A great post game commentary from Dalton Ross, with some added highlights, can be found here.

1. * We saw Stephanie do her best Natalie and Parvati impersonation and form that early alliance with Russell. What you did not see — but I did while out there — is Russell campaigning hard to get rid of Sarita (although he was having trouble remembering her name). He was working Steve hard on getting rid of her but Steve didn’t want to hear any of it, telling Russell "I'm just gonna focus on challenges. Right now, that's all I'm gonna do — camp and challenges. I don’t want cannibalism inside here right now." Steve was the most vocal anti-Russell voice before the game began ("Russell was a little idiot," he told me, while also dubbing him a "cancer" and "the lowest of the low") so I'll be very curious to see how that relationship shakes out.

2. * You saw a lot of Rob with his little harem of longhairs (and I'm including Matt in that group), but don't overlook Grant. When I was out there, he and Rob were pretty inseparable. Like Russell, Rob usually forms closer alliances with women, but keep an eye on mister dread head as well.

3. Probst called the immunity challenge deceptively hard, and he's right. I did a run through with Dream Teamers and other members of the press, and moving those blocks royally sucked. The smaller ones were actually more difficult than the big ones because you had to get so low to push them along. (Like my boy the King Ad Rock said, slow and low is the tempo.) For that reason I figured Zapatera would have a big advantage. Not only did they have an extra man, but Julie is also built like a tank. And sure enough, they smoked Ometepe in that physical part of the competition. But never count Boston Rob out when it comes to puzzles, and he brought his tribe back close to winning. Just not close enough. Imagine if Rob and Russell and ended up on opposite tribes: that could have been one of the biggest #####-kickings in immunity challenge history. "I know how Boston Rob thinks," said Russell after his tribe's victory, "and right now he's thinking, 'Oh, crap. I'm stuck with a bunch of weenies.'" Not necessarily. Even with the opening loss, Rob looks a lot more secure to me in his tribe than Russell looks in his.

4. That way — either way — the idol is gone. Either the person uses it, or they don't use it and get voted off with it still in their pocket. But Rob's plan (if he masterminded the voting, as it appeared he did in the episode) called for all the guys (4) to vote for Franquaalude while the girls (3) voted for Kristina. And now Kristina is still in the game and sill has the idol. I think Dalton is misled here. I thought that the only ones that were in on the plan to split the vote were the 6 people that were gathered when the discussion occured....guys: Rob, Grant, Matt vote for Francesca, and girls: Natalie, Ashley, Andrea would vote for Kristina....I never thought that Phillip was made privy to the plan....just my 2 cents