Earl was the best PLAYER (unless Dreamz really doesn't have a son -- then I would have given it to Dreamz).

Wasn't this the "Survivor" that began with racially segregated tribes? I was interested to see that the final three were African-American, and the fourth was Asian-American. Nothing was said about that during the reunion show--which was actually refreshing in it not being a factor for discussion. Yau-Man is in line for the audience award in the next all-star edition, like Rupert fomr Panama Islands earning a delayed award for winning in a way other than end-game deception.

No, the racially-divided tribes were in the previous edition of Survivor. This one started out with two tribes, each racially mixed. There were more non-white players than in most previous seasons, though.

I believe the tribes being separated into racial/ethnic groups happened during LAST season.

TK, last season was racially segregated at the beginning, not this one. I thought it was admirable that Jeff did not point out the ethnic make-up of the final three, since the alliances in this game never seemed to be based on race.

Out of the final three, Earl definitely deserved to win. But I was so disappointed that insipid worthless Cassandra wasn't voted out of the final four instead of Yau-man, which would have been the honorable thing to do. Honor never seems to matter in this game, though. I've always thought that players' actions in this game probably mirror their behavior in real life. If that's the case, I wonder how many of these smiling, handholding players will visit Dreamz when he inevitably ends up in prison for being the lying, cheating conman that he is.

this is starting to sound like the last episodes of the sopranos.

Thanks for the correction. If I'd watched the last two seasons, I might have known the answer. Did I get enough of the "Survivor" flavor watching only the final night?

Yes, this wasn't the one with the tribes in four races, but if you looked at the roster, the players were evenly divided into Black, White, Asian and Latino.

Yau is going to still give Dreemz the truck. I'd say "hell no". The deal was you give me immunity I give you the truck, you renege so I renege.

Even better, I hope that CBS awards the title to Yau-Man and HE has to pay the taxes -- then give the truck to Dreamz free and clear -- as I said, I don't think Yau-Man deserved the $1 million, and I don't want to see him get anything else either.

he is the perfect example of how you can't inject class and intellect into shoddy material. there was no way in he ll he was ever going to win votes from a jury after having shown how utterly lacking in any moral integrity he is. so in the end, he made absolutely no gain in his chances. if it were at all possible, he actually lost votes by screwing YauMan. He merely transferred the money from YauMan to Earl, and everybody knows this.

Whence Jake007's animus towards Yau-man? What's to dislike about the guy? Man! -- some people.

He didn't play the game well enough IMHO to have lasted as long as he did. No nefarious "animus" though.

It's interesting that the one action that horrified or disgusted everybody on "Survivor" when it happened was not brought up during the jury session or the award/reunion show -- namely, Alex's pawing through people's personal, private property looking for the immunity idol and finding it in Yau-man's bag. So where does Alex get off being condescending and holier-than-thou in his solo-camera comments and when he does his aggressive lawyer-schtick during the jury question time? Clearly no honor among thieves, as Dreamz's betrayal of his alleged alliance with Alex & Co. proved -- which should have been the red flag for Yau-man in making the truck/immunity deal, although he probably thought a very public promise would be more binding.

Although, I think that Alex should have kept the immunity idol once he found it (again, no animus against Yau-Man -- it's a GAME people!!!).

I am STILL waiting for one team to get their act together on something as simple as pooling their money and bidding $1 for each food item. There's no rule prohibiting sharing the food, is there?

I am always interested when people say that someone who makes it to the final stages of the game "didn't play the game well enough." Like, doesn't reality disprove what you are saying? The game is not happening in some parallel universe, it is what it is, and if you made it to the final four, you played well enough to be in the final four. Yes, there is always some combination of luck, and some folks - like Cassandra - do seem to attach themselves to "stronger" players, but that's just another strategy. Might not be as "noble" a strategy but anything that works is playing the game.

But it seems to me to be an odd thing to say about Yau. He won both physical and mental challenges, didn't make enemies (although that was ultimately his downfall), figured out not one but two immunity idols, picked a solid alliance, sidestepped some direct attacks...seems like playing pretty well to me. Yes, his likability was ultimately a liability, but weird to me to say he didn't play well.

Good point. No doubt he "out lasted" most others (although, there were indeed three others who did better even on that factor), but that's just ONE part of the game. As for "out witting" the best Yau-Man did was playing his Immunity Idol (which Earl really helped him to get) when he did. Even then, Michelle basically GAVE IT AWAY that Yau-Man was being voted out. So, unless he folled her into blabbering during that Tribal Council, that's not even out witting really. "Out playing"? I really think it was more luck than Yau-Man actually playing the game.

Stacy was the one who basically confirmed Yau-Man's "bad vibes" and was therefore voted out herself. Who knows if Yau-Man would have played his Immunity Idol had Stacy simply said: "I know I'm going home tonight, Jeff." I still don't know how much is edited for these Survivor airings, but based on what we saw, can we at least agree that Stacy screwed up BIG TIME?