“I am the greatest challenge competitor in Survivor Caramoa.” Classic. I’ll take this moment to comment on the comment in my last blog. For some reason, I spent the entire week trying to sign onto Steve’s site to respond to those comments, and it wouldn’t let me sign on. Gave me some “Well, this is embarrassing” note each time I clicked on the login link. So, let me just say that I AM rooting for my old roomie. I wouldn’t mind seeing him win. I think if he keeps winning individual immunity challenges, he’ll earn more of a right to win, but I just feel that he sat in the shadows for these past 29 days, allowing Phillip to run the show. He only ever seemed to tell us what he thought of the groups’ strategy, and didn’t ever share his thoughts with them. Sure, maybe that was his strategy, to not ruffle feathers, and to go with his alliance, but that’s not a “winner’s” game, in my eyes. Phillip was playing the “winner’s” game. He was leading the way. He was making decisions. He was the one everyone sought out to bounce their ideas off of. Or, at least that’s what the camera showed us. I just hate how in almost every life situation, late bloomers are always rewarded as the “best.” People who lie in the grass for much of a “competition,” but come up big in the final moments are often rewarded as the victors. I hate that. It’s like when you watch American Idol and you hear Randy tell someone, “You started off kinda slow, had some pitchy moments in the beginning half of that song, then started coming on in the middle, but at the end, you SLAYED that song! That last note was nothing short of amazing! Great job. Ryan, this b*tch is IN IT TO WIN IT!!” So, he’ll completely disregard the singer sucking for 67% of the song just because they ended it well? I only wish this would have been the way teachers saw it in school. “Oh, well you wrote a decent thesis statement, and opening paragraph. But then you didn’t write the full body of the paper, but you DID write one hell of a conclusion. A+.” Am I the only one that’s bothered by things like that? So, with all that said, that is why I am rooting for Cochran, but not really. 🙂
As much as I give Malcolm a hard time for not trying to find the idol, I’m going to give everyone else the same hard time! This entire season they’ve spent worried about the idol, and who has it, yet when they know one is out there, and where the person who has the clue is looking, they all just sit around and JUST TALK ABOUT IT!!! Go do something about it. Go dig up every gosh darn tree in the forest if you have to! Find the damn idol and don’t let Malcolm find it. Why is this so hard to comprehend? Lazy bums. This is another reason why I feel like these shows may not be 100% scripted, but there definitely has to be producers dictating what they do/should do. If I were on that island, and I knew the person I wanted out knew where the idol was, I’d be ON HIM 24/7. I’d dig up the tree next to the one he’s digging. I would do everything in my power to not just talk about how scared I am of him finding the idol, I’d do everything to make sure he doesn’t find that idol and therefore I don’t have to be scared!! Geez. GO FIND THE IDOL, IDIOTS!
Sherri gives us the whole rundown about how she wants to flip, and play with the “Muscleheads.” Sure, Sherri. I’ll believe that when my Big Mac doesn’t have special sauce dripping out the sides each time I open the box, a 6-week old pickle, and smushed-down buns.
Do we even bother talking about Erik and his playing both sides? He’s the one who keeps telling us that he’s going to wait until the last second to decide who he wants to vote for, so at this point, the entire game is just a novelty to him. He’s not even really playing, or caring about what people are telling him, he’s just having fun with the idea that he’s the deciding vote, again.
And, Jesus H. Christmas, STOP WITH THE DAMN SPLITTING VOTES! I’m getting so bored with this talk every week. I’m so tired of this talk. I don’t even get how it’s been mathematically possible for them to always be able to split votes, even though some of their own people have been voted out! So annoyed with this. Just split the dumb votes already and let’s get on with it.
At Tribal, we learned that both Erik and Sherri were full of sh*t! Neither of them probably ever even thought about flipping. That was just producer talk for them being able to put together an hour-long episode. They actually split the votes, no idol was played, re-voted, and Malcolm was sent home. Oh well. I was hoping he might have pulled this one out, but he played too hard. He tried using the part of his body he gave too much credit to; his brain. You’re not a great thinker, Malcolm. Give that up. Maybe when you come back for season 32, the producers will gift wrap a victory for you like they did with Boston Rob a few seasons ago. That’s about all you can hope for now. Thanks for playing.
Until next week,
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You mentioned his greatest competitor line but I think the even funnier one is when Sherri fed him peanut butter like a porno and Jeff goes “that doesn’t happen often does it Cochran?”
And he doesn’t miss a beat and says “more often than you think Jeff.”
Apparently new Cochran became a comedian before he got out to his second season cause his one liners have been absolutely hilarious this season!
A season makes such a difference. Sometimes when they bring back a player you see a completely different side . . . . in this case, I really liked Malcolm and he kind of turned into a douchebag and joined the ‘popular kids’ lunch table. That was waaaayyy too early for that move. Who would want to leave the three most athletic players in the game? He should have gotten those two out and then gone up against some of his original group – he could have easily gotten rid of Fillup at that point. And Cochran was nothing but an embarrassment and extremely annoying the last time he played and this time he is witty and enjoyable, and I find myself actually hoping he makes it to the final three.
You make a really good point. At this stage of the game, you have 10 days left. Leave the food alone and save your money for the advantage in the next immunity round. It helped that Brazilian Abi and now Cochran.
The three newbies are all annoying, so I’m hoping for a so-called “Favorite” winning it all.
Thanks for the recaps – you make me laugh until I can’t breathe!