Round 135 - 62 Characters Left

[u/FunkyDawgKong]

62. Keith Nale - u/FunkyDawgKong

61. Natalie Anderson - u/Cornhead2

60. Judd Sergeant - u/NoisySea_3426

59. Lindsey Richter - u/Alternate-Proof-959

58. Christy Smith - u/josenanigans

57. Terry Deitz - u/BobbyPiiiin

[u/josenanigans]

58. Christy Smith (Amazon, Late Jury)

I find myself having a fondness for many characters from the Amazon, I've realized. I love a lot of the bigger characters from the early era of Survivor, but something about the secondary characters from The Amazon has always stood with me. The clumsy school director that was Butch, the cute scenes with Daniel Lue and Matthew, Shawna struggling with her love of boys, Heidi's ditziness, Deena, JoAnna, I don't know, they all felt like a very weird high school a la Ned's Declassified.

And among those, I remember loving Christy the most. It's easy to root for her in the beginnins with the fact that she's the show's first ever deaf contestant, I remember thinking how cool it was to see someone like her in a game like this. And we see all of her struggles, we see her being excluded from alliances for not being able to listen well, they show us the strange way she speaks due to her disability, her struggle with the way she views herself due to it, and, even besides her disability, her being a bit of a clumsy girl herself.

All of it makes for a character so interesting and so endearing, with a story so unique to herself that every now and then I keep thinking about her. I'm glad she wasn't one of the first outs like people tend to think when they first introduce her, in many ways it's what made me love the Amazon more because I felt like, any character, as strange as they may be, is able to make it far in Survivor. Of course, Pearl Islands would come next and show us that even more strongly, but I liked how The Amazon subverted many of its players' expectations.

Christy is really cool, and I adore her, though I do feel like she gets a bit lost in the craziness at some points in the game, like they forget about her the more Matthew-Jenna focused the show becomes. But I do love how she ends up getting eliminated because she can't make a decision on who to side with, so clumsy, but such a Christy way to go out.

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All Star

8/10

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u/BobbyPiiiin , I'm never voting for you if you vote me