Survivor

I was disappointed to see Ciera go first. I like her and wanted to see her play again but the first vote is a crap shoot. She played to hard too fast which does in a lot of people. Tony fell victim to what a lot of returning players that were a big character on their first season do. They think they have to live up to their persona from the previous season and they wind up being a retarded parody of their previous character. I thought he would be out quick and he was.

Everyone is terrified of Cirie and they should be. It was pretty entertaining watching her turn Tai into a puddle in about 3 seconds when he tried to lie to her and she saw right through it. Tai is definitely not the guy you want to tell any secrets to. Cirie is a great player but as I said before the season, she has too much baggage/reputation and people are not going to work with her. I'd be surprised if she makes it through the first tribal she goes to. I think if I was her I would have gone with the "this is my 4th time playing survivor and I'm just on vacation this time, I know I can't win and I'll do whatever you guys want me to as long as you let me hang around" attitude. When she shows up and starts acting like Cirie then people are going to get scared and vote her out.

I don't know WTF Sandra is doing. Running the show was never her game. She always sat back behind the scenes and made sure she didn't get targeted but now she's bossing people around and although she won this week, I doubt she will be around long. I'm not as confident with her as Cirie, but I'll be surprised if she makes the merge.

It's pretty surprising how much people are just assuming they have no chance of beating Ozzie at anything. It was pretty lame that they barely even tried to compete with him to get the tool kit at the beginning, even though that challenge was tailor made for him.

Jeff Varner is certainly looking old and fat. It was pretty amazing how useless he was in the snake challenge. Him yelling out "I'm putting all my weight on it" was pretty hilarious.

Michaela is looking just like last time. She is awesome, but she can't control her emotions which is pretty much a death sentence in Survivor.

I don't know why Sierra is here. I barely remember her, let alone see how she was a "game changer". She is hot as fuck though, so I'm okay with it.

My early favorites are JT and Andrea. Andrea is looking hot as ever, and she has steadily gotten better every time she's played. JT grew a bit of a paunch which is probably good for him on Survivor. I have heard people say that the reason Caleb passed out and had to be medivaced last time was because he was training for some bodybuilder thing and then went on survivor at the last minute and he had like 2% body fat which is not a good plan for Survivor. JT seems to be as charming as ever and with so many physical threats on this season, I think it will be awhile before anyone gets too serious about voting him out. With his awesome social game and athleticism I think he's got a good shot, but he needs to find someone strategic to work with since he proved to be terrible at strategy in his second season.

I'm a little annoyed that Debbie and Tai are back. They didn't change the game and they were interesting characters, but I got all I needed of them in their previous season. JT had the line of the night with "Tai needs to decide if he's here to win a million dollars or just marry these chickens." I am guessing that they will probably just vote him out at some point so they can eat the chickens. He is a pretty terrible survivor player and not very useful in the early physical challenges. Debbie would be okay if there weren't so many confessionals of her blathering nonsense. Between her and Tony this episode was chock full of people blathering nonsense.

I'm pretty sure Sandra voted for Aubrey just in case Tony voted for her and then played the idol. She wanted to be sure at least one other person had a vote. That would have been an interesting scenario though, with the new rule. If that happened, it's a tie and to avoid drawing rocks, they would have to all agree to vote for Aubrey. It's not clear whether Tony would have a vote since he has immunity, but if he did then he could say "screw you guys, Aubrey is my ally, vote out Sandra or draw rocks." and there would be no risk to him because of immunity.

This might seem like a bad deal for Aubrey, but she voted for Tony and the alliances barely exist at this point so I doubt she needs to think that she's on the outside of an alliance that includes everyone else in the tribe.