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I really wanted Michelle to hang around. I didn't like the way she isolated herself, but her confessionals were relatively intelligent, and she's right - last one picked but who was the first girl up the mountain? She was booted over Gillian? Are you kidding me? And why was she picked last? (I missed the first 5 minutes so I don't know if she did something to make a bad first impression.)

SO glad Gillian is gone. It's a shame that a lot of the oldbies are booted early a lot of times, but man the oldbies Survivor picks are often so annoying and useless!

It was amusing (in kind of a lame way) how Fang was playing hot potato with the 'leadership role.' I like the cameraderie (sp?) of Kato and the general upbeat feeling. I'm a sap for peppy people, if they're being genuine. That being said, Sugar's laugh is going to make me thrust a knife in my throat.

I think I may be leading in Fantasy Survivor! A few people didn't know they needed to make picks for 2 episodes, so I can't gloat too much.

I think they're still sort of interesting to watch, but I guess one of my biggest complaints about the show over the past many seasons is the repetitiveness of the challenges. Strap yourselves together, over/under/around/through obstacles, dig for puzzle pieces, unlock/untie something, race here/swim there, raise a flag, chop an opponent's rope, break an opponent's plate/likeness, etc. I admit that after umpteen seasons they mix and match these elements ok, but where is the originality?? I remember in Season X there was a challenge sent in by a viewer who won a contest. It was basically Boggle - make as many real words as you can from this set of letters. They haven't repeated that one and Jeff admitted it was the least costly one they'd ever had! I guess at least this season we won't be seeing all those swimming challenges, though we do get wading through leech-infested swamps, so that's nice.

Another comment: This may just be the way it is edited (probably is), but back in Season 1 Dick Hatch proved that it's a great idea to get an alliance of 4 and agree to go to the end. Between Survivor and Big Brother, we know that there are many risks even with that because of personality conflicts, backstabbing, whatever. But in Survivor haven't they done a tribe switch-up every season since Season 3 - Africa? What if 2 of your alliance get moved to the other tribe? When forming an alliance these days, do they discuss this and we're just not shown it? It's a pretty important factor. I don't remember any specific examples, but it's bitten some pretty strong-looking early alliances in the butt before.