There's gonna be 10 people on the jury? How's that gonna work out? Do you think CBS is going to have America call in to cast the 11th vote if it's a tiebreaker?

This episode was awesome!! I can't wait to see what happens next. I can't figure the jury thing out, but the best part about that is that they started forming the jury BEFORE the merge. So hopefully, Aitu will stay strong and they won't merge them too soon, so that Raro can't, in the eloquent words of Jenny, "pick them off like zits." I have been half-heartedly rooting for Aitu, but Jonathan and Candice leaving was all I needed to give them 100% of my support. GO AITU!!

I can not believe how incredibly stupid Candice and Jonathon were. Okay, I can because they're reality tv contestants but still... Seriously Candice, are you the Eric Cartman of Survivor, unable to wait for the merge?!?!? And Jonathan is even dumber for following her lead. It was so great that Aitu won both challenges. Of course they go into the merge with only 4 people but maybe they can convince former tribe mates to join them. Ozzy and Yul can probably win some individual immunity and Yul does have the idol. Well, we just have to wait and see. Or maybe we can freeze ourselves and be thawed out in a few weeks... nah, that will never work.

Thanks for the usual laugh out loud recap B-Side. I am still getting used to them being so damn quick.

My love of Yul is stronger than ever and now I am rooting for the new Aitu tribe. Ozzy's un-stoppable ability to do any challenge is so much fun to watch as well as his energized disgust with the Mutineers.
I am NOT looking forward to Candice and Adam's rekindled romance...ewww.

hb

Could Raro get any more repulsive? I hope either Jonathan/Candice/Jenny/Nate are next.

Go Aitu!

Since day one there was something about Candice that I didn't like. I think that like B-side, she also reminds me of a bitchy pre-med I met in college. Plus, her last name is Woodcock. Hello?! At least now everyone can see what a heel she is. The current standings of Raro being the "cool" tribe and Aitu being the "dork" tribe led me to the realization that tribes could be applied to real life: you're either a Raro person (jockish, cliquey and afraid to drift away from the majority) or an Aitu person (the polar opposite). I would much rather be part of the Aitu camp.

I have to say that I'm actually glad the tribes were racially segregated to being with. If they weren't, I don't think that team dynamics would allow Yul or Ozzy for example to be the stars that they are now. Actually, it's not so much a race thing as much as meatheads (who are usually jocks or cheerleaders, who are usually white in these reality tv shows) banding together and having an uncanny knack for voting out anyone with an IQ above 80. I'm glad that Yul and Ozzy have become the unexpected and generally well liked hotties of the season.

My speculation is that the jury will vote for the winner out of the final 3 contestants this time around. The vote could fall simply to who gets the most votes out of the 10 jury members.

While there could still be a tie in that voting (3-3-4, 4-4-2, or 5-5-0), it's easy to break. The tie of 5-to-5 or 4-to-4 would leave the lesser vote-getter to break the tie; in the case of a 3-to-3 tie, the 4-vote-getter would proceed to the final 2 and the jury would revote on the person with 3 votes who would go into the final vote.

Okay, I've accepted the fact that I'm officially an Ozzy fan. Candice is an idiot and Jonathan is pathetic. I actually never had a problem with him until this episode. Candice is just sleazy... YUCK!!!!

Go Aitu!

"Aitu, Bruté?"

Zenovia (#3), nice Southpark references. Eric Cartman of Survivor... heh. I agree that Candice did make a pretty stupid move, but she will be OK. Her buddies Adam and Parvati will protect her. But Jonathan... what the hell was he thinking? He might as well quit now. There's zero chance that he'll win the million dollars.

just like gretchepoo, i've had to do a bit of dealing with the fact that i'm very much rooting for ozzy, since he's part of the awesome aitu group. looking back, it's really just that he's a bit young and brash, and that's not such an awful thing. i think sundra is perfectly lovely; you may know that yul is all things dreamy and decent in my world, and i wouldn't mind having becky as a lil step sis-in-law. I'll just start signing my checks "Calamity Kate Aitu" from now on.

Maybe they will have a wicked twister vote after the merge where they vote one person to GO HOME and one person to be on the jury. Or the first merge individual immunity challenge could be winner wins immunity, loser goes straight home.

And B-Side, you said:
Later, Jeff probably called up his mom and said, "Yeah, it was a great day today. I got to belittle this one tribe so badly. Oh, it was fantastic!"

I think Jeff would have said, "Great day today! My belittling one tribe badly! Fantastic!"

(sigh) . . . WHITE people . . .

the flop won't necessarily ruin candice's chances due to her status in the cool kids club, but jonathan may have committed the stupidest, most embarrassing error in judgment in the history of survivor. maybe we should start up a little mini-challenge to see whether anyone can remember someone doing anything MORE stupid than following a recent ex-sorority girl out of a solid alliance to join up with a tribe where he has no friends, where he's about ten years older than the next oldest player, and where he is immediately viewed with suspicion for having impulsively backstabbed his former alliance.

