Helicopter Alliance, A.S.

So I hadn't thought about it at all from the perspective of the other players that you think that they don't have what it takes to win.

I had felt like that, and I was asked the other day of, who do you think is the most likely person to win the season? And I said it was Sharonda because I felt like that she has so many other options still, including the Helicopter Alliance and all the other people that are out there.

But you feel like that this was disqualifying that she went back and didn't want to go to the Rocks.

I feel like that she has so many other options, though.

For sure.

I think it was Survivor just trying to make you feel like, hey, something else going on.

The Helicopter Alliance is locked in.

I saw, I don't know if I'm allowed to say this.

That's why I think...

Now, listen, I don't want to say like Jelly's hand was forced because certainly there's been a lot of discourse about, you know, particularly when she talked about feeling like either, you know, she helps support a woman or she helps support the Black community, which is what the Helicopter Alliance is all about.

I think you both have vocalized very wonderfully how complicated of a situation this is, especially Franny, from your perspective, being someone who... playing and trying to think about not only the world that exists within the island, but the world that exists outside of the island as well.

But I think that if you look at the way the options that Jelly had, there were no other options from what she was outlining.

um so yeah and i'm uh i am uh no offense franny i'm more than happy to move on from the showman's theme of it all mainly because it's not real like again like it's just it doesn't to me it's not that i don't i love love don't get me wrong love love

uh don't love forced

things you know what i mean so i'm like okay i'm glad we can just sort of move on let's keep with the helicopter alliance you don't you don't want it to

be a manufactured plot point

They were both voted out the same night for very different reasons.

Was there anything Alexis could have done to outmaneuver the secret helicopter alliance? And how did Linnea find herself in the spot of having one close ally causing her other close allies to send her package? We, aka myself and the last US Survivor player to be eliminated by a rock draw, look into these questions and so many more because at RHAP, we know Survivor and we know why Alexis and Linnea lost.

And we'll begin with the first and most important rule, which is, of course, to scheme and plot.

Despite Carter claiming earlier that Alexis didn't know how to play the game, she was actually doing quite well and ended up showing him that when she and her allies flipped the script and voted out Anna, putting him in a not very great position.

And what I think is interesting, too, is I love that we do come to learn new information in these exit interviews, but it's also a little bit frustrating when you don't necessarily see these things happening during the game itself, because Alexis really was really kind of under the radar as far as the relationship she was making, at least from what we had seen.

And I think all of them really were.

I do feel like Sharonda and Linnea did a really good job of not making it like the helicopter alliance even though everyone is saying they didn't know that it was going on we clearly know that it's going on and it seems to be a little more in your face as opposed to these types of alliances so it it was it's unfortunate that we didn't get to see more of it but i do feel like it kind of matches the the way that she wanted to play she didn't really come on really strong until she had to it was almost like she did just enough to plant the seeds and learn information and make people feel a particular way or think a particular thing.

So I really appreciated the way that she was approaching the game.

And so it will be kind of just like, how can we best ingratiate ourselves with the, with the like Lewis Carter killed me block and, And Tinahan, too, is kind of how I see the world shaping up.

Yeah, so I think it's actually kind of an interesting scenario because I think that the other looming story is that we have the Helicopter Alliance.

And the Helicopter Alliance is, you know, four in numbers right now.

But I think that the Helicopter Alliance has also some other connections where...

There's Brady and Mike, who were in tight with Devin and Jelly on the original Yellow Tribe.

And then also, Sharonda was, you know, was tight with Kristen, who I think could be an interesting floater.

And still, Sharonda is tight with Christian.

And so it seems like the Helicopter Alliance, plus whatever sort of side pieces they have, does outnumber this Kilby group.