Episode Report Card Sara M: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Chocolate Lovers
By Sara M | Season 20 | Episode 5 | Aired on 03.11.2010
Back at camp, the Heroes' mood is somber. Tom says the Villains are clearly better than they are when it comes to puzzles. J.T. says the Villains are clearly better than they when it comes to everything except sumo wrestling. With that, it's time to plot and scheme. Colby and Tom think James should be the next to go, but aren't sure if they can get J.T. back on their side. J.T. meanwhile, walks up to Rupert, who is apparently just standing around in the woods looking like a scary homeless man, as per usual. Rupert mutters something about how Tom needs to go next, and J.T. mumbles something back, and I think there should be some kind of rule that those two are not allowed to have a conversation with each other until they can figure out how to enunciate. Candice suddenly appears next to them and says she thinks keeping James at the expense of Tom is "the dumbest move," pointing out that James is unable to run or really even walk. "I mean that's -- are we being stupid?" she asks. I love how Candice is constantly amazed at the lack of intelligence in her tribe. Rupert says he can't run either, what with his broken toe, so if that's why they're voting people out then they should have voted him out a long time ago. Rupert should have been voted out a long time ago according to any criteria. Obviously, even he can't believe that he's still there. James limps up at this point, so now three out of the four people in this meeting are unintelligible. I think he says something about how he wants to stay in this game despite his injury.
While James adjusts his huge leg brace, J.T. interviews that "logically," he should vote James out tonight, but he's trying to prove his loyalty to James, Rupert, and Amanda, and that would be impossible if he sided with Colby and Tom again. Um ... sorry, J.T., but you sort of burned that bridge when you sided with them the first time. It makes no sense to then defect back to the alliance you just screwed over, because now you'll have pissed off and lied to every single person in your tribe and they'll all know it. Rupert walks up to Amanda and says that Candice is trying to get rid of James because he's weak. He thinks that if they're voting according to strength, then Candice should be the next to go. Even though Rupert himself just said that he was the weakest person in the tribe because of his broken toe. Amanda wants Tom to go before Candice, but they're both worried about J.T.'s loyalty. Why are they even considering J.T. as a loyal ally at all at this point? It makes no sense. J.T., meanwhile, agrees with Candice that it makes more sense to get rid of James. He says he and Candice are "in control" on this game right now as they are both crucial swing votes. Meanwhile, Amanda continues to fret about whether or not J.T. is on their side. "J.T. cannot cross us," Rupert growl-mutters, like, hasn't J.T. done that once before already? And yet, you're still relying on him for votes? Amanda interviews that she knows this is stupid, but she's still forced to count on J.T.'s vote tonight, because it's easier to do that than, say, actually do something remotely strategic like get together with Tom and Colby to vote J.T. out, since neither alliance can truly trust him and they both run the risk of being screwed over by his whims.