Shawna wrote:
If you weren't in the final, and you had to vote for one of the other two finalists, who would you vote for and why?
I would vote for Brian because, unlike you guys, I know how involved he was in all of the decisions that we made. He has a very sound judgment when it comes to strategy, a very appeasable social approach (always polite, never rude), and performed well in challenges.
The same can't be said for Penny. She claimed above that she carried Brian and I, but the truth is, that she forced strategies on others in a stubborn manner (much in the way that she seemed in public arguments), ignored reason, and tried to sabotage any plans that weren't her own. For example, at F8, we needed to get Ted/Rob/Christy/Joanna to split their votes to make sure that our four votes on Helios were a majority. So, Brian and I worked with Rob/Joanna/Christy and Ted's plan to have their votes split between Erin/Penny so that our votes would evict Ted. We explained everything, and both Erin and Penny agreed. Asteria needed to think that nothing was up, that Brian and I would stay loyal, and the vote would be split between Erin/Penny. But this wasn't Penny's plan, so she runs around to Asteria making up a story that Brian and I are trying to vote out Joanna for absolutely no reason, but to make up clean up the mess that she's made.
Penny's entire game has been blinded by her personal vendetta on Rob. Almost every round, she's come up with some plan designed to orchestrate his ouster. And, in doing so, she's been blind to reason and ignores anyone who tries to reason with her. At F9, she wanted to approach Christy to vote out Rob. I told her "that doesn't make any sense, she's not going to vote against her ally, all you're doing it wasting your breath." Erin told her "it doesn't make any sense." Brian told her "it doesn't make any sense." She ignored everything that we told her, and went ahead and did it anyways. And better yet, she BELIEVED Christy when she said she would vote against her closest ally.
I'll give it to her, some of her plans did succeed. That credit goes to her. But the only reason that we agreed with some of them is because she ignored us and stubbornly refused to do anything else, so we either voted with her, or lost because our votes were split. She'd propose a plan, we'd shoot it down, she'd copy/paste the same plan, and regardless of what we did, she'd go through with it anyways. And we had to clean up the mess.