I have to admit, I loved the moral skewers Albert was on during Tribal, thanks to Rick. “Well, he feels vulnerable…shouldn’t you give it back?”
Albert’s pretty, but he’s kind of…well…our cousins across the Atlantic have a good term for it. He’s a useless git.
I don’t recall Coach ever identifying as a Christian in previous seasons. He seemed to have some vaguely quasi-Buddhist thing going on; spiritual, but not overtly religious. Now he’s all Jesus this and God that. Makes me wonder if he’s not sincere about it and just knew that was the best way to manipulate Brandon all along. Or am I giving him too much credit?
What I really wanted to see this week: Albert, Sophie, and Rick realizing that none of them could win the jury vote against Coach, and blindsiding him. It won’t happen now; those bridges were burned with Albert’s duplicity. Instead, they all go out of their way to keep him in the game, which will be their doom. Albert is the only one besides Coach who’s actually playing the game, but he’s so inept at it that it’s not helping him.
I hope you took a long shower after posting that!!
Anyone else notice the necklace falling off of Albert at the end, it was like God was 30 seconds too late in letting us know His will.
Yes, yes, and yes. Agree with everything in both paragraphs. Except maybe that Sophie is playing the game, too.
The fork in the road for Albert, the point at which he actually lost this game, was back when he just gave the HII to Coach. That was stupid. That idol is the reason none of them have had the guts to gun for Coach.
So, Coach can still play his idol? At the first vote on Sunday?
If I’m not mistaken, the Final Five vote has always been the last time an individual idol can be played. So, yeah, assuming the first order of business is bringing someone back from RI, Coach has one more chance.
My gut says he’ll be safe anyway, but he’d still be a fool not to play it, because, well, you never know. We’ll all have a good laugh if he goes home with the idol in his pocket.
I have the feeling Sophie is formulating something. What that is, I have no idea. She’s a smart woman. There’s no way I’d discount her at this point.
It’s a good thing Brandon didn’t see her blurred-out side boob action going on last night.
Polite amendment: It’s a good thing God didn’t allow Brandon to see her blurred-out side boob action going on last night.
So all season it’s been said how Coach is playing such a good game, but he seems to be really failing near the end. He had so many potential patsies to bring to the end (Cochrane, Edna, Brandon, Rick) and he’s already voted three of them out. Of course Coach isn’t the only one to blame for not trying to take these weak players to the finals with them, but he is the one who had the 3 patsies voted off in his back pocket so he comes across looking the worst.
Also, it’s kind of funny how all season we just assumed Sophie and Albert had a little sub-alliance when in the last few weeks we keep seeing Sophie badmouthing Albert to the camera and saying how he’s trying too hard to make moves.
At this point, I’d only be happy if Sophie/Rick won. Sophie seems like the smartest one left, and Rick is unintentionally quite funny. I wish the editors showed him more. I’d also find it funny if he won after getting zero screen time all season. It won’t happen, of course, but I’d like it.
I really don’t want to see one of the religious zealots win as there is only so much praising the lord I can watch. Coach pretending that higher powers were telling him which way to vote and then using that as an excuse to vote off Brandon without reprocussions was pretty ethically questionable for someone supposedly religious. Deep down, he must realize he was making a self-serving decision…
I don’t think it’s deep-down at all, he was clearly being self-serving. Ethically questionable or not, if my suspicions are correct that he’s been using religion as a way to keep simpleton Brandon under his thumb, my hat is off to him!
Albert gave him the HII?
I thought Coach actually found the HII, but Albert gave him the clue.
And the next tribal council will have 5 people in it.
The four still left in the game + winner of the final RI duel..
I think the time that the HII can be played is day 36.
He had a great “I meant to do that” look on his face, too.
I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that Ozzy wins this season and it’s the end of the current Redemption Island format. (And hopefully the end of having two returning veterans)
Ozzy will beat Brandon to get back in the regular game, then he wins two immunity challenges to get into the final 3 after which it is a foregone conclusion that Ozzy wins a landslide final vote. And nothing that happened all season will have had any effect on the outcome. None of the scheming or the planning or the twists or the big strategic moves or the blindsides or the backstabs or the holy roller God praising.
None of that matters if there is both a challenge monster like Ozzy and a Redemption Island format to steamroll through. In previous seasons, a challenge monster is vulnerable to certain individual immunity challenges where the weak and well-organized can collaborate to oust the strong. Also, before the merge, a challenge monster cannot prevent his tribe from losing tribal immunity and getting voted out.
Redemption Island removes those exits. The challenge monster gets a safety net and once there, the weak have no way of teaming up to oust the strong.
That said, mad props to Ozzy for actually winning all those challenges. There were a few that could have gone either way, so he gets credit for not failing when it counts.
I’m fairly sure Probst has tweeted that the next season has Redemption Island again. It’s already filmed and in the can.
Most of the RI challenges have not been tailored made for an Ozzie win.
there is no swimming, spear finishing, coconut shaking, or running involved.
Last night it was Ozzie against Edna (and Upulo 5). (although, admittedly, too many cooks might have spoiled the brew)
No one has made any comment on Sophie’s comment: “Ozzie’s Pleasure Dome”?
Yeah, the challenges(all, not just the duel) are pre-decided and made before filming even the first episode. They have no idea what is going to happen or who will be left. They’d be doing the same “cube challenge” even if Ozzie had been voted out and eliminated first.
Dalton Ross’s latest blog post is up, previewed by this gem (referring to the last Survivor who gave away his immunity idol only to be voted out):