Talk about being manipulated by a man!!!
I spent the episode shrieking from my couch because I couldn't believe what I was seeing and yet I totally could.
It was one of
the best episodes of Survivor ever. So revealing, espesh when it comes to matters of trust between the sexes.
For starters, I was taken in by Hayden's tears of guilt after he stabbed Kat in the back at the Redemption challenge. I
know he's a reality slettie but I found myself believing him when he said he felt bad about it and wouldn't dump her and then next thing WHAM he revealed the sordid truth that he was relieved she was gone. SO hectic.
Of course the craziest was what happened with Vytas and the Galang girls and the fact that they've effectively set up a situation in which Vytas and Aras could win the game. It was a fascinating and gobsmacking turn of events to watch because they ALL - except Vytas! - got it so wrong, wrong, wrong.
Their naiveté is what finished me off most because I am too. I can be such a sucker, just like they were except I would be the Laura B version instead of Tina, Katie and Monica because they were beyond ridonculous.
Poor Laura, she's obviously had as much as she can take of Rupert - who can blame her?? She's finished for Vytas and his recently-reformed bad boy ways, which was a mistake on one hand BUT she clearly couldn't help it
and she didn't break the trust of her tribe.
All she did was try to throw her weight around a bit and clear her conscience by telling Vytas the truth but it didn't change anything for the alliance and she didn't break their trust. They could all have gone ahead and voted him out and nothing would have changed.
The fact that they kept him was shocking, shocking and funny because he must have been sitting thinking, "WTF??! I can't believe it worked!!"
This is what was so mindbending because he's being upfront with us about what he's doing so you can't loathe him for it. Also, he's being honest with them when he speaks to them about his past and yet he's being so dishonest because he's playing the game.
My best was when he spoke about giving R100 to the woman at yoga and said that you need to give people your trust first and then see if they break it. He was using it as part of his strategy and yet his words were thought provoking and oh-so-meaningful, just like us girls like them.
It really highlighted to me how naive and trusting I can be and how it's not a bad thing because so many of us are. BUT it also revealed that I need to be ultra aware of it so as to protect myself from ending up in a disastrous situation like Tina & Co.
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