Note how I said "feels" rather than "is". This is for one simple reason.
I didn't watch One World all the way through. This season sucked.
Don't get me wrong though, I've seen enough of the season to get a good enough grasp of her gameplay, and I will not deny that she was a great player, and a solid winner. Frankly, had she been a contestant on a regular season of Survivor, I feel she still would've had a really good chance to win.
But she wasn't on a regular season. She was on Survivor One World, a season full of dumb fucks.
Things may have been different in the episodes I missed, but from what I saw, none of the contestants thought "Hey, this woman is OBVIOUSLY going to wipe the floor with us, should we stop her?" and if they did, I'd wager they were either too late, or too quiet.
I'm not really dissing Kim, but I've seen a great number of articles now calling her the greatest winner ever. This might be true, if there wasn't these people:
Tom Westman
Yul Kwon
Denise Stapley
Sophie Clarke
Todd Herzog
Brian Heidik
Tony Vlachos
And if we're also including returning players, John Cochran is also pretty high up there for me.
I can take you seriously as a winner no matter what season you win (yes Fabio, that means you too), but I can't sincerely say you played the best game of all time when there was no one to play it. If she played again and did well, it'd probably be easier for me to say that, but she had almost no opposition. If the season is built entirely around giving you a million dollars, I can't tell how well she would've done in a tougher season (Cagayan comes to mind).
Again, I don't know for sure, but it just seems this way to me.
RiDsTeR Honestly I hope she does come back at some point, so she can get a chance to play against people who didn't piss up their own nose the whole season.
Kim? Didn't see the whole season, again, FEELS overrated.
Danni? Over Todd and Yul? You're on drugs.
Natalie? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt in thinking you mean SJDS's Natalie. I didn't name her for the same reason I didn't name Parvati, the rest of the cast was too fucking stupid.
It's not her fault she got put with that cast.
She played with the cards she was dealt!
I still think she'd do good in a returnees season though no doubt.