I had a sinking feeling from the final three tribal - you could see her stock plummeting with the jury at the time. She did some serious damage there.

But she seemed perked up the next day, which was encouraging - bring on the final tribal.

However, as soon as she made her opening statement, I said to my wife that she was dead in the water. Historically, the under the radar player is punished and the bold player is rewarded, and given the players this season, this was even more likely to be the case this time. It was almost an identical approach that cost her the game against a similar player in the season before.

As someone else said, I speculate that perhaps had she seen her show, she might have adjusted (the others did).

Also, she had so little to play with - she got a slam or a throwaway question whereas Parvati got a "Parvati, why are you so cool?" question. "Well, I don't know, juror, I just am!" You would think that Ozzy could have served up an easy one for her to hit out of the park as well as declaring his undying love (snore).

I was somewhat surprised that Jason was already set for Parvati (or it seemed so, he was one of the ones who gave Amanda a pretty much nothing question, and Parvati a straightforward one), expected his vote to be up for grabs. Perhaps he believed she saved him with the deal at the immunity when they blindside Ozzy instead of voting him, and Amanda still voted against him and was therefore bad. He did think a stick was the II so that's plausible.

I wonder if some posters gave too much credit to Amanda ... she made some slick moves, but didn't try to use them to justify why she should win. Ah well.