"Jaclyn, did you vote for who I told you to vote for?"
Baylor Wilson (San Juan Del Sur)
Maybe this one will be unpopular, but who cares? Baylor's idol-off was the first ever time an idol was effectively used to save somebody at the final 5, and who better to do it than Natalie? After her sister Nadiya was voted out in the first episode, Natalie had a large hand in controlling the rest of the game. She organized Jon's blindside at the final 6, kept Keith wrapped around her finger and then swiftly turned on Baylor when Keith won Final 5 immunity.
What makes this blindside so great is how CBS managed to almost completely fool us with the editing, which is something they're usually not very good at. I was completely, 100% sure that Jaclyn was done for, and my jaw hit the floor when Natalie played her idol on Jaclyn. This was also a brilliant strategic play for Natalie -- it split up Missy and Baylor and made the remaining three players all dependent on Natalie's vote to get to the end. Even though Baylor got the boot, this was basically the end of any chance anyone else had at winning the game, and reminded us that strong women can still win Survivor even if Jeff Probst doesn't always want them to.
SJDS is such an underrated season, it built up to the whole Jeremy v Josh fight, which ended up taking them both out, and it seemed like Jon was going to win. Then, after Jeremy goes Natalie just comes out of nowhere and plays a fantastic endgame, making each of the last 4 tribals unpredictable. The entire merge was unpredictable, not 1 tribal seemed set in stone.
Plus the premerge gets a lot of hate, but Val, John, and Drew all had great downfalls, the Dale/Kelley boot episodes are the only meh episodes, yet there is still good parts of them.
DJ4460 Baylor wouldn't have won but if Jaclyn had left Nagalie would've been stuck with a challenge threat (Keith) and Missy/Baylor in the F4. If that had happened Natalie would have had a very high chance of going home.
"Jaclyn, did you vote for who I told you to vote for?"