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[Paron Xanthis]

Hi. Of all people to be my hero, it has to be the very-much-fictional Xena.

Edited by Paron Xanthis, Jan 26, 2012 @ 6:23 PM.

[Babylonia]

She's the one with the criminal record, right? Some kind of petty larceny or fraud. Makes me ill-disposed to like her. Can't see her having the potential to make it far, anyway. Lots of hot women this season, anyway, and I don't think she's prepared for the competition. (She looks like her strategy is seduction, not athletic ability).

Edited by Babylonia, Feb 7, 2012 @ 5:17 PM.

[superpole2000]

I thought for sure this was Jaime Dugan from Survivor China returning to play again.

[TDI Ashley]

I thought she was the early-booted Ashley from Samoa, for some reason.

She seems to be safe enough in the majority alliance, and she was the only one of the women to clear the beam at the challenge, so athleticism might serve her well for a while.

[Yogurt Baron]

Have I mentioned lately how much it annoys me that they've stopped doing that thing at the start of every season where Probst briefly introduces each cast member? And now they don't even have credits? So I have no idea who anybody is until the merge or so?

When Alicia was putting together her "first five people I see" alliance, she said that she likes this one, that one, and the other one, and "kitty cat" really bugs her, but that's okay, she can still be in the alliance. And here I'm thinking, "They make all this fuss over casting a little person, but they cast a cat and nobody even comments on it?"

So I gather that Alicia was referring to...this person. Whoever this person is. Who apparently bothers Alicia, somehow. Which one is she? Did we see her bother Alicia? Or is Alicia just easy to bother?

[iakkaiakka]

She provided some great one liners and seems like a cool chick. "Whos Bill?"

[DragonScribe]

YB, Kat is the one in the pink top. She wore the flannel hoodie to tribal, her blonde hair is cut in a bob, and she's the one that said she's in charge of the fire.

And who sank her head in her hands at tribal when she realized her aliiance mate Alicia is a truly unstrategic annoying whack-job.

[TDI Ashley]

It's been said in the episode thread that she was likely kept because she'll be loyal. Frankly, I agree with Nina's interviews that she was kept because the rest of Salani just felt sorry for her. She absolutely should've been the one tossed last night. The fact that even two people in her own alliance were considering her for the chop was very telling to me.

[iakkaiakka]

She seems to be one of these people thats way more intelligent than people give her credit for, but she is a tad scatterbrained. Her answer at tribal council as to why she should be kept around was perfect and her direction of attention onto Christina rather than Nina was also a smart move!

I also think she is funny to watch, her face when Colton just would not go away was priceless.

[TDI Ashley]

She was a bit better tonight, but good Lord! Seven tries to win her round at the Reward Challenge?! Sheesh!

[DragonScribe]

To be fair to Kat, in that memory challenge, it looked to me like Troy kept dropping the curtain very fast on her. I think he expected that if they both missed it, they'd be dismissed and the next pair would come up - hence his initial strategy in dropping it so fast that Kat couldn't remember anything (neither could he, but his object was to stop Kat from finishing it).

But instead of one shot and then passing on to the next players, they had to keep going until one of them got it. And once he started the ploy he couldn't stop.

So it wasn't all Kat's fault that it took her that many tries to get it.

[superpole2000]

Also, she was facing eight objects as opposed to the six that most of the other players faced. It is a lot harder to remember 8 things than 6, which is why phone numbers are generally seven digits long.

[janie jones]

But instead of one shot and then passing on to the next players, they had to keep going until one of them got it. And once he started the ploy he couldn't stop.

But why? Did he think he think he'd eventually be able to memorize it in a millisecond?

[TDI Ashley]

Apparently. But maybe Kat at least tried to memorize one or two at a time, which is why she was able to get it on her seventh attempt.

[Smagu]

Still, eight items isn't exactly an insurmountable number. There were, what? Four or five possible items? A couple different color bottles, skull, seashell, chain? Assign a number to each one and you could do it in seconds. Bottle, green bottle, seashell, seashell, skull equals, say, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4.

Plus since you're not going first, you know what the items you'll be memorizing are, so you can have your system set up before your turn arrives. It's much, much easier to remember a string of 6 or 8 numbers than to remember entire concepts of similar lengths.

Of course you'd need to be smart enough to use this tactic, and Kat is dumber than a bag of hair.

[Special Kay]

Yeah, I don't know why more of them didn't set up a simple mnemonic device to remember the, what?, four or five different kinds of items there were.

I think the contestants were trying to remember the sequence visually, by remembering what it looked like, which is exactly the worst way to try to do something like that.

[jersey guy 87]

Kat's look of fear that someone might come and remove her appendix during tribal was classic. She had no idea she had an appendix, no idea where it was and no idea what appendicitis might be.

[Mabdul Doobakus]

She's the most endearingly stupid contestant I've ever seen. They've tried to go this route with casting before, I think (Dolly and Sugar come to mind first), but they've pulled it off this time. I may actually start to root for her.

[seawolff]

I have to say, she has held her own in challenges and seems fun to be around. Not regreting that Nina failed at getting her voted out.

[TDWT Kristen]

Not the brightest bulb, for sure, but I give her props for lasting as long as she did in the Immunity Challenge. I didn't think she'd finish second in that!

[serendip]

Take a look at Kat's Secret Scene ... she knows how to handle Greg and she's enjoying life. A nice kid.

[ObstinantGirl]

Although I agree that she seems to be a generally likeable person, I am STILL puzzling over the fact that someone can reach 12+ years of age and not only be unaware of what Appendicitis is - but what an APPENDIX is!!! Wow. My 14 year old son was shocked by that, too.

[janie jones]

I agree. It was pretty appalling. And she seemed to think you could just pick it up somewhere, like a cold.

[orangepenguin]

Kat is one of my favorites this season. I know she isn't going to win, because she doesn't have the intelligence (Kim, Sabrina) of her allies and she seems to be on the bottom, but I am enjoying her all the same while she lasts. I hope she somehow makes it to the end though as the voteless goat. If not, her jury question will be enjoyable.

[TDWT Kristen]

I'm very surprised at her showing of brains last night. Despite how much she liked Jay, she actually admitted she was going to play with her brain, not her heart.

[stinamaia]

I thought the video clip of Kat controlling the rice was interesting.

[doctorb]

Bids on a BLT

Wins

"There's bacon on that!"

So cute.

[TOL]

I've liked her from the start because she looks like a cousin of ours, who we love dearly. Then she turned out to be a very pleasant contestant. She reminds me of a slow version of Season 1 Colleen in that regard. And now I can't help but be entertained by her-- she is unintentionally funny and charmingly has no self-awareness. I think she can pick up an immunity win along the way. I truly hope that they don't vote her out and let her come along to the final 3!

[TDWT Kristen]

Agreed. After she blew the challenge in episode two, I really didn't think Kat was worth keeping around. But then, she turned out to be kinda awesome, and I've wound up actually being happy that she was spared over Nina in week two (even though I'd have liked to have seen Nina last a few weeks longer, too). I actually still want a Kim/Chelsea/Sabrina F3, but I hope she can at least reach the F4 and finish fourth behind them.

[chelonia]

She seems to be one of these people thats way more intelligent than people give her credit for, but she is a tad scatterbrained.

I think this is bang on. She might not know what an appendix is, or that a BLT has bacon in it, but some of her comments have shown that she knows a thing or two about strategy and Survivor gameplay. I like her a lot, but I think Kim is getting the winner's edit.