I may have a totally different understanding of how or why I used the Scooby-Doo Reveal, but this is sort of how I remember it:
Its been so long since I played these games, Poody's or otherwise. A lot of my memories have faded. I just remember being that person who always ended up jury fodder 9 times out of 10 (1 magical time I won, how'd that happen?), also on the losing side at merge, always betrayed by an ally, Just demoralizing, so annoying.
I actually remember one game, the swing vote mysteriously disappeared from tribal and then reappeared after the vote, after I had been voted out. Claimed she had to go "walk her dog." Yeah right. Its one thing to betray me, another to feed me nonsense.
It just made me not really care about final tribal councils when people thought they could just play as cowards. I always voted angry or irreverent or vote for the worst. Most of the time, I wouldn't even give people the stratification of giving a mean Lex like question, it would just be stupid series of questions that wouldn't impact my vote and cause them to waste time and energy during Final TC.
One time, if I recall correct, I had just gotten tired of people avoiding answering questions during TCs. Half the time, the questions weren't even that tough. Come on, come on. Being silent and riding a majority alliance does not impress me. In real Survivor, people have to answer the question if Jeff asks them something, you can lie, deflect, spin, be truthful, whatever, but you gotta answer the damn thing. You don't watch Jeff ask a question then awkward silence on CBS at the end of an episode. I feel like ignoring questions is damaging the spirit of the game. This is supposed to be role play here.
Just ignoring questions, it just pissed me off, and one time as I was being booted, I warned the players, I'm not voting for players who have nothing to say at tribal council and suddenly, in the finals has this amazing Scooby-doo reveal about how super they were at the game. My thought process was, if you don't think you have anything worth saying now, why would I care what you have to say in the future? I do think it did put fear in some players minds because some did talk a more at tribal after that.
I used to post this little smiley when questions during tribal went unanswered.
If the eye roll is a classic means of attack from the jury when someone says something stupid, when people ignore questions, the tumbleweed smiley is just as important. It annoyed me it wasn't an official smiley and I had to go google it.
Speaking of the eye roll, I remember someone within the game, majority alliance member and idiot said something so stupid, I wanna say three different jury members quoted it and all eye rolled the comment in succession.
Aw memories.
Yes, I enjoy being angry in these games. I don't think Poody could predict how angry I would be based on my recruitment as a Sucks poster. lalala
