And, unfortunately, with three tribes and only so much time in 40 minutes, divided by 5 celebs, well it wasn't a very interesting episode, it pretty much broke down into the must tell stories.

Like

01. RC (Roberta) (4). Sharpest cookie on the island.

02. Denise (02). Playing a thinking game, making the tough decisions early.

03. Michael (01). We didn't get much from Mike this time, but that he is still injury prone. I'm not going to hold it against him personally if they keep editing that in.

04. Malcolm (03). Drops a bit. I don't think he's been taken in by Angie's charms, he's not falling for the romantic power pair game, but he didn't handle it as well with others and at TC as I'd have liked.

05. Jonathan (16). His HII quest was the most entertaining stuff in the whole episode, starting to see some of that Penner of old.

06. Jeff (12). Good attitude, despite his knee problem seems to be handling the weather well.

07. Russell (17). Good, he got a better game going. Played it smart cutting Roxy loose, her negatives outweighed her positives. In danger of being part of another Ulong, the gang that can't shoot straight.

08. Dana (07).

09. Artis (06).

Indifferent

10. Angie (05). Drops from like to indifferent not for her cuddling game, but basically for being the dullest cookie around. Her oobies got a lot of attention though, nice oobies.

11. Pete (09).

12. Carter (11).

13. Katie (13).

14. Dawson (Sarah) (14).

Dislike

15. Lisa (15). So, let me get this straight, you know what is wrong with your game, but instead of doing anything about it and starting to socialize with your tribe you go off and wallow in your failure at playing the game. Honestly, I'm trying to give this lady a break, I want to like her despite the fact that she represents for one of the idiot branches of Christianity, but I hate bad game.

16. Abi-Maria (08). Whoa, speaking of bad game, and way to get me nearly loathing you, the charming smart likeable player from episode one in episode two turned into the soap opera diva drama queen inventing (imagining) up controversy drama in her own head, basically believing her own fictions. I might as well just put her in bottom-feeder status, this sort of player may do well in the game but really doesn't interest me.

Good-bye

17. Roxy (Roxanne) (10). Nothing against prayer (done right), but if that is all you do in camp you only have yourself to blame.

• RE: S25 Phillipines Ep. 2 Love/Loathe List,michel, 07:49 PM, 09-29-12
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• RE: S25 Phillipines Ep. 2 Love/Loathe List,michel, 05:57 PM, 09-30-12

Must tell stories? Yes but how often do they have to tell it? Matsing had 4 scenes and all four were about Roxy calling out Angie. One of the worse episodes ever.

By "must tells" I simply meant: the clue story, the idol story, the boot story, the boot decoy story, and the two stunt celeb (not Survivor vet celebs) stories, which if they weren't stunt celebs would probably have been ignored otherwise. Yawn. Interesting stuff is getting ignored, even one of the vets was reduced this time to an injury-prone player.

1. RC (2)

2. Denise (1)

3. Michael (4)

4. Jeff (7)

5. Malcolm (5)

6. Jonathan (10)

7. Angie (9)

8 - 13 were pretty hard to rank, so I just put their names in a randomizer and ranked them as such. I think most people will agree that there's no good way to rank these people just based on the last episode.

8. Dana (12)

9. Carter (15)

10. Artis (16)

11. Pete (11)

12. Katie (14)

13. Sarah (8)

End of random list

14. Lisa (3)

15. Abi-Maria (6)

16. Russell (17)

Out:

Zane
Roxanne

I don't know who to like.

This group isn't all bad but far from good:

RC: She should be making sub-alliances.
Denise: She should have already aligned with Russell.
Mike: Does he want to get medevaced again?
Jonathan: Why dance about an idol that wasn't hidden?
Kent: Forget the knee and start thinking of a gameplan.
Abi-Maria: It's great to distrust your ally but don't tell her!
Malcolm: Boobie trapped!

This group hasn't been seen:
Dawson: Jonathan's sweetheart?
Dana: No one listens to her or sees her.
Carter: There is a Carter there or is it Brett?
Katie: Miss Deleware must look nice but where is she?
Artis: His art must be mime.

This group, I know I don't like:
Russell: He couldn't see the couple for himself?
Lisa: Boo-hoo
Angie: Cookies?
Peter: Does he really shoot stray dogs?

Booted: RoxZane: It would have made for a weird showmance.

Ils sont fous, ces Romains!