Talk:Odds Are in My Favour/@comment-26485526-20191127030853

I'm kind of in the middle of Matt's & Jake's opinions of [Filler] as a winner. I really feel like [Filler] played a really good game, and absolutely deserved the win. As a character, for me, [filler] was just okay. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate Craig's importance to the overall story of the season wholeheartedly. However, I preferred Belinda and Aaron as characters by a long shot, and with them both playing outstanding games, their wins would have been more satisfying to me.

To me, Craig came off as just a really nice guy. I'm glad he at least had the backstory of him being an injury-prone, failed sports star, but to me, he just wasn't as dynamic or interesting of a character as Angie, JoAnne, Belinda, Kyle, and Aaron. To be honest, once Kyle left, I kind of lost interest in Craig as well a bit. As for his game, playing under the radar is absolutely a legitimate strategy, and with him being saddled with the label of "Golden Boy," that's especially tough to do, so I have to give Craig props for that.

Like Matt, I absolutely give you props for that amazing Final Tribal Council. It's really difficult to mask a winner in a final two scenario, but I legitimately had no idea who was going to win when it was all said and done since JoAnne did have a great Final Tribal Council performance. Overall, Craig did play the better game though and proved just how dumb JoAnne was to take him to the end. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Jim didn't get to the end (especially because I can only imagine the ulcer-inducing speech that Carolyn would have given praising him), but with Jim being objectively terrible at the social game, I can't help but think JoAnne would have had it in the bag taking him to the end. At the end of the day, Belinda summed up JoAnne's social game perfectly, and this is why she lost to Craig: "JoAnne, you were very fake, you pride yourself on being "real", but the only times you were real was when you were being bitchy, every attempt at friendship you made was an attempt to score jury votes."

People saw through JoAnne, while Craig made genuine friendships and was rewarded for it, whereas she would have had the advantage over Jim for trying to make relationships with people not named Carolyn, and not being a condescending asshole to everything that moved all of the time. I'm ranting, but to sum it up, I like JoAnne's character, and she did play a great game, but she deserved to lose.

Either way, this was a fantastic season. I'd say candidates to return are: JoAnne, Aaron, Belinda, Kyle, Angie, and Nicole! Can't wait for season 2!

Please do not ever bring back Andy, Jim, or Carolyn (especially with the latter already getting an undeserved second chance). Thank you.