So long....

....Brenda. Everyone knows that I love Survivor, but there is usually one moment in most of the seasons I watch where there is one person that absolutely does not deserve to go home and in the case this season, it's Brenda. I guess letting the other 4 members spend the day with their families and BBQ wasn't enough to save her. It was brutal and just disgusting how Dawn of all people would throw Brenda under the bus like that. Yes, I get what the objective of the game is....to outwit, outlast and outplay everyone. There is no room for any kind of sentimentality in Survivor because it will get you voted off in a heartbeat. Just look at Brenda. With that said, there is something about Dawn stabbing Brenda in the back that just does not sit well with me and I hope she is the next one to go home. I expected Cochran to vote Brenda off, but he kind of gets a passed because he wasn't a friend to her like Dawn was.

I really hope that Brenda wins the Fan Vote, which would net her a cool $100K. But in all likelihood it will be Malcolm.

And the Winner is....

....Cochran. Yay! It was a no-brainer going into the Vote who would win. As soon as he won the Immunity Challenge, it was all over. The editiors of the show tried their best to make it seem like either Eddie or Dawn had what it took to take the crown. But anyone that's watched the entire season would know this to be false. There just wasn't any other outcome to what we eventually got. Eddie did nothing other than voting off Phillip, and even that wasn't his moment. It was Malcolm's for having and playing the other Hidden Immunity Idol. Dawn was just too damn annoying that no one would want to reward her for that, and it has nothing to do with her ultimate betrayal of Brenda either. Sherri. Um? Huh? Ummmmm? Exactly. The most least-deserving player to make it to a Final 3. She ranks right up there with that one 'Boyscout-uniform-wearing' player from years ago.

So, it was easy to vote Cochran. He played the gamely brilliantly , won a handful of challenges that he shouldn't have and didn't p*ss anyone off too much at all. There was no shock that he swept the vote. As for Tribal Council, this one was OWNED by Brenda and she pulled off a major challenge to Dawn. In a nutshell, Brenda was able to get Dawn to remove her false teeth on national TV to more or less humiliate her and I think it worked. Even when Brenda was explaining to her how deep their "connection" was on the Island, Dawn was placating her with fake agreement. Even then I saw no remorse for what she did and removing her teeth was a last ditch effort to win a game she knew she wouldn't win. Anyway, congrats to Cochran. Can't wait to see what the Reunion Show brings.....

One last thing. Bummer about Erik. To get that close to the end and get pulled from the game. Man, that's gotta sting. Not sure he would have had a chance at winning either and given the fact that he couldn't stand and was having dizzy spells, he would have been a non-issue in the challenge and wouldn't have won that either.

In spite the fiasco that is the Reunion show, it doesn't take away from the fact that Season 26 was one of the most memorable with the amount of blindsides that came week after week. A lot of huge, pivotal moments to add to the legacy of the show and ones that will be talked about for a long time.

yeah  I wouldn't do that in a million years.

I'd have gotten vertigo and fallen right off that thing