Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sponge Bath, Flare Pants
By Miss Alli | Season 7 | Episode 12 | Aired on 12.03.2003
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The group returns to camp. Lill congratulates Darrah on winning immunity. Christa whines in an interview that she almost won, but that she often almost wins. "That's never good enough," she says through her nose. Tragically, there is no second place in immunity. They could invent one -- they could say that with the second-place finisher, you can only vote for her if you can spell her name correctly on your tribal council voting slip, which would actually protect people much more than you'd think. Christa unnecessarily explains that she feels very vulnerable at tribal council. Sandra reassures her as they work at camp that they've already turned the tables once, and Sandra is sure they can do it again. Sandra thinks that it's going to come down to the women's alliance knocking off the guys. Christa reiterates to Sandra that she still feels like she's headed for Loser Lodge tonight. Sandra assures her that she'll be saved. In an interview, Sandra says that they want Burton gone because of his strength, and that she thinks that the most even playing field will be all of the women together at the end. To this end, Sandra has a chat with Darrah. Will Darrah participate in voting off Burton? "No," Darrah says simply. She tells Sandra and an approaching Christa that she's voting off Lill. "I think he's already tellin' her right now," Darrah says, looking out at Lill and Jon.
Meanwhile, Lill and Jon have a walk. Jon tells her that Christa wants the booting of either Lill or Sandra, and doesn't care which, because she wants to be in the final four with Burton, Jon, and Darrah, apparently. And, you know, not to be a bitch or anything, but who in post-production didn't notice that the subtitles say "Christa doesn't care which on [sic] of us goes"? Do subtitles need a proofreader? Come on, people, that's just ugly. Jon tells Lill that, given her attitude, Christa will have to be the next to go. Lill agrees. Jon goes into another self-aggrandizing interview about how brilliant he is and how "naïve" everyone else is. Whatever, genius. Jon assures Lill that Darrah has already been consulted, and is also voting off Christa. Ah! Hm, if that's true, Darrah had a pretty good poker face back there with Christa and Sandra. I've seen some bad lying, and that was some reasonably decent lying. Lill interviews that everything she hears continues to support the idea that it's Christa getting the boot. Of course, it appears that she's smart enough to know this isn't to be taken as gospel. "Never take anything for granted," Lill says, carefully guarding her karma like it is a lion cub and she is its wild, untamed mother. The Eagle-Eyed Forum Posters weren't sure if we next see a small bird or a huge moth in a spider web, and I'm not sure which it is, either. I started at "bird" and now think "moth" is possible. At any rate, any moth that can pass for a possible bird is pretty big, if you think about it, so maybe that's the point, really. There's a great buddy movie there, too, where Eddie Murphy is the moth and Jim Belushi is the bird...come to think of it, I'm not sure last Thursday's margarita has entirely worn off yet.