Survivor 37: Super-Fan?!?

Survivor in Paradise

If someone doesn’t seem self-aware, how can you teach them self-awareness?? The edit is sneaky here: they were trying to make Jeremy seem “hyper-frenetic,” like he was doing so much – when really his only alliance was with odd-fedora Mike.

The term “super-fan” has been diluted, beyond all worth. Nope, Wendell was cast from another mold! After Natalie gave him such a frosty reception, he should have avoided her napalm, for all the marbles!

Poor Jeremy. He was high-to-middle tier on my list. A fatal error too many, cost him the game.

Survivor Rankings, post-Episode 3:

  1.  Ultimate Sole Survivor: Christian
    a. The Know-It-All – younger male, snarky, super-fan, embodies the type, nervous
  2. Alison
    a. Erin Brockovich – everyday kind of woman, ‘normal’ job, doesn’t play hard
  3. Dan
    a. Seduce and Destroy – most diverse type (could be smart, mean or naive); salesman

    1. Found an Idol: 2 Points
  4. Cowboy Carl
    a. True Grit – older athletic or military male; tough guy, you see what you get
  5. Jeremy Crawford
    a. Social Butterfly – vivacious, bonds with both genders, outgoing, social, savvy

    1. Got Voted Out: – 5 Points
    2. Found an Idol: 2 Points
  6. Angelina
    a. Meredith Grey – young, professional, intense; overthinks, gets a blind-slide
  7. Alec
    a. Surfer Dude – easy-going, calls everyone ‘bro,’ keeps their closest allies; Tyson, Aras
  8. Natalie
    a. The Wise Older Woman – can see through all of your nonsense; no hugs
  9. Elizabeth Olsen
    a. Mommy Dearest – older woman who has kids; Tina
  10. Natalia
    a. The Oh-No You Didn’t – will go offSurvivor, yes
  11. “Davie”
    a. Ponyboy (“The Outsiders”) – young male outside of the mainstream, sensitive

    1. Found an Idol: 2 Points
  12. Pat
    a. The Heisenberg
    MEDEVAC: -3 Points
  13. Nick Wilson
    a. The Good Ole Boy
  14. The Mayor of Slamtown
    a. The (Pseudo) Specialist – middle-aged guy who loves himself and the old days
  15. Mike White
    a. Mr. Miyagi – older male player, wise, dad of the tribe, reliable season narrator
  16. Kara Kay
    a. The Siren – flirtation and charm are their game, seen as a threat
  17. Gabby
    a. Chelsea Handler – witty, cute, anxious, neurotic; nerd bait, ‘manic pixie girl’
  18. Lyrsa (purple hair)
    a. Lady Gaga – female not like the others, New-Agey (Kaitlyn, Rockstar), flaky, flip
  19. Jessica
    a. Little Red Riding Hood
    First Voted Out of the Season: -15 Points

    1. Got Voted Out: – 5 Points
  20. First-One Out: Bi
    b. GI Jane – super athletic female challenge beast, struggles socially

Rupert is back again

 

BB: Dairy Queen, Dancing Queen

Angela, the Dairy Queen

Angela was probably tired of Tyler’s nonsense. She wanted OUT. Their relationship seemed like it could have taken place in seventh grade – not between two adults. Puppy love. I’m with Rob on this one: #Tangela is as dull as Velveeta cheese. Unctuous. Corny. Kitsch.

Love is not perfect. A compelling love, like a compelling hero or anti-hero, is flawed. We knew Faleigh would never last, but fans enjoyed watching them snipe and bicker, like a cantankerous old couple. For Tangela, everything is easy – and easy is boring. If Tangela didn’t feel like they had to keep their relationship a secret, the audience would have soured on them, a long time ago.

Angela was just exhausted. She was tired of ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’ with Tyler, as the ideal couple. Angela got all the bad results of being a compelling villain and none of the superior results, like her mate, the smaller spider, Tyler. She got blamed for everything, by the jury, but Angela didn’t capitalize on her bloodthirsty reputation, to actually win the game.

Taran, the robot’s, heart melted, by the end of the game. My frozen heart never saw the first rays of spring. This TV love didn’t tickle my heart strings. It was moronic. I was worried Tyler would lose his edge, but Angela basically became a housewife and took the fall, for her man. She was left sitting on the asphalt, outside the BB house, wondering what the heck happened to her. Angela got sideswiped by Tyler’s Maserati, burning his way down the speedway, toward the Final Two. Watch out for road rash.

Sam, the maid, can’t imagine a life without cooking and cleaning for the BB HGs. Angela relied on her alliance to the end. She had no contingency plans, she had no support Final Twos. Tyler, meanwhile, had a Final Two, with everyone and his or her mom. If Angela hadn’t listened to conniving Tyler and cut her original Ride-or-Die, Rachel, she might have had a paddle, in hell. But instead, after Kaycee and Tyler cut her, following JC’s earth-shattering W, Angela was left sailing down the Styx, into the abyss (I love mythology).

What happened to her, man? What’s wrong with Angela? – as Rachel would say. What happened to Angela’s warrior spirit? Why did she throw her killer instinct out the window? Amazonia?!?!

Kaitlyn was the best thing in this season

@kaitcoaching was the real winner of #BB20.

It’s too bad that we can’t have a full LGBT Final Two. Both of these two are, sadly, still stuck on Tyler. Gay female Kaycee thinks Tyler is her straight or bisexual male bro. JC is still lost in this tragic gay person crushing on an uninterested straight or bisexual, same-sex person story arc. It’s not good.

Tyler cannot take Kaycee, if he wants to win. But JC could also beat him too, if Tyler decided to take him. Foutte is blaming itself, in the jury house but it won’t be too long before they turn their guns outside of the circle and start firing at Tyler. Rockstar, Bay and Co. would definitely vote for any LGBT person, over Tyler, at this point – even JC.

JC just couldn’t win that second competition. He’s going out, in third place. He played a good social game, manipulated everyone but Tyler, Angela and Kaycee and orchestrated many significant votes, including Kaitlyn’s downfall – but in the end you need to win comps, to enact your will. A “rat, floater game” – as Taran puts it – can only take you so far.

very likely to happen

JC could only win one comp, so he had to rely on various hosts – Fessy, Brett, Tyler and even, at one point, Kaycee. Fessy and Brett bit the bullet, for JC, but both Tyler and Kaycee successfully resisted JC’s parasitic influence. Tyler picked Level 6, his showmance with Angela and finally, his Final Two with Kaycee, over JC.

JC’s problem was that he thought Tyler would put him first – over the aforementioned Level 6, Angela and Kaycee. JC would have won the game, if he hadn’t underestimated the extent of Tyler’s duplicity. ‘Never commit to anyone;’ never believe in anyone, without question. Or as Reagan would say, “Trust but verify.” JC got left in the Broken Hearts Club.

Foutte wins in the end

Then there’s freedom of choice, or at least, the allusion of choice. Some people can, for the most part, make the right decisions – but the spice of life is all of the people who can’t or won’t make the right decisions. I’ve said it before: in the elements, in Survivor, people’s true selves come out, real quick. Bring back Have-Nots, with a vengeance. Put HGs on slop. Get more people to show their HOH-itis – and you’ll see people’s real selves jump out. Four words: Lord of the Flies.