Sorry for the late post again!!
A pretty good episode, non? TWO Tribal Councils... and so now there are three dudes over in Redemption Island: Keith, Ozzy and Jim. That is going to be some epic battle. Will 2 get to stay and one leave? I think that's how it worked before...
So backing up, poor Cochran really got it thrown at him when they got back from Tribal Council after he pulled the ol' double cross. He kept pretty calm & tried to explain his decision to Ozzy - the hilarious part about this was when Baby Hantz popped up out of nowhere to be Cochran's bodyguard. Ozzy shooed him away with, "We're not gangsters out here, dude." Heh heh. I totally love that Cochran has become Baby's pet project, though. He stood up for him again at the first Tribal, saying that no way were they going to turn their back on him... and hooray for the "little guys" who "aren't going to take it any more" or something. Then later, after the Coach tribe got to pig out while the rest of the Ozzy tribe competed, Baby got so full that Cochran said, "You can rest your head on my shoulder." It was awkward and nice at the same time. Love it.
So yeah, Cochran heard it from Ozzy, then got called a coward again by Jim, then Whitney told him that he "disgusts" her. Yep. Poor bastard. And while I get that they're pissed, he had some pretty good reasons as we talked about last week, right? Though, Jim may have had a point when he said, "Cochran's playing the best 3rd place game ever right now." Which may be true. Cochran would be the best person to bring to the final with you - especially if you're on team Coach and anyone on the jury is from the other tribe. No way he's getting ANY votes EVER from those guys.
So Jim comes up with this amazing plan to give his immunity necklace to Ozzy, knowing that he could go next anyway... just to throw a wrench into the other team's plans, forcing them to vote without talking to each other. He also figured he could give a very moving speech about being warriors... and figured he could sway the Coach team to vote Cochran.... Uh, yeah. Coach pretty much saw right through that and said right off the bat that they're going to stand behind Cochran. So when it came down to actually giving up his necklace, Jim wussed out and Ozzy went back to Redemption Island... which he's pretty OK with, generally. He went there & caught this enormous fish and shared with Keith and just figures he'll be nice to everyone, then defeat them in challenges. Which, actually, wouldn't surprise me. Are you getting a little tired of all the slow-mo, posed shots of Ozzy as Jesus, though? Really... oh, there's the silhouette of Ozzy looking out to the ocean with a rainbow in the distance... then later... the shot of Ozzy standing atop the palm tree as if he levitated up there with his magic powers. Ugh. Enough, Survivor editors... enough. Blech.
Right, so then there's Dawn. Dawn is a clever, clever girl. She's being super friendly to the Coach tribe in hopes she can blend in a little with them and make a case for keeping her around when the time comes. When the challenge came where it was Dawn vs. Jim vs. Whitney and the other tribe got to chow down instead of compete, Dawn belts out that she'll stay there as long as she can so they can eat. Brilliant! People remember that stuff. Later though, she said something about it being hard to watch them eat, so Baby called her on it. "What? You said you were happy we were eating, now you don't want us to eat?" Some sort of usual circular Baby logic. At any rate, he likes Dawn more than Whitney probably because Whitney's too good looking or something like that.... Weird.
And Whitney started crying because she doesn't like being called a bully. Well, really? Baby, for all his loco-ness, made a super good point when he said that team Ozzy was all cocky and unfriendly to them when it looked like they were in control. All of a sudden, when they lost control, now they go and paint the other guys as bad guys...? Word.
Ummmm.... and OK.... has Rick said more than 3 words all season. I'm loving that he's silent. 'Cause he's a cowboy, and I figure he goes off and camps alone and sings cowboy songs by himself. That's what cowboys do right?
So, even though he was a total jerk about not giving Ozzy the necklace, Jim got voted out next, just as he thought. I enjoyed the three dudes at the end in Redemption Island saying "Huh, and we thought we'd be the final three...." Heh. Looking forward to seeing them compete! It'll be Dawn or Whitney next... so might depend on winning immunity, or might depend if Dawn can convince everyone she's cool... we'll see. And if Ozzy claws his way back into the game, it'll be hard to beat him. An Ozzy, Coach, Cochran final? What's your guess?
Oh... and I never tire of watching Coach ham it up for the "tai chi".... I don't know tai chi, but I'm going to guess that's not really it. But then again, I remember him saying they type he does so obscure (it was taught to him from some monks maybe?) that you can't even google it. But, come on, the fist clenching and arm shaking.... it makes my life. Then, he'll go and chuck in a quote by Marcus Aurelius. Again, I don't know if he's making this stuff up... but I like it nonetheless. As Abraham Lincoln once said, "If you can't back up your Internet quotes, just look confident when you say them, and the people will believe."
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