The Faves lost and headed back to camp, and then Bizarro Fairplay reared his head. (I knew something was amiss when he stopped referring to himself in the third person.) It was almost as if a switch had been pulled. Cocky trash-talking Fairplay out, weepy mature Fairplay in. The question isn't really whether he was being a crappy dad-to-be by leaving his pregnant fiancée behind to go play. The issue is figure out whether you want to be there or not before you actually go there! Don't waste a space in the game — a space that could have gone to Shane Powers or Yul Kwon — just so you can ask to be voted out on day freakin' 3. Fairplay promised fireworks and delivered a dud. He said he would humiliate his archnemesis Jeff Probst, but he quit before he even had the chance.
Perhaps most bizarrely of all, not one single member of his tribe would call him out for quitting. Was it a quit? Of course it was a quit! Here's the thing to remember: Fairplay didn't walk off that tribal-council set and go straight back home to his unborn baby. He went to the so-called Losers Lounge, where contestants go after being booted, and sat around there until about the merge, at which point he was sent on another trip somewhere else until the game was over. So quitting the game did not get him home one second faster. The message out of all this to CBS and the producers: You play with fire, sometimes you get burned.
Oh, seeing as I have a three-season winning streak of picking the winner from the very first episode, the pressure is really on for me to get Micronesia right. I'm going to cheat a little bit by following the theme of the program and picking both a Fan and a Fave. For the Faves, I'll actually pick Cirie, only because I can see the other groups of four trying to pick each other off and her flying under the radar. For the Fans, I'll go with Alexis. She strikes me as someone who will hug you with one arm and stab you in the back with the other. I'm not feeling nearly as good about these picks as I did about the last three, though. I'll be very curious to see what Fairplay has to say for himself when he stops by Survivor Talk. Tune in to find out. And thanks, as always, for stopping by!
What do you think? Did Fairplay wimp out? Should Probst have left him hanging with the hug? And are you rooting for the Fans or the Faves? Plus, submit a question you'd like us to ask Fairplay on the show. We'll pick one reader question every week, so let 'er rip!
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