One more thought.

They can really torture those people sometimes.

The desperation not just in their faces, but in their bodies tonight, as they slogged through the final leg of that reward challenge. (Or for Scout, the award challenge.) The way Ami and the 4th-place woman just stumbled off into the water, repeatedly. They looked drunk, almost, so fatigued, their bodies just faltered and pitched off the bamboo for no apparent reason.

For what? For food! For the fourth, desperate person, it was just to eat.

First thing in my life that has ever reminded me of They Shoot Horses Don't They?

Brutal freaking movie. Brutal freaking show.

But still fascinating to watch. None of the suspense the series once held for me, but these moments, these incredible moments of human beings forced to the boundaries of desperation . . .

Incredible.

Ah, it's over.

Another Survivor season, another favorite player gone.

And another overconfident Survivor thrown off the island because she thought she had it locked up weeks ago. She let it show, so did her alliancemates, and the little people did not particularly care for it.

I still like her.

Especially after what the little waif said about her. I never much liked that incredibly shrinking woman, but I liked her at tribal council when she related how Ami encouraged her. That was a side we hadn't really seen of Ami, and a really powerful one.

She was great. People wanted to make her like them. She was maybe a little too likeable, a little too powerful. Not a good thing in this game. She almost pulled it off, but not quite.

And she made a couple horrible blunders. Last week . . . All I could think was, fool me once . . .

When Scout and Twiti got caught red-handed plotting against the rest of them, they should have booted one of them immediately. At the very least, booted the guy they were allying with. But to trust them not to do the very same thing again? Of course they did the very same thing again.

Ami might well have won the whole thing if not for that collosal blunder--though she might have had a tough time when it got down to three or four and everyone realized they had to ditch her.

But you can't make a mistake that big in this game, so she had it coming.

Still, I was hoping.

So you know who I'm rooting for now? You probably won't believe this, but the young one who voted with her tonight.

I didn't think much of that woman for a long time, but she has grown on me. She definitely has picked up this game as she went along. I love the looks she gives. She just knows when shit is erupting, and she knows to keep her mouth shut. She seems to be reading the people extremely well, though she is not in the best position.

But she's still there.

And not feared, I think, which could help her greatly.