Loved Cochran letting us know that he rarely ever leaves his apartment, or Twitter. I don’t even have the desire to look him up on Twitter right now and see that he’s one of those people who have 72,400 tweets sent! What do people do with their lives that they feel the need to tweet every little detail. It’s actually sickening to me to see that. I can’t even come up with things to say on Twitter when I’m ACTUALLY doing something, let alone when I’m just waking up in the morning and thinking, “Oh hey, my 342 followers would LOVE to hear ‘Getting out of bed stinks.'” But, what’s even more sickening is that people like Cochran have hundreds of people who respond to those stupid tweets, which is why I never read my tweets because all it is is a bunch of retweets of other people’s tweets. If I wanted to read your friends’ tweets, I’d be friends with your friend – no thank you! Sorry, I’m just ranting now. I’m tired, forgive me. I think the fact that I work in the Social Media realm now, I have a new found distaste for it. I hated it before, but now…
And, we also see how the budget for Survivor has been cut heavily, since the reward was some finger sandwiches, watermelon, and tea. Congrats on that BIG win, folks!
Oh, and Reynold, if you’re going to pitch a “manly men” alliance – you probably don’t want to make the pitch to a gay guy, a twig like Erik, and Cochran. Know your crowd, Reynold. Know your crowd.
Back at the camp, Malcolm is finally recognizing the plan I pointed out in my last blog. Let the favorites split the vote, tell them you’re in on it, and get your 4 or 5 to vote who you want out. It’s still you, Reynold, Eddie, and Michael for sure. Right at that point, the worst that is going to happen is that you’d tie the votes because they still have 8 votes to split amongst the favorites (considering Sherri has joined), and if you don’t vote for the person you’re supposed to, it’ll be 4 for one of the people, 3 for the other, and then your 4 votes. All you would need to do is convince Reynold to give his idol to whoever the person you’re not voting for, since the other person will have the 4 votes. So, if you were told to vote for Eddie, Reynold would be getting 4 votes, he would use his idol, then your 4 votes now become majority because all of Reynold’s votes would be canceled out. This isn’t rocket science, Malcolm. Jesus. Why are you now talking about needing a 5th, and 6th vote. Why on Earth are you talking to Dawn, of all people, to be your 6th vote when you just got done saying you only needed 5?!? Good Lord, can’t you recognize you don’t even need the 5? I’m over this. Didn’t I just say, like 4 or 5 paragraphs up that I guaranteed Malcolm would prove to us why he’s NOT running this game? Case in point.
Of course, Sherri (another person Malcolm should KNOW not to run to – didn’t you listen to Reynold and Eddie when they told you that Sherri HATED their guts and wanted them out from day one?) and Dawn went and told Andrea about Malcolm’s plan. Eh, I’m just over this whole thing. Malcolm’s an idiot, I now hope he doesn’t even make it to final 3. He doesn’t deserve it. I think he came into this season still bitter about losing last season, and now thought he needed to over play. He is thinking too much when thinking isn’t his strong suit. And, of course, Malcolm is now their target to get out this time. And, guess what, we haven’t even had the Immunity challenge yet! All of this strategic play happened BEFORE they even knew who won immunity – or else, that’s what CBS wanted us to think! But, I believe it did. With what happened after the challenge, and all the scrambling that occurred, I can’t believe this was added on top of all of that.
Eddie and Andrea = B.O.R.I.N.G. See, CBS, you could have left this scene out and showed us the schoolyard pick.
Holy crap, Survivor is as fed up with these people as we are – they’re straight trying to drown these b*tches! That’s a pretty cool challenge. Of course, it does favor those with skinnier cheek bones, such as the two finalists, Andrea and Brenda. The further through the crate you could fit your face, the better off you’d be. And, Brenda proved she had the skinniest face by winning the challenge. Kudos to Brenda for showing up this season. I swear we’ve seen her say about eight words so far this season, nice to see her finally do something noteworthy. Oh wait, I didn’t even write her name down on paper, so I guess I can’t even say it was noteworthy. Shame. She’s just on this season for the gratuitous bikini shots. Fine by me.
