Looks like James Barber isn't doing the Insider transcripts (at least not yet) this season. Hopefully he'll be back soon, but in the meantime, here are highlights from watching the clips:HEROES TRIBE
- Amanda says that she and Cirie are really aligned, although she can't fully trust that Cirie won't flip. She says that she, Cirie, James, JT and Rupert are in a 5-person alliance...she doesn't trust Tom, since he's smart, plus Tom overheard a conversation with her/Cirie on the beach, so she thinks their "cover" is blown.
- Amanda says she doesn't trust Candice because JT told her that Candice said she won't get together with the Micronesia girls. (Sounds like JT is playing a pretty good social game and planting seeds of doubt.)
- James likes JT and Rupert because they work hard around camp and keep the fire going....whereas Tom and Colby don't do as much.
- Colby says that the game has changed a lot since he played. People don't care about keeping their tribe strong anymore (a virtual echo of Jeff's blog comment) -- he thinks it's unfortunate that that style of play is now "archaic."
- Steph says that Rupert and James are nothing like their hero images on TV and she was very disappointed in both of them. She says she wasn't in the right clique this season and didn't have a chance from Day 1. She and Colby both say that from the moment they landed on the beach, the alliances started pairing off and no one even tried to get to know one another. It was all "game on" from Day 1.
- Steph says that she likes Candice and thinks that normally they would have hit it off, but Candice is playing very hard/smart/strategically this season and therefore they didn't have a chance of making an alliance.
- Tom seems to have a good social read on the situation but there's not much he can do about it, since he doesn't have the numbers. He says in a confessional that it was really JT who tanked their team in the puzzle challenge -- that JT was totally overwhelmed and didn't know what to do despite having done the challenge before (I guess he didn't have Stephen this time 
. Lucky for JT that James caused the scene with Steph to take the heat off.
- Jeff evidently asked the Heroes at TC whether the Villains are a smarter group since they're able to beat them on every puzzle. Tom thinks there's something to that -- that perhaps it takes a higher IQ to be a villain.
- JT says that the bad weather is good for him personally. He knows he's mentally tougher and can withstand the rain while most of the rest of his tribe is miserable.
- Steph says that 2 people on the Heroes tribe cannot swim (I know James is one, unless he's learned recently..is Cirie the other one? Or if not, who?) and that she was the strongest swimmer so it will come back to bite them if there are swimming challenges coming up. Bottom line, she says that she and Tom didn't fit in the Micronesia alliance plans and were a threat and that's why she was the first to go and Tom and Colby will probably be next.
- James really truly believes that Steph is the "rotten apple" and a loser and he says he cannot "suck it up and deal with losing" so he has to speak out.
- Hmm, nothing from Cirie...but she clearly has been instrumental in getting Candice to side with her alliance and also in getting Amanda's name on the drawing board which in turn riled up James.
VILLAINS TRIBE
Very funny confessionals from this team! Everyone across the board agrees that their tribes sucks and is dysfunctional and has no work ethic. Everyone complains but won't do anything to help. Rob and Jerry in particular seem to be getting fed up.
-- Courtney says that the girls are all losing it and crying at night because of the pouring rain and lack of shelter. She says that Danielle is starting to step up and be a leader. She should have some great 1-liners next week.
-- Parv says she lied and told people that she saw Jerri and Coach making out. She also says that their group is like a bunch of 8th graders making fun of everyone and cracking jokes. (Apparently Rupert and Coach are 2 of the targets.)
-- Jerri says "these girls are driving me nuts" (I think she mainly means Parv, Danielle and Courtney -- Sandra seems to be playing both sides, although hard to tell for sure), and that all they want to do is hang out on the beach. She says that she and Rob are upset about the lack of work ethic on their team.
-- Sandra says that Rob and Danielle bucked heads (because of a comment Danielle made at night...but perhaps also because Danielle is stepping up as a leader?) and that the next morning Rob told Danielle to "tone it down."
-- Zero on Tyson...little on RussHell too
It's very interesting that a theme seems to be emerging about "old school" vs. "new school" play. Rob, Jerri, Colby and Steph all make comments about the lack of work ethic among the "newer" players and also how they are more about their alliances vs. keeping the team strong...and of course Jeff mentions it in his blog. Sandra seems to straddle both groups, which could bode well for her in the end.
And then there's the dominant Micronesia alliance. They clearly are a force early on in the game, but whether they can continue to be dominant remains to be seen.
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