Sudgy, I just read all your posts in Mean Girls, and I sort of see what you're saying. After the pressure turned on you, you were pretty much exclusively defending yourself, yeah.
But the timelines in the two games are just so different. In that game, the wagon on you was less than a day long, from the time Robz claimed IC until the time you got lynched. We had already passed our soft deadline, and were near the end of the day so we needed to get a lynch down quickly. You were defending yourself from that point, but that's appropriate because we were so close to the deadline.
But before that, you were looking at others much more than you were here. And in LOTR, you continued to look at others even after you were under pressure (from memory, I haven't re-read that game since I played it, admittedly.) I don't know why you were so focused on your defense several days ago.. the chances of us quicklynching you are so low that as town, I would think that you would look around more than you did.