I get that Natalie was going to be out so she needed to play Erik but it wasn't even her idea. Why would Parv, Amanda and Cerie do all that scheming just to save Natalie when they were all safe anyway??! I don't get it."Girl Power", mostly, but also because Erik ahd that pesky habit of winning Immunities, PLUS his personality was probably such that he'd take a few jury votes. And, I think A/P/C wanted an All-Fave F3 because a Fan that makes the finals might pull in the "Fan vote" from Jason and Alexis.
OTOH, all the talk of Amanda's threat last week could have made it very easy for E/N/C to boot Amanda this week; surely that had to be discussed somewhere along the line, but we had the unusual situation of the most dopeheaded move in Survivor histroy, and all of the post-IC footage was about that; we didn't see one bit of strategizing about a "Plan B". I wish erik had asked them what they would do if he DIDN'T turn over the necklace, because Cirie surely wasn't going to say in front of Nat "We'll boot Natalie"--it would have been Amanda or Parv anyway, so what did he think he had to gain, except "being liked by my Survivor idols" *eyeroll*
