LogFAQs > #968617892

Daniel Strunk (119/142): Yeah, I agree with darkx's assessment. Even though Daniel was a pre-merge boot, he was just SO focused-on during the pre-merge, and he was this obnoxious superfan-type character who was a bumbling idiot half the time. It's just really hard for me to appreciate those types of players in general, since aside from like, Jacob Derwin, it always feels like superfan flops are given a LOT more leeway in their terrible gameplay than others...so it always annoys me when you have someone like Daniel outlasting Jenny, or surviving to episode 5 because his tribe is just strong.

Cynthia Bailey (133/142): Like I said when discussing Miesha...it says a lot when, by the endgame of CBB3, I was genuinely rooting for Miesha Tate over most of the rest of the cast. Cynthia Bailey is a large part of that. Not only was she completely useless as a player, but she was so mean-spirited and nasty towards people, largely because she tucked herself under Todrick's arm and decided to play as like his extra appendage. She/Carson/Shanna FINALLY had a chance to turn the season around at the final seven, and because Cynthia had this do-or-die bond with Todrick, she got suckered in and this led to her trashing Shanna. Not just betraying her, but genuinely treating Shanna like shit for NO justifiable reason. She was just so aggressively clueless about the game that it infuriated me to watch her try to act like she had any idea what was going on. The fact that she was the sole vote for Todrick speaks volumes about her game overall.

Monte Taylor (125/142): The ONLY reason Monte even ranks this high for me is because he was so blinded by his own misogyny that he threw away $675,000 in order to save BB24. Monte was not a good character on the season. He was the most standard "athletic dudebro" in the cast, which had been the default winner for the prior several seasons, but he largely didn't DO anything. He got into a big alliance, as is tradition, then rode that out without making any difficult moves until the double eviction, where Taylor had to convince him how stupid it would be to take Michael into the final five. Then he just comped out from that point to guarantee a spot in the final two. I appreciate him taking Taylor, instead of sticking with his dudebro attitude and taking Turner...but that doesn't make up for the general lack of respect shown to Taylor throughout the season. Monte was right there alongside Paloma in turning the house against Taylor...on the basis of Taylor trying to help him out. And then by the endgame, he just treated her like shit, despite her finally giving in and hooking up with him. It was really unpleasant, and I cannot tell you how much I dreaded him being given a default win and facing no real comeuppance for his actions.

Zach Wurtenberger (110/142): Everything I said about Daniel being annoying applies here...but Zach had the decency to be SO pathetic (on an already physically-lacking tribe) that he got booted in episode one. He was trying WAY too hard to be a memorable superfan character, and I hated that. People like Zach were why I was so nervous about the S42 cast in the first place, because it felt SO superfan heavy (compared to the more normal S41 cast). But yeah, he got booted early, so I'm okay with that. And he's fun enough on Twitter, so whatever.