Okay, this is the way I saw it (you should go back and listen to the speech that Phillip gave at tribal, b/c it did indeed seem like they knew Malcolm was behind it and they were going to get rid of him. It either was Phillip shooting his mouth off, telling them that they knew, or a stealthy plan to get Reynolds idol played for sure – my gut tells me the former. But if they really had planned to vote off Malcolm, then Phillip had let the whole cat out of the bag in that speech).
Anyway, while Penner had no clue what he was doing last year and threw away that vote, but I believe what Malcolm was deliberate – was trying to have that man alliance without voting with his man alliance – the whole ‘don’t get blood on my hands’ thing. He was scrambling for the extra 2 votes, to make it 5 votes, without him having to vote Andrea out himself, so he can still claim he’s true to the favourites alliance if needed. Reynold, Eddie, Michael, Sherri and Dawn all vote Andrea, the remaining 6 (including Malcolm) split the vote 3 and 3 for Reynold and Eddie as the fav’s had planned. It had to be 5, otherwise there would only be 4 voting for Andrea and 4 for either Reynold or Eddie. So he voted for Reynold to preserve the ‘I voted with the favourites’ and throw Dawn and Sherri under, so the favourite alliance would target them for switching, instead of him. He was trying to be the head of the snake, without it being known he was the head of the snake. Lots of flaws in the plan. Like you said he’s overplaying – b/c I don’t know how that would have worked, if he would have gotten Dawn and Sherri, they just would have said Malcolm was the instigator – for that to work, for Dawn and Sherri to switch to the man alliance, it would have had to of been Eddie, Reynold or Michael to convince those two, not Malcolm, for him to keep his hands clean. He was the one talking to everyone, so I don’t know how he thought he’d get away with that.
He isn’t seeing straight, – Dawn said it – how dumb Malcolm was to depend on Dawn, when she’s historically proven to run to Phillip, unless somehow he didn’t know that. Malcolm has fallen victim to the attraction of one pulling off a game changing move – the pull and fame to be the mastermind – that he didn’t pay attention to all those details around him. He put (what he thought was) the perfect plan ahead of facts or reality. Downfall of many who want survivor fame – to be known for something big – which I think he wants as bad as Cochran does (or did).
Now I have to switch gears and ponder BB Canada strategy…I’m enjoying BB Canada as much as regular BB (surprised – very surprised) but its hard to watch both of these shows at the same time, I get myself mixed up!
Cndgirl, that totally makes sense. I was super confused why Malcolm would vote reynold. Thanks for that analogy!
I get what you’re saying, Cndgirl, but if he truly did believe that Phillip and the rest of the gang JUST got done outing him as “the head of the snake” and were going to vote him out, why would he stick with the plan and vote Reynold if he KNEW that he was getting voted for? Why wouldn’t he still vote Andrea and hope it works? Just none of it made any sense to me, because if he truly thought he was going home, why wouldn’t he have used his idol first? I know that maybe he figured Reynold was going to use it and he’d try and talk him into giving it to him, but what if that didn’t work, either. I don’t think he had any plan to play HIS idol, so it just didn’t make any sense that he got done listening to people talk about him being voted out that night, but he goes and votes Reynold, then has no plan to use his idol. Maybe I’m just lost. Even typing this, I’m lost. So, I ask myself, Scott, why care? Doesn’t matter anymore… 🙂
Well, then, you might be over it, but I’ll respond anyway – I think he was just really confused when he went to go vote. He knew something was up, but was unsure of what, hadn’t put all the pieces together yet. When he went to vote, he even said “I don’t know what’s happening, this is supposed to be a throw away vote, but from what was said at tribal I’m confused’ or something close. I think he just didn’t put it together by then, so he just stuck to what his plan was going into tribal, then changed his mind after, while he had more time to think when everyone was voting, he realized he was in danger. He might have stood up and used his idol if Reynold didn’t, but I actually thought it was kind of a brilliant move to make Reynold give him his idol to use, while saving his idol that no one knows about for some other time. Sucks for Reynold, but Malcolm still has another idol to use.
I know I’m making a lot of assumptions of what he’s thinking – but I’m right, I know I am 🙂
Haha Cndgirl, you may be right. You never know. No doubt it was a brilliant move to make Reynold give him his idol, but I happen to believe that Malcolm didn’t even bring his to tribal. That’s why he looked so worried. Who knows, though – I think I have to give up on trying to figure out what these people are doing. 🙂