You Heard It Here First: There's NOTHING Redeeming About Africa!

One of the criminal oversights of this blog has been my total lack of Survivor coverage this season. This does not reflect the quality of the season, but merely my middling work ethic, which has waned a bit in the post Big Brother months. Nevertheless, Gabon has been a solid addition to the franchise, with enough twists and turns and blindsides to earn it a spot as one of the more memorable seasons. Of course, it's hard to compare it to the previous two seasons, China and Fans vs. Favorites, but honestly, it stands on its own quite well.

Last night's episode saw the bittersweet departure of lunatic bitch Corinne, who was both endlessly entertaining and somewhat appalling in her own crazy way. Whether she was threatening to stab someone in the face or merely rolling her eyes at other people's lack of logic, Corinne's constant frustration was glorious (case in point: her wonderfully vindictive goodbye message at the end of last night's show). I still don't know if she's really just that awful or merely someone with a very dry sense of humor. Either way, I'll miss her kooky old ways. She and Bob almost pulled off a great scheme last night by producing a second amazing idol with which they could fool Kenny and Crystal. The plan was to get the two original Fang members to turn on Matty lest the "idol" be used against them, but the only problem was that Bob's penchant for creating stunning jewelry from nothing was already out of the bag. Kenny and Crystal decided that rather than vote explicitly for Matty, they'd merely vote for Corinne. If the idol were real, then Matty would go and the idol would be flushed out. If it were fake, then hey, Corinne would go home, no problem. Pretty smart.

But then Kenny, who's played a spectacular game in my opinion, made his first colossal screw up. He came up with some strategy to vote for Matty while Crystal would vote for Corinne. It made no sense, really. They didn't need that extra vote to send Matty home. If Kenny voted against Corinne also and her idol were real, Matty would still go home. I don't know what the hell Kenny was thinking. Of course, as it turned out, the idol was fake, which meant Corinne went home, and Kenny, well, he just turned on an alliance member for no reason. Needless to say, he's screwed. He better start lying again, and quickly...

I'm sure things will be quite dicey at Nobag next week, but for now, we can enjoy this video of Corinne at "Ponderosa" where she happily dismisses the entire continent of Africa after unsuccessfully attempting to blow out her hair. What did you think of the show? Thoughts on the season so far?