Survivor: Caramoan - Preview, Part 2

Meet the Favorites

By Ben Willoughby

February 12, 2013

Yeah, look at all those 'favorites'.

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Andrea

Andrea is probably the least-recognizable returning castaway this season – she was in the season Boston Rob won, and would be best-known for flirting with Redemption Island inmate Matt during the few minutes of screen-time when he wasn’t on Redemption Island. Andrea gives a bunch of platitudes about being Andrea 2.0, wanting to be herself – a hard worker but a more aggressive player, all about winning this time, no-brainer to come back, blah blah blah. Looks like Andrea will be just as interesting this time around.

Also, she is not afraid to go into secret show-mances and flirting, and congratulates herself on being “so much more in a great spot mentally,” just like Meg Ryan would about 40 minutes into a Meg Ryan movie. There is a “sense of calm about me,” but she’s also “ten times as excited to do this” as she was in her first season.

Assessment: Andrea’s success will rely on playing the Amber game – making the right alliance early on and sticking with it while being pleasant and not ticking anyone off.

Erik

Erik, who still looks a lot like Jon Heder in Blades of Glory, probably had the most notorious exit of any of the returnees – he is the ice-cream scooper from the original Fans vs Favorites season who won immunity when he was about to be voted out for sure, only to be convinced by the Parvati-Amanda-Cirie-Natalie alliance to “redeem himself in front of the jury.” Obviously, the jury promptly laughed him out and James Clement was able to claim that he was no longer the “dumbest Survivor ever.”

Erik claims that he doesn’t need redemption for his big Survivor moment, but he says he does want to build on it and show that he can make some smart decisions. He says that he is a “fan favorite” because he was one of the original “fans”. He plans to “have fun and enjoy the location” but can’t say for sure if he is going to win. I can say for sure that he won’t. But for now, Erik’s plan is to make checkpoints – not get voted out, then make the merge and so on.

Assessment: Erik isn’t really here to win, he’s here to have a good time. If he makes it far, it will be because someone takes him.




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Dawn

Dawn is a mother of six and professor at Brigham Young whose first season was the South Pacific one with Brandon and Cochran. She claims that she has “unfinished business,” like she’s Beatrix Kiddo, but my one memory of Dawn is that she was the one who was sort-of nice to Cochran.

Dawn talks about her experiences on South Pacific and her majority alliance’s downfall at the hands of Cochran. She had thought going into the game that it would be easy to cut ties, but found it more difficult than she expected, so her lesson for this time is to remember it is a game. She hopes Survivor fans will be happy to see her again, but a more reasonable hope is that they remember her.

Assessment: I’m not convinced that Dawn will be able to cut ties any easier this time around, and as the oldest woman she’s an easy target early in the game. Good thing for her there are other easy targets.


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