CardFan67 said:
Maybe I am giving Ian more credit than he deserves but that crying pansy thing looked like a gaming ploy to me,
No way was it a ploy.
Before last night I didn't care who wins--Ian or Tom. Now, after Ian's crying jag, I just can't look at him the same. I'm completely in Tom's corner.
Yeah, it was a real head-scratcher as to why he took Tom (originally, I thought it was because he had decided to join an alliance with the women and he was going to break it to Tom over a beer), so I can understand being upset over screwing up the balance of the game. But crying and acting like an adolesent getting his head around his first breakup? Come on.
Caryn is such a simp. She couldn't keep a secret if her life depended on it--think about it, was she told anything in confidence that she didn't blab? No. And her "stir-the-pot" effort last night at council was pathetic--Ian should have defended himself against it by asking her, "If all that is true Caryn, and not just a ploy, why bring it up here and not at the beach? You're accusing Tom and I of playing Katie and withholding information until the zero hour, but here you are trying to drop a bomb moments before we vote. Isn't that a little like the pot calling the kettle black?"
My concern for Tom (or Ian, should he get to the final 2), is that this jury is so pussified that they vote for someone who didn't hardly play the game at all and simply vote against the men because they don't like them. I do't think Gregg will do that (judging by his comment when he was voted off: "Youo guys are
good,") but I certainly worry about that from the likes of Caryn, Janu and Coby. Maybe even Jen...and eventually Katie when things stop going her way.
It's rough having a jury of essentially 1 tribe. The natural selection process didn't work properly and it's not made up of only the strongest players that may be more inclined to respect people for playing the game well (which, incidently,
must include breaking alliances, lying, and less than 100% honesty).
