Talk:They're Hissing Like Snakes/@comment-26485526-20200201171615

I loved this episode so much, Matt! Also, thank you for sending Guayamara to Tribal this time and not continuing to pick off the Balandras!

This was absolutely the wrong move for Larry, Reyna, and Preston to make - 100%. The fact that the NTOS shows that Micah is furious with his alliance is proof of that. Honestly, with how Larry went on and on about how his loyalty is to Kelly and not Sienna, you'd think he wouldn't be pushing so hard for Amelia to be going home. I guess you have to give props to Larry's persuasion skills for being able to use a smirk by Micah to convince Preston & Reyna to make an even dumber move for them.

On one hand, I do applaud Larry's social awareness and persuasion skills, and I do love him for being able to see right through Micah's bullshit when a lot of people couldn't. I also think that his move to tell Kelly that the votes were supposed to be going to her could have been an excellent one if he actually would've followed through with the split as intended and then acted like he flipped to save her (as he himself suggested). That would've been the perfect move for Larry in this scenario, and with Sienna not playing her idol, that would've been flushed as well. Instead, he jumped the gun and flipped the vote on Amelia, and now a lot of people are going to be pissed, especially Micah.

However, if Larry's move to flip on Amelia was bad, then Preston's & Reyna's move to flip on Amelia was horrendous. Like, what the fuck were they thinking?! It's true Micah could not be trusted and he was likely much more loyal to Estrella/Joseph/Amelia. However, they now have three people on the tribe pissed off for flipping on them, and now they've exposed where their loyalties truly lie, when they could've kept riding the middle. Reyna's & Preston's move can now come back to bite them in a swap if they are left with Micah, Joseph, and/or Estrella, who can rat them out to Balandra for being disloyal, and they'll have nobody to blame but themselves. Also, if they are thinking that Sienna would be grateful to have been spared or something... have they learned nothing from the past almost dozen days of living with her?

Micah continues to tumble in my rankings, and I think it's safe to say that he's now my least favourite of the Guayamaras. He's nothing but an egotistical gamebot that's probably going to play the victim for the entirety of the next episode, and I'm not excited for it. Micah should honestly be thankful that it wasn't his ass that was blindsided and that his plans were merely ruined, because he's clearly doing a terrible job of playing both sides if Larry could easily see through him. He seems to think that he's entitled to do whatever the fuck he wants, as evident of the fact that the NTOS says that he's "furious" with his alliance. Like honestly, so Micah's allowed to play both sides and lie within his own alliance, but other people are not allowed to act on this? Larry was clearly not in Micah's endgame plans, so he had every right to make a preemptive strike. Whether or not it was an actual good move for Larry/Preston/Reyna is almost irrelevant. If Micah's allowed to be duplicitous, other people should be allowed to do the same. But no, because it's Micah that got played instead of being the one playing people, he gets to have a temper tantrum. Right.

As for Amelia, I liked her, but she really wasn't anything all that special. Regarding the challenge mistake, I feel so badly for her in that regard, because I could totally see myself making the same error. I think she was a good addition to the cast given her backstory, and how she was able to provide some nice character development for Joseph/Estrella, but I'm not really upset to see her leave. I may not particularly like Sienna & Kelly all that much, but I do find them more entertaining to read than Amelia, so her leaving really doesn't upset me.

(Will add Balandra later)

CAST RANKINGS:
 * 1) Monique Brown
 * 2) Santiago Moreno
 * 3) Mimi Thompson
 * 4) Preston Frank
 * 5) Reyna Diaz
 * 6) Estrella de Luna
 * 7) Manny Torres
 * 8) Larry Bjornsen
 * 9) Joy Tran
 * 10)  Amelia Moore 
 * 11) Joseph Li
 * 12) C.J. Cook
 * 13) Sienna Martin
 * 14)  Zach Trust 
 * 15) Kelly Smith
 * 16)  Hogan Strange 
 * 17) Kara Newman
 * 18) Franklin Stone
 * 19) Micah Anderson
 * 20)  Trish Svensen