LAST EDITED ON 04-30-08 AT 00:13 AM (EST)

good point!
Kind of hard to have a deadlock tie at F5.
What about splitting the vote between three or more people instead of what we would expect, which is 2-3 (with possible swing vote politicking) or 4-1? Throwing your vote somewhere for no good reason is a sign of lesson not learned.

A is for Amanda
E is for Erik ...

ETA that trusting any of them would be a dumb move.

What about soming giving up the indiv. immunity thinking they are safe and then they are voted out??

Personally, I also think this is that Eric thinks he is the swing vote, the power player, ala scout and christy, etc. Then they all just decide instead to vote him out for wavering? That would be a lesson most people should know by now.

Especially as Eric is the odd MAN out (pun intended), he should commit and hope for the best. Even if he commits, his blunder may be thinking they will trust him, as he just won TWO back to back II's. If he does not go to exile or have the II, I would vote him out in a second. Young, althletic, etc.

Who knows.

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.

That sounds about right Q... And I wonder if we'll see confessionals with Eric, trapped in his dilema, of having to be in the swing vote. Bragging about it. LOL

they've sort of already shown that - the promos showed Eric saying that every woman has tried to make some sort of deal with him, but he didn't know who to trust

While an Eric boot make pretty good sense here, reference to a mistake could be mistake by the women in general to keep Eric, in spite of the lessons of Cris Daugherty season (was that Palau?)

It would be so typical for a couple of these people to think that they could use Eric's desperate vote to boot someone who thinks they are safe, i.e. Amanda and Parvati using him to back-stab Cerie? Natalie and anyone using him to back-stab Pavarti?

Right now, from the last vote, there is a least a minor rift between teams Amanda/Pavarti, and Cerie/Natalie. Eric would provide the vote either duo could use to dominate for a week or two more.

I think cris won Vanuatau? The cop/fireman, Tom from Long Island won Palau.

And I don't think Amanda/Poverty will keep Eric over Cirie. Amanda's question to Cirie about if she was not going last Ep., it would have been Cirie/Poverty/Amanda to the end. Unless of course, Cirie chooses to go to the end with Nat/Eric, and I just don't see her doing that right now, but you never know.

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.

Unless of course, Cirie chooses to go to the end with Nat/Eric, and I just don't see her doing that right now, but you never know.

It's really not a good idea for Cirie. If there is an F2, Cirie is unlikely to win the F3 challenge, and then either Natalie or Erik would most likely take the other Fan to F2. If there is an F3, Cirie will have betrayed her alliance with Parvati and Amanda, and went along with the plot to get Ozzy out. Jason/Alexis would have no reason to vote for Cirie over Erik/Natalie. She might conceivably get James's and Eliza's votes, but even those are iffy. She couldn't truly count on any votes in that scenario.

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