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Originally Posted by PippySkiddles
it was going to be Keith or Wes.............. 6 of one-half dozen of another. 
Mercy--who to root for??? |
No… the vote was a tie between Jon and Keith. Only the 2 votes for Wes was all that were needed to vote Wes out, because Jon and Kieth both played their idols.
Without Natalie's last-second to mention to Jon that plans were underfoot to get him gone, Jon was clueless.
Keith is the only one who appears to me to be fully into the game, and he has been for quite a while. he knew how vulnerable he was several episodes ago, and while he's been very slow to develop any offensive strategy with anyone but his son, he is very alert defensively.
Keith instantly knew what was up as soon as Jon pulled out his idol and pulled his own, just in the nick of time. He also knew Wes was in equal jeopardy, so he offered his son his idol, because Keith knows he can't compete in the physical challenges as well as Jon or Baylor or Natalie. He was keeping it in the family with Wes, by offering him the idol, but Wes did the right thing. Kieth is more on top of the game.
What I've seen is a bunch of followers looking for alliances where there seems to be one gamer. As often happens, there's a woman who is emerging who's both tough physically and is learning how to think offensively. That's Natalie.
And as often happens, Natalie is looking to make girlfriends. She already has some, and wants them all. She's going to try to make this season end with boy vs. girl.
Keith, I believe, will do the same with the men, but he's too savvy to make it boy vs. girl. Reed is the other real player, and he will try to do the same- keep a couple of the ladies in his corner. Jon is numb from the shoulders up, but he's still strong, so he's the useful tool for Nat, Keith and Reed for a little while, as is Baylor.
The one thing that impresses me is how they are all becoming a viper pit. Each is mentally on their own more than trying to collect the one, true-blue follower who will help pull the winner to the end, but they all have skipped the earlier step- finding one more true-blue who will be the first of the 3 to go.
We have a bunch of pairs who are all committed to each other, and once one goes, the other can't seem to make a surviving pair a strategic threesome, but somebody is going to learn how to do it pretty fast now.
I like this season a lot more than the last one… last season finally had a good ending, but I quit watching the the middle out of boredom.
I like the idea a poster mentioned of doing a season with nothing but the folks who were the very first ones to go in the past; I think it would be fun to see some of the real nut cases, like the lady who never made it through the end of the first episode who made up songs about everything that was happening around her, to get another shot. Or the old farmer who got everyone all organized up and sheltered, but was so cranky he was voted off in the first council.
And I'm sure we all remember players who were voted off at first for no good reason at all… somebody had to go, so they pretty arbitrarily got the boot.
Those guys would definitely become more entertaining after 3-4 episodes, especially when they all are the ones with the most obvious flaws.
One thing about Survivor is how easily it is to change the rules. It's easy to stick a twist in the game at any time, and that's one reason why it hasn't faded like so many others did long ago. Probst gets better every year at changing up the game.
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