Survivor: South Pacific (With new twists on Redemption Island) — Page 7

Do I have to do the thinking for ALL these people?!?!

Apparently. I can see the "Coach" guy winning just like Boston Rob; everyone around him pretty much just helping him to win the money, never looking after their own game.

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I'm with them on the Brandon stuff. He's as batsh*t as ever, but I don't see Cochran through the lens that you or that commenter are. I agree that he often plays the game idiotically, but I don't think he's that awful. And I think Ozzy and Keith and Whitney et al, were kind of awful to him.

I still just don't understand the people who ascribe so much value on Loyalty and Honesty in the context of the game. I think it's fine if people want to play that way, but that's not really a guaranteed trip to the final Tribal. There have been plenty of d-bags who won.

I'm just really tired of returning players when it's not an All-Star game. If Coach or Ozzy does win, that's two times in a row a returning player will have won. Why would people want to keep going on if the show just becomes CBS giving a million dollars to inexplicable (to me, that is. your mileage may vary) fan favorites?

Ozzy's sanctimony and grandstanding just get on my friggin nerves. He's a manipulative jag-ff. And he's a professional Survivor player who is starting to take the game way too personally. He was trying so hard with that "You all fell for my plan" or whatever it was he said when he got voted out, but it just rang as desperate, martyred and indignant. Now the show and Ozzy will spin this "Ozzy's Redemption" narrative, which is just stupid, because you have to acknowledge some kind of wrongdoing to be able to have any kind of redemption. Ozzy is a selfless saint who did EVERYTHING for EVERYBODY. Shouldn't it be the others that need to be REDEEMED?

I was also thinking that if Coach or Ozzy wins, then they might want to consider this returning player BS when it's not an All-Star game. It's like the show is just turning into a rewards program for professional Survivor players.

That anonymous post doesn't make much sense to me except as from someone with a crush on Ozzy.

He threw his tribe under the bus, after they repeatedly saved his skin in challenges, he has made comments about the inferior intellect of women repeatedly throughout the earlier episodes.

I don't remember the comments he made about "women". I'd have to go back and check that. But if the tribe repeatedly saved his skin, why did they keep targeting him and trying to vote him out?

I do not condone bullying in any way, but Cochran is an adult and oftentimes when he was being `mistreated`` it was moments after the cameras showed him saying awful things about the others first.

I don't know what that person is thinking, but it sounds like...editing. And were these things Cochran was saying to these other people? No. It was in private interviews.

He`s also had in it for Ozzy since day one, and Ozzy has done everything in his power to help Cochran.

He should have targeted Ozzy since day one! EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE! Helping Cochran was Ozzy's choice and not without ulterior motives. Ozzy was doing what Ozzy needed, which after almost EVERYONE on his tribe betrayed him and voted out one of his alliance, he turned to Cochran because Ozzy saw his own plans falling apart.

I love this game, but the injustice of people like Brandon and Cochran still being in the game while people like Ozzy get voted out, people who play an amazing physical game, provide food, are nice, decent, and loyal people...well that just plain rots me.

And that pretty much spells out this person's frame of mind and awareness of the game. We'll probably see them in the cast next season making a speech on integrity just before being voted out.

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I was disappointed to see Dawn go. Cochran, Sophie, and Albert knew Coach would get rid of them ASAP if they betrayed his "family".

"They all talk about how he's a leader and maybe the master strategist and STILL nobody does a thing about it. EVEN WHEN THEY COME UP WITH THE REASON TO DO IT!"

That's kind of how I felt about 'China' and 'Nicaragua'. In the first episode of 'China', Jean-Robert told Todd that was going to be the mastermind of the season. He was right and no one really tried to get rid of him. Right after the episode before the merge aired I didn't really want to watch anymore of it since it was very predictable. On the second episode of 'Nicaragua' I thought the same thing was going to happen with Sash, who already seemed like he had control. But at least the final result was not predictable like 'China'.

In other news, the show has been confimred to air a 25th and 26th season with Jeff Probst once again returning as host, even though he has a talk show that will begin airing in fall 2012.



'Survivor' and Jeff Probst staying on CBS through 2012-13

This is Boston Rob all over again. The more Coach manipulates the tribe, the more entitled he is to receive the winning votes. He just needs to take Edna with him.

The show HAS to be scripted, why would a group of seemingly smart people go through Survivor to let someone take the money like that?

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But if the marriage is secret and the affair is secret, then it doesn't count, right? Well, except in the eyes of God, but that's only because they are heterosexual which is God's only prerequisite for marriage.

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I would like to see Cochring beat Ozzy next week, though.

I think Prince Albert needs to go. He's done nothing to contribute to the game and acts like he's the ruler of the island.

Yeah but stupid or not it was the ballsiest move anyone's made this season. At least it was a "game changer", in a season with not much action.

Brandon is really becoming unhinged.

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Cochran did make the best move for himself at the time of the merge and it did buy him some time. He just didn't know how to play it afterwards. He really strung himself up with all the indebtedness chatter. Targeting Rick was a great idea, but when paired up with his sense of entitlement, Cochran only targeted himself as a loose cannon. Even more so than Brandon. Brandon just can't keep his mouth shut nor does he have the ability to strategize, so there is no point in telling him anything except how to vote.

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