FINALE!

I think tribal council went well. I honestly think of the final 3 Natalie was the one who deserved to win. She gave up a lot to just even go on the show, and she is absolutely right that her strategy was no different than Russle's, hers just wasn't as obvious. All three of the finalist had very different ways of presenting themselves. Russle made it out to look like he was just playing the game in his best interest, which he was, but not when it came to the jury. Mick however just did his best to convince the jury that everything was Russells fault and that he himself was simply just a pawn, like the rest of the people sitting on the jury. However if Mick was simply a pawn in Russells game, why is he sitting beside Russell in the run for a million dollars? i think Natalie deserved to win. She played the game, she stuck it out on the island, and competed in the challenges, she worked her and she won. I don't think the jury voted for Russell because he lied, and screwed people over, you can't screw someone over and expect them to vote for you to win a million dollars, that just doesn't happen. I most likely would have voted for Natalie, simply because she was the most deserving, she won fair and square, where as Russell won by doing unethical and immoral things as Erik said, he was basically rewarded for doing wrong things. 

Final Five

I think it would be very difficult to separate emotions from the game, because obviously you're going to find people that you do like. Voting them off probably is hard, but it's the game, you can't like everyone and everyone can't win. I think that a real friendship could maybe form, depending on how understanding the two people are, because at one point they're gonna have to vote for each other. When that does happen whoever goes home is going to be upset, the question is will they forgive the person who decided the vote? I think the statement shambo made was nice. She finally completely came out and admitted that she screwed her team over. However she isn't sorry she did, so i feel like her statement was just a compliment to Brett, and not even the apology that she owed the rest of Galu. 

moral dilemna

I do not think it is possible for people to actually form real friendships on this show simply because there is to many paranoid people. No matter what we're all a little paranoid, and for most of those people, being in a competitive situation like survivor, they're always going to have in the back of their head that they might get screwed over if they trust anyone. I think it must be pretty difficult to have to vote out someone that you've made a promise to. i know for me i hate going back on my word because once you lose someone's trust it is 10 times harder to gain it back which is another reason i don't think you can have real friendships in this game, because sooner or later you're going to have to vote your friends out. In my opinion i don't think keeping promises in a game like this is very important. You didn't go on survivor to make friends, you came there to win a million dollars, and if that means stepping on someone else's toes to get it, then so be it. 

self awareness.

Honestly i do not think i would spend all my money on an advantage in the next immunity challenge unless i felt like i was in jeopardy of going home. Jaison really had no reason to waste his money like that. He should have gotten himself some food. John however, really could of used that advantage, although I'm not sure it would have helped him very much he dropped out pretty early. In this game, a shower is not a high priority. given the chance though for only 140 dollars of 500 i'd probably take one too. Although it in no way would approve my game, sometimes a shower just regenerates you, and makes it possible for you to keep going. Honestly i probably would have chosen the same way as John. He's out there, he's been playing hard, and he's hungry. He really had no choice but to take the pie for himself. all those other contestants if placed in the situation probably would have made the same decision john made. Self preservation above all else. I think it was good of them to send John home though, even if their reasoning was stupid. The way he betrayed Laura last week was just not cool and he deserved to go home. i just feel bad that Erik, Laura, and Kelly are stuck with him now. 

The Merge

I think that Foa Foa was more excited about the merge than Galu. I can't believe that Russle went  straight to conniving and didn't waste a minute trying to turn Galu's tribe members to his side. Unfortunately for Erik, his tribe was swayed, however not by Russle. For once Russle was unsure of what was going to go down at tribal council, and somehow found himself tricked. They got him to give up the immunity idol, when his neck wasn't even on the line. I'm sure Russle is not happy about that, and the saying "if you play with fire you'll get burned" keeps coming to mind. Russle is sneaky, and the people who tricked him might want to watch their backs.  I think that the game is going to change a lot now that they are one tribe, and i think a lot of people are going to get screwed over, and a lot of people are going to risk everything, including the trust of their old tribe members to win. I also think that a couple members of Foa Foa have a chance of making it pretty far in the game, but only if they make the right alliances, with the right Galu members. However if they're going to get anywhere, i think they need to stop thinking of their old tribe members as their teammates and start seeing them as their competitors. 

Intelligence

I think intelligence plays a very important part in this game. First off, several of the challenges involve puzzles or brain teasers of some kind. Second, you need to be street smart, as well and be able to tell who is in alliances together, and who might be playing against you on your team instead of with you. Another thing is, you need to be smart enough to know who to make an alliance with. In my opinion intelligence is necessary to win the game. 

free write

This week on Survivor. The reward challenge was the grossest thing i think i've ever seen. Apart from what i've seen on fear factor,  because they have some pretty nasty stuff on that show too. The contestants had to eat Survivor smoothies. The worst one in my opinion was the slug guts. Especially mixed with water, come on jeff cut them a break and at least distort the color a little bit. Galu won the challenge though because Ashley just couldn't get it down. She had one tiny chunk left, but the players on Galu wouldn't stop taunting her. This was a challenge that was strictly mind over matter, and Ashley just couldn't do it. next up was the immunity challenge, and Galu succeeded in that too. When it came to getting the coconuts in the basket, they were just horrible. Again poor Ashley couldn't even make one basket. Speaking of immunity. Liz called Russle Hanz out on having found the immunity idol. Looks like Russle might be in trouble.