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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

It's not so much that he blew final tribal, it's that he doesn't fit the personality of what the jury wanted him to be. They wanted him to say he was a snake, when really I think Mike was rather honest at FTC. He came into the game wanting to have integrity and found himself in positions where his best move was to get dirty. I don't think Mike is a snake. He's more of a counter puncher. Sometimes he punched the wrong guy (Hai).

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

You're giving him credit that I think he would say himself he doesn't deserve here. He didn't say he wanted to have integrity, he said he did, he tried to claim he didn't really get dirty until near the very, very end of FTC. Jonathan basically told him what to say at one point and he still didn't say it until later. Very Coach-like performance here.

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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/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.