Jane has the distinction of being my most hated Survivor who isn't my most hated within their season. Congrats. And I wish NaOnka hadn't quit so I could put Jane at the bottom of her season, because I absolutely loathed watching her. I think the biggest problem with Jane though is that I didn't start by hating her. In fact, she was actually one of my favorites in the first few episodes. But then she got progressively awful as the season went on, yet the editors still found a way to give her the most forced-positive edit in history because they knew she needed the money she would get from winning Fan Favorite.
Pre-season, I took one look at Jane, and my gut told me that she wasn't going to last. She was the oldest woman in the game and the third-oldest overall, she didn't look particularly strong, and she had a quirky personality. Even on the older tribe, things looked grim for her. But then the first episode starts and she is able to make fire minutes into the game without any kind of tools, and said how she really needed the money because her husband had just passed away, and immediately all of America, myself included, was rooting for her. Over the next few episodes we didn't see too much of her, except that she was really close with Jimmy Johnson and that was about it.
Then came the tribe swap. Suddenly, Jane found herself on a tribe with a bunch of kids in their 20s and decided that she fit in better with them than the people on her old tribe and immediately flopped. Fine, whatever. Smart move on her part, actually, because her old tribe was outnumbered on NuLa Flor. However, this was also the episode that for some reason she decided that she and Marty didn't like each other. There was no fight or hostility between them leading up to this moment, she just all of a sudden decided that the two of them were enemies. And that's where she started becoming really annoying. For the next five episodes, her entire edit is about how much she hates Marty and how big of a villain he is, despite Marty having done nothing to Jane except arrange her buddy Jimmy Johnson's boot. And there are two awful things about this, aside from the fact that it was just plain annoying. First, all of the young kids totally bought into this and, with the exception of Fabio, all started to hate Marty as well. Second, despite having everything in their power to vote Marty out, they didn't even do it. Now, that's not a bad thing from a viewer standpoint, because Marty brought a ton of entertainment to the season. But it just showed how nobody in that entire season was playing strategically. They vote out people like Jill and Kelly B. over a strategic threat that nobody likes, even when he didn't have his immunity idol to hide behind.
So we get to the merge and Jane is now in a superalliance that consists of herself, NaOnka, Brenda, Sash, Purple Kelly, Chase, and Holly, an alliance which by the way has exactly one member that I don't hate. They have all the cards in place to take out Marty again, and what do they do? Vote out Alina, who posed no immediate threat. And Jane continues to b**** about Marty. When they finally get around to voting out Marty in the next episode, Jane takes a shot below the belt and calls him a terrible father, even though she has never seen him as a parent. At this point Marty ruins any chance Jane still had at winning by promising everybody that if he is on the jury and Jane is in the final three, he will vote for her because everyone else was stupid enough to let her get that far. Even after Marty's boot Jane still finds things to b**** about, particularly people not taking her on rewards. So now we know that she's selfish too. And then comes her boot episode...
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