SO FAR…

So far on this season in survivor this was my favorite episode. It had a lot going on. First of all- after winning the first challenge Natalie and Jeremy make a drastic decision to give up their reward to show their gratitude to Jon and Jacyln for aligning with them and taking out josh in the previous council. A very bold and strategic move, everyone assumed that alliance is locked in. Jeremy is also strategically prepared to go to exile island, where he hopes to find the idol. Although leadership and actually being the leader can be very different it is obvious that Jeremy has a plan and seems to be leading his alliance in the direction they want to be heading, but a few things disrupt his seemingly sure advance. First of all while on exile island, Jeremy searches high and low for the idol, which leads him to believe Jon actually found the idol (which he did).

In survivor so  many aspects are important, not only leadership, endurance, and ability, but strategy is essential. To me Jeremy has been so concerned with leading the pack and keeping himself at the top of his alliance, he failed to stop the betrayal that he was working so hard to prevent. After his strategic move to get Jon and Jaclyn on his side by giving up the boat/feast reward he thought he was golden, but after Jon realized that  Jeremy was suspecting him of actually being in possession of the idol, Jon’s gratitude for taking Jeremy’s place on the boat was long forgotten. Although Jeremy was trying to promote leadership by taking such a big hit for his team, in hopes to further their advances, it ended up being the end of his time on survivor when in a split second Jon became convincing enough to the rest of alliance that it was time to send Jeremy packing.

I think Jeremy could be defined as a leader and for the people he wants to be aligned with he may display a form of leadership, in the sense during the council when Jaclyn is voicing her opinion about how the guys on the other alliance ignored her as soon as Jon was out of the picture, Jeremy added how he wouldn’t do that and treats Jaclyn as an individual, which I think was definitely another tactic just to keep people on “team Jeremy.”

In the end Jeremy was voted off and didn’t see it coming, I think he was clever and his leadership skills did benefit him but most of his competitors saw these characteristics as threats and recognized Jeremy for the strong player he was. I think if Jeremy hadn’t been so involved and gave up his “leader” position he might still be in the game.