2/26 - Survivor 40 Show Discussion

will Adam be voted off?

Will someone explain to me what just happened? Ethan? Who voted for him and why? Did I miss something?

Aw, poor Ethan was blindsided. I really like him and wanted him to stick around! Rob's face was interesting to watch: at first he was smug when Adam's votes were shown, then his whole demeanor changed when he sees he was "had" and they were taking out one of his allies! ha!

Adam deserved that shock to his system. At first I thought maybe he was being smart in this game, but then noooo. Why go tell Rob they're taking his friend/ally out?? It will be interesting to see how he fares from here out.

Adam looked pissed so I don't think he was part of the decision. I wish production had showed us some of the negotiations. I feel like I was blindsided!

Because of the players going to Extinction, they're not showing the votes.

I wonder who's sick on Extinction. Danni looks she's barely more than a skeleton, so it wouldn't surprise me if it was her.

Well dang. I like Ethan and didn't want to see him voted out so soon! I hope he can do well on Extinction Island...

I don't get why the others didn't band together and just vote off Rob. It would have lessened the power of the Ethan/Parvati/Rob alliance and left Adam without Rob, who was his main contact with those three and the one he thinks he was using as his angle to play both sides against the other. The comment that you don't mess with the Godfather and Rob is the Godfather is ridiculous. They've all won at least once or they wouldn't be in this season. That's all that Rob has won, too--and he won his season with players that were a lot weaker and only after being given multiple tries to win. If they're worried about what Rob and Amber can do together on Exile Island, if only one of them can come back from Exile, why not stick both of them there and allow only one to come back? If they're interested in breaking up couples, what happens if Amber makes it off the island with Rob still in the game? Then they're back in the same situation with fewer people playing and fewer ways to get rid of both of them.

Rob is only the Godfather because they're allowing him to be, and they have fewer excuses for making that decision than inexperienced, non-winners do. In fact, they really have none at all. Ethan was probably the one of those three who would have been the easiest to deal with and the least likely to play people against each other. So they get rid of him? And from the previews, they want to get rid of Adam because he can't be trusted? Neither can Rob or Parvati. They'll both play people against each other just as easily, and they're much better at it, so they're much bigger threats.

Once again the Dakal Tribe continues to keep me entertained they are so much fun to watch! Every second that Tony is on my screen I smile. The shark scene was very fun to watch. Tyson is really on the bottom in that tribe right now and it looks like he still has some work to do in order to dig himself out of this hole. For a second I thought Dakal was going to tribal because that challenge was so intense i lost a pulse for a few seconds.


I was so confident that Boston Rob would finally be voted out but once again he survived. I'm glad Parvati wasn't going off because I really did not want to lose another female player for the fourth time in a row, but I am very very very sad to lose Ethan this soon, because this is the third week in a row that an old school player has been voted out of the game.

Jeremy likes to keep big threats around as shields and I think thats why he doesnt want Boston Rob and Parvati to go yet, but with Ethan its like no one is ever going to view him as a big threat in the long run so he had the potential to make a deep run, which is also dangerous because players like that usually make it to the end. Emotions aside I get why Michele and Jeremy made this move and I respect it, it just SUCKS.

While I do respect the fact that Adam is not afraid to stand up against Boston Rob, I do think Adam is really overplaying and he needs to calm down. Even Denise didn't vote with Adam tonight because he told too many people the plan to vote out Parvati.

I will never be a fan of the Edge of Extinction but it is nice to see Natalie be successful there so far, I just wish I was watching her in the actual game instead but I think she has a great shot to get back.

Looking at the preview for next week, it doesnt look like a tribe swap is happening. What's up with that? Initially I thought they would be having tribe swaps like crazy this season. 4 people have been voted out of the game so far, and I'm ready for a swap. I guess they are going to wait until Final 15 and swap into 3 tribes? I dont know.

That's a valid point as well.

I think my one fear would be Amber finding an advantage at the EOE because whatever advantage she gets she's not going to give them to different players like Natalie is. She is going to give everything to Boston Rob.

I just want Rob & Sandra to stay long enough to be on the same tribe.  

I personally think it’s more dangerous to have one in the game and one on EoE. The players don’t know that Natalie is dominating the scavenger hunts, Amber could’ve already sent a bunch of goodies to Rob.

Yeah. I think Adam was the one who voted for Parvati, so clearly he ended up on the outside of the plan. I think the new players were pissed that he was trying to play both sides and told Rob about Parvati. (Don't know if they knew that he told Ethan, too.)

Natalie is doing great at finding things and buying loyalty by giving them to different allies. I just wish she'd been smart enough to put the whole puzzle back together so that the others wouldn't know that she'd solved it.

Perhaps Boston Rob is just startled that he's not dominating the game. He's done well enough at the physical parts of the challenges, but he couldn't finish the puzzles fast enough in the last two challenges, when it all came down to him and one other person to bring the win home. And he's not got a bunch of tribe mates who are so wildly impressed with him that they weren't unwilling to blindside him and knock out one of his allies, no matter what Adam says about Rob being the godfather. Plus, Amber was the first one out on the other side. Maybe he's starting to wonder if it was such a good idea for him and Amber to come back--and really, having both of them back together just makes them bigger targets, as everyone knows they'll be ride-or-die for each other, so no one on either tribe likely wants them both to make it to the merge (or even have one of them make it to the merge).

They should have known they'd be big targets, but Rob also has a big ego, so he perhaps thought he could handle it. After all, he's played the game more times than anyone out there, and he's frequently convinced people who shouldn't have trusted him to trust him--and the time he won, he had people who stupidly believed him long past the time he should have. He may have believed he could have avoided being blindsided so early. He may also be rattled by the fact that he lost two puzzle challenges in a row and that Amber went out first for the other tribe. Or he may feel that her early exit has something to do with misplaying his hand by lying to Sandra about playing this time around and figuring she'd let that go as gameplay or whatever. If I remember correctly, it was also his idea that both he and Amber play. I didn't mean to imply that they didn't think they'd be targets at all. Just that he's now wondering how much he miscalculated in terms of how much bigger the target would be on their backs because they aren't a pair that anyone was going to buy would turn on each other. Rob mentioned at one tribal council that this game was very different from the other times he'd played. If he appears to be off his game, as another poster suggested, perhaps one or all of those things are weighing on his mind.

How far off his game he may or may not be will likely be more evident post-blindside. As will how much his tribe is actually intimidated by what Adam referred to as his Godfather status.