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PrettyGoodYear1988 wrote:

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Schoonie of TVgasm wrote about Sugar this way. I think it's pretty appropriate.

My problem with Sugar is that she's letting her emotions guide her through the game instead of thinking about how to create the best possible situation in which she can win. She's making really shrewd moves, which has kept me from seeing what the real deal is.

If you think about it, she's never really had a plan for more than a few hours ahead, and while she's come up with well-executed ideas, there's no grand plan and no real strategy. Sugar's decisions have been based on how she's judged people. She's just continually taken it upon herself to deliver comeuppance to those that she believes to be "bad", or conversely rewarded people that she believes to be "good". She's judged people according to whatever parameters she herself has set, decided a punishment, and then executed said punishment (exceedingly well, actually) without consideration for anything (and especially anyone) else but herself, and how she feels.

Think about it this way: why isn't she giving Matty the same consideration she's giving Bob? Shouldn't she give him some sort of hint that he might need to prepare for a tiebreaker? Matty's been very loyal to her. Matty's voted how she wants. I'll tell you: it's because Sugar has made a little diagram in her head, and in that diagram she has ranked people according to their moral worth, and Bob is at the top and Matty is slightly underneath him. The fact that she's keeping Bob around is the best proof of this hypothesis that I can offer: everyone knows he's going to wipe the floor with her, and yet she cannot help herself, because this is how she has arranged the world around her, in good and bad, and handing down all these karmic punishments is her way of making sense of things. SHE believes that one person deserves this more than another, so SHE is taking it upon herself going to punish one person and reward the other.

My point is: Who is she to do that? It's actually one of the most selfish ways imaginable to treat people, and it's disguised as concern and friendship. She's been doing it very effectively and efficiently, so it masquerades as some sort of strategy (despite the fact that it's not), but nonetheless, it's an exceedingly self-centered way to think and act.

The irony is that handing down these punishments without regard for any sort of loyalty to anyone actually makes the way she's acting counter-intuitive to the way she's judging other people. If she were to judge herself objectively, where would she fall on her own scale? The way she masquerades sort of consideration for other people that makes her appear vulnerable, when really the whole cycle is just allowing her to create a world of her choosing and hand down punishments as she sees fit. And that? Is not cool, at all. It's almost as jerky as anything Randy did, if you think about it.

Well, except for that one part when he was racist.

I would have posted a big red X in response to that but I'm not sure they do that there.