Kaz said:
George came over as a smartarse.
IMO: He crashed & burned at the final hurdle
bleachy_dude said:
Hayley outplayed George in the final hurdle. I’m happy for her.
Yeah I agree with you all. Wow, George really blew it. The jury was always going to be a bit bitter, and I think the way to best approach that was to say, "hey, when you guys were still in the game, did you make each move to advance your own game, or someone else's? All of my moves were designed to edge myself ahead, one step at a time. It wasn't my job to play your game for you, only my own. I hope you understand that." By being a bit more humble he might have got them on side but he came across as an arrogant dick.
Well done Hayley, she deserved it - and George would have deserved it but for that woeful FTC performance.
My wrap up rant:
Yes, George stuffed up the final & most important challenge - how to address the jury.
He came across on so many levels as narcissistic & demanding, he didn't speak to the jury but, rather at them, he was condescending to most of them, sniping back at their questions with,
I'm here & you're not so ner, ner, ner, ner ,ner... + I put you there, you lost because of me, I'm better & I'm not asking you for the win, I'm telling you to write my name, its my right.... etc etc
His political speech stuffed him up, he didn't own lying, deceiving & manipulating very well, he tried to use deflective speech to answer questions like a politician does & after someone asked him a question he repeatedly thanked them for the question & then reiterated that it was a good question, he did this to almost every question to the point that jury members were rolling their eyes and laughing. Politicians do that and it comes across as demeaning & gives a negative vibe. If someone did ask a really good interesting question, then, yes, say it to them - but not to every question.
The jury is a lot of pissed off people who were blindsided and lied to, you don't rub it in their face and try to twist the truth to suggest that they are there because of their own fault. The jury want to hear apologies for your lying, manipulation & deception + they want you to tell them if you played the game again that they would be sitting next to you - you really need to butter them up and pander to their bruised egos at final tribal - don't talk down to them.
The other big no no at final tribal is not to argue with jury members, George tried to use political speak to deflect Emmets question whereby Emmet repeated it 3 times, "George - you didn't answer my question" to which George argued with Emmet and he lost a few votes there too I think.
You can use 'political tactics' to navigate your way through Survivor to the top but you can't deliver a political speech at tribal as your final address.
I hated George because he came across as so narcissistic & would twist everything to make it appear he orchestrated virtually every maneuver. Your supposed to lie, manipulate & deceive the other players - not the viewers, we see what really happened and when you claim victory over something that you didn't do, it pisses me off.. So George, you played a great strategic game, you should have TRIED to finish every challenge, that could have been your own personal deception ie/ you'd already decided to give up, but for the camera's & the other players you would deceive them into thinking you're a fighter not a quitter. Your social game faltered as you yourself addressed the jury as friends & frenemies...You had no 'frenemies' just enemies - because you burnt almost everyone...
And Flick - she lost the game in day 47, she had the power with immunity, her sole goal should have been to set up the remainder of the game to her ultimate advantage - ie/ win the next ( & final )immunity challenge, the only way she could do that was be removing Hayley. If she won, then she could have take Cara to the final 2 & I doubt if Cara would have beaten her.
Flick should have figured it out that at any cost she needs to get rid of Hayley, she faltered here & was too wrapped up in her own immunity victory, she didn't really care what happened as she knew she was guaranteed final 3.
Flick needed to persuade Cara to vote Hayley not George, that would have been an easy persuasion as Cara probably never wanted to vote George anyway, she could have just told Cara, "I am voting Hayley no matter what, if you want to stay then vote Hayley, at the worst it would have been a fire making challenge." But she just let it slip away and George managed to convince Hayley to vote Cara and thus she got 2 votes.
Flick could have outlasted George & Cara on the final challenge, she had little hope of ever beating Hayley...