Malcolm is lied to by Andrea, who leaves him alone with Dawn, and that’s when it’s revealed that it’s Malcolm’s plan to vote out Andrea. He believes that she’s the one calling the shots. With the edit they gave this episode, I can see what he means by that. Phillip didn’t play a big role in this episode, it was all about what Andrea said. But, still, to believe that Andrea is running things doesn’t say much about that favorites tribe. The girl may think she’s strategic, but she’s like a house built out of a deck of cards – one little wind gust or shake of the table and it comes crumbling down. All it took for that house to crumble was Eddie say that her name had been brought up. Uh, Andrea, this is Survivor, everyone’s name gets brought up!
Before I get to that part, I’d like to point out that if I’m Reynold, I’m a little ticked at Malcolm for just letting everyone know I have an idol. And, yes, by telling Dawn, that’s telling everyone. That idol is my business. If I want someone to tell someone else about it, I’ll tell you to say something. Otherwise, keep your mouth shut. Although, Reynold has proven he’s not shy about telling people he has an idol. I mean, the idiot whipped it out at a Tribal council before – and then blabbed to Malcolm that he found the second idol within 14 seconds of meeting him. So, I can see why he’s not too angry, and actually seemed quite giddy to show off his idol bulge to Dawn.
And, speaking of Dawn, another big pet peeve of mine is people who misquote others, and make what they said seem so much worse than what anybody else in the world would take it as. Writing a public blog, I know this quite well since I’ve had people stop reading me for the weirdest reasons. I’ve wrote some crazy sh*t and then I hear about people stop reading me because I said the word “d!ckroast” or something like that is just funny! So, when Dawn said to the camera that she hates people who intimidate her, and that Reynold told her “If you burn me, there will be hell to pay” I got a great big laugh out of it. What he said to you was “If you don’t follow through, I’m going home tonight.” Sure, after that he added a “Don’t screw me” but he said that with a chuckle and full understanding that you were on his side. Nowhere in his speech was he threatening to her. The guy just got done showing you his idol, meaning he wanted to work with you, full out. If he wanted to threaten you, he wouldn’t have shown you that, and would have just went ahead and said something like, “Ay b*tch, my man Malcolm told me (pause to spit right at her feet) you was down to f*ck with yo alliance, vote one of them sorry @ss pr*cks out of this game. Don’t p*ssy out last minute, otherwise I’m going home. And, if I get voted out tonight, I’m gonna knee you in the nose, drag you by the hair right into the fire, and laugh like Brandon Hantz would while you burn in the fire.” That’s intimidation. Get over it, Dawn. You’re not winning this game, just do us all a favor and take yourself out of it! Oh wait, that’s next week, apparently…
Oh God, Andrea starts crying. Why the hell would Eddie give this girl any information when she was giving him the cold shoulder about giving him any information? Again, where do they find these idiots? I get it that he feels he’s on the bottom and Andrea may be his ticket to the finals, but she just finished shutting you down ten times in a row and you just go ahead and give her your play? Stupid. So, of course she’s frazzled now that she knows her name was brought up. But, nowhere should she feel that she’s going home! Why would she feel that way? So what, Malcolm and Reynold talked about sending her home, doesn’t she recognize she’s on the alliance that has 8 members to the 3 that they have? Has she ever taken a math class where she didn’t blow the teacher to pass? 8 is way greater than 3. You’re perfectly safe. I’ve never watched a season of Survivor where these people were more freaked out about someone playing the stupid idol. There are NEVER going to be any big moves made simply because everyone is chickening out because they think the idol might be played by 5 different people!
So, with this unfortunate news of her made-up demise, she now wants to vote out the safe one, Michael. Her new plan kinda screws Dawn, who was the one who told Malcolm that she’d vote with him, but mostly because she knew he was going home. Now he’s not. Not that she’d be his main target in payback, but still, if Dawn already broke down because she felt as if her game was crumbling around her, what is she going to do now? If Malcolm isn’t voted out, I’d assume Dawn is going to swim out to the Immunity challenge spot and drown herself underneath her crate. Just be lame and vote Michael out, let’s get these last 15 minutes over with already…I got a blog to write, and then sleep to fall under. But, let me just also say that if I’m Dawn, and I truly wanted to change up my game from the last time I played, I’d have voted out Andrea after this crummy display of leadership. She’s willing to throw your game into the trash because she’s scared she may get a vote or two tonight? Fudge that bidge. Vote her dumb blonde-ish @ss right out. Go with Malcolm, Eddie, Reynold, and Michael. You’re already not going to win, so spice it up a bit, at least.
Somebody stop Phillip. You don’t bring StealthRUs up at Tribal. Wow. Just wow.
It was set up to be another bland Tribal (I’m not going to lie, I kinda fast-forwarded through a bunch of it), and then Reynold stood up to use his idol. And, before he could get to Jeff, Malcolm stops him. And then persuades him to give him the idol, because he believes that the speech someone made (that I fast-forwarded over) was all about him, and that they all voted for him, and he needed the idol to stay. So, not only was he outing his new alliance (although I’m sure everyone knew, anyway), he was being a total douche and stealing Reynold’s idol from him to use on himself, even though he has his own idol! Smooth move, douche. But, kudos for you in getting Reynold to give it up. EVEN THOUGH YOU VOTED FOR HIM!!!! I didn’t get that at all. I think that CBS is just screwing with these edits as much as they can to screw us around and think one thing when nothing of the sort is happening. Why Malcolm would vote for Reynold is beyond me. I don’t know if he made that speech because he truly thought they were still voting Reynold out and he didn’t want Reynold to be saved. I don’t get it. Much like last season when Penner voted that one chick out for no reason, this just doesn’t make any sense. But, whatever, the game is the game and Reynold is surely not going to be smart enough to figure out that Malcolm had to have been that one vote after they get back to camp.
Even with all that excitement, neither Malcolm or Reynold were in any danger. Instead, Andrea’s little freak out sealed Michael’s fate in the game. And he sashayed (shocked to sh*t that’s the actual spelling – I got that on the first try, too) his way out the “door.” Down to 10.
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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. 🙂