Thread:Fedora Kid/@comment-2091662-20150416053546/@comment-1734566-20150421022206

There is literally no possible benefit to either Mike OR Rodney to recruit Shirin. Again, not only because she's so unpopular and could easily cause fractures within either side of the majority alliance, but because flipping on one side or the other NOW would blow up everything. It's in Rodney's best interests to boot Shirin and Jenn to completely eliminate the Red Trio/Shirin alliance, and then he has the numbers over Mike with his Misfit Alliance; and it's better for Mike for the same reasons: no wild cards, and at Final Seven, obviously, he plans to surprise Rodney and his misfits with the idol, which NO ONE knows about. See, that's what's key in my opinion: If Mike didn't have the idol, then he'd be all ears for recruiting Shirin and/or Jenn. But with an idol that NO ONE knows of, that everyone thought Joe had (and thus, now believe is gone with Joe), he really doesn't need the extra strain of a new member in someone so stupid, unpredictable, and unpopular.