Survivor: Caramoan 1x3 "There's Gonna Be Hell to Pay"

Some quick thoughts, as I only got around to watching this episode on Sunday...This is the first of Shamar's two-part finale.  Clearly the producers realized he was at the very least good TV, because he more or less dominated each of his four episodes (um, SPOILER ALERT for the next episode).  I don't understand how his jerky tribemates found it morally acceptable to in any way make light of his two tours of Iraq.  Regardless of how you feel about that war, that's just something you don't do.  Clearly these would have been exactly the jerks who did the same to Vietnam vets, and that's pretty much all you need to know about modern America.  Anyway, I stand by my sympathy and admiration for the guy.  It's entirely common for the bigger guys to have a hard time staying mobile in this game, and Shamar made no secrets of the problems he's had since he came back from Iraq, so for him to be doing anything is admirable.  But Survivor traditionally is pretty bad about players having any kind of perspective, so it just goes to figure...Still, it's to his tribe and alliance's credit that he survived this episode intact.