Episode Report Card Sara M: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Crybabyitis
By Sara M | Season 20 | Episode 2 | Aired on 02.18.2010
Finally, Colby speaks up. "You just attacked her. You expect her to sit here and not defend herself?" That's a good point. "Just let it be, bro," Colby says. You know your tribe has problems when freaking Colby is the voice of reason. James says next time he'll say "the two of y'all" so that Stephenie won't think he's just addressing her. Tom suddenly speaks up with "make it three of them all," because he'll be damned if Colby is going to be the only one defending Stephenie here. He already has the million dollars, so he's much better off being voted out early for turning people against him (who were already against him anyway) by heroically coming to a damsel in distress's aid than he is staying quiet. Tom says the alliances in their tribe are what they are and everyone knows it, so there's no point in James "bullying" Stephenie now. Amanda, meanwhile, is sitting between James and Tom and this is the perfect opportunity for her to make an awesome "AWKWARD!" face, but she just looks blank and clueless like always. James denies bullying Stephenie, but Tom says that when Probst asked him to name "y'all," he said Stephenie, so yeah, he is bullying her. James thinks that Stephenie brought attention onto herself by being overly defensive when he started screaming at everyone, thus indicating to him that she had something to feel guilty about. Of course, he doesn't put things as clearly as that so he just continues to sound like an asshole.
Tom gives up here, saying that James is living in his own world where people's words mean different things than they do in Tom's world. "This is unbelievable," Stephenie says, like anyone asked for her opinion. Probst certainly didn't, as Stephenie is not a man. Colby is a man, so Probst asks him if the tribe's discord on Day 6 is "alarming." Colby says it's early in the game for people to start being more concerned about saving themselves than saving the team as a whole. Not when you're playing with Cirie, it isn't! Probst finally talks to Stephenie, asking if she's worried that the fact that she played with Tom in the past will count against her. Stephenie says she is, but reminds the group that during the Palau season, Stephenie was in an opposing tribe for most of the game and Tom "cut [her] throat" after the merge. Well, not really, but whatever you have to say to convince everyone that you and Tom aren't in an alliance even though Tom pretty much just proved that you were by speaking up on your behalf. Probst then asks Cirie how she can "deflect" the fact that she played the game with James and Amanda. I think she should answer "by not being the guy walking around screaming 'one voice' at everyone or the girl who came in second place two seasons in a row like a dumbass," but she doesn't. She just says that Amanda cut her throat like Tom cut Stephenie's while Amanda makes yet another poor me pity face.