Survivor: Cambodia "Survivor MacGyver" OAD 9/30/2015

I loved tonight's episode. Shirin is one of my least favorite players ever. She got what she deserved after whining last season about nobody standing up for her,and she just sits there yucking it up as everyone laughs at Abi with her basically right there.

 

Glad to see Shirin gone, but Abi is nuts. Someone might think Abi's the perfect person to bring to the end because no one would vote for her, but that plan is likely to blow up in the face of whomever tries it. I'm looking at you Varner.

 

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This is exactly how I feel. I understand and totally support the idea of bringing along terrible players so you can win. But I think it is next to impossible to bring Abi along and keep her under control long enough to serve your purposes.

Some people are just too toxic. It's like making friends with a scorpion to sting your enemies. Sooner rather than later, the scorpion will sting you instead.

 

Spencer was definitely right - she (Abi) is a cancer in the tribe. She's an emotional ticking time bomb that will do nothing but sow discord between people and bring disharmony to the collective group. They should have voted her out the first week and left Vytas to remain creepy. They might have had a shot at getting a faster start on the puzzle.

Abi has to be the next to go on that tribe, but I don't see it happening. Both sides will look to protect her so they can sit next to her at the end. This is the earliest I can recall players looking to sit someone next to them in the finals.

Until she is gone, her tribe will likely continue to lose.

 

It's been like this for a few seasons at least. Wife and I almost always guess which tribe is winning the challenge and who's going to be targeted based on screentime and we are usually right. I think though a lot of it comes from watching for so long we can pick on on things a newer viewer might not. I guess showing 42 minutes a week out of 3 days worth of footage, it's are to avoid that.

I agree with this and I think at some point, when it's no longer worth it, they'll cut her loose. She's the type that needs to be noticed and if she's not, she's angry. She said something telling that reveals this last night. She was talking to Shirin and Shirin apologizes and she said, something like, you saw me sitting alone and you didn't come and see if I was ok? Like she can sit there an pout and expect everyone to come running to check on her. She's an adult isn't she?

 

That's debatable.

 

My first thought when Abi went off to pout alone was that Boston Rob would have NEVER allowed that to happen. He was such a master at keeping everyone in his alliance happy and believing he was always there for them. Shirin was her own downfall and I'm certain she will admit to it (in hindsight).

 

Pretty big spoiler for next week in DR's recap

 

She already did at tribal and in her post-tribal confessional.

 

Speculation on Kelly's idol based on the preview for next week.

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Kelly buried her idol near her camp and didn't keep it with her. If during the tribe switch, she ends up going to a different location, she could basically have to leave the idol behind.

 

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She would be a fool not to take it with her to every challenge since the first tribal went "straight" from the challenge.

 

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That was an immunity challenge, they usually do the tribe switch before reward challenges. I'll be curious to see if she brings it with her.

 

That's all they have done so far this season. Still an interesting thing to watch for.

 

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Does anybody bring their stuff to every challenge, I imagine they just bring their stuff after switches, they know where she hid it why couldn't they retrieve it for her. Or they can just send her back to the same camp since they know she hid the idol or close enough that she can find it.

 

OK, I was Shirin's biggest fan, but she totally blew it. She turned and walked away while Abi and PG went at it, and didn't properly tend to her flock. Boston Rob would never allow anything like that to happen.

But I love the theme of this week: how Abi, Shirin, and Spencer are all essentially the same person they were the first time they played. They spend a lot of time talking about how they have changed, but in fact they are just the same.

Vytas was "the same, but more so", and it got him voted out.

Jeff Varner seems to be the one who has actually changed; I guess it takes 15 years to really develop as a person. Although his "I voted out one of my alliance in order to show my alliance that they need to vote out someone on the opposing alliance!" theory is nonsensical, it looks like he got away with it.

 

Why?

 

Because she's a smart, interesting oddball.

 

Well I agree with oddball.