Nice to read your thoughts glenny.

In response, I will say that there has been Coach supporters all season but I had doubts because of some scenes that made him look petty or hypocritical. Yet, he's the only player left outside of RI with a somewhat positive story.

Sophie's support isn't based on her story because she has always been the narrator, not the actor. Her confessionals could be seen as portraying a clinical player but, as you said, many clips could have supported that story if that was the intent of her edit. Instead of clinical, I see her as cold and heartless.

If Sophie were to win, she would be the winner that would have done the absolute least to deserve the title:
- She was in no way responsible for building the alliance; she just happened to go to bed late on the first night.
- She did nothing to help Upolu win a single challenge.
- We very rarely see her working in camp (Edna has been working much, much more)
- She did nothing to flip the game at the merge.
- No one talks about her. We almost never heard any positive comments about her. Jim said Sophie wasn't drinking Coach's Kool-Aid but Jim has always been wrong and her voting decisions prove that he was that time also.
- She went through a boring pagongoing; smooth sailing to F6.
- We know she is inside the core 3 so we don't even have doubts about her failing to make the F3.

I cannot believe the editors would show us a winner having such an easy time. No danger, no doubt... That has never spelled winner. It is so easy to create doubt that I cannot believe we wouldn't have been served something.

The only way a win by Sophie would feel satisfying is if she were to single-handedly beat Ozzy at F4. Maybe after an epic 12 hour endurance challenge, he falls off leaving her alone standing in victory. I'd still feel that we had been cheated from a good story (Why treat our winner like Brett v2.0?) but that is what she needs.