Survivor: Caramoan - Episode 8

Blindside Time

By Ben Willoughby

April 4, 2013

Probst is just happy that his man crushes get to hang around awhile longer.

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“Cochran, in the final of an immunity challenge,” says Probst disbelievingly. Malcolm refers to Cochran as “Ginger Kobayashi” – which has bad news for Malcolm, as Kobayashi specialises in eating offal and the final round food is pig brains. It looks big in close up but it’s really only a palm sized slice. Cochran wins and immediately goes into a triumphant “Rocky at the top of the art gallery steps” dance. “I’ve waited my whole life for this,” he says. Probst is in utter wonder. “Cochran is safe and cannot be voted out of this game. Everyone else is fair game.”

After the break, the castaways arrive back at camp and Cochran immediately apologizes for his “excessive celebration” as there are “very few challenges I have a chance of winning." No one seems to mind anyway, but Cochran is surviving by being the butt of everyone’s jokes and he doesn’t want that to change. At least until final Tribal Council, anyway.

In interview, Cochran is still excited about his immunity win, saying it is unbelievable that he “the pipsqueak” beat Malcolm “the golden god”. He says that if anyone else had celebrated like that, it would have rubbed them the wrong way, but because no one sees him as a threat (or seems to dislike him personally) it was no problem.

Malcolm is just as surprised that Cochran “of all people” won, but he’s glad Cochran can go “check one off the bucket list” before he is voted out. We see him conferring with Eddie about how they have their six, including Erik, but in interview he’s worried about the “free thinkers” who will have to fall in line for this to work.




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Phillip and Corinne are discussing which way the vote should go. Phillip wants to split it between Eddie and Reynold, “sending one of the two power bases home” and hopefully flushing any idol. Corinne tells him she is not “a big fan of the split vote” and she wants to get rid of Sherri. Which is probably the dumbest thing she’s said so far this game. What was the problem with saying “Sure Phillip, we’ll split the vote” and then having your six vote for Sherri anyway? Or voting for Phillip? But Phillip wants for a “big fish” to go home. He says it’s what Boston Rob would do, but I think it has more for revenge at being better in challenges than him.

Corinne interviews that Phillip is an “idiot” which is pretty big talk from someone who didn’t recognize the biggest break to happen to her all game, and instead of “frustrated” and “furious that he would not listen to me”. Anyway, she shares her concern about having the vote split go horribly wrong by sharing with Andrea, Dawn and Cochran. They all seem on board with voting out Sherri.

Only Cochran – or so the editing suggests – seems concerned that Corinne is so adamant against voting off Eddie or Reynold. Sherri’s an easy vote, but he’s nervous that Corinne and Phillip actively dislike each other. Anyway, he wants to keep the vote on one of the “fans” because he doesn’t want them to see how dysfunctional the “favorites” really are.


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