I was trying to figure that out too...made no sense. I totally get why Lauren played her idol, when a surprise idol gets dropped, I think you gotta play one if you got one. Especially when it's only good for two tribals anyway. Karishma makes no sense though, if she knew she was going to play that idol, which was a brilliant play actually, then she needed to recruit Elizabeth to vote with her to ensure they get the right person out. She was told Elizabeth was the target and they seemed to have something going together, she should've used that. I assume she didn't want to look shady for not voting for Janet when Dan told her to, but she was already going to look shady for playing the idol if she was wrong, so may as well have doubled down. She had, and still has, nothing to lose. Had she and Elizabeth voted together, they could've gotten Dan or Janet or whomever they wanted. Karishma is strange, she had a great idol play, but the strategy behind the vote was awful.
That was a very reasonable idol play. Obviously seeing how people voted essentially everyone was on board with voting out Karishma, so she would have been under the impression that Karishma could just have her pick of whoever she wanted. Very reasonable to protect yourself in such an uncertain situation, especially considering it's only good for one more tribal.Lauren really should have kept her idol. I get Karishma played hers but she should have felt safe.
Not sad to see Elizabeth go. But I was hoping it would be Dan's name that appeared after the 7 Karishma votes
To me I'm just looking at it like there will be no deserving winner so what does this really matter? I mean, yeah there's always a winner no matter what and someone is getting the $1 million, but when the show has been on nearly 40 seasons it's tough to get too invested from an entertainment standpoint when whoever wins is just going to be an afterthought in Survivor history.
Yeah, really. At first thought I was like "Hey, maybe he's doing some Machiavellian thing where he's creating chaos in the core alliance, trying to break them down." And then I remembered it was Dean and sure enough he's just like "We'll talk" to Tommy after the vote, just trying to suck up and go to the bottom of their alliance. Maybe that would matter if he could bide some time to rely on challenges when it gets down to 5 or whatever, but he's been useless at those.
That too.
The funniest thing is that he's referenced numerous times about keeping other "strong" people around because it takes pressure off of him as a physical threat lol. Uhh I don't think anyone sees you that way, Dean.
