Urg. This season keeps breaking my heart. First, we raise the possibility of a Tony, Sandra, Malcomb, Aubry alliance. Nope. Malcomb gets twisted out of the game. Now, we had the potential for Cirie, Ozzy, Andrea, Zeke and Michaela with Sarah to take out Bloody Brad Culpepper, Fan Favourite Game Changer Sierra Dawn Tomas, Debbie, Tai and Troyzan. Cirie is starting to play, and bang. Nope.
First vote, surely Hali was only going to be good for Cirie etc, as a number against the other 6. But, Cirie was more concerned about looking like she was ok with Sierra than with getting the numbers so she could Pagong FFGCSDT etc. I don't think they realised the pivotal nature of last night, because Cirie, Andrea, Aubry and Zeke can play, and they know about the 'trust cluster/voting bloc' style of play. Brad Culpepper doesn't understand that. He's lucky he understands 6 into 11 is in. Now, why would anyone there in that 6 want to substitute Cirie or Andrea for a goat like Tai or Debbie?
This season keeps on getting out the actual game changers, and we seem to be heading towards a finale of this who changed their game. From the edit, who are the potential winner's this season? SDT? Brad Culpepper? Cirie got a spike last night and became the narrator, but that usually preludes an eviction in a previously purple player. I hope she can do it. If anyone can outplay BC and SDT, it is the team of Cirie, Andrea and Aubry. They just need to get Debbie to think it was her idea to flip, Aubry can bamboozle Tai again, and they can take down B & S. Please.
Bloody Zeke comes to quick again. I really don't think any of that side saw the 6v6, potential Pagong type of possibility that the edit seems to be suggesting. The votes don't suggest that - Sarah voted Ozzy, for example. Cirie voted Michaela, because she wanted to look like she wasn't so close, while brilliantly flipping the vote so that everyone who wanted to get out Michaela got planted with a Cirie seed, and ended up voting for Hali, while the ones saving Michaela all voted for her to maintain camouflage. Maybe the show is simplifying it, but I think they overthought it, and should have used Hali as a number. The actual players, though, are working off of the recent trend of flexible alliances, though. BC and SDT are probably more old school, and I fear this will be a deadly dull run to the end, as people I actually like are eliminated by nobodies. They could become the new favourites, I suppose. Fan Favourite Brad Culpepper. SDT the new Parvati.
But stupid Zeke couldn't control his ego and just ruins it, for himself and the interesting people.