Talk:Celebrating July Fourth a Little Early/Tribal Councils/@comment-26485526-20180601224517

This episode was quite tragic, I must say. Written great, but still tragic. I loved the drama, but for fuck's sake, I just hated the lead up to Carriacou's tribal so much! xD

As for Ashanda, I can't understand for the life of me how people actually like her! Yes, she is undeniably messy and terrible at the game, but so were Veronica, Ricky, and Ruben, who all had similar psychotic outbursts, and were also mean spirited and full of hatred. This is also on top of the fact Ashanda has Shanniah's holier-than-thou attitude AND Will's cockiness! Then to top it all off, despite being a bona fide psychopath, she was essentially given a free pass despite her cold and downright heinous manipulation of Topher, on top of the fact she was called out for said blatant lies & manipulation in front of the tribe, which was ultimately proven despite her refusal to acknowledge it!

As for Jason, I just can't help but feel bad for him because he was shuffled to the bottom simply because Ashanda saw him in a nice jacket and ASSUMED he was rich. Yes, while her assumption was ultimately correct, this just confirms how petty most of the tribe is, because no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get off the bottom, and mostly because of someone else's fuck up, he still ended up going home. I feel like Jason had every right to be pissed at Ashanda because he doesn't deserve to be there any less than she does, and as I said, her manipulation of Topher was quite cold and heinous. I get that people lie in Survivor all the time, but there is a fine line between simply trying to advance your own game, and being just downright cold and malicious. Considering the fact that Jason was never able to convince the tribe to give him a chance (of which Jacob had plenty seeing how many people were put ahead of him in the line of fire), I don't see how he was made out to be so "perfect," but I guess that's a matter of opinion, so I'm not about to start an argument on that.

Once people realized that Taihlaura was the reason for Wylie being manipulated and fucking up the vote, thus not giving her as much trust as before, I'd say that Gouyave was about as perfect as possible. I loved Eddiot's small edit this episode because it allowed his stupidity to be amusing, as opposed to grating. The lead up to the vote was great as well, and as much as I hated seeing Wylie go home, he did it to himself for causing his alliance (especially Trinity) to lose trust in him. I love that the numbers on that tribe are (hopefully) 4-4 now, so I'm really excited to see what happens, even though I highly doubt that Trinity would risk rocks to save Jensen & Meiling of all people, but we'll see what happens. Super excited for the next episode!