Well, here we are. Fifteen episodes and a number of survivors later, we’re at the end of South Pacific. It’s been fun, albeit predictable with most contestants playing their strategies safe and sticking to their word. Only two major plays occurred (John Cochran turning on his tribemates and Brandon handing away immunity only to be voted out), but between Cochran’s fish-out-of-waterness and Brandon’s... 

It’s the last week for Survivor: South Pacific, with a regular episode tonight and the series finale on this weekend (Sunday). It’s been a decent season – maybe not the most interesting at times but also not the most boring. If anything, it’s been rather predictable, with few players making major moves to alter the game. As Probst pointed out last week, the players have said for a while... 

Welcome back to another week of the John Cochran pity party, with our special guest this week, John Cochran! Yes, this week’s episode doesn’t wait long before diving into the traditional Cochran quips of the past few weeks: being voted off is insulting, the other tribe members he teamed with just thanked him as lip service, etc. Dude, you got exactly what you signed on for. Now you have to face... 

In case you didn’t notice, I didn’t recap last week’s episode. You see, it was Thanksgiving week so I was doing stuff with my family. Also, it was the seasonal “clip show,” which recaps what’s happened so far this season while showing new footage we didn’t get to see. So, if you wanted to see if there actually was a collaboration going on between Ozzy and Coach, the veteran players, the... 

Alright, it’s Survivor time for the week! Ozzy’s gone, voted off last week, but probably not for good as we expect him to dominate Redemption Island for the remainder of the game. His former allies are still targets, however, and we fully expect them to be picked off one by one, as the game goes through an unfortunate predictable streak. Unfortunately, I was distracted by a very loud two-year old... 

Previously on Survivor: I was on vacation last week, so I missed what turns out to have been one of the biggest plays of the season. Everything went off without a hitch for the Savaii tribe, who made a huge play the week before that. When I last left the show, Ozzy was heading for Redemption Island in hopes of beating Christine and hoping the merge was due, which would put Savaii and Upolu into the... 

Even before this week’s episode aired, I have to admit to a bit of disappointment with what we’re going to see. All week the episode has been hyped with the announcement that a castaway is actually going to ask to go to Redemption Island. They’re calling it the boldest move in the history of Survivor, and playing it off in the ads as some kind of great mystery. I distinctly remember, however,... 

Right from the get go, Ozzy is being the biggest wimp about the game. He got played last week and he doesn’t like being on the “wrong side of the blind side,” so he spends the teaser whining about being caught off guard and throwing off all of his previous alliances. Ozzy is no longer committing to his previous allies. Instead, as the trailers showed repeatedly, he’s declared himself a “free... 

I know it’s early in the season, but I have to say I’m unimpressed with how things are going so far. We knew from the get-go that neither Ozzy nor Coach were the kind of player we saw last season – no Boston Rob or Russell Hantz. I had hoped the rookie players would be a bit more interesting, but so far most of the moves have been predictable, with most of the rookies putting themselves... 

Jim is scheming from the start of the episode – an especially appropriate point of editing since this episode takes its name from something the marijuana distributor says, as opposed to the last few episodes, which have referenced Brandon. Still, this usually indicates one of two things: Jim will execute a major power play this week or Jim will have the tables turned on him and will be our exiting...