I do not think she was anything like Zoe. IMO the whole cast is boring this time around. Erin was more vocal than Zoe and Amber. She appeared to follow along with Penny and it really stung her. I liked Erin and it is unfortunate that someone like her or Tanya do not go further in this game.

Let's hope Erin remembers when she's sitting on the jury about the bad seed.....Evil Penny.

I agree with jkokoj, and I also will add that Erin may HAVE had a story, but MB chose not to show very much of it, whereas Zoe just had no story, period.

"All of us necessarily hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because life is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the topics that we come across. -- Julian Simon

Contradictions don't exist. If you are faced with a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong. -- Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Erin definitely had a story, and much more of one than Zoe did. Erin wasn't voted out because of vengance or because she wasn't liked or anything like that. Ken and Jake had to decide on who to vote out, and they knew Penny would vote against Erin. Because of that, they knew they could vote someone out without a tie.

I miss Erin, and until last night's TC, I thought she might have gone all the way.

Personally, I think Erin should have been in S4 instead of Sarah. Then she would have voted w/Hunter and Gina to vote out Sean, and the game would have taken a completely different turn. (Besides, I'll take Erin w/boobs and personality over Sara's boobs and no personality any day!)

I was shocked about Erin going but there is a new startegy that is taking place. Erin is the weakest tribemember on her tribe and it is still tribe vs. tribe. Sook Jai is playing the game thinking that there will be no merge for at least a couple weeks and in that case the strong need to stay.

In TC all the people, other than Erin, talked about their physical strengths when asked why they shouldn't be voted out. Erin just stated that she did her chores, did what everyone else did as well, etc.

Plus Erin staying under water for 9 freaking seconds is crazy. I don't care if you have to blow all the air out of your lungs, you can still stay under water for at least 25-30 seconds without coming up. It probably wouldn't have mattered because King Brian was comfortable underwater breathing and probably could have stayed for a much longer time.

Props on picking Erin. Was this luck or did you have reasons to think it was her? Personally I never saw anything that would make me think she was ever going to go and couldn't think of a strategy in which she would go, at least until last night.

It probably wouldn't have mattered because King Brian was comfortable underwater breathing and probably could have stayed for a much longer time.

LOL LOL Maybe he did some underwater work during his porno days... I couldn't resist

I picked erin for two reasons.

One Ken was too strong and with separate tribes he is very needed for immunity. He has shown to suck though!!!

Two when the Chewies were talking about the tribal council where she got jabbed, I think Clay said something to the effect of do you think they voted off Shi or Erin?

I just did not feel it was Ken

The Sookies finally got some brains. I kept saying they had to keep Ken in case they are tribes for awhile and they need his strength. I thought they should boot Erin since she was the weakest. But I didn't think they would do it. So I was happy to be wrong. They did the right thing for all of them. Penny was saving her butt by voting out her bestfriend. The guys realized they needed the strength and although Penny isn't as trustworthy. She helps more in most of the challenges. And they probably couldn't get Erin to vote out Penny. But Penny would turn to save herself. So the guys kicked out the girl they could. None of them wanted a tie.

I suppose you are right Loree. I thought they'd pick Jake but I suppose his excellent performance at the IC saved his butt.

Anyway I'm really wondering about what the tie-breaker will be this season. I'm one of the very few people who actually love last season's purple rock tie-breaker. It really did an excellent job in avoiding tie-breakers and getting weak alliances to cannibalize themselves. 1 season later and you can still feel the powerful repurcussions of the purple rock. Hail the Purple Rock! I hope MB comes up with something good this season too.

PS to Boilermaker: Psst... Erin didn't last 9 seconds. It was Penny.

Kathy O'Brien... The Sole Survivor! (I'd rather be delusional)

I'm one of the very few people who actually love last season's purple rock tie-breaker. It really did an excellent job in avoiding tie-breakers and getting weak alliances to cannibalize themselves. 1 season later and you can still feel
the powerful repurcussions of the purple rock. Hail the Purple Rock!

I am in total agreement with you. I think the purple rock was a fantastic idea and I think the reason people don't like it is that a popular player (Pappy) got the boot because of it. If it had been Vee instead people may not have minded so much. But you are right in that it makes everyone in the tribe not want to go for tie breakers and I think that is what the intention was all along.

"Ah yup. Dish...litter box. Dish...litter box. It's grueling" BA

You're right it was Penny. But still what was it 15 seconds then? I thought it was ironic that Jake felt bad about his performance and Erin was saying that it was alright trying to make him feel better, when it was really more of Pennys, Erins, and Kens fault they lost. On the flipside Brian could have probably lasted longer than he did and would have probably won regardless.

Show me the Winner: Can't believe you liked the Purple Rock. But I definitely think that Burnett will keep it this time around. He seems to like to make a new twist, try it on for size, and then see what people would do after they already know what the situation will be and have time to strategize regarding the change.

I wonder if Brian didn't put a target on himself by staying underwater so long. Anyone that was thinking Ted should be the target on that team may now realize how strong Brian will be when it does get down to Individual Immunity.

And I didn't mind the purple rock. It sucked if you were Pappy. But he was given the chance to vote different and wanted to save his Neleh. With the purple rock threat it will really make a few of them vote against their own friend/alliance if they are scared they could be booted. It's evil, so MB loves it.