The look on Eliza's face when they voted out Ozzy was priceless! She was loving how he was blindsided.

Yes, last night's TC was the first one where I wasn't sure what the outcome really would be until Jeff was done reading the votes. Great episode and smart move on the girls' part.

I agree! I guess Alexis and Natalie are taking the "flying-under-the-radar" approach. Parvati annoys me, too, but I think she was instrumental in getting Ozzy out last night. So, her stock went up a bit in my book.

Part of the reason we don't know Alexis and Natalie is becuase their tribe kept losing rewards and winning immunity. They show the tribe that wins the reward enjoying their reward. Then we see the Immunity Challenge and then we see the tribe that loses Immunity while they do their scheming and plotting back at camp before Tribal Council. Then we see TC. We didn't see the tribe that lost Reward but won Immunity.

Cirie is so my favorite this season. She's not only playing the game, but she also gives GREAT commentary as to what's going on in the interviews. :p

Well, we finally see a little bit of Natalie this week. Up until now, I kept forgetting about her. She's pretty sneaky, too. Honestly, if I were Jason, I don't think I would have played the immunity idol, either. For one, Natalie was pretty damn convincing, and her plan that pretty much fell into her lap by accident played out beautifully. Two, I think playing the idol would have only delayed the inevidable one more week, barring an immunity streak. Why not show the others that you really DO trust them on the off chance that they were telling the truth. If it would have worked out in his favor, there was a lot to gain, and only one week lost by it not working in his favor. I don't doubt, however, that not playing the idol, combined with last week's doof will earn him a place in realitynewsonline's Hall of Shame.

Oh, and I was also glad that Jason's final words weren't all whiney like Ozzy's were.

That's a lot nicer than what I would say about her! I wondered (hoped, maybe) that all her comments like "floss my teeth with his jugular" and "women are brutal, evil, cut-throat, deceptive, etc..." were prompted by the producers/staff. If so, then fine; it made for interesting TV. If not, however, and she is really that mean, then I hope she goes soon.

There's a difference between making strategic moves for the sake of staying in the game. But it seemed like she was just being mean for the sake of being mean. Not too strategic, if you ask me. :rolleyes:

I thought Jason was an idiot for not playing the idol, he made the same mistake that Ozzie made in which they got too comfortable. First rule..trust no one..second rule is don't forget the first rule. I don't care how much someone claims to have an alliance with so and so, it's a game and everyone's out for themselves. A red flag to Jason should've been when Natalie runs up to him before an Immunity challenge talking about who "they" were voting out? Second, Jason should've tucked that idol in his shorts because he should've known they were gonna search his bag for that thing.

Parvo is on my last nerve! I just hope James comes out the winner. I love how he says they are all a bunch of dumbasses! *lmao*

Things got a bit shaken up last night. I knew when tribal council started that Amanda was putting on an act (and a damn good one), and that she really had the idol. I don't care if she had to dig herself halfway back to China, she was going to find that thing. Otherwise, she was about 99.9999% sure she was going home. I loved the looks on Ozzy (and the rest of the jury, for that matter) when they thought that Amanda was being voted out, and then again when she pulled out the idol.

Wouldn't it be funny if Amanda made it to two finals in a row? I think she's got a much better shot at this one. The last time, she was a party to most of the votes that put people on the jury. That made her feel guilty, and she lost it at Final Tribal. This time, the only person she was a party to voting out so far is Alexis (yeah, she voted for Jason, too - but it was pretty clear that she wasn't the ringleader on that). Alexis said in her final words that she know's it's a game and she's not mad. I realize that saying that doesn't always matter when it's time to vote, but I'm pretty sure of all the people left, Amanda's got Ozzy, Eliza, James, and possibly Jason's vote. That's already a majority. She'd have to majorly blow it (AGAIN) at this point to loose.

That was a GREAT episode.. Amanda acted amazingly....now Erik knows he HAVE to win immunity as does Natalie or they are DONE.. I dont want Natalie to win this thing(I dont think she will since the jury is filled with Favorites). Cirie as much as I like her cant win at this point

I was sad to see James go. I couldn't believe it when he came to tribal council with an IV!!

I'm so glad Amanda found the idol. I wish that she and Parv had voted for Natalie instead of Alexis, but perhaps Nat will go next. I'd much rather see Erik stick around than her (in fact, I wouldn't be disappointed if Erik won the whole shebang).

And AF, I agree about loving the looks on the jury members' faces when everything played out last night. The last three episodes have been great!

Finale tonight! I'm so excited. After everyone kept saying around the merge time that the rest of the season would be boring because the pecking order was firmly establised, I think this has been the best few episodes ever.

Unless Natalie wins immunity (which probably won't happen) and Amanda gets voted out, I think she's got it in the bag, as long as she's learned from her horrible China jury experience. She's got Ozzy & James's vote, straight away. If she can convince Erik to blame Natalie for his dumb move, I think she can get Erik's vote too. I think Eliza and Jason's votes are a bit up for grabs. I have a feeling that Alexis and Natalie will vote for Parverti. Most of the people at realitynewsonline think that Cirie's got a better shot than Parverti, but I think Cirie's too abrasive and won't tell the jury what they want to hear like Parv will.

I still can't believe that either Parv, Amanda or Cirie couldn't see the benefit of taking Natalie and Erik to the jury with them. Even if one of them betrayed their alliance and went that way, I think any of the three of them could beat both Natalie and Erik, hands down. Time and time again, we've seen that good game play and strategic moves win over the person who just merely "didn't piss as many jurors off".

Yeah, I am especially surprised at Cirie, because she has been on the ball since day one as far as game strategy goes. I think Amanda is most likely going to take it, and I think she deserves it. I think Cirie deserves it more, but she stayed in the game but not making the attention about her, and so she is not going to get much attention in the finale. Pauv and Natalie do not have a chance in hell.

I think it was Cirie who said that the Final 3 got blindsided - and that's about right. When they found that Treemail, I was shocked.

Once again, a good strategic showing trumps not pissing off (and even sleeping with Hehe;) ) the jury. During the reunion show, when Jeff was talking about a couple that we didn't know about, I thought it might have been Parv at Natalie, after all their bedroom talk at the Final Tribal.:p

I love that James won the $100,000 Player of the Season for the second season in a row.