Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-1294345-20171026124156

Personal thoughts:
 * The editors can't seem to help themselves shoehorning Ryan in every scene possible. The more I see Ryan, the more I get annoyed, not so much by him, it's more by the editors for forcing me to foor for him. I wished it was Ryan who went home instead of Roark really. However, I took some solace from Ryan sucking at the Reward Challenge (hope he sucks more in challenges and gets harped on by it).
 * The character moment from Ben was emotion-stirring. Having clinical anxiety and depression myself, I know how it feels to hear a block word or some sort of trigger moment, it's very debilitating. Bless the troops of any country, except NoKor of course.
 * Cole is just so fucked in the head. He ratted Joe's idol out, he ratted his island girlfriend's advantage out, now he rats himself out for overeeating (I laughed hard on Cole's finger-licking montage). I hope he gets voted out the most glorious way possible. This trainwreck of a survivor has to go out with another trainwreck.
 * Is it me or women are stronger in challenges this season than the men?
 * My girl Ali is now on the outs it seems. I hope she rebounds and wipes the beach with Ryan soon (I've deemed it - he's the bane of my existence).
 * Whenever a previously underedited [female] survivor gets his/her first confessional/considerable amount of airtime just almost halfway through a season, most likely (s)he gets vote out that same episode. That's red flag #1. Red flag #2 was her Christy edit where she overplayed the fact that she's the only original Soko and overestimated what she claimed to be the bonds she made over the five days since the swap.
 * Good job Chrissy for lying about Roark making an all-girl alliance. Given Roark's the only healer on New Soko, it was child's play for Chrissy to bring the women alliance card up. 