Board Thread:Season 23 - Greece/@comment-25608184-20150117164612

MJ and Amelia - I look at you sitting there at the end and honestly it kind of makes me want to cry. I am so glad this final tribal council isn’t real because I wouldn’t want to be crying on television over some stupid online game. And I’m not upset that I don’t have a shot at winning. I was never going to win anyway! I didn’t even deserve to win and quite honestly neither do you, but I’m upset because you betrayed me. Don’t think that I don’t know how Survivor works, how a blindside works, and why I was voted out. You just genuinely hurt my feelings.











So I want to start out by addressing the flip-flops. I feel like you voted me out thinking that I would be ok with it, that I wouldn’t be bitter. I’m not usually a bitter person and I usually understand, but not this time. I am bitter because of you so you don’t even have the right to be angry at me for that. If there is any person on this jury that deserves to be bitter, it is me. You were my friends – if you really had such great games you would have realized that I didn’t care about winning. I just didn’t want to be blindsided or voted out by my own alliance. I could have voted Amelia out if I really wanted to, but I didn’t. You took the risk and I did not. But my reason for not taking that risk was not because I didn’t think Sora and I could pull it off, it was because because you were a part of my alliance and I trusted you. Well now we know that I was obviously mistaken. I would say shame on me but that’s not the point of this speech! The point of this speech is to say shame on you. So what I’m going to do is compare this season to the Heroes vs. Villains finale. (Not because it is in any way comparable, but alas…) We have Sandra, Parvati, and Russell sitting at the end. Russell is this guy with a big ego that thinks he deserves the world, but he really needs to get off his high horse and realize that he has the social game of a rat. Then we have Parvati, the rat’s sidekick. Not a bad player, but as someone who is 1) associated with the rat, and 2) someone who makes fun of the other people around camp, she does not make anyone except for her alliance actually like her. Her social game can be edited to not show the imperfections but if you look past the surface you will see the truth. And then we get to Sandra. Yes, she wasn’t in control the entire game, she didn’t lead any alliances, and she didn’t win challenges. But she won the game! Twice! She made friends; she got the people that she voted her out to vote for her to win. She was never the biggest threat in anyone’s eyes; she didn’t even need to use her idol at final 5. She was adaptable and she worked with everyone to accomplish her goal - sitting at the end. If you know me at all, you know that Sandra Diaz-Twine is my favorite player. So with that being said – I am going to liken you all to one of these f3!!

MJ! You are Russell. This is not a compliment in the least. I would have gone to the end with you 100% and I’m not sure why you never trusted me on that. I was completely honest with you throughout the entire game, and while I didn’t necessarily expect the same from you in return, I guess I just assumed you would treat me like I was at least somewhat important. That was not the case. I really should have trusted my gut at the tribal council that I got voted out, but I didn’t. I trusted you. So props to you for taking absolutely the biggest threat in the game at the time (*cough* Amelia) to the end with you over me. It was dumb as heck and I don’t think you even realized that. I was never going to win this season so I don’t understand why taking me out was such a good idea. Anyway, blindsiding me is where I believe you lost the game because at this point I see no way you will win. You can’t argue that you were loyal to your alliance; you can’t argue that you played a smart game. Quite frankly I don’t really like you a whole lot at this point which actually makes me sad because I considered you my friend more than anyone else in our “alliance,” but you obviously saw it differently. I might be a really naïve and gullible person, but you took advantage of that and swapped my feelings about you 180°. I can’t believe that after all of this you still don’t value a social game. It is absolutely ridiculous to sit up there and say that you deserve to win event though you didn’t talk to half of the jury and you lied to the rest! More than anything, you really hurt my feelings and I don’t think even think you’re sorry.

Amelia! Our Parvati. I always liked you but also recognized you as the biggest threat to win the game. So much of Ponderosa loved you that I did not particularly want to go to the end with you. I’m not sure if you realized that or not, but I still wasn’t about to vote you out in 6th place when we promised each other final 3. Sucks that you’re associated with the rat because I’m not as upset with you for voting me out. It does hurt that I was telling you the truth and trying to save you but I guess you didn’t think that was good enough? Whatever. It seemed to me that you were playing the jury really hard and honestly it was starting to annoy me that you never seemed to vote with the majority, you just always planned to vote with the person leaving to make yourself look good – something I never did. Although I respect your game more than I respect MJ’s, I still don’t think the fact that our alliance carried all of us to f6 merits a win for either of you. If we had all made f4 together I might consider our alliance a success not something to be ashamed of, but we all know that’s not how it worked out. And that was thanks to you. We ABSOLUTELY had an unfair advantage in this game. Nobody can deny that. Yes, you made a move. One. Move. If you hadn’t blindsided me and I was sitting on the jury in 4th place you would probably have my vote. I could tell how much you wanted to win and how hard you tried and I really did respect that. (Note the past tense.) But now I just can’t value your game more than Sora’s. It’s downright unfair and I am not going to forget how I felt the night you voted me out. It hurt. A lot. You may have more friends on the jury than MJ, but you still do not deserve my vote.

And last but not least we have Sora. You warned me. I wanted soooo badly to vote with you but I couldn’t bring myself to break my alliance. I knew Amelia was the biggest threat but I still didn’t vote with you. That is not your fault. There is pretty much nothing that you could have done that would have made me vote for Amelia at that tribal council so it’s not fair to hold the fact that you couldn’t get Amelia out against you. I would have felt so bad if my own alliance wasn’t lying to me, but they were! My mistake. I should have done what was best for my game, but I didn’t. I was just looking through my rose-colored glasses and didn’t want to take them off. But who can blame me? I look great in those glasses. You are Sandra and I’m one of the many people she warned but didn’t listen. Even though you were never the biggest power player in this game, you made it this far. Yes, your moves were subtle and you unsuccessfully voted for Amelia 3 times in a row, but you also saw how much of a threat they were and I really do admire your efforts. Your awareness is truly what made you get this far. You got here without a solid alliance and won immunity when it was necessary and I am so proud of you. There is absolutely nobody sitting next to you that deserves my vote more than you do and you have my heartfelt congratulations for making it this far. I am so happy I got to meet you in this game and I really do consider you a friend. You’re like the Sandra to my Rupert and you deserve so much.

If any of you in the final 3 value my vote or my friendship at all, you will not respond to my speech. I am sick and tired of you attacking each other! You’re not on the jury! That is supposed to be the jury’s job – they’re the ones voting!! And no band-aid that you slap on right now is going to change my vote or my feelings.

So congrats. I might be just a bitter jury member with an idol around her neck, but it’s better than being at the end as a rat. And I still feel great about the person that I am because I didn’t hurt my friends over an online game. After playing a few seasons I have realized that it’s really not worth it to me to hurt people I care about over a virtual million dollars, but it must be worth it to you.

  