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Not Much to Say

Sorry I haven't been posting about non-Survivor topics, but I've spent most of the last two weeks at the office and really, who wants to hear about that?

Last night's episode had no real surprises.  Colby continues to be a complete zero.  It's incredibly hard to believe, even accounting for the passage of time, that this is the same man we saw in season 2.  He's got no game.  At anything.  And he was an utter douche, transfering all his frustrations at his season of inefficacy onto his brother in the span of one challenge.  I think it's safe to say that with this season, we've seen the last of Colby on Survivor.

The flaw in my analysis from last week was in expecting Sandra and Parvati to let their emotions rule their actions and vote Russell out.  It's now clear there's no chance of that happening.  Everyone believes that Russell can't win, that he's so disliked by everyone (for the second season in a row!) that nobody on the jury will vote for him, making him the perfect person to take with you to the finals.  Nobody wants to vote him out.

Finals on Sunday. Parvati has won (or diplomatically stepped down from) every single endurance challenge this season.  The vast majority of final challenges are endurance-based (in fact, since they're revisiting classic challenges this season, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the hand-on-the-stump challenge from season 1).  I wouldn't want to go up against Parvati in an endurance challenge, and if she makes it to the finals, she wins. Will the other Villains be smart enough to vote Parvati out at the next tribal council if she doesn't win immunity?  Or will they just hand her another million dollars?