Episode 05 Commentary

[Courtney]

Artis is like an accountant playing survivor, always been my impression of him. Nothing is said or done without calculation and I find it sooo boring.

[Ashley Underwood]

Early days... maybe he will have a meltdown at some point? Always great when that happens.

[Chad]

This swap along with PB being their ambassador totally fucked Madhesi. Tina and Kimmi are my favorites right now too. It sucks.

So who is going home? Mad Dog?

[Courtney]

I don't get it. I honestly don't see how anyone could have done something at this point in the game to make me hate them, though I wasn't on Kirati with them so who knows what went down in my absence. Lisa was very friendly with everyone when I was there so I don't know what could have caused Stacey to dislike her.

Let me sing the praises of Lisa... blah blah blah.... but what a minute, something might have gone down when I wasn't there, so let me cover my tracks a bit, and then rap it up with some more generic stuff, the perfect PC answer.

These are the kind of answers at TCs that piss me off.

[Courtney]

Looks like the only one who hasn't cast their vote is Tina, lame

Think she'll decline to vote?

or drop a stray vote on artis?

Either way, lame coward play, imo

[Ashley Underwood]

Artis who's never been in the firing line talking about how one should act when they know the vote is squarely on them. Yeah okay.

Mad Dgo is gonna go out with a whimper because she's too afraid to fight for herself :(

[Jenna]

Artis sounds boring. But I think he'll have a meltdown. Calculated players always do.

[Courtney]

Artis who's never been in the firing line talking about how one should act when they know the vote is squarely on them. Yeah okay.

Mad Dgo is gonna go out with a whimper because she's too afraid to fight for herself :(

I knew it was over way back before when Tina was getting in contact with those on the other side, trying to make it clear, I am voting for Artis

I always found that gameplay gross, the drop a stray vote strategy

The declining to vote strategy, though, pisses me off even more because it goes against the spirit of the game, just saying

[Ashley Underwood]

That stray vote avoiding a tie.

[Courtney]

That stray vote avoiding a tie.

I know why it was done, I still don't agree with it

[Courtney]

I like how Stacey can just casually say to Mad Dogg, one of your friends is a liar.

[Chad]

They seemed confused. Did Mad Dog not know she was going or were they hoping for a tie?

[Courtney]

They seemed confused. Did Mad Dog not know she was going or were they hoping for a tie?

Kimmi, Mad Dogg, Stacey were banking on Tina to force a tie and the tie breaker

Tina abandoned them and dropped a stray vote to curry favor with others on the tribe

[Jeff Probst]

I like how Stacey can just casually say to Mad Dogg, one of your friends is a liar.

I thought I was the only one to catch that like... no shit sherlock you got duped! And also she absolved herself of any guilt/blame by doing so.

[Chad]

Chris is really good at challenges like this. Sucks for Madhesi he's not here.

[Marissa Peterson]

I lost alot of stock in Tina tonight. I don't think her straying her vote was smart AT ALL ESPECIALLY without the threat of rocks. IMO she made her self look untrustworthy to everyone. Madhesi+Stacey could have had the numbers since it was a 6/8 chance of someone from Rai/Madhesi being sent over for the tiebreaker. Really really dumb move to "save face" that really made her look pathetic. Allso if she was going to stray a vote DON'T stray it to the side in power.

[Ralph]

yea i agree with mariissisisiisa
I just read the TC and artis, angie, carter, chris, tina and maddogs confessionals
and the tina stock went down down down. Her confessionals were sooooooo long
and i kinda skimmed them
but why wouldn't she just tie?

[Marissa Peterson]

yea i agree with mariissisisiisa
I just read the TC and artis, angie, carter, chris, tina and maddogs confessionals
and the tina stock went down down down. Her confessionals were sooooooo long
and i kinda skimmed them
but why wouldn't she just tie?

That's the part I don't understand. It had absolutely no risk considering there was no rocks. If anything in a game where loyality and trust is important and hard to come by she proved she can't be relied on.

[Chad]

I think she was paranoid that Stacey was bullshitting her and she actually believes all that stuff about Stacey and Artis and wasn't just making up lies. She thinks it's real.

[Marissa Peterson]

I think she was paranoid that Stacey was bullshitting her and she actually believes all that stuff about Stacey and Artis and wasn't just making up lies. She thinks it's real.

OK reading back the PMS it's even more stupid because the names being thrown around where Mad Dog and Tina (which was being thrown around to Mad Dog). BUT Tina knew this and if say Tina was the vote instead of Mad Dog, she would have voted herself out of the game. I dunno the more I think about it the stupider the throwing of the vote sounds.