User blog comment:DramaDot/The Obsta-Kill Kourse/@comment-24623255-20200125235633/@comment-35606925-20200126073158

Valid points about Island, though I will add and dispute a few things.

1. Heather's strategy should have been presented to the audience better. My understanding was that she wanted everyone to hate her to such an extent that she would never be the prime target. If everyone hated her, than they could get rid of her at any time. Add in Lindsay and Beth and Heather's plan was to face the jury with two people nobody could deny were strategically inferior to Heather. Yet this is never made clear and becomes confusing when facing the jury wasn't the finale, rendering her strategy pointless. However, the show followed this logic with the Gopher core (just never explained it). Plus Heather typically had the numbers due to bribing Owen and Izzy.

2. Maybe I'm bias, but i don't think Duncan x Heather would've worked in this season. Courtney and Heather are very sinilar and the writers probably realized Courtney had no purpose in the season, so they swapped their intended roles. I mean, Heather was always the mean girl, so why not make her the main antagonist. There are also fragments of the Duncan x Heather relationship still present such as in Are We There Yeti?

3. Rigging the votes should've stuck with Harold. Either that or Heather should've manipluated him into it. That way we can shift the blame away from him. Otheriwse Harold's characterization litteraly becomes "I play with honor unless I'm being bullied, then cheat". Courtney also doesn't really give him his just deserts in Action, and it's just kind of dropped.

4. TDI had by far the most toilet breaks of the show, so why fault it for this. Anymore and it would've probably been distracting from the limited time they had