Survivor Caramoan - Fans vs Favorites: Finale

Walking away from Tribal Council, Erik is feeling like he's spinning. No bueno.
Jeff makes an unexpected appearance, which is generally bad news.
Erik's pulse is slow, his blood pressure is low, and they put an intravenous line in his arm.
The medic will not allow Erik to continue in his present condition, and they pull him from the game.

Farewell Erik.
Jeff tells the remaining group that they now each have a 1 in 4 shot.
Dawn looks sad.
Cochran looks smug.
Fuck you, Cochran.

Cochran thinks he needs to get in tight with Eddie now.
Eddie suggests he, Cochran, and Sherri should go to the end.

I've realized I'm semi-rooting for Eddie at this point.
That probably means he's the next one out.

Final Reward Challenge
They hold up a seesaw platform thing while building a wood block house of cards up to a certain marker.
The lead changes numerous times as people's house of cards come crashing down. Cochran wins after many retries by everyone.
His reward is an advantage in the coming Immunity Challenge.

"I am the challenge beast." Cochran says.
You're going to have to throw all your hats away when you get home because your head will have gotten way too big for them.

"I'm locked. Locked to you." Dawn keeps saying to Cochran, looking for reassurance.
He's not locked to you, crazy.

Cochran is paranoid too, and says "There's no scenario in which I'm voting you off. It's the same way for you, right?"
You better not vote her off now.
As long as you didn't straight up say that, you'd be less scum should that be your decision.
But he says to the camera, "She should be paranoid because I'm considering ditching her."
You're both lying assholes.

Walk of remembering fallen tribe members time. Let's all say nice things about people we didn't really like and/or barely remember.

Final Immunity Challenge time
The challenge is to run up stairs, untie a bag of puzzle pieces, slide down a slide, repeat for two additional bags of puzzle pieces, untie and dump out bags, and build a puzzle that looks like a flame.
Cochran's advantage he won is that there are no knots to untie to retrieve his bags.
Ooh, that's serious time savings.
Cochran falls down some stairs but doesn't seem too affected.
There are some brutal tumbles at the bottom of that slide for all involved.
Come on Eddie!
All the people have their puzzle pieces before Cochran gets his first puzzle piece in. His advantage has evaporated.
Dawn starts making headway, but Cochran catches up. Sherri is surprisingly not terrible with the puzzle, and Eddie has taken up the role of Sherri. You know...terrible at stuff.
Cochran pulls ahead and secures the win.

Dawn hugs and cries and whatever, so happy he won.
You shouldn't be.
You're fucked.
He's in the final.
Dawn, listen to me, you're fucked.

God...Dawn starts crying again when they're back at camp.
Cochran keeps assuring her that he's locked.
Dawn says a part of her doesn't feel she deserves it.
You're right.
You don't.
Think about Brenda, you fucking dick.

Tribal Council
Glad to see Erik is okay and at Tribal Council.
Eddie makes a good case that Dawn has a good chance to win and simultaneously puts his own self down in a humorous manner.
The votes go:
Dawn
Eddie
Eddie
Eddie

Sorry Eddie. I screwed you over by rooting for you. It is my curse.

Cochran kept his word, I guess.
That makes you slightly less scum than Dawn.

The final three gets some food and bask in the fact that they've reached this point.
Dawn thinks it's a storybook ending.
Storybook? Really? What is this storybook? "How to Succeed as a Skeevy Asshole"?

At the final Tribal Council...
Sherri's opening statements are like...I don't even have words to describe them... What are you even saying?
She starts breaking down and word vomiting that she's so nervous.
No one knows what she's talking about. Quiet down. No one takes you seriously anyway.

Cochran's knowledge and love of Survivor show through in his opening arguments. Pretty good overall.

Dawn talked. I don't really care what she said. Moving on.

Malcolm:
Malcolm doesn't have a question for Dawn but tells her that she can't be "warm mother of 6 who stabs people in the back". She did terrible things and has to own it in order to get his vote.

He asks Cochran "What do you have that I don't have?", and Cochran's answer is insecurity.

Eddie:
Eddie asks Sherri if she thinks she got carried to the Final 3.
Her reply is "No".
Everyone laughs.
Yep. You a joke. Everybody knows it but you.

Regarding Dawn, he calls her weak and paranoid. Accurate.
Dawn says that it was her strategy to vote each person out "regardless of how I feel or what they've done for me."
Fuck you.

Phillip:
He informs Sherri she is no longer a member of Stealth-R-Us. Everyone laughs.

He then mocks Dawn for freaking out about people going to vote for her each and every day and says she was very disruptive. Accurate.

Cochran gets off easy. He simply tells Cochran he enjoyed playing the game with him.

Erik:
Erik expresses to Dawn that he thought they had something but says "after the vote with Brenda, what we had, you crushed it, it wasn't genuine."
How are you feeling about your betrayal now? Everybody pretty much hates yo face.

He moves onto Sherri and states that nobody's asking about her strategy, and he wants to know if she knows why.
She gets all pissy. Says "I don't need your help." and "You can sit down."
Fuck you, Sherri. Before I just thought you were worthless. Now I think I'll add clueless and kind of a bitch to that list.

Michael:
Dawn totally owns the villain role when answering Michael's question. She states that Cochran didn't have as much blood on his hands.
She boasts that she had the relationships to get the information necessary to make the strategic decisions, and with Cochran, there would be times, "he just had to show up and say 'How should I vote?'"

Cochran disputes her words, and says "If I hadn't been your therapist, I don't think you'd still be in this game." Probably accurate.

Reynold:
Reynold comes straight out and tells Dawn that he doesn't like her and that she's not genuine. Ah Boosh.
His question to her is what she actually thinks about him. He requests she give three adjectives.
She goes with: chauvinistic, great sense of humor, and vulgar.

Andrea:
Andrea was a bit of a shocker. She said that she's not bitter. "I have no mean words."
She gives them props for blindsiding her with an idol in her bag. "It was awesome." she says.

She asks Cochran what animal best represented the way he played Survivor. His answer is chameleon. Good choice.

Surprisingly, she addresses Dawn, telling her that she's proud of her. I still think you're a scumbag, Dawn, but that is neither here nor there.

Brenda:
Brenda is still probably the most hurt, as well she should be. She says that with the family visit that she gave them something, and then they turned around and took something from her.
Cochran tries to explain how he's separated the game from emotion. He felt that was an emotional gift that he's thankful for, but what it came down to was that he took out his biggest strategic threat.

Onto Dawn...
"Getting voted out by you, Dawn, is where the the pain came."
She brings up the retainer incident, where Dawn said she would have pulled herself from the game if she didn't get her retainer back.
Brenda asks if she really would have given up.
"No." Dawn says.
"Prove it to me." Brenda responds and tells her she wants her to take out her teeth.
Dawn is immediately resistant and puts up a fight.
Brenda says that "if it's not that big a deal, prove it to me."
Dawn continues to refuse, as Brenda keeps saying "Let's do it."
She finally submits and removes her retainer, revealing her bottom four teeth or so are missing.
That's a big ol hole.

Thus concludes the Question and Answer portion of Tribal Council. Voting time ensues, and Jeff scurries off with the votes that will be read weeks and weeks later.

Reunion time!
The votes are in. Cochran after Cochran after Cochran are pulled out of the jar. It's a landslide. No one else even got a smell.
Of the three that remained, this was the best that I could have hoped for.
But know this, I would have been much happier should Malcolm, Andrea, or Brenda won. Just sayin...