Survivor 26: Caramoan

Got to hand to Probst, he did a great job coaxing forth the crazy but handling the entire situation with poise, keeping the two loonies separated and just handling it all right there so that Philip wasn't forced to drown Brandon in the ocean like a rabid little rat terrier back at camp.

I'm starting to forgive Reynold somewhat for being a douche and am starting to root for him more now.

Andrea is a dumbass.

Someone should have put chunks of carbon between Dawn's giant root gnashers during the meltdown and made some diamonds.

Didn't think it would be possible to have any less respect for Brandon...and then tonight happened. What a sad human being. Dude needs serious help. Was entertaining though!!

Pretty sure he's bipolar or something. There's no way he'll be invited back to Survivor, so just get Heroes vs Villians out of your mind.

Like I said during his first season, how on earth did they let that guy in the game. He clearly has serious mental issues. They are supposed to give them psych exams and there is no way he passed either time. TV drama is not worth the potential to seriously injure someone. I hope they don't let him come to the finale. :\

All right, that was entertaining! At this point though, I do hope it somehow bites the favorites in the ass.

lindz_sl said:

Like I said during his first season, how on earth did they let that guy in the game. He clearly has serious mental issues. They are supposed to give them psych exams and there is no way he passed either time. TV drama is not worth the potential to seriously injure someone. I hope they don't let him come to the finale. :\

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Yeah those exams kept Adam12 out of the game.

Can't wait for the reunion after finale.

Phil is great to keep around. The dude will literally never in a million years win the game, he's batshit insane, perfect person to keep with you until the end. The only way he could ever win is if he made it to the end and the other two people were Russell and Brandon Hantz. Phillip made me laugh because he knew exactly what button to push.. "and your kids being taken care of by your aunt." He knew that would get him to go even more batshit insane.

I normally don't watch this show since the season with Tarzan made me hate it, but this episode was great.

Phil is playing an awesome game this time. He is playing on his craziness just enough for people to not take him too seriously while controlling what they do and think. He obviously studied his season with Boston Rob and learned a lot. I'm actually really impressed. With all the Brandon drama and fans tribe sucking, we haven't seen much gameplay over on the favs, but as far as who is playing the best game, it looks to be Phil right now. The others just seem to be doing the regular old survivor thing, not playing hard yet.

Not to mention he has been a beast in challenges. Showing up a lot of the younger men on both tribes.

It was pretty hilarious seeing Phillip having to completely dial back his crazy because Brandon out crazied him.

I also don't understand the women crying.. what was that all about?

If I were on the tribe I either would've knocked Brandon out (he was unstable, who knows what would've happened next) or just laughed.

So wife watches this religiously and we are also watching some older seasons (but they are definitely in the 20s, so not vintage) and it still pisses me off to this day that a scheming, awesome player hasn't won this since Dick Hatch in season 1. Every jury ends up as butthurt morons who can't appreciate a good played game even if it meant they got their feelings hurt. The legacy of having UTR chicks with zero game winning is getting a bit disgusting.

Kubla Kas_sl said:

So wife watches this religiously and we are also watching some older seasons (but they are definitely in the 20s, so not vintage) and it still pisses me off to this day that a scheming, awesome player hasn't won this since Dick Hatch in season 1. Every jury ends up as butthurt morons who can't appreciate a good played game even if it meant they got their feelings hurt. The legacy of having UTR chicks with zero game winning is getting a bit disgusting.

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Plenty of strategy players have won.

I suppose but doesn't it make anyone else sick that Sandra has won the game twice? With exact same UTR strategy?

Who was that dude that won a few years ago that basically controlled the game from start to finish with his nerd pal? JT or something?

There's definitely strategy players.

The first time she won the game the alternative was far, far worse (Lil...trust me, Sandra winning that was a good thing. Fairplay was the best player, but he didn't make it to the end).

I broke down the winners on one of the FoH threads, and it was easy to see that, as a whole, deserving players do end up winning more than under the radar players:

Hatch, Ethan, Heidik (not only uber strategic, but also an uber asshole), Chris, Tom, Aras, Yul, Earl, Todd, Parvati, Bob, Boston Rob, Kim. That's 13 winners who were the dominant strategic force (or at least a big part of it) on their season and completely deserving. I left out several other deserving players who weren't big on strategy (JT, Tina, Dani, Vecepia).

My point is that there have been very few under the radar players who have won, and fewer undeserving winners. Under the Radar will get you far in Survivor, maybe even to the end, but it won't likely win you the game. Butthurt juries happen, and deserving players have gotten screwed out of the million, but these situations are in the minority.

Edit: Yeah, you can throw JT in the strategic column too, but it's generally seen as Stephen controlling the brains part of that season.

Let's all agree that we would put it in Parvati's pooper