Curb Stomp – A Piece, of the Sky

Siblings are meant to be rivals and challenge each other – but to not be close to your parents, close to one parent or close to each parent, in a different way – is truly something and is quite sad.

“Beggars can’t be choosers” – so the saying goes. I talked about this, about a week ago. Why didn’t Brett and JC rally all the misfit toys and pull together a minuteman militia?? I get it, Rockstar is a pretty unique individual. But, each person is a vote and each person can row together, with the team. You had a ragtag Dumbledore’s Army, to lead, right there, JC!

There are bisexuals, but the two big groups of people are people who like men and people who like women. Gay males and straight females tend to be friends and gay females and straight males tend to be friends.

Sometimes, outside of the realm of social justice, it’s hard for most gay males and gay females to have a ton of things in common. So, I get it, if JC didn’t immediately gravitate to Kaycee. But Angela? It’s odd that the both of them had so very little to say to each other (??). No one is going to throw JC a lifesaver, as he floats, in the wake of the downed Titanic.

Bitterness Level? JC is a 9 out of 10, as of now – especially if the Three sit him down and tell him that he really didn’t know what was going on, in the game and that a mega-alliance was running the show, for almost the entire season.

I am never a fan of dropping hints to people, that they’re going home. Rob is very much against this idea and says as much, in The Evolution of Strategy series – detailing all of the Survivor seasons – several times.

The emotional approach makes the victor want to feel sorry for the vanquished and put them out of their mercy. But this depends on how you define ‘mercy.’

Telling someone he or she is going home – that the house or the tribe is going to execute them – only draws out the pain and makes the mark suffer more. The HG or the tribe member, sitting on Death Row, may become despondent or desperate and do something crazy, like the oft-quoted ‘dumping the rice.’

The death-throe thrashing of the defeated hurts the group, as a whole. A swift blindside is more merciful, for everyone involved, even if he or she is initially more bitter. For JC and Sam, the silence of the lambs is preferred to the reverse.

Speaking of Sam, she talks a big game, but never does anything. If Sam was so upset, she should have taken out Tyler and won the half-million. Don’t talk about doing it; do it.

Sam should have channeled all this talk, about lead pipes and curb stomping, into altering her fate, in the game. Now, it’s too late and she’s going home. Should-have, could-have; could-a, would-a. “A day late and a dollar short,” as Angela would say.

JC come back to reality! Tyler is not going to win the POV for you! Kaycee won the POV. Sam is going home and then, next week, you’re going home, JC! Wake up! Do something!

JC and Sam have both been defeated by believing Tyler was exclusively their ‘person.’ They’re both on the bottom; they are the last of the misfit toys, now that all of Foutte has been eliminated.

What JC and Sam never realized – and still don’t realize – is that Tyler never belonged to them. Tyler made Final 2s with everyone. He doesn’t owe them anything.

Angela and Kaycee felt sorry for JC, until Tyler told them that JC has been gunning for them, for at least three weeks now. They then dumped JC and divested him as quickly as Level 6 cut out Brett.

Now that Angela and Kaycee know JC is going home before them, they are happy to admit, privately to Tyler, all the things that ever annoyed them, about JC and how they never liked JC, in the first place.

For JC, the Titanic has already sunk, and JC is just treading water, holding on to a raft or a rotting piece of wood, in the freezing north Atlantic, just waiting for the end.

Angela is winning comps and sitting pretty, but she has no plans, beyond the Final 3. She just hasn’t thought that through yet. Angela assumes that both Tyler and Kaycee will take her to the end, since she is so very much hated, by the jury.

Angela doesn’t know about Tyler and Kaycee’s Final 2. She may freak out, even more than JC, when she finds out that she is going to be betrayed. JC has been in a precarious situation for weeks – like Hay, before she went. JC understands the anxiety of not knowing where he stands and is ready for the hammer to fall.

Queen Angela has lived a mostly charmed existence, so far – so having her entire world turned upside-down will be far more unsettling to her, than it would have been for JC. JC’s only hope is that Tyler realizes this disparity, in the force of JC and Angela’s emotional reactions, and takes JC to the Final 3, instead of Angela.

Paging Dr. Peanut…Yes! Kaycee got the memo! I can’t believe it: another comp win! That’s how you do it! You hibernate, for the first month, so as not to put a target on your back – but maintain good social relations with everyone and not tick anyone off – and then down the homestretch, unfurl your fiery, phoenix wings!

Now, our Veto Goddess needs to grow a killer instinct! It’s good to be a beautiful Aphrodite sometimes, but at other times, a goddess of war, like Athena, is needed. Bring down the war hammer now, Kaycee!

This is the last chance to take a shot at Tyler! Kaycee’s self-preservation needs to kick in. Angela, Kaycee and Tyler can’t all win first place! It doesn’t work that way. Get four moves ahead, Kaycee. Get rid of the competition.