oh, jonathan. you seemed like you understood the way the game moves. your love handles and man-boobs were slimming down nicely, despite going to bed every night with a full belly thanks to ozzie the jungle boy; the beard was starting to fill in, your original peeps kept you around when they could have ditched you instead of the strategically inept flicka; you had a strong alliance with the smartest, most trustworthy person in the game--you looked like you could cruise to the final 4. now you're public enemy # 1 on your old tribe, your 'best friend' candice has set you up like a classic bitchy cheerleader by convincing meathead adam that you were saying mean things about him; you're carrying water for people who can't wait to kick your ass to the curb and are only keeping you around because you're desperate and helpless, while your old tribe feasts on ozzie's bounty and solidifies an unbreakable alliance, which you could have been at the center of if you'd stayed on the mat.

nice work, dickhead.

funny how the guy who spends the most time thinking about strategy makes the dumbest, most suicidal move ever. jonathan does, however, still have a small chance of advancing in the game: due to his new status as persona non grata, he's now the best player left to end up with in the final 2.

up-side of the flop: sundra and ozzie were on the fringes and would probably have been the next two to go, but thanks to candice, they now have a solid alliance with no weak members and little to no chance of further betrayal.

here's hoping yul's big brain comes up with a plan to use that immunity idol at the right moment and regain the upper hand from the cool kids.

OK, yeah yeah, Candace and Jonathan were either stupid or treacherous or both.

Actually doesn't seem to make much a difference for Jonathan, as he was pretty much screwed in his own tribe anyway. Rather the stupid play move has to go to Nate, Jenny, and Rebecca for booting Brad on the suspicion that he might align with his former tribemates come the merge, when the white tribe has already re-aligned within his own tribe, now has a voting majority, and is making absolutely no attempt to hide it. Funny how Nate seems to fancy himself some sort of strategic mastermind in coming to this conclusion. And even if you you don't count Jonathan, you still have a clear alliance. They're toast. F*cking idiots!

And from what I can tell Brad really didn't do anything to indicate he had that on his mind, other than stating the obvious, which is that post-merge it's every man for himself, which it is! As usual, Nate was leading the way in spinning things against Brad. Dude seems to go out of his way to fabricate reasons to boot people for no other reason than to suck up to his buddy Adam. Ugh.

Go Aitu!

What I don't get are the stupid ass Raro tribe keeping Candice when she hasn't exactly hidden her affection for Adam. Uhm.. HELLO??? Why on earth would you keep a couple in this game?
I can see why they would keep Jonathen.. even though I hate Adam.. he did have a good strat when talking about how Jon doesn't have anyone now... but still.. the other tribesmates are MORONS for not seeing his relationship with Candice.

And I almost had a heartattack during the immunity challenge. OMG.. I was screaming "Noooo" at my tv when Raro were in the lead and jumping and clapping for joy when Aitu won it.
I really hope they can stick together and make it to the end. But as it looks now.... I don't think it's gonna happen.

My ideal final 2 would be Yul and Ozzy.

The zit comment was a little off (wouldn't it be 'pop them off like zits'?), but I can't believe no one has mentioned Nate's nonsensical comment to Brad about how "We'll cut them up like poop"? I was watching this by myself and actually said out loud, "Who cuts poop?". Raro is officially the tribe of mixed metaphors...

Great episode though!

I don't cut poop, but I do cut cheese, heh.

yes the "cut poop" comment was funny. I'm around a lot of poop, but have yet to cut any of it!

My fave moment was Probst calling out Jonathan for being pissy with him. Let's hope that the non-white girls on the Raro tribe realize that Candace is top bitch now, and conspire with cool Yul and jungle boy Ozzie to vote the whiteys out after the merge.

HOORAH AITU !!!
I just love Yul and Ozzie. I just read all the comments and no one mentioned Jeff's little "secrets in the bottle" he was holding at the end of the show. Any one want to take a guess at what is in it??? I for one have no idea. LOL

#18- maybe the "secret" is that the bottle-holder gets to boot one member off the jury, either as a fellow juror or as a finalist. That would bring to jury back to nine members.

Whatever jack and chronic said, I agree. I also want to add it will be a shame if the meatheads get to kick out Ozzie, which they probably will, eventually. This kid has been the gutsiest, most resourceful and helpful player ever seen on "survivor". If I had my druthers I would engineer things for Yul and Oz to be te final 2.

From the moment Skankdice and Jonasdshole stepped off the mat I began to root and pray for Aitu. It made for a great evening to see this depleted tribe face off against two different sets of competitors and beat them handily. I was actually shouting "Go Ozzy!" through the challenge. I LIKE that kid! With Yul as his steadying partner and two tough women they can beat any combination Raro puts together.

A couple of thoughts....

When Brad was told he was going to be on the jury, I was thinking that the final two can vote to evict a jury member (since there would be ten people there).

Nate is going to be gone soon. He has lost his top-dog status in the tribe and as soon as they don't need strength, he will be gone. After all, with Jonathon stirring the pot and Candice using her anatomy to keep Adam's nose open, and Parvati voting with the power, Nate's torch will be snuffed shortly.

Also, I have a feeling we will have a repeat of Thailand, where there is no merge.

I believe Jonathan did the best he could in the short time he had. Look, Candice, his (idiot!)alliance left. Yul and Becky are tight, no doubt about that. And Ozzy probably gave him the "I don't trust you vibe" so Jonathan would be the first to go should Aitu lose.

Now at Raro, he still might be the first to go (now that Brad has gone we shall see) but like someone posted above, he might be the person you want to take with you to the final 2. No one likes him.

PS- Go Ozzy, Go Yul!!!