More interesting stuff to digest, michel, appreciate all your diligent work.

One thing that needs to be corrected, however, is that Brandon is not Manson in any scenario, scary though he may be. Manson himself did not commit any of the murders of the Manson Family, he was convicted of conspiracy in the seven murders tried, which under California made him equally guilty of murder. He sent his minions out to commit copycat murders, he was the leader of the tribe. Brandon, hard-nosed bull that he is, is no Manson, he's one of the followers of Coach.

It does seem to be Coach's game at this point, though Sophie seems to be the one member of the family immune to the Kool-Aid. She was the one, way way back, who didn't like praying to find an HII she knew had already been found, she calls it like she sees it and is well-grounded. Just not very exciting or babe-alicious.

Albert's game really took a dive this time. He thinks of the game in terms of challenges, strategy, but when it comes to the social game it is all talk and playing nice. Interacting with others, pitching in, eludes him. He'd rather lounge around and then pull a childish act of ruining someone else's hard camplife work. Kind of a shame, I had nothing against Albert up till now, but "fortunate son" is not a smart Survivor game.

Dumping the water on the embers, messing up the laundry, to me it really seemed like a malicious intentional display of childishness. Because, as he previously said, Edna is a vote for Coach to win, so he thinks it is okay to upset her, he loses nothing in the process but displays his disrespect for her work and efforts in the game. Dummy.

Cochran ended the episode saying he felt insulted that Upolu weren't grateful to him. Um, yeah, let's get real. He didn't flip in order to help any of the Upolu in the game, he did it for himself. He flipped because he believed he was going to lose no matter what if he stuck with Savaii, flipping gave him a better chance because there were unknowns in Upolu. Didn't work out. He traded losing one way for losing another way, but other than the paycheck it doesn't actually matter when you lose, losing is losing, that's Survivor.

None of them owed him anything.