Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-32608842-20170413032229/@comment-18372842-20170415184743

TribalChants wrote: Ifoundalemontree wrote: I wouldn't go as far as the bottom 10 with this season. It is still too good to be as low. So far there was only one bad episode (which may actually be the worst episode of all time), and I do not think the rest of the season will be bad.

I also hope that the Varner-Zeke incident will never be mentioned again.

I have to say I feel worse for Varner than for Zeke. I mean, Zeke did not do anything wrong. His problem is that he had a secret he did not want revealed, and it was revealed by accident. While this has certainly been a difficult experience for Zeke, I think it is nothing compared to what Varner went through. It is much worse to be the one inadvertently revealing someone's deep secret than being the one whose secret got revealed. And you could see that Varner immediately realized what he had just done, and he felt terrible, and I am sure he still feels terrible.

I hope that the viewers understand that Varner was not being malicious, he just slipped, he was not thinking straight. This should be a lesson to anyone playing Survivor, always think before you speak, especially when you are in such harsh conditions, when your brain does not function the way it should. I mean, we've seen it in so many seasons how people actually lost it completely after spending so much time on Survivor without food and sleep, and everything we are so used to. People tend to lose their minds out there. I guess I only said it was close to being a bottom 10 season because of the events of this episode and the fact most of the pre-merge boots were more popular players (Ciera, Tony, Malcolm, Sandra, and even J.T. despite the fact he caused Malcolm's dismiss).

I do agree, I don't want the incident mentioned again either (hence why I said I hope Zeke doesn't milk it for sympathy if he makes it to the end).

I do feel more bad for Varner more than Zeke. He was fired from his job as a Real Estate Broker after this episode aired. I know he is very truly sorry for what he said and I do believe him, his apology was very sincere. Yes, what Varner did was bad, but it seemed really silly that he lost his job over that statement