At the risk of being bullied AGAIN (yes, BULLIED because that is exactly what some posters here have done to ME), I’m going to lay out the Ozzy edit that everyone is insisting be ignored so that I have a record of it here.

I don’t know any “winner” spoiler or even if Ozzy makes it back in from RI a 2nd time, but it is ludicrous the way people are ignoring/diminishing the positive edit he’s getting since episode 6.

I’m not posting or reading here much anymore because I'm over being taunted about my alleged "Ozzy fandom." Let me make this clear: I’m not some ridiculous Ozzy “superfan.” Yes, I like Ozzy, but I hadn’t even thought about him until this season started, and I'm certainly not blind to his faults -- his edit the first 5 & ½ episodes was terrible (arrogant, lazy), but like the butterfly they kept showing for Savaii, he came out of his little self-involved cocoon & has emerged as a self-less, loyal, honorable player.

This was a season that was promoted as "up and down" & Ozzy & Coach have been being contrasted against each other the entire time and Ozzy & John have been contrasted the entire time as well. First half, Coach & John's edits were up, now their edits are going down; first half, Ozzy's edit was down, now it is going up. One of the key quotes this season, according to many here, is “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.” That only applies to Coach & John & doesn’t apply to Ozzy, why? His actions these last 2 weeks are a radical departure from the Ozzy of old – self-less, self-sacrificing -- again, like the butterfly, he is not even recognizable from his previous state. And who has proved they haven’t changed at all? Coach & John. Although Ozzy didn’t start that way, Ozzy is now playing the game Coach pretends to be playing: honest, loyal, a leader & unafraid to meet his opponents head on. And he is playing the game that John is "physically & emotionally incapable" of playing -- that is, playing to win instead of playing merely not to lose.

Further, the biggest fallacy of this season is that Coach started off badly just because his tribe left him initially at the challenge while Ozzy’s pretended to embrace him. Coach was part of the Upolu 5 before the end of the first day. Ozzy was the one who was on the outs – his tribe was working to weaken him from day 1 to ensure he had no allies come merge so they could oust him at their first safe opportunity. John was never 6th on Savaii once merge came (the other big fallacy of this season); Ozzy was. Keith’s day after video confirms that.

Also, to paraphrase Ozzy, there’s another part of this game everyone seems to be forgetting called “redemption.” CBS ran repeated promos of Ozzy saying "I need redemption" before the season started. Survivor has been touting this RI twist as a way a “threat” player who is booted can come back in & win. That didn’t happen last year because the twist was new & no one really factored it into their strategy. This year Ozzy did factor it into his game play – there is even an EW clip of him (I posted it in some thread) at the start of the game talking about using RI as a way to win (connect with people going to jury 1 on 1 there before sending them packing then getting back in & winning his way to F3 where’d he’d have all their votes – his “master plan”). And before anyone says “that interview was before the game started,” well, duh. But Survivor & EW selected what clips they were going to post after the game was over. If Ozzy comes back from RI & wins, Survivor can say “look, the great RI twist worked” and they can retire the stupid thing. If the RI twist didn’t work (again), I’d doubt there would have been such heavy promotion of it this season, coupled with all the promos reminding everyone that Ozzy is the “winningest player ever.”

Further unlike the edit Matt got on RI, who was shown hating it there & "at peace ready to accept God's will if he stayed or not" Ozzy is thriving on RI – just like he said, he doesn't have to worry about being back stabbed, he's fishing (and btw, that reef diving is extremely difficult, definitely not "middle age Ozzy”) & gets scores of coconuts at one time. Meanwhile, over at Te Tuna, just as Ozzy said, they are hungry (Rick has no fish in the net & John is sitting on his butt wishing for coconuts like they are going to fall from the sky) and Coach is worried about who he can trust.

Plus, that aerial shot of Ozzy on the palm tree was INSANE! Know who else got aerial shots like that? Yul, Earl Cole & Bob the Builder (all winners). Not to mention the shot of him with the rainbow saying “You never know what can happen in this game, but I’ll never stop fighting as long as I’m alive.” Yeah, that’s ALL nothing. Nothing to see here.

And, btw, now that Ozzy is on RI, he’s gone from the animal association of a butterfly to the magical sea turtle – symbol of good luck & prosperity in Polynesia. Know the last Survivor associated with the sea turtle? Natalie White (winner).

Ozzy says he is coming back from RI (with confidence, not cockiness, because he has proven he can back up his words) & why shouldn’t he be right about this when’s he’s been right about everything else this season? Ozzy has been trying to “coach” (yes, pun intended) Savaii on how to win this entire time – to all of Savaii at first 3 boots: we need to get out the weakest challenge link (John) to keep the tribe strong for merge (and we know he was right about that one); to Dawn day 1 "whatever negative thing in your head that is holding you back, you have to get it out and say you can stay in this game;" after the Savaii comeback tribal IC win with the wheelbarrow "see, even when it looks like you are losing, if you stay calm, you can win" and to John when it looked like he was going to RI to duel Christine "you just have to go in there with confidence & psyche her out by saying you are winning this thing." They all refused to listen to him and now he is giving a perfect demonstration of his words of advice. Unlike Coach (and John) who can talk the talk, Ozzy is showing he can walk the walk.

And I’d like to also note, in the VERY next episode after everyone was so eager to jump on the “John was bullied” bandwagon (taking the word of someone who was a known liar & 2 people we’ve actually seen being bullies this season about it – i.e., Coach & Brandon) when Ozzy asked John straight out "What did I ever do to you?" John answered "You wanted to vote me out because I was weak," did ANYONE acknowledge that John just admitted that he wasn't bullied? *crickets* People are sticking with their blind fandom of John, despite his OTT “joke” edit -- his dressing up as a caricature of the Dragon Slayer & prancing around like a court jester – his own description of himself – while the arrogant “king” (Coach) looks on with amusement & approval, should have been the final nail in the “John wins” argument.

I don’t know that Ozzy can overcome the odds & get into F3, but I do know based on their obvious edits – especially as contrasted with the true transformational “hero” edit Ozzy is now getting -- that neither Coach nor John is winning this thing and I’m already preparing my “Told you so song” about it. Preview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4sB7O97ro