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2042 or 1942?

Okay, chap. I'll take your challenge.

Alexis.
pro: had something special in Ep 1, Care taken each week to remind us she's still here.
con: hasn't had any real meat to her since that Ep 1 appearance.

Eliza
pro: major storylines mapped out. Whereas Parvati has claimed to change her game, Eliza is being SHOWN to have changed. Her edit shows her being thoughtful, observant and a challenge asset rather than a liability.
con: she's well developed in order to serve as a distraction to someone else

James
pro: being shown to have some challenge smarts. He found the word "Triumphant" in the puzzle the other ep
con: not really developed as a game long player. Starting to get negativity thrown in along with positivity, but it all feels "minor"

Jason
pro: he had some good comments in Ep 1
con: everything about his edit says "supporting player" "someone on the outside" "nothing goes right for him"

Kathleen
pro: Her edit has toned down a good deal over the last few eps
con: Problem is, starting out as an OTT player, whether P or N, bodes very poorly. She's getting more of the sweetheart treatment because she said nice things about one of the show's favorites, Jonathan.

Natalie
pro: If we're due for a truly Invisible winner, she'd be as good as anyone.
con: No story, like, at all.

Parvati
pro: Excellent carefully tended edit.
con: Could be a distraction for someone else with an equally well-tended edit. (Cirie or Eliza)

Amanda
pro: see Natalie
con: no real story; adjunct to Ozzy

Ami
pro: Beginning to be seen as a Mover & Shaker
con: Unfortunately, it's happening too late. We're seeing her make moves because her story can be told in a few eps' worth of show.

Cirie
pro: Been a major mover/shaker. Lots of facetime in the early eps (for the most part), having a quieter period at the moment.
con: She's really strong ... but ... maybe she's almost too strong a presentation. She's starting to feel OTT, even if she's never actually received a consensus OTT rating.

Erik
pro: He's starting to get CP treatment...
con: Early eps were too nothing.

Ozzy
pro: He's starting to get CP ratings ...
con: Early eps were Meh. I think he's peaking without having been fully developed. Won't win.

Tracy
pro: Before ep 6, I thought she had great chances.
con: The totally unnecessary SPV about her (non) contribution to the challenge is more lethal in my view than the disputed INV. It means she's going from a fairly positive character to a seemingly gratuitous negative one. When others in the game are shown finding reasons to find fault, that's a set up for galvanizing the troops to boot her.

In conclusion, there are a few people who have had facetime with substance in almost every ep, even if their tribe didn't go to TC that week. People who get nothing even if their tribe goes to TC (and Alexis falls into that category) are unlikely winners at best. Even Danni was given good facetime, which I think was mis-rated as UTR when it should have been MOR or even CP.

If Edgic has a problem it is that people are misled by the guidelines into handing out UTRs without taking the time to analyze content and give CP1 or MOR1. UTR should not primarily be used as a visibility rating. It needs a better definition as a type of edit, not an amount of edit. It's not that some people would necessarily be better placed. But it is likely that someone who turns out to be a winner, such as Danni, would have had ratings that showed her early involvement in making things happen in her tribe, even if she didn't receive that much facetime in the episode. The reason I harp on this point is that Danni's win is constantly brought out as an example of someone who was hidden.

She wasn't as hidden as the ratings would have us believe. We just weren't agreed as a group to identify her edit for what it was.

As for this season, things are a bit wonky because of returning personalities, some of whom have actually changed, and some of whom have only talked about change. The Fans as a whole have come across as weirdos, idiots and armchair strategists around whom circles are being run.

The Favorites as a whole have been complex, with carefully tended edits, end-game ties and strategic coups.

BUT - let us bear in mind that we are now stood with 14 players remaining. The game could be said to be about to begin now. All that has gone before may have served simply as introductory material. Rather than beat ourselves up, why not take the fact that 14 remain, and that what happens from Ep 7 forward is the real meat of the season?

edirted to add my Cirie pro/con. LOL fancy leaving hers out!

Kitty, I agree with chap - the winner's behavior is what it is. The editors don't care whether the viewer can or cannot stomach it. Besides, if we are correct and MB's minions are checking out Sucks, then they know that no matter what happens, there are lovers and haters of every single contestant. Sucks is a bit of a microcosm of the viewership at large. So there is no point in trying to hide something that is relevant to how that person won.

But.. if something is shown which seems gratuitous, then it's very possible it's being included to foreshadow elimination.