User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/Lightning - a Good or a Bad Character?/@comment-24152851-20141110080007/@comment-27329394-20141111034923

I also didn't think it was out of character though. I thought you meant derailment (which seems to mean the same thing on this wiki) because you mentioned it directly before it...

Anyway, Lightning may have been pushed around by Jo, but it's different from being betrayed. Let's take Lindsay and Heather an example, which was a similar case. Though Lindsay and Heather had a longer lived alliance, Lightning and Jo had formed an alliance to get Brick voted off which continued until Grand Chef Auto. Heather and Jo may have both been very mean to them, but until it actually hindered their chances in the competition, they didn't actually start to get upset with them. Lindsay snapped when she was eliminated and Heather admitted she didn't care like how Lightning snapped when Jo called him shark bait and ditched him. It's a similar case for both and for both alliances as well as Cameron it was pretty much immediate.

Was the conflict a reason to be in the finale? Probably. But I don't think anyone worked better in his position because of what he had to go through during the finale. Imagine how steamed people would be if Cameron had beaten the shizz out of Jo instead of Lightning. Unless there was a different challenge, I don't see the pairing any other way since I don't see Cameron not winning the season (unless you really wanted Scott in the finale).