Hi . Moved to . So . Far . That ' s all <| sep |> Before that it was flash mobs . <| sep |> tfw uCoolestLuigi has legit gone insane <| sep |> I ' d have at least 2 , no 3 servings ! <| sep |> GDP growth at 2 %? that ' s about the lowest of any president in 50 years . lower full time employment tank 20160620 m o r e o l d e r a m e r i c a n s a r e w o r k i n g a n d w o r k i n g morethantheyusedtodoubled the debt <| sep |> This shit slappin on mommas <| sep |> 140 . Michele Fitzgerald Survivor Kaoh Rong , WINNER 6 eM 9 L 2 FGTRgV 0 IF 325 yGRIAAAAAAAAGn 8 mRelopnjOg 4 A 3 OlQmvIl 5 vj 3 o 5 BkOPjFwCLcBs 320 SURVIVOR % 2 BKAOH % 2 BRONG % 2 BMICHELE % 2 BWINS . jpgDamn I ' m cutting a lot of Kaoh Rongers . I guess it kinda makes sense though , because I haven ' t nominated a single one yet and a lot of the time they end up just a bit lower than everyone else in close pools . This is yet another example . Michele was someone I rooted for the moment she was announced as a member of the cast . As I ' ve said before , she lives about 20 minutes away from me and worked at a restaurant I used to go to a lot , so there ' s a strong possibility I ' ve met her before . She ' s also really attractive but in more of a girl next door way than in a super intimidating way although maybe that ' s just a product of where I grew up , considering there were hundreds of Micheles at my high school . But she sells herself as a Harry Potter fan and has a quirky accent so she stands out at least a bit from a lot of your other young girls you see on the show in 2016 , and it ' s easy to see why she was a popular winner pick . Anyway , Michele on the show . With so much focus and reactions to her going towards her win and the reasoning behind it you almost never see people actually evaluating Michele as a character other than occasionally people saying oh yeah I liked her or her confessionals were boring . From my perspective though , Michele is just a really cool girl . Right away , we see her swooning over Nick , but still being aware enough to know that teaming with the girls is her best option . They ' re similar enough in age and have a lot in common on the surface , so Michele uses the same social skills she had when waiting tables for people like me to integrate with them of course if you read the interviews it wasn ' t actually like that early on but that ' s neither here nor there . We don ' t see much of her the rest of the pre swap aside form her obvious heartbreak after Caleb ' s evac , but after the swap she once again presents herself to be an independent tough young woman . She has a powerful reaction to blowing the reward challenge in episode 6 , making us feel for her and empathize with her , followed up by her infamous talk with Nick where she tells us that she doesn ' t need to be carried , bro . As much as she can be perceived as weak by certain people , she knows how to portray herself to everyone else and use the skills that she was born with to allow that portrayal to be as positive as she can make it . And in this regard I do think Michele ' s story ties into a lot of the major themes of Kaoh Rong itself the idea of selfawareness a lack of which screws people like Debbie , confidence a lack of which screws over Aubry , straightforwardness Tai , and compassion ScotJason . Understanding Michele and understanding Kaoh Rong in general comes down to knowing how important it is to portray a perception of yourself to your competitors that will make them like , respect , and support you . While it doesn ' t work on Nick , as I said in my Nick writeup that ' s probably a good thing for Michele . Nick lacks this tact and awareness . He always needs to be right , and often is not . His perception of Michele directly contrasts with the actual perception of Michele , just how his perception of himself differs from how others perceive him . And it ' s actually a really fun contrast . But enough about Nick . After finding her way into the majority and playing a part in getting Nick booted , Michele mainly coasts for a few votes . But she ' s always present , always offering an intelligent , levelheaded portrayal of the craziness around her . A great example of this is during the psychological warfare incident where Michele just says yeah fuck these guys , we can pick ourselves up and do what we want . And it ' s that confidentbutnotcocky attitude that really endears her to those around her , and it ' s easy to see why the Michele we see in confessionals is someone that others want to vote for to win the game . She maintains a positive attitude even after being blindsided by Tai ' s flip on Scot , getting right back to work by integrating back with Aubry , Tai and co . by cutting her best friend Julia loose . And we see Michele just break down and FEEL . And while maybe it would ' ve been nice to see more of what the relationship meant to both of them and why they were so close other than the superficial circumstances that they find themselves in , it ' s nice to see Survivor continue to portray their winners as emotional human beings even in 2016 . Michele has some other nice moments over these next few episodes too , including winning her first immunity thanks to her amazing memory , fangirling over zoo animals while hilariously rejecting the poor zookeeper , doing the chicken dance with Aubry and Cydney , and mending fences with Tai at the final 5 in a particularly touching sequence . And she finishes off with a strong performance in the finale , winning the FIC and kicking down the puzzle , winning the moronic jury twist challenge and using it well , and giving a solid if unspectacular FTC performance . I could spend a lot of time talking about the shitstorm that Michele ' s victory caused and the divide it created within the fanbase , but honestly I don ' t think it ' s really worth my time . The fanbase has been desensitized to respect and be entertained by a certain style of gameplay for reasons that I still don ' t know if I fully understand . Which works for a while , but when presented with a case like Michele , they had themselves cornered . They did the best they could to salvage it accurately present Michele ' s strengths while also noting Aubry and Tai ' s shortcomings but the damage had already been done . But I place less blame on Michele and the editors of Kaoh Rong for this . I think it was a perfect storm of bad timing and unfortunate choices in the past that led to what we got . A Michele winning was bound to happen sooner or later that ' s just how Survivor works , as much as Jeff Probst tries to express the opposite . While many savvier edit readers saw her win coming from a mile away , the fanbase at large didn ' t see it thanks to choices made by producers in the past . But I don ' t blame Michele for this , and for that reason I don ' t penalize HER or her character for the reaction to the Kaoh Rong ending . So yeah , as I said at the beginning of this writeup , Michele is just a really cool girl . She seems like she ' d be a ton of fun to be friends with and is an independent badass who has a lot of selfawareness that ' s required to do well on Survivor . Along the way , she contributes to some really fun scenes and brings out some good stuff in people around her . I ' m cutting her because there are large portions of her content that just aren ' t super interesting , but I like her a lot and I think the editors did a fine job portraying how cool she is and therefore how she was able to win the game . For the third and final time , the mildly likable but still very UTR Debbie Bebee is back in the pool .