Survivor South Pacific official discussion thread - Page 6

We're not football fans either. Five minutes before 60 Minutes was supposed to start there was 5 mins left on the clock of the game. I told my wife it'd be another 40m before the game finished. She thought I was kidding. 35m later the game finally ended. I'm sorry but I don't understand devoting 3-4 hours every weekend watching a game. Not to mention the 150 baseball games a team plays against the same seven opponents... Ok I'll stop.

 

I the start of the show I was kind of rooting for Coach, but at some point during the final challenge I found myself rooting for Sophie. Maybe it was how Albert kept following her down each obstacle course - it was almost as if he was trying to slow her down.

 

When the stress got to her and she lost it during the tribal council I suspected she might have won over a few jury votes.

 

Ozzy, I thought, came off as an arrogant jerk. During the game he was Mr Confident because he felt he was controlling everything, and the two times when the vote went against him (i mean when his girlfriends got voted off) he was Mr Humble. Then, during his second run at RI, he started to get a little nutty. Like he expected everyone to worship him. I think the star worship his tribe gave him in the first half of the game really went to his head and the solitude of RI just magnified it.

Ozzy, except for the beard, looked like Wednesday Addams.

Ozzy's downfall was that he didn't win final immunity.  He would have won hands down once he made the finals.

 

I don't think Sophie was undeserving at all.  She won three or four individual immunities including the all important final one.  And on the gameplay/strategy front, she did no worse than Albert.  Ozzy clearly wanted her out at final four for a good reason, and that reason came to pass.  Had they kept Rick instead, Ozzy would have won the million dollars.

 

The most cringeworthy part of the show was Brandon Hantz, who appears to be IQ challenged for reals.  He has the intellect and emotional maturity of a 12 year old.  

 

Brandon has a wife and kids.  At 19?  That's tough. 

 

That whole segment was awful.  If Probst called Russell a "notorious villain" one more time...  Russell continues to take himself way too seriously...in a WWE kind of way. 

 

And I know it was spontaneous and live TV and that it was just a joke...but the fact that Probst even had the thought to bring back Russell and Brandon to different tribes on a future season just made me nauseous.  Enough already.  Put it to bed...forever.  Let's move on.

 

I see why Brandon is so messed up, if his family didn't come to the live show because they didn't like how he played the game.

Finally got around to watching the reunion show... Brandon's family has done more to dishonor the family than anything Brandon could have said or done out on the island. I thought it was shameful.

Decent season. I feel bad for Brandon - you expect family to have your back no matter what.

Well done Sophie; she played a good solid game, and while not an exiting splashy player, made the right moves (stuck with her alliance and got them to stick with her), and won several immunities - including beating Ozzy (which nobody else had done at RI!). So well done to her. I couldn't tell if Albert was trying to screw her up in that last challenge or not. If anything he should have tried to hinder Ozzy!

Well played Coach too; he seems like a natural mentor. I can't see how Survivor can possibly be played and won with 100% honor and integrity - at some point in a group of 5, you have to lie.

It always makes me laugh when players can't get past this, and take it very personally. I know it must be quite an internal struggle to forgive, but at the end of the day, I'd rather be magnanimous like Cochran or Edna than bitter like cowboy. I noticed he didn't get a word in in the final show, I wonder if he's still bitter at Coach. I hope not.