Say hello to your final fourI know it's been awhile (since the first episode) that I've talked about Survivor, but it's been sorta annoying. This hero worship and Ozzy losing his appeal is kinda bumming me out. We've lost two people unconventionally, Jonathan because he punctured his leg (ew) and Kathy because she stopped hearing voices or something. They switched up the tribes, Ozzy found the hidden immunity idol (obviously) and Jason found the fake one Ozzy planted.
I mean, the season has been good, but I'm hoping for some better entertainment. Here's some highlights from the last few episodes...
Yeah, Cirie, we know.Ozzy's the leader. Really? We didn't know that? Ozzy is the clear leader. The good thing about the show, and them bringing back oldies but goodies is they know how they played last time and realize how they can play better. Some people go overboard, I'm talking to you Cirie, but some of them realize that taking a back seat may not win you the votes when it comes down to strategy and who the jury thinks utilized that best. Ozzy is the perfect example of this. He came in second (third?) the last time, and lost to Yul who played the game both physically and strategically well, wiping the floor with Ozzy in the strategic department, and I think Ozzy is taking his cue from him.
Ok, that's hot.Also in the same discussion that we talk about Ozzy being a leader we have to talk about his "relationship" with Amanda. We had one episode where they were making out and getting cozy, and then it was sorta never brought up again until the last episode when Alexis started moving in on Ozzy. Amanda was not having it and decided to gun for Alexis to be voted out. Cirie, who has been thankfully quiet the past few episodes, knows Amanda just feels jealous. At the same time, if I was in an alliance with the strongest player and he was replacing me I'd want that ho out too.
Last episode was the merge, which is always a good episode as everyone tries to scramble to align with someone or make sure their alliances are still strong after essentially meeting the new people for the first time. The alliance that's the strongest right now is Amanda, Ozzy, James and Parvati. I think this is the best foursome to go into the final 4 in awhile. All of them, expect maybe James, can say that they've played this game strategically. Here's the only catch, while Parvati was with the other tribe, separated from Amanda and Ozzy, she told Alexis and Natalie (?) that she would get Amanda into an alliance with the four of them to get to the final four, because she doesn't think she (or Amanda) can win up against Ozzy and James. You just figuring that out sweetheart? When she tells Amanda this Amanda is NOT happy. She doesn't like the idea of going against her original alliance, although what we've learned in this game is you have to make one big move or people will never think you played the game right, even if it pisses a few people off.
The two people that are truly on the outs with everyone is Jason and Eliza. Jason went to exile island and found Ozzy's fake hidden immunity idol and in the funniest moment (until last episode) of the season, he gleefully showed the camera how smart he was in finding the idol. God I hope I can find a picture of this thing. Jason realizes that it's him and Eliza against the world and tells her that in the individual immunity challenge, if he wins, he'll give the non-idol to her to use. They pat themselves on the back at how clever they are and Jason talks shite about Ozzy. He is so jealous, it's so sad. This is hero worship gone bad. He's met his hero and instead of embracing it like Erik has, he's gone the complete opposite way and now wants to beat his hero. SIT DOWN Jason. SIT DOWN. You are not Ozzy. You're not even close.
So the immunity challenge begins and Jason does end up winning. I'm really liking where this is going. Eliza thinks she's golden. She knows the girls don't like her. It's so high school. If Eliza wasn't such an annoying biatch I would feel sorry for her, watching the cool kids talk and knowing they're talking about you. That sucks. She goes to Jason to retrieve the idol and in what seems to be annoying (normal) Eliza fashion she freaks out because he doesn't immediately hand it to her. Just wait Eliza, just wait. He goes to get it and she looks at it and freaks the frak out. I'm laughing outloud at this point.
She marches over to the beach and confronts him. She thinks he's playing her. Eliza, meet Jason, he's an IDIOT. He honestly thinks it's the real one and unfortunately she figures it out that Ozzy whittled this and is playing them all. It takes Jason a few minutes to have it sink in that he's not as bad ass and beyond Ozzy as he thought. I love the look on his (cute?) face when he realizes that he was played. A moment of silence for Jason's dignity...
So now Eliza is up shite's creek and the only thing she can do is play this non-idol and we can have the pleasure of Jeff tossing it into the fire like he did last year. I love Daddy Jeff. Amanda's tried to play for Alexis to get voted out, but we pretty much know it's Eliza going. The vote is about to be counted and Eliza plays the non-idol to Daddy Jeff's delight. He says it's not the idol and Eliza makes a bitchy declaration that that means that Ozzy has it. Ozzy shrugs this off, after laughing in Eliza's face a bit (okay, maybe Ozzy isn't THAT bad) and says yup, they caught him. If they were stupid enough to believe the best player in the game who's been to exile three times doesn't have it they now know. Oh Eliza, you're fierce.
The vote comes and guess what, it's Eliza. She tries to scoop a little of her self esteem off the floor and be nice as she's leaving, but you know she's seething inside. I tried to like this ho, but she played too many sides and was ugly. Sorry.
Natalie? Yeah, we see you.Next week it looks like Ozzy may have a problem on his hands. All the ladies may gang up on him. And can we mention Natalie (?)? Who is she? Why does she look weird, and she's a member of the jury! Dark horse?
