Hmm, I saw it differently. Is Tanya young? Sure, she’s younger than some of her tribemates, but big deal. If every tribal council just voted off the oldest person each time, you wouldn’t have to play the game. Just check everyone’s birth certificates, and announce the winner. Obviously, if Jan’s age really is a strike against her no matter what else happens in the game, then she must be doing something right that you can’t see, 'cause she’s still there.
Was Tanya strong? What show were you watching? She’d eaten a handful of beans in 6 days! She puked constantly. They made her ride in that palanquin or whatever the hell it was in the reward challenge because she could hardly stand.
Sure, she hadn’t cost them an immunity challenge, but she hadn’t done much to win one for them either. And they may have felt that she lost the reward challenge (they were blindfolded and couldn’t really tell what was going on). I’d be thinking that the eating challenge is up next (curry chicken? pad thai?), and puke girl isn’t going to be an asset for that one. Besides, shouldn’t they really care more about who will help them in the future, not punishing who hurt them in the past?
Tanya seemed to be the right one to go. She didn’t seem too surprised about it, and almost seemed glad. I don’t think it was a “dumb” choice, since she probably was the weakest physically and wanted to be there the least. I wouldn’t want to be the player who stuck his neck out too far to lobby to get a more popular (i.e. Jan) member voted out.
Yeah, she did cry. But is she lazy? I don’t see it that way.
She paddled that little canoe for six hours while Helen led them into cove after cove looking for the water. Helen even said early in their odyssey “we agreed to take turns going to look for the water”. That’s actually a good plan. It doesn’t make sense to both go check for water and discover it’s not there. And knowing those two, they’d just lose the boat and then be really stuck.
So Jan stays with the boat. And we get this great shot of Helen looking pissed because she finds Jan relaxing in the water. Well, duh. What would you do if you were staying behind, try to regain some energy, or run laps of the beach and do calisthenics?
There seems to be a lot to criticize about Jan (what’s with those pigtail thingss?), but resting when you get an opportunity to rest and theres nothing whatsoever constructive that you can do equals “smart”, not “lazy”.