Survivor 40: THE QUEEN IS DEAD!

Well, it looks like I was right on the money last week when I reported how surprised I was that Sandra actually went to Edge of Extinction, given how minuscule here chances were of winning her way back into the game. While she did make the trip to Edge she only lasted about 2 hours before coming to her senses and heading directly to Ponderosa.  Survivor recapper Dalton Ross reported how (at first) he was surprised how quickly Sandra gave up but I was surprised how slowly it took her to realize her game was over and it made zero sense for her to suffer on Edge just for a little bit more of screen time.  A lot of people are calling her a quitter but Sandra doesn’t care about things like screen time or the adventure of the game.  She’s always been all about business and she didn’t quit.  As I previously stated, her game was over the moment her torch was snuffed if not the instant she stupidly handed her idol to Denise.  To say she quit, implies she had even a small chance of winning the game.  Technically she did have a chance of getting back into the game but the chances of that were so minuscule it didn’t make a lick of sense for her to even try. 

So now the Queen is truly dead.  She says she is still the Queen but then claims she’s “only human”.  She also said she did the best that she could with what she had.  This also is completely false and just a feeble attempt to save face.  She did not do the best she could with what she had.  SHE HAD A FUCKING IDOL!  She was guaranteed more time in the game.  Then she inexplicably pissed it away. 

People everywhere are saying what a great move this was by Denise by a beg to differ.  It was just a monumental bonehead move by the self-proclaimed queen of Survivor.  Let me put this into perspective for you.  What Sandra did was like if a rich guy who had a gun, no money and was wearing a $30,000 Rolex and decides to leave the safety of his swanky hotel to take a walk to Compton.  Then when he gets there, he tells the first guy he comes across he’ll let the guy hold his gun if the guy will lend him cab fare to get back to his hotel.  Then when the guy gets the gun he robs the guy of his Rolex and takes off with the gun.  If that happened in real life would you be praising the guy who took the Rolex for making such an ingenious move?  Of course, not!  You’d be saying what an idiot the guy with the Rolex was! This is basically what Sandra did.  Her being the guy with the Rolex. 

What makes this even more frustrating is I watched a secret scene video that showed Sandra on the morning of day 16 expressing how grateful she was to make it to the same day she got voted out last time she played and also being extremely worried that she would get voted out again on day 16. 

You can watch the video here 

How she could then give her idol to Denise after admitting to much fear of getting blindsided again makes what she did even more mind boggling.  It also makes her tempting fate even more idiotic.  After watching this video, I now have to say that this move was AT LEAST as dumb as Erik giving up immunity.  I don’t think Sandra should be ashamed of quitting, but she should be very ashamed of letting down all her fans by making a move as dumb as an amateur who was playing against all-stars.  As someone one who has looked up Sandra and been declaring the greatest of all time for 10 years now I feel completely betrayed.  At least my boy Rob kicked some ass on Edge this week by acquiring 3 fire tokens, which was a lot of fun to watch.  For those of you wondering, even though there was no clue of it in the previews, in a post episode interview, Probst announced someone from Edge will return to the game next week.  Will it be Rob?  One can only hope!