Talk:Alliance; Shmalliance/@comment-9949103-20180627161357

Can I just say: one of the BEST episodes of the season, if not your entire series Wafflez. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time and even though a blindside would've been spectacular, the chaos at Tribal Council was just as great if not better.

Don't get me wrong here, I LOVED Candy. She was such an entertaining character and she had an iron-cladden grip on the game until last episode. However, it is these moments that really remind me of why I love Survivor. Candy going completely shatters my expectations for the season and opens the game up in a whole new way. With the way she was edited, it seemed like this family member alliance was set to dominate the merge and now their key member has been voted out and the rest of them are in shambles! I love everything about it. It sucks that Candy has to settle for being the Liza/Erinn/Morgan of the season, but I'm satisfied with her character and her arc up to this point. She was definitely a standout for the season, for sure.

Speaking of her ouster though, Ebonie has completely risen to the top of my faves with Khaled at the current moment. I've been keen on those two as a pair since the beginning but they never really stood out since they were both very quiet, and most of Ebonie's edit up until the last couple episodes was about her sister. Nice to see her taking control of the game, she's so calculated and staged in all of her moves and everything she says, I absolutely love it. Khaled also gains points for iconically telling Whitney the trainwreck what to do.

As for Whitney, she completely had this coming. Blabbing to Stacy, not telling Ebonie ANY of her information, and just flaunting her relationship with Candy were all nails in her coffin. Honestly, I am not digging Whitney at all this episode. I feel like the trainwreck I grew to love in Canada has just turned into some annoying fembot. Her entire personality seems to be "Oh, are you a man? Well then FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!". She's just really grating, glad to know that she doesn't have her mom to lean on anymore.

As far as my favorites go, Khaled, Ebonie, Nubia, Rick, Colton, and #TroublemakerStacy are at the top. I'm also FINALLY starting to warm up to Jay as well, especially after that whole "sex talk" scene. Interested to see where he fits in moving forward.

And as much as I love him, Phobos really started to get under my skin a bit too. I mean, I love the guy and he is funny as hell, but he does realize that it was his stupid idea to keep Nubia in the first place. And now he's mad that the other tribe chose her because they have all of her friends over there? Give me a break dude. Reminds me a lot of the Ben-Michelle situation in Australian Survivor. The majority had a clear option in getting rid of the person with friends and alliances on the other side (Michelle) but instead decided to get rid of the socially awkward kid with NO alliances on both sides (Ben) and then end up paying the price for it. If you make stupid moves, don't get all in a huff when they come back to bite you!

As for my not-so favorites, Jessica is still as boring as ever, Whitney has been a complete let-down, and Leroy showed himself to be nothing but an over the top spineless idiot this episode. I get being mad at Whitney for being stupid, but Leroy seemed almost jealous that Candy spent more time with her daughter than him. I know, how dare she spend time with the girl she gave birth to and was just reunited with!

Leroy can go, Jessica can go, and Whitney can GOOOOOOOO and take her new bitchy man-hater attitude with her.

I know I've written a good-sized essay by this point, but I just want to say I'm LOVING this season and cannot wait for the merge next episode. Keep it up Wafflez!