Talk:Survivor: Micronesia/@comment-110.93.93.163-20130523114422

I'm basing this on the tv edit. I think Joel basically changed the course of this season. Instead of a potential strong clash between fans vs favorites late in the season, he severely weakened his tribe that probably led to the early tribes swap which is surprising because this was supposed to be fans vs favorites. The early swap ultimately led to the women dominating the game.

Joel had a strong 7 man alliance at the start capable of holding their own against the favorites- Jason, Erik, Mikey, Alexis, Mary, Natalie and himself. By blindsiding Mary and Mikey, he reduced his alliance to 5 with 8 cunning favorites still left in the game.

Because he felt threatened and got jealous of Mikey, he doomed his own game which was good because he was annoying and obnoxious. Who knows, maybe Mikey was more annoying and obnoxious because the others in the alliance went with the blindside.

Micronesia was a tale of two halves. The first half of the season was boring as f*ck with these annoying fans- Joel, Chet, Tracy, Mikey, Kathy... The second half was brilliant with the daring and crazy moves by the Black Widow Brigade (with much of the credit going to Parvati and Cirie and to a lesser extent Amanda and Natalie and a much lesser extent Alexis)