Well, that was one sad episode of Survivor last night. Ben Wade, aka Coach, aka Dragonslayer managed to go from delusional and downright weird to sad and pathetic.The food auction is always an amusing Survivor episode. Her tribemates, giving Taj money so she could win the bid to get a message from a loved one, was nice. I like Taj.
Taj then agreeing to go to Exile Island to meet her husband, ex-footballer, Eddie George, so the others could meet their Loved Ones back at camp, that was nice.
The tribe heads back to camp while Taj heads towards her husband. At camp we meet the Loved Ones. Each of the Loved Ones was an actually Loved One, but one.
Stephan's brother, J.T.'s little sister, Debbie's husband, Errin's dad, Taj's husband.
And then we had the Dragonslayer. His Loved One was his Assistant Coach. We didn't see much of the guy on the show. I didn't realize he had an Aussie accent til I saw the YouTube video below.
A really weird moment, among many, was the Coach, who over and over again claims he never lies, lied when telling his Loved One, his Assistant Coach, that his tribemates had nicknamed him the Dragonslayer! And then, in the YouTube video, Coach's Loved One spews all the same delusional nonsense about Coach that Coach constantly repeats himself.
One of the delusions Coach told his Loved One was that he was in charge of the game. Which makes it so amusing to watch Coach handle seeing his "ally" Debbie get voted out of the tribe, while, unbeknownst to the man in control of the dragonslaying, his "ally" had been the only one to vote to oust him!
We saw no interaction between Coach and his Loved One like we saw with the other actual Loved Ones. Instead Coach and his Loved One rough-housed, with Coach's Loved One helping Coach stretch into weird positions while Coach laid on the ground.
In the Internet TV forums, today, the consensus seems to be that Coach has now gone from being the biggest douchebag in reality tv history, to being a pathetic object of pity, a sad, sad man. With, apparently, no Loved Ones.
More than one poster speculated that when the Loved Ones episode came up, with Coach still in the game, the producers were faced with a dilemma. No Loved One for the guy? How embarrassing. What to do? One poster speculated that it went as follows....
Mark Burnett to the Boom-Mike guy: "Listen man, no one showed up. We don't want to public feeling bad for this guy, do we? Can you just pretend to be his friend?"
Boom-Mike Guy: "Hell no! He's a douche and people will think I KNOW HIM! I am out here in this thousand degree heat holding this stupid pole and now you want me to........"
Burnett cuts him off: "Do you want your job?"
Boom-Mike Guy: "Not that bad!"
Burnett pleading: "I'll give you $10,000 to do this.
Boom-Mike Guy: "OK"
The fact that the Coach's Loved One had an Aussie accent and most Survivor production people are, like Mark Burnett, Australians, makes this a plausible scenario to me.
Watch the weird video of the Dragonslayer's Loved One talking about his Loved One below....
1 comment:
I love your hypothesis that Coach's "loved one" is an aussie staff member, but that's not an Aussie accent. I'd say it's Welsh, but that doesn't mean he wasn't paid to say he likes couch :)
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