ultravioletluvv said:
Amanda made a critical mistake in not getting him out.
No, no, no! I don't see it that way it all. It seemed to me that she DID make a real effort to get Todd out, but when she realized that Denise was not going to take the bait, and that she wouldn't be able to get rid of Todd on just her and Pei Gei's votes she went ahead and voted Pei Gei out rather than risk pissing off her alliance and moving herself automatically to the bottom of the group of four. Smart play, if you ask me. I don't think there would have been anything particularly "courageous" about casting a vote against Todd when she didn't have the numbers to get him out (and you KNOW Jeff would have read her vote in order to heighten tension).
ultravioletluvv said:
Maybe Denise fucked it up for her and she was too scared to ask Courtney.
That's exactly it. She knew that there was no point in talking to Courtney. Courtney is tight with Todd and appears uninterested in big game-changing strategy stuff. I think Amanda knew that if she talked to Courtney her scheming would get back to Todd and she needs to keep someone as sharp as Todd as unsuspecting as she possibly can.
ultravioletluvv said:
But she needed to do something to show that she was playing the game. To the jury, Todd is the only one who seems to be playing.
I agree that if Todd makes it to the final three he will win against any of the remaing players, even Amanda (though I'd much rather she win). It's not Amanda's fault that the people left are too doltish to see what a threat he is. However, Courtney and Denise have both been such coattail riders that I can't see either one of them earning any respect from the jury, so I think Amanda could beat them.
ultravioletluvv said:
And i'm just curious why anybody wants Denise to win? What has she done that is so worthy of the win? Do you just like her as a person? Like her mullet? Like that she's a lunch lady? What is is about her that you like? I think she's a stupid player, who only made it this far because she got in the right alliance.
Absolutely! I can't think of a player I've respected less in quite awhile. I have no problem with players refusing to go along with plans that will help someone else along in the game but to refuse to go along with plans that will help YOURSELF? Unimpressive to say the least. I like her well enough. . .she seems like a nice enough, if not particularly bright person, but she's terrible at this game.
To be frank I'm not really excited about anyone in the final four beyond Amanda. Courtney and Todd are just really, really unpleasant people--they should be on Big Brother or something. And it will bother me if Todd wins because it's people like him that feed into the righteous condemnations of the Survivor-haters that insist that the show soley rewards "snake and rat"-like behavior (though the truth is that only Richard Hatch, Brian from Survivor Thailand and Chris? the winner of Survivor Vanuatu fit that profile in my opinion. The vast majority of the winners I think have at least come across as really decent people--think Tom, Yul, Earl, Tina, Dani, Ethan, Sandra, Vecepia etc).