Episode Report Card Miss Alli: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Cirie-ous Problems
By Miss Alli | Season 16 | Episode 3 | Aired on 02.20.2008
James takes offense, and he's going to snap Erik in half for daring to, like, compete and stuff. I don't know; I'm not all that impressed with a dude taking offense over the ladies being slammed when the ladies seem perfectly capable of participating. I'm not sure Amanda doesn't weigh more than Erik, to tell you the truth. She's made of girl, and he's made of popsicle sticks. It's hard to tell, with the way people are used to block for each other here, who's really valuable, but when Malakal eventually wins, I'd have to say the most obvious MVP overall is probably Jonathan, though James was also crucial. You know who was practically invisible? Ozzy. Interesting.
So now, Malakal has to send a member of Airai to Exile, and they do the most logical thing, which is to send Kathy again. From their own tribe, they send Ami, who's eager to go. As they leave, Jeff reports that they will rejoin their tribes at the next immunity challenge. Airai goes back to camp empty-handed; Malakal goes back to camp with their chosen reward items.
After commercials, we are at Malakal, still on Day 7, where Ozzy tells a story of one of the women getting in a clinch with him and asking him if he had a girlfriend, and Eliza relates a similar story of flirtation during a tangle with Amanda and Mikey B. So the moral of the story, I guess, is that Airai has the fire in the pants for Malakal, while Malakal is busy making out with each other and is uninterested. As everyone stands around having a good time, Cirie wanders off by herself. She interviews that she's not sure whether other people all feel relaxed because they think she's with them, but she herself doesn't feel secure. She looks on as Parvati giggles to James about how "impressed" she was watching him throw people around. Cirie says that because she's in the middle, she has to look at all the options, and she has to try to have alternate plans. Of course, this is true of everyone, even people in secure alliances. Have these people never heard of twists before? Tribal shake-ups? Anyone? [taps on microphone] Cirie -- approximately...40% seriously, I'm going to say, which means 60% jokingly -- tells us that she really thinks she should be getting her ass kissed a little more, all things considered. She could be getting her laundry done and so forth. I think Cirie really...doesn't account for the fact that "swing vote" is something that rests on a set of assumptions. Eliza can make you irrelevant instantly -- instantly! -- and leave you with nothing. Eliza goes with the couples, they don't need you. Boom! You have no choices. Eliza has switched her alliances just like Jonathan in the past, and just like everybody else; why would Cirie assume that Eliza would have some mad alliance to these people (that's the only way Cirie has this much power) just because this is her alliance so far?