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BTW, a lot of people forget that Palau had not just a double boot episode, but a triple one! The 1st episode had 3 boots. I actually think that the double boot episodes improve the editing doesn't it? It speeds up the elimination of extraneous castaways allowing the distribution of visibility editing to be spread out more for all the castaways. Isn't that the whole premise of people wanting smaller cast sizes? Why is it worse editing to have a double boot episode Quiddty?

Indeed, you're correct. Palau had major flaws in its editing with me, almost as bad as Cook Islands. I dislike the double boots because it gives us a lot less overall time for the castaways. I won't go through every season, but I know I pointed out the person per episode ratios to you in another thread a while back, and the Cook Islands person per episode ratio was way down, which was probably a major reason why people like Becky got so screwed by the producers into being ultra invisible.

Standard, 16 person season with no double boot episodes and a F4 finale: 13 episodes / 16 castaways = 0.8125 episodes per castaway
Cook Islands, 20 persons with 2 double boot episodes and a F5 finale: 14 episodes / 20 castaways = 0.7 episodes per castaway

And that doesn't take into account the fact that the double boot episode itself has two tribal councils and usually a more complicated than usual challenge which reduces even more the time we have for confessionals and events at camp.

Just think if Cook Islands had no double boot episodes and a F4. That'd be 3 more complete episodes. Think of all the extra time that'd have given us to have more time for Becky, Sundra, Brad, Rebecca and others who came off as very invisible in the editing. The season could have been so much better without them IMHO.

ETA: I know some people think things would drag out too long if there were no pre-merge double boot episodes, but I think certain twists could be utilized (yes, I don't hate all twists :P) to liven things up. An early merge at 12 for example. I'm a huge Survivor fan, I always want more episodes then what we get. I always want seasons to last longer than they do. It astounds me that they willingly give up multiple new episodes that could be used to draw in big ratings in order to have double boot episodes.

Also what are YOUR reasons for disliking CI AND Fiji Quiddity

C'mon Ravu, you fully know why I dislike Cook Islands so much. :P

My main gripe with Fiji has always been the Haves/Have Not twist. I just typed a long rant about it in another thread just a few days ago. Earl was extremely obvious to all as the winner by episode 4 or 5 at the latest and that was not using edgic or any other overly complicated editing analysis. While I felt the editing was somewhat better than Cook Islands, we still had people like Lilliana, Stacy and Rita that had very bad edits. I missed the family visit. While the F3 twist worked out great in Cook Islands, it completely backfired in Fiji and resulted in a F3 where we knew the second the jury questioning started that not only would Earl win, but that he would get all 9 jury votes. That's about it in a nutshell.