Talk:The Defectors/@comment-9949103-20191028023843

Another great episode of Hashima in the books, Wafflez! This season continues to kill it, though I am a bit "eh" about this twist.

Though I love the thematic ideas of "The Defectors" I think that it's basically just the mutiny mixed with the unmerge twist and I'm just not a fan of having tribes be reintroduced so late in the game. Though it does continually mix up the dynamics of the game, I feel like that the Hassei tribe, in general, was already so mixed up before this that we would've seen more shifts and drama regardless.

However, even though I'm not the biggest fan of this twist, I am SO happy to see Lynsie's downfall finally come to fruition. Since even before the merge, Lynsie has been playing this game like she's Neda Kalantar from BBCAN5, a beloved returnee who comes back, assumes control, and then spends most of her second season acting like a crazed power-hungry bitch with all the attributes of a Regina George-esque high school mean girl. That's what Lynsie embodied and, luckily, it's also the fate that she got in this episode. Overall though, I did enjoy Lynsie's role in this season. It's boring to have returnees come back because you already know them and usually can guess what they're gonna do or how they're going to act, but seeing both of the returnees this season do a complete 180 from their first times around has made things so much more fun and a lot of that is thanks to Lynsie's propensity to act like a delusional bitch. Like Ambrielle, happy that she got what was coming to her, but going to miss all the entertainment she brought.

Gemini continues to kill it now that she's actually poked her head up, three idols and counting successfully played and yet she's still such an icon<3 Derek from last season could never<3 I loved that we finally got some explanation of her powers and I loved how you worked that "That's So Gemini" quote into the episode. Hoping that Gem can find a way to make it through this twist since I do think that she's still in trouble with these two guys left on her tribe. Hopefully they can win immunity next episode or the twist will end. Either way, go Gemini!

Also, on the tangent of the defectors, Kevin is another one who I see an incoming downfall for. At first, I thought that he would for sure be getting redemption after losing his closest ally in Marc, but the way that he talked about Jack this episode along with stupidly aligning with Lynsie for the second fucking time tells me that Kevin is lacking game awareness. He's been blindsided twice and I totally see Jack turning on him if Kevin continues to act like he can order Jack around.

The rest of the episode was fun, not that much but given all the drama last episode it's good to have an episode that is a bit more low-key overall. Lynsie's blindside made it all deliciously worth it!<3

And finally, Sterling's whole plastic surgery thing reminded me once again of why I love him as a character. He's so fake, yet so real at the same time and I love how he just has to needlessly brag about how rich he is. He's such a trainwreck, I'm amazed that he's somehow still in the game after all the dumb shit that he's done and said. Love it!

Rooting for Gemini, Jack, Kevin (Somewhat), Sterling, Aneal, and Adrienne!<3

Auggie was his usual asshole self (Though I honestly think he was in the right in his confessional about not feeling bad for Lynsie and Ambrielle) and Elliot is just kind of....there, even though I do still enjoy his periodic presence.