Coach has an eerie prescience/total ignorance about his impending fate.
Update! Coach's post-finale comments on Jerri: Are They An Item?
On former tribe mate Jerri Manthey:
Q: "Are you two an item?'
Coach:
'We’re not an item.'
'She's a great woman.'
'She's cool'
'We can't talk to each other until the finale.'
'I’m looking forward to seeing her at the finale. '
Coach paraphrase 'Finale is coming up in about a month.'
(It's more like 7 weeks, right? Show is days 18-21 right now?)
'We'll see what happens.'
(They are each age 38, single, and have show biz aspirations/experience.)
Jeff Probst Blogs Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains
Boston Rob is gone. Russell is in charge. Or is he? Who really is in charge over at the Villains camp? Is it Russell? Is it Parvati? Is it Parvati and Danielle? Or is it truly a power trio of Russell, Parvati, and Danielle? Expect a battle for true leadership to emerge at some point because Parvati takes a back seat to nobody. Either way you slice it, the Villains are in trouble...more after the jump
CBS — April 08, 2010 — Coach becomes the first member of the jury when he is voted out and sent to Ponderosa where he feasts
Coach taking Rupert out in Survivor: Heoes vs.Villains (S20)
I was not surprised that the Villains continue to eat themselves alive. According to Coach in one of the Ponderosa interviews, they have not eaten fish once in the 18 days he was with the Villains.
They (except probably Sandra who like Parvati has had her game on since Day 1--waiting to spring into action--which she did in this episode) have blindly followed Russell. Russell however, has no problem letting them all rot, if necessary. IMO, Russell may be a 'great strategist' but his ego will be his downfall. The true power left on Team Villains is Parvati. I think it is safe to say she'll make to the merge and then be more overt about the game she has "on" as in "Game on!" People won't know what hit them until tribal is over and they are eating peanut butter-dipped Snickers in the van to Ponderosa.
CBS cameras keep tabs on the Ejectees, taping bits of conversations from Ponderosa. I'll try to get them up whenever it is feasible as the number of Castaways becoming Ejectees rises.
Jeff Probst says Parvati "spies." Does Probst mean Parvati goes around and listens in to conversations --as in spying on people? And she's never caught?!
I haven't seen all her seasons so I'm confused with that statement. I think she and her Black Widows Alliance put me off one of her one seasons and I quit it.
Heroes vs. Villains Episode 8 Photos Source
Basically, Sandra, Courtney, Danielle, and Parvati voted together, which would suggest that Russell is even less in control than he thought he was before. Had Russell voted for Coach, we’d still have all the evidence we need that Russell is not in control, despite the voices in his head that tell him that he is responsible for the tribe’s votes, the game, small children’s happiness and/or fear, and the earth’s rotation.
Whatever happened with the vote, Sandra is either in control or played Russell or both. Sandra endeared herself to me long ago, but I practically shrieked when she said, “Russell’s so stupid he ate that crap up,” adding that “he doesn’t know how to play this game.” Amen, amen. Russell said things like, “I have the power in this game. I send home who I want to send home,” but instead of getting all flame-faced over that like I do, Sandra used that to her advantage.
Realizing that Russell hates being played more than anything else, Sandra lied to him and convinced him that Coach was going to go after him—which wasn’t too far from the truth, since Coach wanted to have the testicles to vote against Russell last week but did not. That set Russell on the path to dumping Coach, and thus when Danielle approached him to suggest that it might make sense to vote off Courtney before she breaks apart, splinters, and gets into everyone’s eyes, Russell became enraged. “I don’t want to f**king talk to you,” he said. But he changed his mind a little while later, though Danielle also changed her’s, too. What? Obviously, the editors left something out in order to deceive us.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/survivor_heroes_vs_villains/2010_Apr_09_coach_outAt Tribal Council, Jeff starts off with the Villains on their previous two boots, Tyson and Rob. He then throws Courtney under the bus by saying that she is obviously their weakest player. Courtney gets upset with Jeff and defends herself. She adds that she had nothing to do with booting off either Rob or Tyson. Coach thinks everyone is laughing at them right now. Courtney attacks Coach for his wanting to win the food reward more than immunity. Coach and she bicker over this. Parvati then acknowledges that it doesn’t matter, they would still be losing even with Tyson and Rob. She adds that The Merge is on everybody’s mind right now. Russell says his vote tonight will make the tribe more stronger and more trusting. Rrrrright! It’s time to vote. We see Courtney and Coach trade votes. Jeff gathers the ballots and starts counting them. It’s tied 3-3 when he reads the last vote. Coach is out, 4-3. Russell, Parvati and Sandra sent the Dragonslayer packing. Jerri and Danielle are now the new outsiders. Jeff tells Coach he will be the first Jury member. He then tells the rest that, “The problem with trust is you don’t know it’s gone till it’s too late.” LOL! SPOILERS: We are first shown a series of the dumbest moves in Survivor history. Then, we see JT plotting with the Heroes to give Russell their hidden immunity idol to protect him from the big, bad women Villains. Seriously, this is like “WHEEL OF FISH” stupid!!!
