Michel: I am going to respond, comment, or add to your comments through the show. First of all, I agree regarding Tasha and her showing in last weeks recap. Boy, did she dominate this episode, she was last weeks Varner! Her momentum is in full gear. I have the same thoughts, let's see if Ciera comes into center stage next week!

As for Camp Bayon, paradise living, I love it. It reminds me of the "happy Chappy's" in All Stars, and we know what a dominant tribe that ended up being and did produce the winner! If Takeo is the dysfunctional tribe, Bayon is the functional one. They are impressive.

I thought Spencer's first confessional was very meaty in that it summed up the Season perfectly, and Spencer could indeed be one of the stars. If he is able to capitalize on this second chance in a season of second chances, he's on his way.

Terry was confident and it just steam rolls from here.

Excellent catch on Tasha, always with a smile, and her quick response, I'm glad to be here, Jeff! Loved it, and I saw it as a nod to her and that big smile! Loved your take on Woo being wrong, tribe unity, it's laughable at the end of the show! Good catch!

Andrew Savage did get the confessionals in regard to the short side of twists, and I agree, production must have played some kind of role in how the tribes broke down. Wow! Spencer had another great confessional regarding the survivor gods wanting him to have a second chance!

While Spencer could be a star of the season, Tasha was the star of this episode and she started off with amazing confessionals at camp Angkor. If anyone can do this, I can, I've done it before, this is just round 2....Got to LOVE her attitude and we all know how Survivor loves their underdog story.

Then we cut to Tribe nuTakeo and Terry is thrilled cause all he sees is mighty Joe young. He has a very confident and perhaps a bit arrogant confessional, that he doesn't know if they will lose a challenge. He's also assuming so much with new schooler, Kelley. Terry, the paternal one, declares it's chicken and rice for all tonight to celebrate! As Terry is having his confident confessional we see Joe reach in grab the chicken and wring it's neck....will Joe do that to Terry?

Everyone comments on their good fortune. Cierra has a confessional regarding it, saying as long as the 4 stay tight they ought to be good, then we see a hornet's nest and ominous music, then we see Joe talking to Kelly and she starts throwing him under the bus. She follows with a confessional about how she is going to kick him under that bus. She's a PLAYER! Still making big moves of her own, and as a new school player she's playing as soon as she stepped on the beach, while Terry is just smoozing. I'd say point: New School!

Like you, I also thought, do I really want people to think that Terry has the idol...the easy vote would first be to cut the number without it...I dunno, but also like you, the scene made me feel that Kelley was one step ahead.

Then to Camp nuBayon and Monica speaks! As a member of the Bayon 4, she's confident too, and Stephen emphasizes this again, he couldn't be happier to out of camp Macho. But, hearing first from Ciera in the nuTakeo, and Monica in nuBayon, about how if they stick together they'll be good, I am not so sure. There is doubt. The two smallest girls that we really haven't heard from at all so far get a confessional about being secure with their four. Just gives me a lot of doubt for them, as we saw that the majority didn't work out for Angkor, will the other two tribes follow suit? We'll see.

All I can say about Stephen is: Poor guy! Where's JT when you need him! I agree, we all expected Spencer and Stephen bonding, and I am SURE that they must have, but the producers chose to show how he bonded with Jeremy, which was more relevant to the story. I think it bodes better for Spencer and Jeremy than it does for Spencer and Stephen.

Jeremy gets the big brother edit, sort of. Stephen instigates them to all look for the idol to support the 4, but Jeremy finds it and says he's going to come back from the challenge with HIS idol. And, later we see that he does just that. Again, I feel like Jeremy is steps ahead of Stephen.

Spencer got another stellar confessional and he's on a roll. Things are looking way up for Spencer a la the editing...Excellent comments on Jeremy better watch out for Spencer, if he doesn't know how long he'll keep him. Spencer will definitely know how long to keep Jeremy!

At rainy Angkor, Tasha has another nice confessional. I take it as a positive sign. She's done it before and she can do it again. She's using what was good about her last game and applying it here, she's keeping her wits and has positivity, I love that! I saw all of the drama that unfolded at Angkor between all of them as just par usual, and Tasha capitalized on it all. She was brilliant how she secured the wild one, Abi. Andrew may have wanted out Varner, but getting out Pei-Gee was still what they needed. And, now Woo is alienated from Varner and Abi. It seems like they are all attached to Tasha and Andrew, yet they still out number the new members of their tribe. WOW!

I took the scene where Savage was chopping the coconut when Jeff asked to make the jury as Andrew would CHOP Jeff when he was ready. And, I also felt that Varner may either fall just short of jury, or just on it?

To me, all of this is a hot mess. Abi-Maria is a mess! She is emotional, insecure, radical, playing too hard, paranoid, fickle. I understand that those around her think they can handle her, but time and again the ones that think they could handle her, are walking out the door. There is just no handling a player like that, and therefore as a viewer, I think they are idiots. Will Abi get the last laugh this season? It's crossed my mind. Will Varner be her next victim? I don't know. I was so bummed about Varner but I have to admit, while I loved it, I did think he was too much too fast. Got to come back and bite him. He played too hard at the challenge mouthing to Kelly, and it could bite her as well.

Regarding Andrew and Tasha and their confessionals, I thought that Andrew's were more narrational, whereas Tasha's were deeper and were more forthcoming about her own game and what she was planning to do in this new tribe, more strategic. Tasha's were much deeper.

Tasha's last confessional told us how she had hope, and that reminded me that Spencer's first confessional also ended with him having hope that he could indeed change his prior ways. I have a lot of hope for them!

I agree with all of your assessments regarding the players and where they seem to be dividing. Excellent comments on the editing for this episode.

I also noticed that there were a lot of animal imagery this episode as well...baby monkeys, baby birds, a ton of birds, hornet's nests, snakes, scorpions, Ocelots, was there a croc too? It will be fun to see how these tribes settle down. Thanks!