Survivor: Game Changers

It's been a pretty good season so far, though I was disappointed Tony got booted so early. Guy was entertaining. Anybody still watching?

 

I'm watching, but not digging it yet. There are too many people I have no intetest in seeing again. -- Sandra, Cirie, Debbie, even Ozzie.

 

Still watching, Ozzie has played four times? Is he the Minnesota Vikings/Buffalo Bills of this game?

 

I think Ozzy and Brad Culpepper are interesting in that they appear to have made conscious changes in their approach to the game.

The thing I didn't understand from the premier was that Tony and Sandra were targeting each other, yet Tony ended up voting for Aubry (as did Sandra), IIRC. That struck me as odd.

I'm rooting for Malcolm.

 

Ozzie has to be among the best physical players in Survivor history, if he can put together any kind of social game he might finally win it all. Sandra is going all heel, she has no chance to win, as she said, nobody is going to give her a third million.

 

Yeah, I've never seen anyone rip off eight straight immunity victories like Ozzy did. If Ozzy had only beaten Sophie in the final immunity challenge, I think he would have won that season.

 

Just seems like the game is getting predictable, as soon as they hit the beach everybody fucks off looking for idols, people start plotting for the merge......

 

Did anyone see last week's episode? One of the craziest TC's I've ever seen. All the chaos cost Malcolm, whose name hadn't even been mentioned until JT stirred everything up. It was a good twist to send two tribes to TC and have them vote off one player.

I have to say, as much as people want to get Sandra out now, I'd want to keep her in the game as long as possible, even take her to the end with me if I could. She remains a huge target, so it keeps heat off of her allies and there's a decent argument to be made in final TC against giving her another million bucks. All that said, she annoys the crap out of me and I'd like to see her get booted.

 

Most chaotic TC ever, you know that two-tribe concept will reappear in a future season.

As I mentioned earlier, Sandra is in complete heel mode, would definitely keep her around knowing they won't give her an extra million - she said as much! She certainly isn't a physical threat to win it all.

 

They can't take Sandra to the end because she would have a great argument.

"I came in here a two-time winner, was arrogant, lazy and worthless in the challenges, but here I am again among the last three standing."

That would earn some respect with the jury, I believe.

 

I don't like her persona, but damn, Sandra can play this game.

And Debbie is crazy. Not sure what challenge she was watching.

 

Yeah, that was bizarre. From the "You broke my heart!!" followed by a maniacal laugh, to her repeatedly talking about how she zipped over the balance beam while Princess Hali took "10 minutes dicking around," she had a complete breakdown. I thought Brad actually handled it very, very well. He never seemed the least bit flustered or frustrated by her. Hell, during the challenge as she was getting in his face, he was like, "Debbie, I love ya, I don't know why you're mad at me." His social game appears to have improved dramatically, even though he's still a bit of a force as a leader.

EW's Dalton Ross had a good point after Malcolm got booted that during that crazy dual-Tribal, JT's best play would have been to push the votes to Hali. She obviously didn't have an idol because she didn't tell her former tribemates, and she was the one person no one would have given an idol to. If he pushed for her, he wouldn't have pissed off anyone on his current or former tribes.

Instead, Sandra got pissed at him because he clearly told Brad they were voting Sierra and the move got Malcolm booted and then got him snuffed, too. Poorly played by JT to tell Brad about the Sierra vote.

Since Malcolm (who may be my second-favorite Survivor ever, behind Boston Rob) got booted, I'm now on board with Ozzy.