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Cut - Michael Blegher

478. Michael Yerger - Season 36 - Ghost Island

Michael is soooo boring that it literally takes energy out of me to write about him. Like, if he was booted in Stephanie's place, I think I would probably look back at him with fond memories considering he is a -rare- emotional guy and it was nice to see someone who cares so much about the game fight tooth and nail to stay without doing so in an obnoxious way like some people do.

With that being said, after I started looking beyond his physical appearance, it really became apparent that he was pretty bland. Like, every single confessional of his, especially post-merge was just "I'm on the bottom, I need to find cracks, I hope this reward helps my strategic game, let's go find an idol, I wonder if I should use this idol I conveniently found because nowadays there are like 50000 idols in a season," and it got REALLY repetitive to the point where it became almost offensive. Like, at the very least be boring enough to the point where the editors decide to give you the purple edit. But no, because Michael was EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD(!!!!!) and also an UNDERDOG(!!!!) he got like 8 confessionals an episode while the actually entertaining people got nothing.

While Michael himself isn't necessarily -awful- by any means, something that really bothers me is just how much support he has. Like, casuals I would understand, but even "superfans" seemed to be all aboard the Michael train and I just never understood why. His idol bluff was said to be "amazing" even though it never would've changed a thing. Unless you're Jonathan Penner, people aren't going to flip to the person that HAS the idol; it makes no sense. Honestly, I think it was probably just the fact that most of the community is pretty young so they felt they could ~relate~ to Michael or whatever but it just always bothered me how much support he had.

Anyway, Michael isn't terrible but he still sucks and I am very glad that he is finally gone.

Save - Kim Spradley, he just wanted to be back on Naviti. :(