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^^^^ Old fogey alert.

"When I was your age we had only sixteen color EGA, and eight of them were green..."

Has every generation talked about how tough it is when they were growing up?

I remember my mom telling me that when she was growing up they didn't have VCRs. Yeah, real sob story... Not exactly the same as chopping through the ice to fetch the water for bathin'.

So what will I tell my (eventual) kids? "We had no memory engrams - we had to look at a SCREEN. We had a store where you could actually buy a "book." We had to take vacations on this planet..."

Maybe that's what S18 will be - old fogeys vs. the unfogeys.

Its interesting (back to edgic!!! Wooo!!) that the # of posts has shrunk a bit. Not that everything has been said a thousand different ways (I figure we're still in the low 300's on that). Parv is the edgic choice. But I will concede there is nothing wrong with Cirie's edit - the things that are less in her favor are more like the second tier guidelines that edgic'rs have come to semi-agree upon.

Looking at jury votes is insanely entertaining, but has zilch to do with edgic, alas. We could go both ways on this - Cirie's backstabbing and plotting seems to be less pressed than Parv's, especially in recraps. Is this bad for Cirie? Or good for Parv? I have absolutely no idea. (This assumes that Cirie is even in the F3 - edgic doesn't say anything about the F2 or F3 - only the F1.)

This is where I like to do a retrospective of the season. The finale is sometimes kind of distateful - hello, S6 - that it puts a damper on the season as a whole. In all, I'm not overwhelmed by this season. I think it's the lack of any coherent strategizing by the fans. Not that blindsides aren't fun to watch. They were immensely entertaining... at least for a few minutes. But I was shocked at how crappy the "fans" as a group understood the game. Maybe that's why Tracy was liked - she seemed to be someone who understood the game, unlike Joel and others who were morons. It was a pretty sad group of fans, in all.

The faves were, overall, OK. JFP was a cosmic joke and I'm still annoyed at his casting. But the rest were fine, and IMO much better than the first "all-stars," who were more media whores than players. These people came to play. Parv showed her stuff (yes, I find her immensely annoying, but respect what she's done), Jonathan was terrific, Eliza - who I disliked a LOT in the first go-round and is now one of my all-time faves - is one smart lady and fun to watch, Cirie has been calm, fun, and played a very good game. The others faves, on the whole, came to play. That's all I really want.

I'm ticked that Ami got short shrift, but that's about the worst thing that SEG did to the faves.

I'd give the whole season a B or B-, mainly due to the fact that I expected more from the fans - they were, as a group, either groupies or clueless or out of their element. They were fans of the show rather than fans of the game, and those are two completely different things.