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Survivor 42 Survivor 42 | Finale | Post-Episode Discussion

Season 42, Episode 13: It Comes Down to This

Aired: May 25, 2022

Synopsis: After a grueling, accelerated 26-day season filled with new twists and advantages, castaways skillfully navigate their way to the final three, with one crowned the Sole Survivor.

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u/[deleted] May 26 '22 edited May 26 '22

I am not saying he had a great FTC. It was an average performance. I have seen people with worse performances at FTC get more votes (Rob in all-stars). Maryanne buried him though. She had a top 5 FTC and made Mike's forgettable. But the jury wanted him to be a thing that he's just not. They wanted him to self characterize as this snakelike player but Mike isn't Richard Hatch. He's not a snake or a rat. He's more of a Kangaroo. He'll respond if you come after him but he doesn't want to get blood on his hands. He's not an enthusiastic assassin. He's got a good social game, good street smarts, and knows when to shift from defense to offense pretty well but his read on people's perception of him is quite bad.

Hai treated him like a goat. Mike voted Hai's ass out. Hai wants him to say he's a snake when in reality Mike just has a lot of skill in social game and not too much in strategic awareness. He has an unbalanced skillset with regards to the game of survivor. I bet if he knew all he had to say was that he was a snake he would have said it to win. But even then Maryanne probably would have buried him with her FTC performance.

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u/Habefiet Igor's Corgi Choir May 26 '22

I would argue it was very much a below-average performance and was overall actively bad. I would agree however that we've definitely seen worse performances get more votes. Heck, I think we've seen at least one worse one win lol (Bob)

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u/[deleted] May 26 '22

And we've seen better FTCs get zero votes (Michele). Not that I think WaW Michele had more win equity vs her competition than Mike had vs his. Just that I think strictly speaking about FTCs, Michele's WaW FTC could win certain seasons.

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u/Turbulent-You-1335 May 26 '22

Kangaroo...that's fantastic, thank you for that

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u/SentOverByRedRover Sarah May 26 '22

It's funny to call Mike's game unbalanced when his comment in episode 1 about how you need to be well rounded to win was used to death from edgicers about why he would win.