The inability to keep one's trap shut is an affliction that manifests itself in early childhood--talking while the teacher is talking, tattling the misdeeds of others to persons in authority--but is often outgrown sometime during adolescence, the exception being some teenage girls who possess an overabundance of information courtesy of the social media, which makes overcoming the urge to blab everything they know a near impossibility. Adults still struggling with this malady should not be told anything more salacious than what you consumed for breakfast (unless alcohol was involved), and they should most certainly never, ever be told something as vital to survival as whether you're holding an immunity idol if you were to be unfortunate enough to find yourself stuck on an island with them.
While not the biggest blabbermouth in the Philippines, Lisa did blab the biggest secret (twice), and set in motion a chain of ridiculousness that ultimately cost Jeff Kent his
Survivor life, may he rest in reality game show peace. The repercussions of this questionable strategy will not be pretty because, when she betrayed a fringe member of her Tandang alliance, she incurred the wrath of the Evil Three's token nutjob, Abi, who took the news of Lisa's transgression in much the same way that a snake would after being poked with a sharp stick.
Abi, however, should be the last one to point an accusatory finger at anyone, being a less than stellar secret keeper herself. If memory serves, she leaked info about RC's clue to the location of a hidden immunity idol to Pete once upon a not very long ago time. More recently, she ran off at the mouth about her alliance hierarchy to Carter in front of Michael, and then whipped out her immunity idol with very little provocation from Jeff (Probst) and no discernible reason at Tribal Council. Apparently, crazy exacerbates dysfunctional thought processes which triggers motormouth disorder.
Nothing brings a blindside to a screaming halt like a foolish bigmouth who doesn't recognize a golden opportunity when it gets delivered to him wrapped in a charming Texas accent. Pete deserves the imminent implosion of his Evil Three plus one (Lisa) alliance.
In Malcolm's defense, he did not have a wealth of options at his disposal. Displaying his immunity idol and outing Lisa for making it common knowledge that he had it at Tribal Council may have bought him some time and put the hurt to Lisa's Tandang alliance.
As for Jeff, the vets that he had plotted against from the beginning (purposely?) blew the vote that would have kept him in the game, leaving poor, perpetually confused (stoned?) Carter with no one to tell him what to do, and me needing a new favorite player.
Let us observe a moment of silence...
Note: Thank you survivorsucks.yuku.com for the excellent gifs of Pete and Malcolm.
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