I always forget to talk about Survivor in here!

Scrappy, with you 100% on Krystal. Part of me wants to make excuses for her because I'm sure when she was training for the Olympics she was eating more than a cup of rice a day, but SHE KEEPS SUCKING. And then snapping at people when they notice.

Seriously. I don't get her at all. Jeff was totally trying to bait her at TC - would have been interesting to see the reactions if she'd let it slip.

That tribe in general is the most giving-uppiest I've ever seen. I seriously don't get it.

I'll be glad when they get to a merge. Does this point in the season always get so sucky and one-sided? A few good breaks early on can mean one team is so much better fed and rested than the other that it just seems to snowball. At least once they get to a merge people are living in more or less the same conditions, even if some of them come in weaker to start.

Does this point in the season always get so sucky and one-sided?

Usually, yeah. Especially when they're in a location where there isn't a lot of fruit to eat, winning one food reward puts you in a better position to win the next one and it kind of snowballs.

Swapping tribe members around is supposed to help with that, but the new Fang is even crappier than the original!

So true! I am liking Kenny, who was scrappier in this challenge thanI had seen in a while. And I am glad Sugar is less in Ace's spell. What the hell is his accent? Sometimes it sounds Aussie and sometimes Yorkshire and sometimes USian and ALWAYS smarmy.

Scrappy, that is a totally awesome story! I love to hear stuff like that about shows I love.

Just catching up, so on PR, which I was trying to save to watch with the SO, but could not wait any longer! Blargh. I knew Leanne was going to win from the early shots of her collection. Which is another reason why I hated the two parter finale. Most of the suspense for me was in seeing the final collections. So having the show & the winner separated out was kind of meh for me.

Anyway I loved Korto's collection and think it's a shame she didn't win. Her design aesthetic is much more original than Leanne's, I think. Leanne's clothing was constructed basically in the normal way, just with added petals. I think it turned out lovely, but there wasn't as much that was genuinely innovative. Whereas Korto's cultural infusion brought something interesting and different to the table.

What do they mean by, overdesigned? Has stuff on it? I didn't really understand that distinction.

I wish Leanne had expanded the idea of her petals instead of making them all so consistent. If you think about waves and how some are slow and long and some are short and choppy, I think there are lots of things she could have done with that same theme, with the same base, but been lots more original. I did like her color palette when seen all together.

Nothing to say about Kenley. Nothing. Except maybe you should have checked your attitude earlier because it was the right thing to do, instead of because the person you were smarting off to was going to be a judge. Oh, I forgot you get pissy with the judges, too. Whatever. And I liked you early! Hmph.

Oh, and I cheered to see Shannon, too, yay!

Okay, on Amazing Race: So sorry for the geeks departure, not sorry for this week's. Loved Phil's dad, and loved loved the Maori warriors' dance.

The haka!! I've watched too much behind-the-scenes stuff on LotR, because that's where I first heard about it. Combine that with YouTube videos of the NZ rugby team's doing a haka before games, and I'm all up on well-done hakas.

TAR: I can't believe how big the time spread is amongst the teams - more than 9 hours at the start.

I liked that leg. Although, I cannot believe that the divorcees actually thought that they were in first place. What made them think that?

It seemed like they did a lot of different things, somehow, although it couldn't have been any more than any other leg, could it?

No, it was one detour and one road block: but there was alot of travelling.