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Thank you all for your answers. Just for the record, I wasn't attempting a "gotcha" by asking the question. I was genuinely curious, because while I, too, feel vaguely unsatisfied by Craig as the Mole, I'm not sure if I like the idea that a proper Mole must always be a physically fit specimen. It seems to make it too easy, doesn't it, if one can always rule out the weak?

(As for older women being "wise," though... Heh. Did you ever see the first Australian season? Beverly, the older woman in that season, was just as terrible at the mental challenges as she was at the physical challenges. She was almost comically useless.)

Part of the problem, I think, is that this season has been so overwhelmingly physical in the challenges that a physically weak Mole really needed to do very little to harm the group. Just part of the overall "dumbing down" that this season seemed to represent, I guess. I really missed the strategic, intellectual, and interpersonal challenges of seasons past. All the same, (assuming that Craig is the Mole) perhaps if he'd allowed himself to shine during the rare mental challenge, he wouldn't seem quite so unsatisfying a choice? I really don't know.

I agree with colleenlover that if Craig is the Mole, then the editing is hardly going out of its way to hide it. Then, I felt very much the same way about the first two US seasons -- which similarly came down to endgames with players who all knew perfectly well who the Mole was -- and I loved both of those seasons anyway.

Really, although I understand the arguments about Craig being an unsatisfying Mole, I can't see Nicole or Mark as any more satisfying. If Mark is the Mole, then he's got to be the Worst Mole Ever, given how much money he's been responsible for adding to the pot. The Mole isn't only supposed to elude suspicion, but also to sabotage the challenges. A Mole who only did the former would sort of suck.

And as for Nicole...meh, I don't know. I love the woman, but a Mole playing the role of a player all-too-obviously playing the role of the Mole also seems vaguely unsatisfying from an audience perspective. Sure, I guess you could view it as a neat double-bluff, but it doesn't really work very well dramatically. Not for me, anyway.

Personally, my ideal outcome for this rather disappointing season would be for Craig to be revealed as both the Mole and as a secretly strong athlete. (Yes, Virginia, fat people can be decent athletes.) That would totally rock.

I'm not really holding my breath for that to happen, though.