While cruising around the net today, I found a wonderful gift for you, Survivorerist. I hope you enjoy it!"There are two schools of thought when it comes to Amber. One says she is nothing but Jerri's charisma free toady, a vacant eyed lightweight who has slipped, remoralike, into the late rounds of the game.
The other school -- that is to say, the correct school -- posits that she is a charisma free, vacant eyed lightweight with a purpose. The strong willed naïf has in fact forged the canniest of strategies: quietly drift alongside the most menacing member of her tribe, reap the benefits of her abrasive host's Jerri mandering, and then drop out of sight when the rest of the food chain starts closing in.
It's a brilliant ploy, executed with the stealth of a double agent -- a supercute double agent. Her sweetly placid facial features, which she carefully frames with an array of pigtails, headbands, and braids, add to her patina of innocence. Amber? Why, she's just a harmless, malleable kid, a chocolate fetishist whose most interesting trait is that she revamps her coif in times of tension. She's Katie Holmes without the attitude. Look at her and you see your little sister. Or the girl next door. Or the high school cheerleader you secretly had a crush on but were afraid to talk to so you just spied on her through the telephoto lens of your camera. But I digress.
Consider this: Not only has Amber never had a vote cast against her, she's never even been discussed as a potential vote. And yet Amber constantly flirts with the poisonous politics of the game (she was the one who first singled Colby out for his fence jumping tendencies). That takes wiles. And she always stays close to the nexus of power (when Jerri succumbed to temptation and gave up the pole standing challenge for an ice cream cone, Amber quickly followed her meal ticket). That takes ambition. Simply put, pretty packaging aside, this is a player.
Most of all, Amber is the one person left who has the power to surprise. The Colbys, the Rodgers, even the Tinas and Elisabeths… we've seen those archetypes. But sweet, cipher-y Amber, now she represents potential. And did I mention she's supercute?"
Credits: http://www.ew.com/ew/survivor2/countdown/amber.html
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