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I like the point raised by someone else; ie, Natalie was such a coat-tailer that she couldn't even deliver her own case and had to have someone else (Erik) do it for her.

Without Russell, Natalie would have gone no where. Not so in the reverse. And it works at every step, I think: IF Russell hadn't won the last immunity challenge, Natalie would not have won 1 million dollars; if Russell hadn't found and used the hidden immunity, Foa Foa would have been ousted, and so on and so forth.

omgusuk,

It's stinking obvious that Natalie is a just a fucking coat-tail. That's what you're praising, you turd. Just call it like it is. I'm OK with Russell losing, and that would be due to his not ultra brown-nosing Galu. But let's not pretend that Natalie was anything but a coat-tailer, and a completely expendable, interchangeable nonentity at that, who had no power to survive, win, or strategize other than be a little coattailer. Again that's what you're praising.

Miss Alli's article only works for explaining why Russell's loss was rational in the grand scheme of Survivor, but in the end it does nothing to particularly vindicate Natalie's win.

"1. Did you watch the final tribal council? You know, the one where Natalie herself told many of the jurors exactly what her strategy was throughout the entire game?"

I'm rewatching it right now and, boy!, does Natalie look like an airhead judging by her opening statement. She's almost as dumb as Palin, and hasn't said a single thing of substance.

...I've just finished rewatching the final tribal council in full. The only thing that's worth any substance from Natalie can be phrased like this: "Oh noes, aggressive females are getting booted, better not be aggressive", which reads like such a lame excuse in defense of her being a coattail. Truth is, she had no choiice about anything. She's a coattail by nature and had no power to win or survive or strategize outside of others in the game. She was as others said "never in the field."

"2. Did you also not read the interviews, where Natalie, Mick, and Jaison all said that part of what we didn't see was them constantly defending Russell from getting voted off, both at Foa Foa and Aiga? Or Mick's (or maybe Jaison's) comments that when they thought about pulling Natalie in to vote off Russell, that she wouldn't budge? Or in episode 2 when a plot was hatched to oust him, Natalie put a stop to it? "

Well, you have a point but it works the other direction in Russell's favor. If Russell didn't have a social game (he didn't have an ultimate social game -- he didn't see the forest, of course), he wouldln't have had allies protecting and working to his benefit. That's the point of such alliances. People do what is in their mutual benefit to do. Russell positioned himself in a way that was best for him. Russell created the relationships that gave him protection from his enemies. That's his credit too.