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I was trying not to talk Reality TV yet again today, but it’s difficult to avoid this week, as many of our favorite reality shows are coming to an end after this busy season started while we were still under the effects of the writers’ strike. Given that, I was still trying to avoid it, but last night’s Survivor was off the hook!

Every week, that core of women on the show just got stronger and stronger. If you were a woman that wasn’t strong physically and weren’t willing to be cutthroat, you were taken out. If you were a guy that was was strong physically, the gals took you out as soon as they got a chance. I’d almost be afraid to be with any of these women in a sales situation. I think they could talk me into buying that bridge after all. Every time they try it again, you think, “Well, they’re good, but who would fall for that?” Then, here they are succeeding at it yet again.

While they’re all good, you have to look at Cirie and think this girl is controlling the game. And her name has barely ever been mentioned as one to get rid of. She just floats through the game, not winning any challenges, so she doesn’t seem very threatening at all, then making lots of suggestions to the others on what she thinks should happen, painting a great picture, then getting them to somehow carry it out.

In her first season she was going to leave in the first week, and was walking around talking to herself and us, saying that she didn’t belong there, and she hated the leaves. The leaves! Yet, she manipulated the others into getting rid of the loner on their tribe. Once the tribes were reconfigured, she was on the outs as one possibly leaving next, but kept turning it all around to have them keep her until she lasted until final four. The only reason they eventually got rid of her was they knew she was too well-liked and could easily win if they left her to final 2.

You would think anyone that had watched Cirie’s season would know they need to take her out before she works her magic again, yet they kept leaving her in there taking out others. She didn’t even stay in one alliance. She’d move about between them making the moves she knew were best for her in the end. She was so convincing everyone was willing to carry out the demise of others, as she made it seem so promising and convinced them it was the best thing for them, when it was really the best thing for her.

I’m not sure if she could have completely carried it out without the help of the other women there, but not you have to just look back on it and think every one of those four women deserve to be there in the final four after the manipulations they’ve pulled off. I’ve never seen the immunity played and not played so effectively week after week.

Eliza played Jason’s immunity idol, knowing it wasn’t the real one, just so she could out Ozzy as having it. It worked. He was outed. He he was still voted out having the idol and not playing it, despite the fact he knew everyone knew he had it. Jason found another real idol and was also voted out not playing it. Alexis is then sent packing after being duped by Amanda, as she showed her an empty bag, but found the idol intentionally right after this. This week Amanda set it up so that she would go on the reward challenge instead of Natalie, then had Parvati go to Exile Island just so that Natalie and Erik couldn’t find the Idol.

But the turning point in this last episode wasn’t that no one had the Idol, it was Cirie suggesting Natalie convince Erik to give her his immunity necklace after yet another of his immunity wins, so that he would be vulnerable and they could vote him out. Blowing the minds of absolutely everyone, Erik was worried about the jury votes, when he really had no reason to, and gave up the necklace as Cirie, as the girls pulled off the performance of a lifetime, convincing him that Parvati was going.

As the gals all sat there like cats with canaries in their throats, the jury laughed out load at poor Erik being as stupid as they all were. Well, even James knew what Erik did was the most stupid ever, and made a comment that he realized his reign as the stupidest Survivor ever, leaving holding on to two Idols, was over.

Truly, all four of those left, Cirie, Parvati, Amanda, and Natalie deserve to still be standing after the things they have pulled off. But there’s only one that deserves the big win, especially if she can make it to final three and the jury, and that would be Cirie. She’s truly the most cunning ever.

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