they had no idea what the heck was going on.

Good idea on first outs. Also, how about the entire Russell Hantz family where the winner gets a free identity make-over?

[KootenayFlamesFan]

I really needed Adam to be much more low-key this season, but he's not wired that way. Tough to win playing the way he does, there's too much drama, and you can't trust him.

Tony was talking about how all the people playing hard were getting voted out and the quieter players were just lurking in the background, waiting to pick them off. Last night it happened again. There's a lot of players left who are playing not to lose, instead of playing to win. Makes a less interesting season for the fans. I was so excited for this season, but there's been a lot of 'meh'.

[GreenLantern]

That was hard to watch honestly, I think it would have been Nick if Adam didn't make himself such a giant crazy person target.

Interesting to see if they are able to actually break up Sarah/Sophie based on the amount of tricks those two possess. What do they all have anyway? Steal a vote? multiple itdols?

[Cheese]

Today's tribal was great, you'll love this one!

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by Cheese

Today's tribal was great, you'll love this one!

Terrible play by Kim there. Was obvious who they would vote.

[Fuzz]

Jeremy didn't do his alliance any favours. And why would they vote Sophie when they had a chance to try to target someone like Ben or Sarah?

[CaptainCrunch]

Jeremy screwed himself with his allies, like badly.


Kim had the right idea, but guessed wrong.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Jeremy screwed himself with his allies, like badly.


Kim had the right idea, but guessed wrong.

I’d rather take my chances and stay in the game. He made the right move.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

That would have been an awesome move if she would have guessed right. I would have played it for myself, but it was a ballsy move in front of the jury. Sophie and Sara really need to be split up. They're tight and playing a solid, quiet game. That's dangerous.

[Jason14h]

Can someone explain the vote and why they used steal a vote ?

Sophie ended with only 2, when it should have been 3? Did the alliance split 3-3 Tyson and D after the steam a vote but someone in the other alliance didn’t vote Sophie ?

[savardandjokinen]

Originally Posted by Jason14h

Can someone explain the vote and why they used steal a vote ?

Sophie ended with only 2, when it should have been 3? Did the alliance split 3-3 Tyson and D after the steam a vote but someone in the other alliance didn’t vote Sophie ?

Here's my assumption

Tyson: Sarah, Sophie, Ben, Tony, Nick
Denise: Denise(Sarah), Michele
Sophie: Tyson, Kim

Nick and Denise(Sarah) might switch but I'm pretty confident it was like that

I'm also not sure why Sarah still used the steal a vote

[Acey]

Wikipedia says this was the voting

Tyson: Sarah, Tony, Nick, Michele, Ben
Denise: Sarah (2nd vote), Sophie
Sophie: Tyson, Kim
5-2 Tyson

Michele flipped and was presumably supposed to vote Sophie.

Reddit:

So from the edit last night we saw Sophie claim she wanted Sarah to use her advantage and also that she was the one to call the 5 over, which indicates a sense of control

Something that we didn’t see is the fact Sophie knew about Kim’s idol back from weeks ago when Kim had to show it to her. So she knew Kim being on the bottom meant she was going to play it. So she would have then informed the other 4 of this to get Sarah to play that advantage on Denise - drawing attention to Denise as a target, which then tricked Kim into wasting that idol on her.

Votes were then still put on Denise (herself and Sarah’s stolen vote) in case of Kim playing the idol correctly on Tyson, which would have meant a tie vote and then voting Denise out on a revote

Additionally Nick and Michele are still working together. So she was able to feed information between Nick and Michele (without Michele being in that 5 huddle) to know Michele’s vote was going to Tyson (which it did) - which is why Sophie didn’t play her own idol last night.

[trackercowe]

Sophie is going to cakewalk to victory if they don't target her now. Deservedly so as well, she's been moving pieces the entire game. She also took out Rob who I am sure gives her respect for it. That also likely give her bees vote as well. I can't believe they're not trying to break up her and Sarah, now it's probably too late since Sophie also has her idol.

[Weitz]

Originally Posted by trackercowe

Sophie is going to cakewalk to victory if they don't target her now. Deservedly so as well, she's been moving pieces the entire game. She also took out Rob who I am sure gives her respect for it. That also likely give her bees vote as well. I can't believe they're not trying to break up her and Sarah, now it's probably too late since Sophie also has her idol.

I think with the way the game is played now it will be 3 of the weaker players in the end. They will realize the big players and take them out accordingly as they won't stick to alliances.

[trackercowe]

Originally Posted by Weitz

I think with the way the game is played now it will be 3 of the weaker players in the end. They will realize the big players and take them out accordingly as they won't stick to alliances.

Sarah, Denise, and Michelle? I could see that happening. Or sub in Ben/Nick. Sarah has played strong as well, but the other four have been followers or done little for the most part.

[Flash Walken]

I think Denise has a soft spot for Adam and he has a soft spot for Denise and eventually they will be in the final 3

[CaptainCrunch]

Everytime Ben shows up on the screen I want to punch his arrogant face off.



How did this jerk actually win?

[Fuzz]

Military sympathy. Works really well in the US.

[dino7c]

Tribal was good and saved the episode...the first 30 mins were god awful. No challenges, no gameplay...seriously