5/8 - Survivor 38 Show Discussion

I love that Rick is playing with their heads. Pretending that he is hunting for the idol, when he already found it.

If they are smart they will vote out Aurora.

Devens should totally win this game. He's playing ALL of them. Aurora was voted out and Devens keeps his idol for next tribal.

I am loving his game play and you know the jury does too. I really can't see anyone else taking this thing.

I don't like that the next returnee comes back right at the end.

Did Jeff say the final is next Wednesday?

I really don't want Rick to win if only because he's being such a smug jackass. The faces he makes, the gestures, the absolute theater of everything, he's being so off-puttingly arrogant that he's reminding me of freaking Russa Hayntz. Ugh.

OMG,  Rick is playing the heck out of this game, and he is having fun, and making TC fun..I feed off his energy, it's a shame it doesn't rub off on the lacklustre players he is with... Lauren roll your eyes some more, you boring bore. Gavin, grow a pair, Rick is running circles around you. I totally forget Julie is even there..

I can't believe those idiots actually fell for Ricks obvious bluff. I was totally with Aurora when she called them out on falling for that reverse psychology. Heck , Rick looked like he couldn't believe they fell for that. If Aurora had paired up with Rick, what a dynamic duo! plus maybe she wouldnt look so sour..
I don't know who comes back next week, or how that works, but Rick deserves to win, 100% ..without him, this season would have been super boring, and please,  no more edge of extinction! 

He is not arrogant or off putting. He obviously having fun with it. He does great sound bites. And he is having fun with it. I do like that he tries to make theater of the tribal council and makes it a live tribal council. Russell was nothing like Rick. He could get very mean and nasty and that is why NO ONE voted him a million dollars even when he managed to get to the final two, two times in a row. 

I enjoyed Russell Hantz for his sheer mastery of the game. His first season on Survivor, he played the other contestants like a fiddle. I guess that's why I like Rick Devens so much. He also seems very good at reading human nature and knowing how to get them to do what he wants them to do. He's taking big gambles every week and enjoying the game and I respect him for that!

I do think it's a shame Aurora didn't team up with him. She already knows she's at the bottom of the totem pole in her alliance so why not jump ship and try for better odds?

Russell was pretty cruel. Rick is a delight. Except for that brief period when Rick got too emotional about things and dug in his heels against David's better advice, he's been very upbeat and rational. I don't think anyone will have much animosity against him, just respect for his game. And in the context of this season, it's more important than ever to put on a show at TC to win over the jury.

Yes. Rick even admitted that getting voted out impacted his game and he is playing differently in the second half...since his return. He is just enjoying it more and it shows. Personally, I always enjoy seeing players who are enjoying themselves. It is infectious. I have liked him so much more since his return and I am enjoying the season more now because of it. ( I felt the same when Boston Rob played.)

I watched AR right after Survivor last night and was cheering when the two most negative people ever were voted out...precisely because they were so miserable. Funny that they are two former Survivor players...Corinne and Eliza.

You are SO right.  Hantz was an asshat, and that is being kind.  Rick is a good guy at heart, and I do not find him sung in the least. 


Ron was smug (Mr. I am running this game) Rick is just happy he is able to play smart, play like he has nothing to lose, and be honest while still be able to pull out safety.  I see him more childlike giddy rather than smug.  As for his facial expressions, he is a TV personality, so yeah there is some theatricts there I am sure.. but I don't think they are out of arrogance at all.  Heck even I wasn't sold on him in the beginning of the game, now I am laughing along with him as he leads those that are easily lead on the island.  He is playing a smart, smart game.  They jury for the most part can see it and I do think that he will be rewarded in the end.  Hantz was not an honest man, he was mean, nasty, and yeah treated everyone like crap.  He was a total misogynist.   The two are not at all comparable to me. 

When I said Rick gives me Hantz vibes, I don't mean in the jerkish department, I meant in the smug department. He makes a huge theater out of TC, his confessionals display a lot of arrogance, and that arrogance is also on display in TC, with those smug, holier-than-thou I'm-so-much-better-than-you looks to everyone for being unable to vote him out again, whether they deserve it or not. I won't deny that he's playing a strong game, but I personally detest such levels of arrogance. I will be skipping the finale, as I haven't seen such a blatant winner's edit since Mariano in Redemption Island, and blatant winner edits just make the show boring for me.

He's keeping his spirits up , all by his lonesome. For that I applaud him. We cheer him on loudly in this house, because he's kept us watching. If it were Lauren, Julie and Gavin, we'd shut it off..

Same for me. I usually hate the winner's edit and someone who goes on a winning streak but in this case I am OK with it. First time ever for me the entire time I have been watching Survivor. Even now I am thinking of how giddy he was running all over the island, reminding me of a giant Peter Pan and laughing about it.