Talk:Earthquake!/@comment-9949103-20191113180901

PRAISE JESUS! The tryhard of the season is FINALLY gone! Feels like only 11 episodes too late, but it's alright. Just happy to see him not taking up a spot on the finale.

I feel a bit bad saying this, since I know you were worried about the Auggie and Derek comparisons, but they really do remind me of one another with their awful tryhard-ness and how reliant they are on advantages and idols over actual strategizing and social gameplay. I will say that while I find Derek to be a better villain/antagonist (Due to him having a REASON to play hard and be an asshat seeing as he was a massively high energy superfan) Auggie is definitely the more likable of the two. While Derek was annoying from beginning to end, Auggie did have some sprinkles of common sense and shining moments for me, mainly in relation to the whole Ambrielle and Lynsie debacle. Otherwise, though, I am thanking the high heavens that his ugly mug and that dumbass hat of his are finally on the jury where they belong.

This was another really good episode, definitely better than last season's penultimate episode in that the vote was a lot more exciting and resulted in the more likable group getting the numbers. The dynamics of the Urn of No Good and the Earthquake also helped to spice up this episode as well, especially with all the drama that the former unfolded, which is impressive given how few people are left in the game.

I will say, regarding that scene, I don't really understand all the Sterling hate? Like, I get that Sterling shouldn't be crying victim if he's also going to rake Elliot over the coals like he did, but I don't ever recall a scene or a confessional where Sterling was going out of his way to talk about how Kevin's "grow a pair" comment made him cry or angry or whatever. He was visibly upset, but who wouldn't be? I certainly wouldn't be cheering for a comment like that if I was in his shoes.

Either way though, safe to say that Elliot and Kevin both came out of this episode looking like a complete fucking idiots. Kevin, continues to flush himself further and further down into the toilet, talking about "correcting his 7 year old son" while also having the gall to get mad at Gemini for bringing up his kids (Even though he never shuts his black hole mouth about them). To me, Kevin just comes off as a very selfish and toxic person, saying that no one should take what was said in the Urn of No Good as personal except for him because they brought up his KIDS of all things! How could they ever do such a horrible atrocity to him? Just shut the fuck up, Kev and go sit at the sob story table with Peter if you want to keep whining and moaning about your kids because I'm really not here for it.

And as for Elliot, he really shit the bed this episode with all of his actions. Not only did he go out of his way to yell at and get mad at all of his former alliance members, he transparently flipped back over to the men, got called on it at Tribal, and then FLIPPED BACK to his old alliance in the span of one episode. I've liked Elliot to an extent so far, but I'm starting to understand why we haven't seen much of him up until now because it really seems like he doesn't even have the mental capacity to put words together if he thought any of the stuff he did here was a good idea.

At least with all this idiocy came the victory of my holy trinity: Adrienne, Gemini, and Sterling rocked this episode and I am SO glad to see them in the majority going into the finale. They're easily the most interesting and/or rootable people left from this bunch so I am VERY happy to see them hopefully cruise their way to the final three unless one of them decides to be a massive moron and ruin this perfect scenario for me xD

Going into the final episode, I really don't see how anyone but Adrienne wins at this point. I've already pontificated enough about why Elliot and Kevin suck balls at this game and won't win, Gemini's edit for the first half of the season has been less than desirable, and after all the backlash that Sterling got this episode for insults flung toward Elliot, I'm very hard-pressed to see a situation in which he wins the game. Who knows, though? It is you, Wafflez, and crazier things have happened xD

Rooting for Adrienne, Gemini, and Sterling!<3

As long as one of these three wins, I am going to be more than satisfied with the ending of this season :)