Am I the only person confused with the challenges? Some episodes, it has both a rewards and immunity challenge, some it has only a combined challenge. The first time I understand because they had a medical emergency on their hands, but i can't see why the second time.

Also Russel better hope he finds the HII before the next tribal council, or his ass is gone.

I'm not so sure about this. The previews for next week show Candace talking about wanting to align with JT. So everything could completely turn around.

And after last season, I won't count anyone out because of numbers!

Thank you! I don't know why everyone likes her. I feel like she just enjoys telling people what to do, and if you disagree with her, even if it's about what to cook for dinner, you're on her chopping block. And of course, she contributes nothing physically.

He's playing worse this season than he was last, and he has the advantage... no one knows how he played!

"Going for a walk" on the same day that a clue to an immunity has been read to the entire tribe (who have all decided the person who tries to get it is going home) is incredibly stupid. If I were him, I would have waited at least until after the immunity challenge. If they won (which they did!) there would be no reason to go looking for it then. And even if they lost, there was a good chance that Russell wouldn't be the one who was headed home last night, anyway.

I do find it funny that last season, everyone (except Betsy) trusted Russell from day 1. This season, people seem to be a lot more weary of him. But again, I do find that his gameplay (and overall attitude and behavior) are completely different than last season.

Yeah, it was a risky move on JT's part, but it could pay off.

I was still really sorry to see it work, though. Unlike you (and AGDee), Cirie is one of my all-time favorites.

I would have liked to see her make it to the merge and get something going with Amanda and Parverti again. It would seem unlikely that the same alliance would work again, but as good as those three were together (masterful use of the HII, as well as convincing someone to just flat-out hand over an idol), it could have worked again.

You know...I was all jazzed for this season, but so far, it's kinda MEH.

The heroes are really disappointing me - both in the fact that they can't win challenges, and they're annoying to watch back at camp. Amanda was one of my favorites, but she looked like a psycho crying over whether James would come back. Seriously, it was like she just found out her mom had died. Does anyone know if she's still dating Ozzy? I'm assuming not, since that probably would have been brought up already...

Co-sign. I'm just not feelin' it with the heroes. It really looked like Rupert deliberately threw Jerri against the rail in the reward challenge (lame reward, btw). James' attitude is completely off-putting, and I can't believe he wasn't voted out last night. Amanda is like a lost puppy. JT can't figure out which side of the fence he's on. There's just nothing heroic about this tribe at all.

So, yeah, I'm with you on the "meh."

Glad I'm not the only person who thought the reward was lame. It was funny seeing Jeff get mad when none of the heroes ate the chocolate he gave them.

Also I'm glad they finally voted out tom. He was annoying me.

I was thinking the Heroes were stupid for not eating the chocolate. That would be a quick energy boost between the sugar buzz and the caffeine buzz from it. Besides, I'm a chocoholic.

I had that same thought. Just another strike against the heroes.

I'm a big chocolate fan myself, but if I were in the survivors' shoes, I would've wanted something a lot more substantial.

Co-sign completely. Along with what you've said, the sense of strategy

James' attitude is off-putting, but so is (well, was) Tom's. Colby's not doing much better.

At least the crazy-fest that is Russell and Coach is entertaining.

My mom compared Russell to Charles Manson. I started to crack up.

I'm re-watching now because I wasn't focused much on Thursday.

Bumping to remind my fellow GC Survivor-watchers that Survivor is coming on tonight instead of tomorrow night. 8pm, as usual.

Promo info says [potential spoiler] that each tribe will have to vote off one member tonight. My predictions: Russell and Colby.

THANK YOU!!!!!!! I had forgotten. Paging Vito!