Episode 10 - Parvati is the best player to ever play the game!

Tonight's episode was probably the best episode in Survivor history. While JT and company were stupid to trust Russell, they hedged their bets and made everyone think that Parvati was going home but instead decided to vote Jerri. That was a smart move and it would have worked had Amanda not spoken to Parvati. Even though Amanda didn't come out and say they weren't voting for Parvati, it was obvious, as we could tell from Parvati's comments and when Russell gave her his hidden immunity idol, it was brilliant, even though he didn't know it.

With Danielle having immunity and Russell was safe, as the Heroes were playing it safe, Parvati took the gamble that she read Amanda correctly and decided to pass both immunity idols to the two players that were vulnerable, Sandra and Jerri, which in turn sent J.T. home. Truly Amazing and Parvati deserves to win this season because of that move alone.

Now let's step back a little bit to Rupert. He usually is as dumb as a stick when it comes to strategy, but this time he either got lucky or was on his game. By listening to Sandra, that clued them off that Russell was lying and caused them to hedge their bets with voting for Jerri. So I give him props for that. J.T. proved he is very close to Erik as the stupidest Survivor, but I still think Erik holds the title.

The immunity challenge was great. I don't quite know why Candice stepped down, other than she thought the Heroes had it in the bag, but I was not surprised at all that 3 women were left. Parvati was smart to step down, even though that gave the Heroes further cause to believe she had the idol, but it did give Danielle immunity.

Now the Previews show that Sandra is trying to take the game over, but I think it is just misleading and it won't work out. I think Sandra will still be in the game though, because Russell still needs her until at least two more Heroes are gone. Once the Villains are up 5 -2, then Russell can get rid of Sandra, if he wants, but I think he may try to get rid of Parvati, since he feels betrayed by the secret. Then again Parvati is a good talker and may convince Russell that it was ok and had she told him, the Heroes probably would be up 5-4 right now, as I'm not sure Russell would have gone for it.

This by far is the best season of Survivor to date and I really hope they release this one on DVD, but they haven't released a season on DVD in a while, so it is unlikely. So great episode and I can't wait until next week. So until then... the Tribe has spoken.