I'd love to see Sophie win tonight. Somehow I feel like either Ozzy or Coach ended up winning...

"Pick up my damn pieces, Albert!!!"

lol

Yayyy I was so sure Ozzy would get into the finals and win. But he didn't, and I'm glad because I don't especially care for him.

I think Sophie is a serious threat to win. Coach has burned several of these people and Sophie has more in her case than Albert.

Yeahhhhh Sophie. Werk. I think she totally deserved to win too, she played a fairly quiet but very effective game. And I'm glad the jury rewarded her despite the presence of two alpha males sitting next to her.

Other thoughts based on the reunion:

I guess it wouldn't be a season of this show without stupid Russell appearing on camera at some point. I actually ended this season feeling badly for Brandon...some of his issues clearly stem from his nutcase family.

I like that Whitney mentioned she was "in a relationship" before she started hooking up with Keith. Um...she was MARRIED. And then she called one of them (Albert, I think?) "sleazy" at the FTC, which is really rich.

I'm still really happy Sophie won.

Next season actually looks interesting. Both tribes have to live on the same camp? lol that's going to create so much petty drama

I'm liking the plan for next season. That way the players won't create their impenetrable team alliances that lead to a boring 2nd half, as they are actually living and talking with the players on the other team the entire game.

Definitely happy for Sophie's win. I was SHOCKED that Rick was voted off instead of her. I guess Coach recognized the need for her to help win against Ozzy in the next challenge.

Personally, as a fan of Coach from the beginning (more as a character than anything else), I'm disappointed he couldn't get two more votes to win. I even thought he sealed it when he admitted he lied his way to the end. Not many admit to lying in the jury, but he did, throwing away his "Honor, Integrity" BS. How two of his votes came from the two he most wronged (Rick, Cochran) is hilarious. No clue how he didn't get two more.

But glad for Sophie too. She was likable (no clue where this "brat" business came from) and she "slayed the dragon" in the end against Ozzy. She's not the greatest winner of all time, but I'll remember her. Can't say the same for about half of the previous 21 winners (especially Sandra and her impossible two wins).

I think we can all agree that Albert turned out to be one of the worst players in Survivor history. How can he honestly say he played better than Coach and Sophie? He wasn't a good strategist, he wasn't a good talker, he wasn't a good player. He sucked.

Also, I hope God is kept out of the game from here on out. He's not the secret 19th player. And leave out your lookup-chestbumpchestbump-pointupward move too. I'm fine with God. Believe in Him, don't. Whatever. But leave God out of Survivor.

His inability to answer a yes or no to Brandon was one of the highlights of the finale. I think Brandon literally had to ask it 12 times, and Albert thought there still was a chance he could talk his way out of it.

Though, to be fair to Albert, he did manage to do damage control with Brandon earlier this season with one random conversation/babble and make Brandon convince himself to give up immunity.

I don't think Albert is one of the worst players in Survivor history but the fact that he thought he played a better game than Sophie (and even Coach) was laughable.

It has become abundantly clear that Sophie was in total control of that Upolu alliance, even though Coach was perceived as the leader. I think one of the best things about Sophie's performance at the final tribal council was referring to Coach as her version of a "loyal young girl." I have been waiting for a confident woman to own her strategy and logically lay out the reasons she should win at one of these things for a while now, and Sophie didn't disappoint.

Don't get me wrong here, Albert isn't the worst ever. But he's one of the worst to make the finals. Simply because he had this delusional thought that he played the best game.

Also, now that I've slept on it, I have to say I'm really happy Sophie won. As Libs said, it's nice to see a strong, confident woman win this game. And to be fair, SHE BEAT OZZY IN THE FINAL IMMUNITY! That was a million dollar victory right there. That challenge was constructed for Ozzy to win.

Love him or hate him, I don't think you can deny this was Ozzy's to lose. The truth is this is the worst final three ever!!! Coach is just laughable and a sad little person. Everybody who voted for him is just as sad. Cockroach especially. Albert is even worse than coach. Spineless being. Brandon's "Yes or no?" was both hilarious and very sad at the same time. Then there's Sophie. She deserved to win this. Among the final three that is. And I expected her to pull 9-0-0 win. But.she's still among the worst winners ever. There's hardly anything anyone of them had to say as a reason why they should win. It was all a convoluted God, faith, honor mess of a final tribal. Though Sophie bagged her win with her little girl comment about Coach and Albert. Both men got slapped to the floor with that one IMHO.

Next season pls!!!

I don't agree either. Ozzy's physical prowess should not be the sole determinant in winning the game. He obviously would have won if he made the finals...but he didn't...by losing a challenge. Also, he was on Redemption Island (two separate occasions, I might add) and didn't have to deal with the dynamics of the game in the same way that the remaining players did. Sophie (and Coach and Albert, I guess) had a much harder challenge in that they had to manage the jury members, Ozzy appeared "golden" because he had little hand in voting any of them out by the design of the game.

I don't think Sophie is one of the top 5 winners but she is nowhere near being one of the worst. I also hate to say it, but I think she would be looked more favorably at by the general audience if she were a man. Like I said before, ultra-confident, strong women don't usually win Survivor by laying out reasons they should win without apologizing or appearing as a coattail rider, and Sophie did this time, which I think throws some people off.

LOL. The remaining three didn't have to deal with much dynamics in the game either. Since the merge it was a smooth sail pretty much. Their tribe kept strong and they shunned the other six. That doesn't include much dynamics I think. Once it was down to them it was easy to see that Edna and Rick were as good as gone. And then it was between Coach, Sophie, Brandon and Albert. They went with voting off Brandon and it was between Brandon and Albert anyway. The only one that could've possibly messed up the plan was Ozzy. He didn't succeed. Such a boring, predictable and lame season.

Sophie's win throws me as much as would Coach's or Albert's. The win went to the wrong tribe I think. I'd rather see Dawn winning than Sophie. Much stronger woman and a much better player.

How was Dawn a better player? I liked her quite a bit from a personal standpoint, but it's not like she made any big moves or really did anything to further herself in the game. Sophie won by playing a classic game of Survivor: she developed a strong alliance, cemented herself as one of the power players in that alliance itself, and then picked off the other tribe.

That might be "boring" to you as a viewer, but it's one of the most effective ways to play the game.

Dawn didn't get a chance to do big moves. None of the members of the other tribe had the chance. But she was really fierce in challenges and I think that if the other tribe wasn't as faith/honor cemented (lol what a bullcrap that turned out to be) she would be great.

Dawn could've been on Survivor all 39 days and never would've made a big move. At least not on her own.

Looking over previous winners (and needing some re-education on who many of them are), I can say Sophie is in the top half of winners.

On an unrelated note to South Pacific, I can't believe Sandra won Survivor twice. Like... what?

Hey now, don't be knocking Sandra. She's the shit

Maybe...

Keep in mind, I was in my "Russell's the shit" phase at the time she won Heroes vs. Villains. After seeing him berate his own nephew on national television Sunday, I'm totally over him.

The sad part is, the Brandon vs. Russell thing Jeff joked about... I can see that happening. Eek.

So, next season's One World has already been filmed and there are no returning players, nor will Redemption Island return. Of course, next season is no. 24, which can only mean that the 25th season will feature returning players again.

Hopefully the recently-released-from-prison Richard Hatch will finally make his Survivor return. Hopefully not against Russell.