SURVIVOR – 11/10/11

I was going to start off the blog today by going into more detail why Ozzy giving Whitney the Idol was the dumbest possible thing to do, but as a few people told me last week, I need to just let it go. I received around 10 emails with people trying to explain why he might have done it, but the fact still remained they all thought it was dumb. I will say this to all those people (and myself), if you think something that someone does is dumb, don’t defend them. Like with Joe Paterno, what he did was dumb. You don’t defend dumb things by trying to explain what they MAY have been thinking at the time. I understand the whole intent vs. motive argument, but no matter what he intended on doing, he still played an integral part in allowing several young boys to be sexually assaulted and you can’t defend that. Like I said in previous blogs, you can’t base how genius a plan is once you see the results, it’s either a good idea or a bad idea from the get-go and that’s the end of the story. So, with all that said, Ozzy is still an idiot for giving Whitney the Idol when it was so blatantly apparent he should have given it to Keith, or at the very least, Jim. And, yes, it was EXTREMELY hard for me to not shove my narcissism down everyone’s throat on why I’m right about this…so congratulate me on holding back! Thank you.

On to the episode.

I am going to start applying for the job of Episode Titler. Someone at CBS has to come up with the titles of these episodes. This episode was called “Cut Throat.” Uh, what? Why was it called that? It should have been called, “I thought we were supposed to be the Final 3.” I had a history teacher in high school who once told the entire class, as we were about to walk out, and after I had made an interesting argument in regards to what he was teaching us that day, “This is why you pay attention all the way to the last second of everything you do.” Jim summed up the entire episode at the very end when he uttered that phrase to Keith and Ozzy. Now, THAT is your title of the episode. Not “Cut Throat.” I’m asking my readers to start a petition to CBS to get me the job of titling episodes of all their shows. I’ll do it for free, I really don’t care, I just really want that on my resume. I love my readers, so let’s make this happen. Bombard CBS on Twitter, Facebook, on CBS message boards, let’s make the future of CBS a great thing.

Anyway, I will try and keep off my tangents. We learned in the episode that “Te Tuna” is the tribe name. I’m still going with Say Tuna. Lame tribe name either way you ring it, so why not have some fun with it.

But, we start the episode with Say Tuna heading back to camp and Ozzy asks to talk to The Coch alone. He basically asks him why he did it and Cochran replies that he hasn’t been obsessed with this show for 11 years to have his fate come down to a rock. I do see his point. Even if you are alone in what you think is right, you still should stand up for what you feel and he did that, which is something he can always be proud of doing. I still think it was the wrong move for him to make. I think you just have to take your chance with the rocks (if you’re Cochran) and whichever way the rocks go, you are in a good spot, because both tribes want you on their side. So, whoever has majority, you can stick by them now. Either way the rock went, as long as it didn’t land on him, he would have been in a good spot. But, I can understand not wanting to let it come down to that. I can’t blame the man for that.

But, of course, Loco had to make his tough presence felt by coming over and “making sure nobody’s being aggressive” with The Coch. Ozzy told the tough guy off by telling him they aren’t gang bangers out here, and this isn’t a Crips and Bloods situation where he’s going to put a bullet in his head for betraying the gang. Best line of the night still goes to Ozzy, though, with his “…that’s how a wiener plays.” I love that he said The Coch is playing like a wiener. Fitting.

Ozzy isn’t the only one upset with Cochran, as Jim calls him a coward and tells him he never wants to talk to him again. It was only a few days ago when Jim was making fun of Ozzy for acting like a baby, but who’s throwing the tantrum now, Weed Boy? At the same time, though, I’d be the same way as Jim. I’d be less vocal in Cochran’s face about it, but his back would definitely catch the brunt of my attack (meaning I’d be talking behind his back, if you didn’t get that). Even Whitney got in on the fun and tells Cochran, “You disgust me.”

And, here is where I bring up that I’m actually on their side in this argument. I don’t get why Cochran still feels like he was so on the outs with his tribe. He’s just angry that he’s weak and his weakness has floated up to the surface in just about every challenge on this show and he’s upset that his tribe knows it. It’s almost like he’s offended that they’re keeping him around, it seems. He even says that he doesn’t like how they think he’s weak and that’s part of the reason he didn’t like his tribe. I’ll say it again, this kid can’t go to Harvard Law, because he’s the most blind person in the world, and deaf to his own thoughts, too. If he thinks his tribe feels he’s weak, what does he think the other tribe is going to think? It’s not like they’re looking at him as this great threat to their tribe. They are preying on his weakness and taking advantage of the fact that the Savaii tribe was stupid enough to string him along to the merge and make him their “double agent” so they could flip him. I just don’t understand why he’s so upset at his tribe when they really have went out of their way to keep him in this game. Hell, Ozzy voted himself out to Redemption and gave Cochran his Immunity Idol before he left, what else does he want from them? This is another reason I can’t be on this show, because I’d be in Jim or Ozzy’s position and probably punch this a-hole in the face after seeing the smug look on his face after he flipped and gained confidence like he was all of the sudden the favorite to win the season. I’m going home, anyway, right? Might as well go out punching some a-hole in the face. And, after I punched him in the face, we’d find out just how tough Brandon is and how much he really wants to stand up for “the small people,” because I’d have no problem dropkicking him in the tiny nuts he has.