I can agree with labeling Alex as the douchebag of the season. You have to really wonder what strategic value he thought telling Rob that "at the final four, I'm pretty much guaranteed to vote you off" had at the final SEVEN. That, in and of itself, I wouldn't call a douchebag move, but it does show an extreme amount of confidence that, as we saw, was not necessarily warranted. So...I dunno. I feel like calling that a "douchbag move" for the time that it happened at may be allowing what followed to retroactively color my perception of it, but at the same time, it's hard to see why he would do that and expect it to have any positive benefits.
Joel is one of those guys whose general perception is a little confusing to me. Yeah, the edit made him seem kind of chauvinistic, but the specific comment that was chauvinistic can be attributed to Gervase ("Girls are the stupidest thing on the planet next to cows"), so it's a little strange to see so much of the consequence of that comment thrown on to Joel and Gervase seeming to get off relatively free. So while I can understand having him low for his season, it just seems a little off given that Gervase was the one who made the comment. Maybe someone can explain the general perception to me?
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Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.