Read the entire article at: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978161356
When going through a mud pit obstacle immunity challenge the Heroes Tribe made it look so easy it was as if they were on a whole different plane of competition. Courtney sucked enough and hurt herself just a little adding in a wrinkle that made Danielle want her out of the game. So for those following all of this without a score card, at the end of the immunity challenge the tribes stood here:
* Heroes – 4 straight challenge wins and team immunity intact
* Russell Hantz wants coach gone because Coach tried to think and he wants to make the Heroes think there is an all-girl-alliance.
* Danielle wants Courtney gone
* Coach wants Russell gone but will vote out Courtney
* Sandra proves to be useless at everything but telling lies
* Parvati wants Coach to go home
*Jeri wants Russell to go home
* The villains tell each other so many lies they don’t even know what their alliance is
* Russell looks like an even more animated Hobbit on crack fighting with Danielle and pissing her off
* The villains without Boston Rob are a total messAs the villains got ready to go to tribal council nobody could seem to make up their mind who was to be voted for. Jeff Probst pointed out at tribal council that with Boston Rob who was dominating the challenges gone and someone like – oh say – Courtney who is basically useless unless you need someone to bitch and like bag of bones, that the tribe shot themselves in the foot and set themselves up to fail. He was correct in doing so because as they seemed to almost catch on they proved nothing more than they are collectively as dumb as a bag of hammers.
Read the entire article at:
http://www.helium.com/items/1798904-survivor-april-8-2010-what-happened-and-who-got-voted-off-survivor-week-8
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Life at Ponderosa: Coach Pt. 3 Coach feasts on raw fish and gets a ballistic workout in Ponderosa, Part 3 Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains - Life at Ponderosa: Coach Pt. 4 Coach hangs the Ponderosa flag and gets ready to go to his first Tribal Council as a jury member
Jeff Probst Blogs Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains
Sandra is really underestimated. Not only does she know when to avoid a fight, she also knows when to start a fight. Strategy is all about timing, and Sandra is very good at gauging the right time to stir up trouble. She did it back in the Pearl Islands and used it to get the heat off of her back, which allowed her to win the game. She did it again this episode...Brilliantly played... I loved it... because of her well-timed strategic maneuver, Sandra is still alive.
With this... Sandra again revealed Russell’s Achilles heel...he’s (not) “stupid” ... It’s his ego... Nobody has second thoughts about Russell Hantz. “I’m Russell Hantz!”
With Parvati, it’s his ego that is leading him to believe she really likes him. She doesn’t. Parvati doesn’t like anybody... We’ve watched her play this game three times now. She’s a ... a very good flirt. A million-dollar flirt. But she doesn’t like you, Russell.
When Parvati and Russell were talking about their plan, she said to Russell: “It’s all falling together perfectly…” Russell should have stopped and listened to his gut. His reply to Parvati — “You’ve done that before…” — tells you that he knew something wasn’t right, but he didn’t listen. The reason he didn’t listen? His ego. To admit to himself that Parvati might be playing him would mean he would have to admit that maybe Parvati wasn’t as “into him” as he wants to think she is... Russell’s ego is so powerful that it overrode his usually spot-on strategic sense and has left him very vulnerable. At this moment in the game, Russell is in trouble...
CASTAWAYS:
Castaways competing on SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. VILLAINS (in alphabetical order separated by tribes):
HEROES VILLAINS
RUPERT BONEHAM TYSON APOSTOL (6th voted out)
JAMES CLEMENT (7th voted out) RANDY BAILEY (3rd voted out)
COLBY DONALDSON DANIELLE DILORENZO
CIRIE FIELDS (4th voted out) RUSSELL HANTZ
AMANDA KIMMEL JERRI MANTHEY
JESSICA “Sugar” KIPER (1st voted out) ROBERT MARIANO (8th voted out)
STEPHENIE LAGROSSA (2nd voted out) PARVATI SHALLOW
JAMES “JT” THOMAS JR. SANDRA DIAZ-TWINE
TOM WESTMAN (5th voted out) BENJAMIN “Coach” WADE
CANDICE WOODCOCK COURTNEY YATES
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