SARENA

Irrelevant, but Sarena's silhouette makes her look exactly like Zoya the Destroya from GLOW. 💕



So I obviously was able to play with Sarena on Utren last season, and then got a chance to watch the season back from the Prediction Writer's perspective. It's pretty cut and dry that she was taken waaay before her time, and I even think we all kind of knew that in the moment too. She was mostly a victim of #Kilby to the point where a lot of what she did was scrutinised to the nth degree and she never really got the warning shot to be able to recognise her position and fix it on the fly. I do think she made the mistake of hitching her wagon to a trainwreck (Jacob) prematurely, and then with him made a few too many scattered group chats that got back to people. Even so, she was in a position where Jacob would've totally taken the fall before her, but Utren avoided Tribal Council for so many rounds that by the time we actually got to Tribal the idea of taking him out was so played out and boring that taking out the clear bigger threat in Sarena was what ended up being settled on. It was a pretty brutal blindside and had we gone to Tribal in any of the rounds prior I'm sure she would've been all sweet.

Sarena is obviously funny and endlessly charming, but I don't know, it's a little bit to a detriment in this kind of game? Like, she's so likeable that it's almost intimidating? While I think that she'll be able to make the merge no problem, I think that might be her ceiling? I have her pegged as an early juror just because I don't know if anybody would be dumb enough to let her get to the Final Tribal Council where barring some drastic turn of events, she'd probably sweep up. I'm excited for Sarena to get another shot at Endure though and hope she does way, way better.



ANDERS

I'm still very much not over the fact that Anders and I weren't sorted onto the same tribe during Penumbra, so hosting him in this season will have to do! I don't know him as well as I know Sarena, but my assessment of him is that I think he's holding himself back. I don't even know if I'd have the advice to help him fix it, but like, you just take one look at him and his mannerisms and just how intensely he talks about the game and all of a sudden you see sirens and "THREAT. THREAT. THREAT" flashing in front of you. And fuck if I know how to control that.

In a normal season I would actually probably advise Anders to just like, lose straight away and go to Tribal! He makes a good first impression and I don't think he'd ever really wind up being the first boot, but he for is the like, epitome of the exact kind of person I could see a tribe take out if they get restless after a bunch of back-to-back wins and need a juicy target. Losing quicksmart gets Anders' foot in the door and y'all can take out whoever the easy vote is in the meantime. But just like... being the sole returnee on his tribe would possibly put him in that "easy vote" realm so I don't know if I would risk it.

I'm gonna take a stab and predict that Anders might crash and burn again. It'd be tragic! ... but probably still a spectacle nonetheless. I just hope that someone on his tribe is enough of a catastrophe to maybe divert the attention away from him.




LEXI

I don't know who this person is! And I haven't watched her Okanagan interview so she's really just a big question mark for me. The one thing I do know about her though is that her and her Blood vs. Water partner were apparently the first two boots in her season? That is the best shit I've ever heard of and I'd feel really badly for the both of them if it just wasn't so funny. Even though all three of these returnees went out early, she's the only one of them to be a true "first boot". I'd worry about her losing the very first challenge because there is for sure an urge to just Francesca someone out of two different seasons. I don't want to see Lexi's Endure fate be that bleak so please with Immunity Clotho! 🙏