If it weren't for the Outcast twist, Shawn would have made the merge and almost certainly at least the jury, so that's one good thing that the Outcast twist gave us - we didn't have to deal with this jerk after episode 7. Basically he started out as a bully who had a cliquey alliance with Burton and Michelle, but didn't realize that Sandra/Rupert/Christa/Trish/Fairplay had the numbers to pick them off, so he quickly switched over at their first vote. This didn't help him much though, because he was still and ass, he lost the fishing gear, and he didn't get along with Fairplay. Even though he seemingly made it to the final 10, the Outcast twist forced the Drakes to vote out one more person, and as his fight with Fairplay culminated (in one of the best voting confessionals ever), they decided to set him adrift.
346. Whitney Duncan (South Pacific, 9th place)
I know you've all been waiting for Whitney to show up, but to be honest, this is the writeup I have been dreading having to do for quite some time now. In one sense, I feel guilty putting Whitney this low. In another sense, she's lucky she made it this high. First I'll start by saying that I totally get why everyone hates her so much. She was in an awful showmance with another awful person, was cheating on her husband oh and by the way, nobody back at home even knew she was secretly married, and she was part of the anti-Cochran brigade ("you disGUST me!"). Add this to the fact that she has the worst confessionals to episodes lasted ratio of all time, and you've got a recipe for a terrible candidate. By all means I totally get people putting her last for her season and in the bottom 20 or so overall. But I just can't bring myself to put Whitney any lower than this for personal reasons. Something that a lot of you might not know about me is that I am somewhat of a missing persons activist. I participate in several groups trying to raise awareness and help bring home missing persons, and one of the cases that I was following intensely last summer was Holly Bobo, who happens to be Whitney's cousin, so I actually knew who Whitney was before she was announced as a cast member. I was really hoping that they would mention Holly as part of her edit, but they didn't, and I know Whitney feels awful about that, and I can totally sympathize with her for it. It just goes to show the way the editing department has gone in recent years. Back in, say, China, that would have been at the very least mentioned, if not a big part of the story. But these days all the editors care about is shoving huge male personalities down our throats. And finally, to end this writeup on a bit of a lighter note, I've just simply been amused by the name Duncan ever since discovering the legendary Frank Garrett of Duncan Construction (RIP, man).
345. A woman over 40 who was still in the running at the beginning of the finale
344. Was visibly bitter on the jury
343. On-screen name was a nickname unrelated to their given name
342. The original performance of someone on Heroes vs. Villains
341. A "weird" chick
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