rhutton125 said:
Call me crazy but I see a scenario where Venus could win. Maria and Charlie are a clear 1A and 1B, and Kenzie presumably is next, but Venus could convince the jury (a la Gabler or Maryanne) that she played a better game than Kenzie (or Q or Liz). Even if she wasn't the only one making moves (the Tevin and Hunter votes), she still made them, and she's been thinking strategically and making the moves she can in spite of nobody wanting to work with her from day 1 besides the guy who was medically evac'd. Kenzie needs to survive, take out Charlie and Maria (actively, not just be a participant), and have some agency and a stronger final tribal than Venus to beat her head to head. Chickening out of the Tiff blindside could cost her.
Q could make a decent case but the "you begged everyone to vote you out" tribal probably screws him. He tried to quit - there's no spin that can take that back. That wasn't strategy, that was panic.
The speech Jeff gave in the opening scene on landing beach is very interesting. Jeff said one of you can't win, you just have a personality that no one will vote for, which speaks directly to a Venus. It seemed odd to me at the time, just a comment out of left field that normally hits the cutting room floor.
Was that put in the final edit because Venus wins and Jeff has to recant his opening soliloquy?
The only path I see for Venus is to sit next to Liz and Q but that is a very small needle to thread. Seems if Maria, Charlie, Kenzie or Ben make it to the end they will demolish Venus, Q, or Liz.
