LAST EDITED ON 01-08-13 AT 09:51 PM (EST)

LOL. But I used an emoticon even!! So glad you weren't traumatized, though.

Supposing Dana hadn't been injured on day 1 (three players suffered approximately the same injury at the same time, Dana just happened to get the worst of it and wasn't able to play through the pain as did Jeff) and wound up as a quit/medical evacuation is, yes, one form of supposing an alternate reality, just as is supposing various players in a game were better/more savvy/sharper whatever than they actually were.

Had Dana not been injured and stayed in the game, perhaps Kalabaw wins that immunity, in which case Abi or RC would have been booted. Abi (the third of the injured) had only Pete for protection (and her HII), and had become the sit-out queen because she was such a challenge liability, whereas RC was a challenge asset -- and basically first chance they had they wanted to resolve the Abi-RC conflict (or at least get it out of camp). But if Kalabaw loses and goes to TC Denise has to decide which Kalabaw faction to back, and while Dana would be a valuable ally, Dawson From Planet Dawson is imperceptible while Katie is a challenge liability, so Denise probably doesn't join the female alliance; and Dawson probably gets the boot simply because she has annoyed Jeffkent way too much.

Not that any of this really matters in terms of evaluating the game that was played because, of course, none of it happened that way.