"a horrendous troll"

ha ha hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Very funny Roach!
Thats the funniest thing I've heard all week!! Thanks for the chuckle : )

Injuries...plural.

The pain keeps on piling up! Two Castaways' positions in the game are threatened in drastically different ways by serious injuries.

Jeff's comment to James about having medical check him out after TC was shown to us for a reason, for it could've easily been left out. Based on that, James' injury will play a role, but I don't see the relevance as he's about to be pagonged and he's not part of a significant alliance. I put this one in the misdirection category.

The tears flow during an emotional family reunion.

Don't they always?

One Castaway goes from power-player to the most desperate of all.

Could this be Cirie? All along she's been portrayed as a puppetmaster, bending and twisting alliances to further herself in the game. Maybe this is the episode where everyone realizes that a) she's been manipulating them for a while now, and b) she's played a good game and is a threat to win it all. Numerically, if the women's alliance can keep Amanda from defecting, they can boot Cirie without losing their overall advantage. And Amanda has to like her chances to win the F4 immunity challenge (against three women) and make the finals better than finishing fifth as the lowest person in the women's alliance pecking order.

And in a season filled with surprises like blindsides and unexpected exits, the shockers aren't over yet!

A Cirie boot would certainly be surprising.

A Cirie boot would certainly be surprising.

Too early for that though. They still have the guys to get rid of first.

4-2 is still a majority -- but that way lies the path of Chris.

I like the idea of a Cirie boot. What young, single girl wants to go up against the mother who really needs the money in the final two/three?

Injuries?

I for one think this is one of the BEST survivor Seasons EVER, However, I think the injuries are getting out of hand, and are really becoming an issue.

But then again, if the players want to go full out, then they should expect injuries to themselves that could take them OUT of the game.

Jonathan, Chet, James, FP, Eric (smashing himself into that platform), and now who is the next?

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leaders without question - States: The Bene Gesserit View. All States Are an Abstraction.

>However, I think the injuries are getting out of hand, and are really becoming an issue.

Actually, it's the CHALLENGES (brutal, American Gladiators ones, especially) that are the culprit.

Having said that, I am enjoying the season as well.

What if the first one has to do with the pecking order. If James is injured enough to be taken out of the game, and Erik wins immunity, one of the women is now in jeopardy. That would mean that they're threatened in seperate ways. Say James MAY be on the verge of being taken out, maybe Natalie or Alexis thinks they're the next to go if Erik is safe... i dunno.

As for the power player, this could also go with what I just said. Natalie and Alexis have both felt safe so far in the game, and they've been in a powerful position since the merge. Maybe one of them gets what's coming to them. Remember that Jeff said something about being too comfortable cause the last two people thought they were safe.

I am probably wrong, I've just been reading a lot around here and I've decided to try to figure things out with everyone else, you are all so smart with coming up with ideas.

Actually, I think you are definately on the right trail, Carezy! James is injured and not seen in the IC promo, could he be removed already? Erik could definately have a great shot at winning immunity, and if he does, it clearly will be one of the girls. Remember also that we see female hands digging at Exile Island, when Jiffy notes that the hidden II is back into play. What if one of the odd girls out, say Amanda, happens to find it. Then most definately one of the power 4 girl power alliancemates will indeed be toast. I highly doubt it would be one of Parv or Cirie...although wouldn't that be GREAT? So, most likely it will be one of Natalie or Alexis. Alexis is the other so called injuries as we see that she has a buff around her knee in some of the vidcaps over at Fever. I need to post them.

Alexis with the buff wrapped around her knee:

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I think the one in trouble must be Natalie. Last week we had:

A Fan emerges as a real game player after devising a plan that threatens to sacrifice one of their own.

Now this week:

One Castaway goes from power-player to the most desperate of all.

Last week Natalie had those five or six confessional segments where she said basically the same things over and over: "Jason is getting blindsided" and "the girls are picking off the guys." Maybe the second part won't quite come to pass. (Parvati talked about the girls vs. guys plan as well but I don't believe Parvati is going anywhere).

I doubt Natalie would be viewed as a good F3 or F2 goat by anyone still in the game. Her unpleasantness only manifested itself in the confessional segments. As you point out, she and Alexis are the most dispensible of the female alliance. If Natalie starts believing and acting like she has any kind of power after the last TC, I think she would be swiftly voted out by Cirie and Parvati.

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