Poor Crystal! I bet it was killing her not to start using relay words when they were strategizing for the challenge.

Interesting Corinne's comments on leadership - Ace thinks the leader is the one who is indispensable, she thinks a real leader is a puppetmaster. (Interesting also in terms of good and evil. I think most folks who consider being helpful to others a good thing, even still if it is motivated by neediness. And "puppetmaster" is pretty much always a negative characterization.) I don't think Kota has done poorly from a lack of leadership, I think it was good strategy to emphasize the immunity challenge and they just got beat. But Corinne calls Ace as leader asinine, and points out his poor alliance position. "Asinine" in terms of winning him the game, presumably, not in terms of actually being helpful?


I've always believed that these web scenes are important to the editing of the show. They're the scenes that got edited right up until the end, they would have been in the show if it weren't for the runtime constraint. But with so many this season all of a sudden, I'm wondering if that has changed, and CBS is using them, like with some other shows, as almost a separate little story. I'm thinking particularly of Marcus/Charlie. For the main season storylines, they established their relationship right up front, it's obviously important over the season, but there's not really anything else they need to tell us. However, there's obviously an audience for their story. But if we keep seeing it week after week in the web scenes, I don't think that necessarily tells us that it is THE important relationship of the entire season.