User blog comment:Tanglefrost/Over-Rated Fanon Characters?/@comment-26485526-20180130230245/@comment-26485526-20180920032030

I think what I meant by "don't understand the love" was more of me not understanding people being obsessed with her, when I didn't view her as anything all that special, especially since I think she grew a little stale by the time her stint on Bermuda came to an end.

Looking back at Courtney & Natalie, I think what sets them apart are probably the people that were around them. The China cast for example was absolute dynamite, and I'm not saying Bermuda's wasn't, but Courtney's relationship with Jean-Robert for example reached a new level when Sherea was added to the mix. Courtney/Amanda/Frosti/Todd doing impressions of Zhan Hu was one of the best moments of the entire season, and Courtney's confessionals to me always felt fresh.

While I definitely like Natalie Bolton, I feel like I am almost a fan of Natalie because she was part of the Black Widow Brigade, as opposed to me liking her alone. Don't get me wrong, she was definitely an asset to the alliance as a character (manipulating Erik), I wasn't all that sold on her until after the BWB had claimed control of the game and we saw her feeding off of the already legendary/soon-to-be legendary members of the group like Cirie, Parvati, and Amanda. Granted, she didn't have much of an edit otherwise for me to go off of, but it doesn't really negate my point of the people around Natalie significantly contributing to how much I liked her and how fresh her character felt.