The question isn't to determine if Katie is a miserable cry baby in real life or not but rather why is she so heavily portrayed as such. Remember, they showed the highlites of her hysteric fits as if it was the top 10 moments on a sport's channel! Now, even if every crisis occured as shown which I doubt because the Southie Boys stuck around for too many of them, the replays were an editing decision to reinforce our reaction. I'll never meet her in real life so I don't care at all about her in real life. The only (fleating) interest I have in her is to determine who will find the treasure.

Under stress, I've known plenty of adults who lose control momentarily. Some scream and cry uncontrollably at every major thunder storms. Take the sound of thunder off and repeat those shots often enough and "voilà!" you've created a Katie. The swamp was a stressfull situation and it lasted I'd guess 8 hours. The boat ride alone was over 3 hours long! Without the crying part, I'd probably have screamed and hurled insults at the production staff. Thankfully, those "F*ck you NBC", would have been edited out!

If the Fogals do win or even make it to the final, NBC knows that they will be remembered. The question they should have is by how many? Will there still be an audience for the finale?