Talk:Send My Emmy in the Mail/Part 2/@comment-26485526-20190618180949

Tangle, you know I enjoy your work, but this partnof the epuisode was just thoroughly unsatisfying. I'll start with Gunung to get them out of the way. Things did get slightly more interesting in the sense of there being a chance of Hazel manipulating Adrian/Jacob to make the stupid move of cutting one of their own. But by and large, Gunung was still quite dry, especially in comparison to Rinjani. I think the fact that Anastacia knows she's on the bottom and probably going home next, yet still can't find it within herself to find either one of those (fake) idols or a personality says it all about her character. On one hand, I'm ready for her to go so she can stop being boring... but I'm rooting for Adrian & Jacob to lose their brains and make a moronic move against their pre-game to shake that tribe up.

Now, onto Rinjani. If Shanniah was here, I'd be totally fine with her calling Raphael and Kendra out on their vile behaviour, because that's exactly what it was. Shanniah would be the perfect one to do it too because she has personal experience with just being a vile person and being called out by Winona for her complete hypocricy and patronizing attitude.

In terms of the boot itself, I'm surprised, but I feel like that is mostly to do with the fact I was rooting so hard for Samantha to stay in the game that I convinced myself she would make it work, especially with that fake idol. Fuck Kendra for finding her locket at such a convenient time to ruin the ending of the episode.

I'm honestly baffled at the move Johannee and Winona made. Not their decision to boot Samantha, but the fact they so willingly left Byron out of the vote! Like, why?! Johannes even mentioned how loyal Byron is and how much he trusts him, so leaving him out of the vote made no sense! You could argue that Byron was blinded by Raphael targeting him, but all they had to do was assure Byron that Raphael is stupid and they weren't voting with him, as well as the fact Kendra confirmed Samantha's idol was FAKE! If Byron knew the majority was there to boot Samantha and that her idol was fake, it would only make sense for him to vote with his alliance! Byron is now perfectly right to be paranoid and I am curious how Winona and Johannes try to recover, but they never should have made that blunder to begin with.

I'm actually really starting to love Byron more now. Him stepping up in the challenge to defy Raphael and Kendra was everything because he was really the only one to not ignore just how badly Samantha was being treated and show actual sympathy for her beyond just words. It takes guts to go against the grain like that because I know it can be hard to get involved out of fear of receiving backlash from the people doing the bullying, so I give full credit to him, and I'm rooting for Byron to do really well. I hope he not only makes the merge, but completely owns Raphael and Kendra in the process.

Also, Winona - you had too much fun and broke your Raphie doll. He is sparking and creating a safety hazard. Time to throw him away before someone gets seriously hurt.