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Well, any of your faves that were cut will -certainly- not make it back now.

Cut - Jenna Morasca

348. Jenna Morasca - Season 6 - Amazon

The only person on that list that I do absolutely adore is Jenna so I'm cutting her before someone saves her. Jenna is a very weird character for me to write about because there are some parts of her that I love and other parts of her that I dislike so I'm left with a very conflicted opinion of her. Let's start with the positives.

Jenna began the game on the cliquey Jaburu tribe where her, Deena and Heidi ran the show. Now, while I definitely prefer the other two women, that's not to say Jenna didn't play her part in that iconic threesome. While Heidi/Deena were busy forcing Shawna to stay in the game and whatever other fun things they felt like doing, Jenna's spark definitely came a lot more from the "I'm hot, get over it," quotes. Her (and Heidi's) ability to boil down any adversity she faced in the game to others being jealous of her looks is equally commendable and hilarious. Her premiere was also super fun while calling out the men on their cockiness. Also, we love a strategic queen when she suggested that Heidi flash the men her boobs to distract them xD.

Come the swap, Jenna and Dave went to some resort where Jenna obliviously rattled off everything about her tribe, most notably, who her closest allies were. Unfortunately for her, Dave used this info against her to ensure that Heidi was on the opposite tribe from her. Thankfully, Jenna wasn't really in danger on NuJaburu, and despite having to turn on Shawna, she made it through to the merge where she would rejoin her close allies Deena and Heidi to take down the men.

At the Final 8 is when Jenna really starts becoming more entertaining for me again. Deena's started to get a little too cocky and wants to make a move against Alex. Since Jenna had no interest in turning on her alliance, in one quick "SCREW YOU, YOU FAT PIG!" swoop, she ratted her out and everyone turned on her except for Christy (poor Christy ;-;). And if you thought that was the end of her ratting out days, you'd be wrong because later at the Final 6, she does the same to Rob, which causes a hilarious fight in front of whole tribe. Daily reminder that the Final 6 episode of the Amazon is amazing <3333. Another Jenna moment I love is when she randomly gives up her immunity to Heidi, saying nothing but "this is for strategy." Justrategic is quaking.

Unfortunately, the Final 5 is when Jenna's character turns south for me. After Butch burns the whole shelter down, Jenna ends up losing her jumper(?) or something-or-rather that was very important to her. And at this point, she pretty much says that she is done with the game and is ready to quit. While I do sympathise with her situation, quitting wouldn't have done anything to get her belongings back so I don't really give her a pass for that. And don't get me wrong, someone wanting to quit doesn't necessarily make them a character worse for me, but the fact that she actually goes on to WIN kinda irritates me. Like, with everyone else that wanted to win so badly, the girl that was just about ready to throw in the towel at the Final 5 is the one that's victorious? Something about that just doesn't sit right with me.

Which brings me to the other thing I dislike about Jenna's character, that being her edit. It reminds me a LOT of Adam's edit in MvGX, in which her win is so poorly explained that it leaves me feeling really unsatisfied. Like, I am all for not giving people obvious winners edits, but I think the way to go about it is to show multiple viable contenders rather than making nobody a viable contender. I mean, going into the finale, both Matt and Rob were being built up as potential winners. While Matt wasn't perfect, his OTTN moments were balanced out by his touching/strategic moments that would have left me understanding why he had won. Jenna, on the other hand, had -no- positive content shown, being portrayed as one-dimensional and vain bitch, when in reality, she was reasonably well-liked by most of the cast. I am glad that they did show her catty side as that was the most entertaining thing about her, BUT, had they actually shown, for instance, her mother-daughter relationship with Deena a bit more, I would've been able to accept her win much easier.

That was a long write-up.

Save - I knew instantly that I was going to save Heidi <33