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Natalie Bolton

Natalie Bolton is iconic for holding MANY accolades in the world of Survivor. Most iconic edgic strip? Check. First person to be given immunity by someone and then voting them out? Check. Most unexpected OTTNN5 breakout? Check. First person to ask a blatantly sexual jury question? Check.

Natalie Bolton is a figure almost everyone, superfan or casual, would recognise simply because of how iconic she is. And for someone that said roughly 10 words for the first 10 episodes, that's an impressive feat. I mean, ~yes~, it's probably because of the "I wanna give Individual Immunity to Natalie" line, but in my heart, it's for that and MORE!

For the first 10 episodes, Natalie is cleverly hidden under the radar. Unlike the plethora of underedited so-called characters we see far too often in modern Survivor, I feel the editors decision to purple her for so long just made the Natalie experience that much better. Because honestly, if Natalie had shown shades of her evil self all season long, would her shock OTTN breakout be quite as iconic? I didn't think so. Like, I can only imagine the delight of watching Micronesia Live and witnessing the emergence of this person nobody really knew flourish into a man-hating, sociopathic lesbian villainess. Ugh, how I wish I could be *that* surprised in modern Survivor.

Anyway, I guess I should get to the crux of Natalie, which is Episode 11. Ozzy has just been blindsided and Natalie has taken it upon herself to take center stage. Her plan? To vote off Jason, even though he was 100% loyal to her and would have been a good ally for her. But no, Natalie does -not- rely on logic, as we quickly see when she sends Jason to exile even after confirming the idol had been replanted. Back at camp, she realises her mistake, and produces the iconic start to her breakout: "Jason’s on Exile; we ALL want him gone! The little bitch now has two days of sunshine with the immunity idol. Guaranteed, hands down, the bitch will find it... that bitch being Jason." From there, she only gets more and more evil as the episode progresses, essentially toying with Jason just to make sure his blindside is as humiliating as possible. Examples include:


 * Taking full credit for the Ozzy blindside and guilt-tripping Jason into trusting her because she ~saved~ him.
 * "At this point, Jason would be an idiot not to listen to anything I say. He thinks I'm warming up to him, which I am absolutely NOT! If this goes, this will be brilliant because it will be TWICE. First with Ozzy, back-to-back, girls against the guys. :)"
 * Showing how ~compassionate~ women are by not voting for sparing Erik because it's his birthday.
 * Whisper-scheming to Jason before the challenge: "YOU NEED TO LET ANYONE BUT JAMES WIN! James is going home, don't ask any questions, I sent you to Exile for a reason."
 * Running over to rummage through Jason's pants as soon as they get back to camp to find the idol.
 * "I'm getting to be more of myself which is proving to be... pretty ruthless and pretty stone-cold bitch aaaaaand pretty cutthroat. :)"

After Jason's blindside, she reappears in the Erik blindside episode to join in the fun, including the iconic bitchslapping confessional. I also randomly love her "I don't know what to say... but thank you" voting confessional.

After sacrificing herself to enable the iconic Cirandati F3, she returns to deliver a truly iconic jury speech. Randomly bringing up Parvati's sex life and trying to relate it to Survivor <3. Confusing Jeff Probst <3. Mentioning that Parvati flirted with her <3. Calling Amanda a cliche dead, zombie, pageant girl cliche <3. Asking the "was that strategy?" question even though she just wanted an excuse to call Amanda a zombie <3. Also cementing ABLANDA in all of our hearts <3.

Unfortunately, as I reach the end of this write-up, I realise she has since been saved, but I'm leaving this here because it took too long to write not to post. :/