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amber is a lot smarter than people give her credit for. she played the social game crazy in all stars, and openly admits to flirting with rob as a strategy for the first part of the game, and so does he
(and then they kind of called that quits near the merge when they were like . shit im in love with u . and kind of just kept it at "I really think you're the only trustworthy person in this game and I'd literally cry if I blindsided you bc u keep me sane." POINT IS, they were honest to each other for literally 99% of the game except for like the first week when they were strictly alliance from attraction)
she recognized that he was the best player to be aligned with to get to the merge, and literally took part in a huge part of decisions they both made. she was put here giving him a lot of strategic ideas in his ear, and no one even noticed until around the final seven or final eight
do I think she would get another win? no. her win in season eight was largely due to her social game over rob's. she made sure people liked her even if they wanted her out, and rob focused majorly on strategy. a good half of the jury didn't think she deserved it because they didn't realize she wasnt just leaning on rob for survival. her social game is what got her that win, and more recent games are way more focused on strategy than actual social connections with all of these additions and game changes (like eoe, rare clues for idols, etc)
amber deserved her win, but plays very differently than the players in the fifteen most recent seasons, where so much as a relationship or act of kindness on the first day would get you booted quick. survivor is essentially a whole new game now, and her way of playing is far more adjusted to the older seasons
i love her sm and her slander by fans is completely bogus
I like wendy, i really do, but i don't think she's really suited for the type of game survivor's become in the past five years AT ALL. the chicken thing was so unnecessary, and her caring more about that than the game OUT OF NOWHERE was so weird.
I understand her suddenly not feeling comfortable eating the chickens now that she'd be there to watch them be cooked, even if she ate them before coming to the island. but refusing to let her STARVING teammates eat them, and setting them free in the middle of the night, when she was already on the outs, was one of the worst survivor decisions ive seen.
i don't blame her for her ankle, because she didnt use it as an excuse to get out of challenges or let it hold her back, but when you have a setback in challenges added to already being on the outs socially on the tribe-- the last thing you want to do is let people know who exactly you want off, let them know everything about your old tribe which will come back to bite you in the ass if you stay in long enough, not communicate with your tribe, and you most definitely don't want to RELEASE CHICKENS AND NOT LET YOUR STARVING TEAMMATES EAT THEM
More on me thinking about the mechs on survivor
I feel like Ashes would win. They’d easily be the next Boston Rob
Jonny would kill at those endurance challenges and just like... absolutely roast the people he’s competing again. (Think Christian from David vs Goliath in that one challenge but like... more mean)
Brian would be the nice one who everyone loves but they eventually vote off because they are too likeable
I feel like people are taking this season of survivor way more seriously than they need to be-
Like chill tf out. Who cares if Jeff says guys? No one would have noticed if they didn’t mention it.