Well, Natalie is literally immature. She's a teenager. Another casting mistake. 21 is young enough.

OTOH, Ashley didn't even rate a word association?

About Loser Lodge bonding, this was something I looked at with great results in Africa and used to pay more attention to than I do now when the interviews are so much more prepared.

People do tend to smooth over their differences at Ponderosa. Not always though, and in the case of a really tight tribal group, sometimes they don't get over it.

Julie does seem to be the kind who will embrace others as they lose. I would tend to agree that she may not spend time with Andrea or Natalie.

The only way she would bond with Phil at Ponderosa is if he is really just acting and knows how to be normal.

Now looking at the time left, we need to keep in mind that Julie is out and there is limited time for her to spend with any Ometepe at Ponderosa.

Julie spends 8 1/2 days with the next duel loser, but that is a Zap or Matt.
Julie spends 6 1/2 days with the Ep 13 loser. One Ometepe will be competing in that quadruel.

Julie spends 3 1/2 days with the F8-F6 jurors.
1 1/2 days with F5.
1 day with F4.

The last two are not enough for doing much bonding. In Africa, the first juror, Kelly, still displayed bitterness towards Lex, and had nothing much to say about T-bird, who was F4.

So Julie does have enough time to bond with Andrea if she is out this time and immediately out of RI at the next duel. Otherwise it is three days, and with three jurors showing up at once, there won't be so much one on one time.

This season could end with something horrible like Natalie, Andrea, and Phil as F3.
Jeff hasn't once said that we will love the winner or like the winner.