Final Five! Uh... well, six actually. It's Ozzy vs. the rest of the Coach tribe: Coach, Sophie, Albert, Cowboy and Baby Hantz! Also, technically, Edna is still in the game right? She's gone to Redemption Island, and by the look of next week's episode, gives Oz a run for his money in the challenge. How fun would it be if Edna was the one to knock out Ozzy??? OK, getting ahead of myself.....
It was the family episode. Aaaaaah, the family episode is always one of my faves. Do you love it? I've said it before, it's one of the best shows because it really makes our "characters" into real people. Oh yeah, he's not just a cowboy, he's got a wife! (I loved that he squeezed her butt... cute!) Coach has a brother who has shorter hair but looks alarmingly similar. Baby Hantz's dad looks uh, 30...and a little bit like a Baldwin brother.... They all have people who love them because of who they REALLY are... not just these characters they've become on TV. And I'm not going to dig at them for crying.... Hell, I'd probably be the Dawn who cries on the first day. It's hard to be away from family, especially if you're not used to it... and it's hard to watch other people get all emotional and not get a little choked up yourself. Then again, I got a little teary during the movie preview for War Horse the other day too, so maybe it's just me.
Speaking of emotion - Ozzy beat Cochran in the duel (finally back to two people only! Yay!), but BARELY. Cochran did an awesome job of catching up and it was fun to see everyone on Team Coach rooting for him. Alas, he didn't quite make it. He was pretty emotional to be sent packing, but you could tell it was also a proud moment to have been so close to beating Oz and to have even made it as far as he did. Even my boyfriend Jeff told him that he was 'reborn' out here and became a different person, and like Dawn, I think it's corny but true in this case. Best for me was when Cochran said how much he loves Survivor and how he was thrilled to hear Jeff say things like 'Come on in, guys'. "I was one of the guys!!" says Cochran. Cute right?
Right. So then Ozzy got to choose 3 Survivors to spend time at his camp with their family member. He chose Albert, Coach and Baby Hantz. Product placement ensued! (As an aside, and I may have mentioned this last season... but I read an interview with Jeff where he was asked about all the annoying product placement and he basically agreed that it's annoying, but said it's a way for the show to make more money and therefore have money to do cooler things with. Also, the sponsors dig it because we sort of have to see their products rather than fast-forward through their commercials. Right? I get it. I still hate it, but I get it.) Anyway, the best things to mention here are 1) that Coach made a pact with Ozzy for final two that seems legit and 2) that Baby's weirdly young dad (Russell's brother) is a bit of a jerk. First off, I liked him for trying to get Baby to stop being an idiot and start playing the game properly. To no avail. Baby is convinced that the million dollars is not the point.... he is there to show people something about how you can be crazy, not care about a million dollars, but uh, praise the lord and have integrity or something. But then, Baby's daddy tried to bully Coach into promising that he was taking Baby to the end. Gah! Not a really good idea given Coach's former relationship with his brother. To his credit, Coach didn't promise anything.... but it might be true anyway.... Hell, I'd take Loco with me to the end. He'd be the perfect person to have next to you!!
By the way, I'm loving Coach more and more. I know I've already said this... but I totally love the way he's playing. It's just enough crazy (or potential crazy) to keep us interested, but it's also a guy who's learned a lot from his past experience. Recently I read where Coach said, "I learned something valuable the last time I played. You can't expect people to meet you where you are, you have to meet them where they are." What? Coach? Really? Yep... he's odd, but he's not dumb. And oh yeah, he won immunity... not that he needed it.
Which brings us to Edna and editing. It's my feeling that if the Survivor editors make it LOOK like something's going to happen, it won't. Which is why I don't really think Edna's going to beat Ozzy next week, and I didn't actually think the tribe would keep Edna over Baby. For one, they want someone who'll get voted out for good and Edna had (at least we think) a better chance of losing to Ozzy. The best reason, however, is that the final five is solid. There's no way any one of them is going against the others. And remember how Coach & Baby shook hands "as men of God"????? Well, corny as it may seem to some, that actually means A LOT to both Coach and Baby. Coach even said it when he made the Ozzy pact last night.... "When I promise something 'as a Christian man' it really means something." It's a bit of a crazy, Christian-mixed-with-Samurai-Warrior thing he's got going, but he hasn't wavered from it. Thing is, the jury won't get it.... and I think it's Ozzy's game to lose. In Coach's mind, he hasn't betrayed people like Cochran or Edna... but in their minds? Not so sure. And the former Ozzy tribe people just think he's a wingnut.
Edna scrambled hard and darn it, she's totally right that she 'deserves it' more than Baby Hantz. It's got to be super frustrating to know that you're #6 only because you didn't chat on the beach with the other five people one night early on and that Loco kid did. But, that's how it goes. She did her best to persuade the tribe that she was better to keep than Baby and she even tried to persuade Coach to give her the immunity idol. These are things that would have worked in the past with other groups, but not with this one. I hope she does give Ozzy a run for his money!!
So that's about it. A few bits of information to share... if you don't already know:
1) I just read that Whitney is married to some dude named Donny! She kept it secret from not only Survivor, but from friends and family as well (????) Apparently, Mrs. Donny and Keith are still an item and poor Donny is on the outs. Moral of the story: Don't get married & then spend your honeymoon snuggling with a (different) hunky guy in the South Pacific. In related news, Cochran gets to tell Whitney that she disgusts him!!
2) Sadly, my boyfriend Jeff has gotten married.... to someone else! What what? Well, OK, I'm married too and don't plan on pulling a Whitney any time soon... but sigh.... sad the romance is over. I'm sure it's because Jeff knew he was no match for my man, who's perfectly awesome. (Cue mushy Survivor "family episode" music). I did look up the new wife and she's lovely. Her actress resume is umm, less than impressive though. Her latest listing is for Sinbad: The Battle of the Dark Knights. Not exactly an Oscar contender. Her ex-husband was on NYPD Blue though. Too much?
3) It's almost over! Mark your calendars &/or set your PVRs next week! There should be one more regular episode on Wednesday, then the finale on Sunday! So exciting!
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