Waaay too much weirdness going on so close to tonight's airing. I have this image of the Survivor powers-that-be sitting in their ivory towers right now emitting peals of evil laughter watching all of us scratching our heads.
Something tells me that from here on, there will be a concerted effort from the top to toss out elements of both truth and lies. I think we'll get just enough scraps of truth mixed in with the bogus stuff to keep us hooked, where in the past maybe there wasn't quite the same need to share anything of real substance.
Concerning the Hatch/lawsuit situation, maybe parts are true and parts aren't?
If memory serves me right, there was speculation early on that a contestant would have a "temper tantrum/hissy fit." At that time, Ethan was considered the likely candidate.
However, we're now hearing of a hissy fit in connection with Hatch and that it's a woman who loses her cool. Maybe a contestant comes into contact with Hatch's jewels and merely shrieks in horror and forgets about it while someone else has a hissy fit about something completely unrelated. As for the lawsuit, who knows? It wouldn't surprise me if someone says "SUE" in connection with the contestant Sue, and it's misconstrued to mean possible litigation.
Wasn't it Varner who suggested that Hatch smuggled matches? Unless I missed it, that didn't come to fruition. Maybe he's part of the information machine MB uses.
EMT