LAST EDITED ON 04-11-15 AT 07:24 PM (EST)Round Robin: If there had been a quitter this season, we almost surely would have known it by now, as quits have always leaked out in the past … I think Jenn talking about having no fun and wanting to quit is misdirection … I'm pretty confident no one will quit.
Pepe: I concur - Jenn has had too good of an edit for a quitter. There's been a couple of seasons when we were surprised by a quit, but in every single season with a quit, the quitter has not had a terrific edit …
CTgirl: Jenn's most likely just having a bad day. In a secret scene, she was also stung by a scorpion (high up on her other thigh from the bee sting) and she was really pissed that Joe didn't take her on the pizza reward. I think she's too much of a fan to really throw in the towel.
You are all very probably right. But …
I think that we would all agree that the postgame behavior of the Dirty 30, as a group, has confounded conventional spoiling mechanisms, And that, with the exception of Joaquin, the World Apart players have been masterful at generating mysteries and guarding secrets. So, I am not so sure as Round Robin that “no one will quit”.
And I am not so sure as Pepe that “Jenn has had too good of an edit for a quitter”. I haven’t thought of it as a particularly flattering one from the beginning. For instance:
To put it mildly, she was indifferent to the evidently sincere overtures of friendship (or infatuation) by Vince, downright callous in her treatment of Nina and in her raucous dismissal of the player that everyone liked: Kelly. In fact, Hali aside, I think that Jenn's observation that the “people” of Worlds Apart “suck” was probably, then, pretty much all-inclusive. And Hali was at Ponderosa.
I waited, though, to post this until I’d gotten a second opinion in the form of Michel’s latest update of The Characters and their Stories. And that’s because, in pursuit of her birthdate, I spent an uncomfortable amount of time reading Jenn’s public Twitter before the Season began. And, although I will readily admit that I find a lot of social media content unflattering to the authors, I have never read a more vulgar – as opposed to profane – or more sad little litany of ‘bad days’ and ‘bad people’ interspersed with picturesque – no-detail-spared - accounts of binge drinking, binge vomiting and regrettable personal hygiene. In contrast, the portrait of Wes Nale painted by Wes Nale is a thing of beauty.
So, I wanted to be sure that it ‘wasn’t just me’ …
Aquarius …
Positive Traits
Friendly and Humanitarian
Progressive and Pioneering
Original and Inventive
Eccentric, Independent and Intellectual Negative Traits
Intractable and Dogmatic
Perverse and Unpredictable
Unemotional and Detached
Isolated
… are renowned for their eccentricities. But they are also, generally, positive partners and remarkably tolerant social companions. However, if I had to choose the former Survivor Jenn most reminds me of, it would be Jamie Newton (of Guatemala) with whom she shares a birthday (January 26th). Like Jamie, it would seem that she can be charming. And her edit has made her a far wittier storyteller than the Georgian. But the two also seem to share a very unattractive strain in the inherently self-centric and extraordinarily practical Aquarius personality that leads to excess, paranoia and isolation.
So, I do think that if Jenn becomes convinced that she can’t win the Game, she could very well quit or do her best to make certain that she is voted out.
ETA: Too, I think that it is possible that, convinced that she can't win the Game, Jenn could well take a final swipe at the Blue Collars by saving Joe (or even Shirin) via her own withdrawal from it.
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