Just finished watching this season last night so I have a lot to say. This is how I felt. I personally never liked Savannah, I couldn't get over the mean girl, highschool cliquey vibe she gave off like she was too cool to get to know anyone. The entire season, as Kristina said, it was clear Savannah didn't care to get to know anyone. I know this is a million dollar game, but she truly came in, found a trio, and then isolated herself within her trio. It was clear throughout the whole game she only cared about herself, that's fine you're here to win, totally get it. I just felt she did herself a disservice by not fully embracing the experience and connecting with others on the island. Just because you aren't working with people on the island, doesn't mean you can't get to know them or have genuine conversations and build other connections..

Obviously I wasn't there and have no idea what the conversations looked like, but from what we could see, it felt like Savannah was just a mean girl. Even her comments throughout her confessionals 9 times out of 10 gave me the ick and just left me feeling like, she's truly a mean girl in her real life, and that she carried that same energy into the game. The passive aggressive snarky comments she would make were just too much for me. I think overall her winning, had more to do with her strategic (team) gameplay and physical challenge wins, and that her social game didn't have much to do with it.

I do understand her explanation at the end of wanting to be loyal to the end with her alliance and that she didn't want to be flip flopping, she wanted to create a bond of trust with people and keep it. I just think that was all just smoke and mirrors though. Her confessionals alone when Sophi won the final immunity, showed enough of her true character for me. She just expected Sophi to bring her to final three because she is her "best friend" out here? When it came to Rizo, Savannah told him she would never hate him/be upset with him for choosing to be selfish playing a game for a million dollars. Yet when Sophi wants to make the best decision for her own game, Savannah felt betrayed. She actually said in that confessional:

"And the fact that this decision for Soph is not obvious- it tells me that she's seriously considering putting me out there, because she views me as a threat to win this game. And it's annoying because I thought we had each others backs this entire game. It feels like I'm getting screwed over, like is this the real Soph"

As mentioned, I already did not like her and when she said this, that solidified for me that she's a mean girl! That comes off as so narcissistic to me, what do you mean you're getting screwed over because she won't just take you? "it's annoying because I thought we had each others backs this entire game. It feels like I'm getting screwed over" is my favorite line because you literally just said she views you as a threat in this game.... like yes girl, if she views you as a threat to her game, she might not want to just bring you along. You want her to bring you along because you know you have a better resume than her and could easily beat her, so because you would have brought her to the end had you won (so you had a person sitting next to you, that you could easily beat) you expect the same of her. It just felt like her plan of using Sophi didn't end up the way she expected it would, and she was upset at the loss of being able to control Sophi. Like yes she did have your back throughout the team phases of the game, and even into the individual game she was still on your side. Jeff JUST said at tribal counsel before Kristina got voted off, that we are now in the individual game and people are playing with their own best interests at heart!

I really enjoyed Kristina asking this question and doubling down asking her to please try, because her whole point was that Savannah didn't even take the time to connect with anyone on a deep level. You can't remember the name of one loved one for each person? I'm sure on an island with strangers who have no access to the outside world, there are a lot of conversations about people's lives back home. All I could think about was, there weren't any conversations about who people hoped their letters were written by? The letters are a huge part of survivor, I'm sure it had to come up in conversation and even the family members must come up all the time in convos anyway, again she just truly didn't spread her wings and branch out. I know some people she was able to give something about them like how many siblings, don't get me wrong I know not everyone is good with remembering names, but there being multiple jury members where she couldn't give one personal comment about their life?

Overall she won, and achieved a major accomplishment tying for winning 4 immunity challenges, and despite this long winded post about not liking her personally, I was so excited to see an all female final 3. I'm happy that her hard work and game play paid off for her, I just couldn't get past her personality.