Talk:Villainy is a Necessity/@comment-26485526-20180119030632

This was a fantastic and intense episode, oh my goodness! Even though I was expecting that first part of Tribal Council to happen, it does not take away from how awesome everything was at all!

First off, Oswald, Will, Maria, and Jacob absolutely, 100% made the right decisions tonight at both votes. Now, Phyllis' idol is gone, and the one person that was holding Gombey together is gone! Even though Oswald and Jacob don't have their idols anymore, the cracks have now gotten so much deeper, and I'm certain that they've both bought themselves a few more days.

Also, I need to get this out of the way, this right here shows that Jacob's game would be NOTHING without Oswald and Adrian:

Jacob: We could just keep it simple and vote Luca. He'll never work with us in a million years. He's been loyal to Gombey since day one and it's gonna stay that way until he goes home. If we wanna advance ourselves in the game, Luca probably can't stick around.

Oswald: Then we've got the big one, the kingpin, Will. He's leading that six without a doubt, and if Maria's with him, he's gonna get a lot more power.

Jacob: Yeah. At best, Will uses us for a vote or two but there's no way in Hell he even thinks about taking us to the end. Why keep someone in the game when we won't get to day 39?

So let me get this straight, Jacob was concerned that Will won't take him to day 39, despite the fact he was willing to vote with him, even though he just admitted that Luca would never vote his way in a million years? Yeah, sounds just like the kind of shit you'd expect from someone that literally hasn't voted in the minority for 5 consecutive Tribal Councils, and only getting in the majority this time because Phyllis flipped again!

Jacob - Lovely personality, great social player, but he's definitely down there with some of the worst strategic players that have magically found their way to the merge in your entire series.

That being said though, there are other people in the game right now that seem to be fighting Jacob for the title of "Bermuda's Worst Strategist"... Phyllis, and Veronica. I'm going to start with Phyllis.

Phyllis - She practically gets down on her knees and whines and cries about how she's going to be loyal... then she flips again. She was sorta smart in the sense that she read the situation correctly enough to know she needed to get her idol back, and I do totally understand her reasons for flipping this time. To be totally honest, if she hadn't already flipped more than an Angela Best or a high on acid, then this may have been a sorta reasonable move. But alas, that's not the case. If her chances of winning weren't dead before, they fucking certainly are now! This would have been the perfect time for Phyllis to show her loyalty and stay true to Gombey, by risking rocks, especially after that whole charade with Adrian and Luca at the beginning of the episode!

Veronica - Her whole game at this point is to prove that she's not an emotional player... by being a fucking emotional player. She's made some semi-decent strategic arguments, but she never follows through on them, and she's trying not to piss anybody off by going around and pissing everyone off with her whining and judgmental bullshit! Honest to God Tangle, Veronica had better quit next episode, and I'm not even kidding. Quite frankly, this is now at least the third time you've seriously hinted at a Veronica quit, possibly the 4th, and every time this shit happens, it's exhausting to read her character. I get that being an emotional mess is who she is, but the more you tease a Veronica quit, the less impact the actual moment will have (if it does happen), and if the quit never does come, as a reader, I'd kind of feel a little bit duped, but that's just me.

So yeah, overall this was a great episode, and although I'm anxious about what the next one has in store, I'm excited to see it nonetheless.