I was rewatching and I couldn’t stop thinking about this.
I was thinking about how Simone reminds Tai throughout the season about how she was a moral person who played by the rules. How her voters see her as a role model. And even when they argued she said
“This is not the woman I married!”
But the Tai we know from the teen timeline has constantly used rage and fear to sway people.
She appeals to their fear of losing nationals to justify freezing out Allie
She appeals to their fear of dying to get them to agree with her on the lake
She appeals to their fears of starvation to get them to go on the trip to find help
She appeals to their anger, fear and betrayal to kill Coach Ben
She appeals to their fear of jail time and public scrutiny to keep them in the wilderness
She appeals to Van’s fears of dying to rig the cards
So it is kind of interesting how it was her who had walked into this race with the intention of playing fair.
Unlike Melissa or Shauna, her relationship with Simone is completely divorced from the wilderness. Unlike the other survivors, Tai has went out of her way to be known for things other than being a flight 2525 survivor. Which is probably why she sent Jessica Roberts after everyone.
It’d be really interesting to see how this relationship started.
I also think that Tai had a much easier and harder time because she had a supportive family. It set her apart from the others, but also alienated her on both sides. She was too normal for the others, who had broken families and dead friends, but too weird for normal people, like her college friends and Simone, who would never understand her
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