Talk:Rivaling With a Retiree/@comment-9949103-20190712052031

Wow.....honestly, that's all I can say right now. Wow. What a fucking episode and what a fucking pre-merge. Wafflez, I am going to say with confidence that this is the best pre-merge that both you and the Wiki have ever offered up in my honest opinion. Just utterly amazing and it only got better as it went along. I'm so excited for the merge. This episode shattered a lot of my expectations for what the setup for the merge would be so I'm super ecstatic to see how things play out.

First of all, lemme give it up for Ashley, who is definitely a huge second chance candidate from this season along with Halle and Angel. All in all, she reminded me a lot of Jane from my season Peru. The young positive girl who ended up having a darker, more deceptive, strategic side to her. Was playing a good UTR game until she got caught telling idol lies and ends up blindsided with an idol in her pocket. Even though I wasn't the most surprised by this elimination (I honestly thought that once Ashley told Dakoda about Peter's secret, she had no role left to play this season, unfortunately), that pre-tribal and tribal was so tense and entertaining. Amazing blindside, but like Jane, I think Ashley deserves a second chance because she was a very savvy player who showed a lot of potential this season.

Second of all, lemme fucking give it up for my man ELVIS! From the beginning, I always liked Elvis a lot. I liked his spunk and his energy, he made for a funny and upbeat presence at Pamona in the midst of Derek's idol idiocy. However, he showed this episode that he came to fucking play. That whole blindside on Ashley was completely his work and such a stellar and unexpected play by the kooky "off his rocker" old man type. I just love how he manages to make good points and plot Ashley's demise while still having all of these over the top mannerisms. He's skyrocketed up to the top of my favorites after this episode and I am fully on board with him dominating this merge hopefully.

And after a lackluster performance last episode, Dakoda is also back on my good side as they are probably tied with Elvis for best player this episode. Seriously, they were in everyone's ear and I think the decision to use the excursion card at this point in the game was very smart. They got a lot of very useful info that puts targets on both Peter and Derek's backs while putting a smoke screen around them. Plus how can I not fall back in love with them after the way they shamelessly dragged Derek in their confessional? Seriously, everything I could say about Derek's irrelevant ass was shoehorned that confessional and that alone makes Dakoda a top tier favorite of mine.

The only worry I have about Dakoda is that they aren't being forthright enough with BG and January as they would like (As BG said) and it could spell their doom if they don't properly manage those relationships. Hopefully, as I said, the revelation surrounding Peter will be enough of a distraction to let them sneak by undetected.

And now, ugh, let's just address the elephant in the room: Betty. Up until now, I've loved Betty as the clueless yet also stone-cold bitch granny who was willing to cut her tightest ally but also didn't have the common sense to know why giving her idol away was a bad idea. She was so endearing and such a trainwreck. I really did like her, but she fucking blew her wad this episode.

I get that Betty is not the smartest or anything, but the pure pettiness that she showed this episode was quite unbearable. I get being mad that Ashley lied and tried to vote her out after she gave her this "gift" of an idol or whatever, but who was the future mental hospital patient that thought that giving her an idol was a good idea? It's clear that Betty is either too ignorant or too much of a dumbass to take any credit for her own actions and, at this point, I'm leaning towards both. Oh, and don't get me FUCKING started on her trying to play the "wisdom" card at Tribal Council! As if her ancient, looking-for-more-money-for-medicare, ass had an ounce of wisdom left in her dried up skelator body! She's done nothing but be a dumbass this entire game but yeah, she has so much "wisdom" everyone! Definitely listen to the wise words of some petty retiree who is halfway onto her death bed.

Betty, all I'm gonna say now is that it was fun while it lasted but you're officially canceled now. You can take a seat next to Derek where you fucking belong, bitch.

In spite of this new source of hatred, I am SO hyped for the next episode and the rest of the season in general! Keep up the amazing work Wafflez!<3

Go Elvis, Dakoda, BG, January, Peter, Olivia, Ivan, and Benny!<3

Death to Derek Dumbledore and Petty Betty!