It wasn't lame at all. The third person was necessary to avoid the usual thing where the number 3 coattail rider gets taken to the finals and gets thrashed. Last season's vote was exciting.

Nah...we've all known that since episode two!

I think it's actually a smart move to let at least one person know you have the idol, as long as it is the RIGHT person. Case in point, Yul using the idol to manipulate Jonathan last year...one of the greatest moves in strategic terms in Survivor history. Now, I'm not saying that Yau-Man is like Yul in any way, but I think he made a smart move by teaming up with Earl, and coming up with a way they can both benefit from the idol. Let's see if this holds true.

I actually find it hilarious that Lisi was determined to find that idol, yet in the previews, she's just snoozing away while the others are digging for it. :D

I laughed out loud when YaoMan buried a "fake" idol.

Up until the article Alex mentioned, Jeff had been saying that Africa was his least favorite cast/season. Since I didn't start watching until the middle of Amazon, I have no way to compare the two seasons.

It's one thing to use it when you already have it. It's another thing to be the only person on an island that knows how to find it...and then just kinda tell someone else. Umm, freaking retarded. With Yao, Earl also had seen the clues, so they just combined knowledge, coopting the competition rather than battling him. Lisi had zero competition, but decided that creating new competition would be a good idea. Retarded.

I was cracking up when Yao was painting the fake idol and putting"I I" on it, just in case someone was too stupid to figure out what it was. Of course, it would have been so much better if had been able to pull off the same thing before they switched camps, so that the other camp could find the fake. Either way, I can't wait to see the look on someone's face if they do, in fact, happen to find, then try to use, the fake idol. :)

Heehee, that had us cracking up. There's sure to be someone on that island who would fall for it. Oh, I so hope. I can't even imagine what Probst would say to that.

I always wonder how much of the stuff at camp he sees. There's a lot of footage, and while I'm sure they start doing some rough cut stuff on the spot, it's not like they do the major editing until after it's all shot and they know what story they want to tell about the eventual winner. So it's entirely possible that he doesn't really pay much attention to the camp (I won't believe for a second that he doesn't have access to seeing it) and really does learn things while at tribal council. Or maybe he does get some sort of executive summary, a day's highlight. But sometimes I would also believe that he just loves it so much that he just spends all day every day watching as much of what goes on as he can.

I have no doubt that Probst gets briefed before Tribal Council, at least to the effect that he can ask pointed questions to get the folks talking.

Yeah, that seems like the most likely to me too. But there has been a rare occasion that he seems surprised to learn something at council. But perhaps he's just good at feigning surprise.

Oh, Lisi, Lisi, Lisi...GOOD RIDDANCE!!!

Honestly, I needed an Excedrin just to try and understand her. Before the challenge, she was like "I don't take challenges seriously...we don't need food to be strong, blah, blah, blah." The minute they lose, and Earl sends her to Exile Island because she is the only one who has clues (well, until she blabbed them to Edgardo and Alex, that is), she's all crying, and like "Why am I on a team with losers...I wanna go home...waa, waa, waa". HUH?!?

Then, she's telling Alex and Edgardo to vote her out after they lose an immunity challenge, and then 10 minutes before the council starts, she decides, "if I'm staying in, we need to get rid of Dreamz". HUH?!?

Dreamz taking over tribal council was hilarious. He certainly showed no mercy for Lisi at all, and I'm admitting that Dreamz just shot up in my books for that alone.

And, the whole scene with Mookie finding the idol while Lisi slept. The most hilarious thing that I had ever seen!!!

Can you tell I'm NOT a Lisi fan? :)

Wow, I knew she was an idiot, didn't realize she was a lunatic. When you're sitting next to an ex-homeless cheerleading coach named Dreamz and people are thinking, "Hey, that dude's making a lot of sense,"...yeah Lisi needed to go.