Originally Posted by
omgwtfbbq:
“And I can't believe Libra did that to Michelle! She is one nasty bitch!
And you could tell she wasn't doing it just because she really wanted the holiday, she did it out of spite. I felt really bad for Michelle because she took it so hard.”
Michelle was acting like a baby. She was just being foolish by celebrating her holiday prematurely, and irrational for blaming Libra. Libra made the sensible choice, one that Michelle wouldn't have hesitated to make if the situation was reversed. Memphis had the right attitude when he knew that "winning" the veto when he came in last place was meaningless. Michelle must not have understood the rules or watched previous seasons of the show with similar challenges if she thought she would be able to hold on to a valuable prize when she came in second to last. Libra was in a position to take that holiday because she won the game, and Michelle lost it.
The value of the prizes were handed out practically in reverse order:
6th place - Veto
5th place - Hawaiian Holiday
4th place - Slop Surprise
3th place - $10k
2nd place - Letter from home
1st place - Unitard
Obviously the good prizes handed out early were intended to be swapped for bad prizes by the people who won the game. Nobody who came in 5th out of 6 should have thought they had any right to hold onto the better prize. She was wrong to expect to be richly rewarded for losing so badly.
April made the smart choice by capitulating to sharing the money with the people who beat her, because otherwise they would have just taken it from her.