Territorial Bloggings
A Cogent Mélange of Lutheran & Pop-Culture Punditry
S:13 - Dumbest. Player. Ever.
Let me go out on a very strong limb here — Jessica/Flica is the dumbest Survivor player EVER! Cao Boi is certainly a bizarre little man, but I don’t think he’s stupid. J/F, however, most certainly is. Last night she proved herself to be willfully ignorant of the hows & whys of playing Survivor. That she (and Cao Boi) ended up doing the right thing is almost irrelevant, given her conflicted confusion (and apparently permastoned state of mind) about proper gameplay.
I like what they did with the “twist” - both how they did the realignment, and the teams that resulted from it. It’s a bit too early to say exactly what will happen, in terms of interpersonal dynamics, although I think the new Aitu is shaping up to be a not-so-nice place for Ozzy. 
It would’ve been interesting to see whether or not Yul would’ve used the hidden immunity to save Becky had it become necessary - I think he would’ve, and I think it probably would’ve been a good use of it at this point in the game, as it would’ve helped solidify his alliance’s control of Aitu through to a merge.
Billy had to have hated watching Cece spill the beans to Candice re: the whole “love at first sight” debacle. At least now the embarrassment will subside until the post-finale reunion show…
The immunity challenge was kind of boring, as it was a basically the exact same challenge as was used during S:10-Palau (the only minor difference was the need to tackle rather than touch in order to win the challenge…).
Props to Nate for catching the octopus, but I’ve got to say that I wouldn’t have wanted to get anywhere near that bad boy — octopi give me the heebie-jeebies, unless they’re on the ice at JLA during the playoffs!
Parvatii is certainly very pretty, but I really don’t think that slutting her way to the final two is a strategy that will gain her the admiration of the jury, much less their votes. She may think she’s flirting, but she did not show any ability to be nearly that subtle — she’s about as subtle as she is ugly! 
Let’s hope they keep it up next week…
-ghp
