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Here are my overal season ratings. Some interesting patterns:

1) 5 of 6 CPs went to the Favs. Parvati finishing with 7/8 CP episodes makes her CP overall. Eliza being CP in every episodes she went to TC plus ep.4 makes her CP too.

2) Only 4 players were UTR in a 20 player season, which shows pretty democratic editing.

3) 6 or 7 Fans had tone, but only 1 or 2 Faves. Maybe that's because the Fans were presented in a more one-dimnsional way. Maybe it's because the Faves were all half-decent social players.

Parvati - CP
Amanda - MOR
Cirie - CP
Natalie - UTRN
Erik - MORP
Alexis - UTR
James - MOR
Jason - MOR
Ozzy - MORN
Eliza - CP
Ami - MOR
Tracy - CPP
Kathy - OTT
Chet - MORN
Jonathan - CP
Joel - OTTN
Mikey - MORN
Yau-Man - UTRP
Mary - UTR
Fairplay - CP

For tone, the season averages are a good guide as to who belongs in the P. Neu, and N range. I made exceptions only for Ozzy, because he finished negative with 3 N episodes post-switch, and for Kathy the quitter because I don't entirely agree with her ratings.

Season Tone Averages (From most positive to least)
(NN=-2, N=-1, neutral=0, P=1, PP=2)

P Range
0.371Tracy Hughes-Wolf
0.329Yau-Man Chan
0.324Kathleen Sleckman
0.301Erik Reichenbach

Neu Range
0.209Eliza Orlins
0.096Ami Cusack
0.054Mary Sartain
0.041Jonathan Penner
0.023Alexis Jones
0.000Johnny Fairplay
-0.004James Clement
-0.024Amanda Kimmel
-0.069Ozzy Lusth
-0.070Jason Siska
-0.072Cirie Fields
-0.144Parvati Shallow

N Range
-0.170Natalie Bolton
-0.289Joel Anderson
-0.494Mikey Bortone
-0.525Chet Welch

Watchdog Report for the season on Parvati's tone - CP Neu.

Parvati is definitely Neu (not N). Notice she is only .07 below Cirie and some of the N voting for her was questionable. She officialy has 2 N and 1 P episodes, and voting had her mildly N in a couple other episodes around the merge and mildly P in the opening and final episodes. So her tone pretty much balances out.

I believe the editors tried to give Parv a decent edit with balanced tone and make her CP Neu, because there was a lot of prejudice against her going in. Though she was MORP in Cook Islands, that was obscured by the generally N edit of her Raro friends and strongly P edit of the Aitu 4.

The fact that her story involved betraying top faves Ozzy and James and winning out over their proxy Amanda and top fave Cirie meant that a certain amont of Complexity and Positivity had to go into her edit. Otherwise they'd have a Vee or Jenna situation with fans not just surprised or slightly disappointed by the winner, but going "what the hell, this is an outrage!" Parvati's edit was balanced enough to avoid this. Like every winner from S7-S14, she avoided an overall N.

Many viewers disliked Parv for booting Ozzy and forming the women'a alliance. But these folks typically hate Cirie too. Thus it was James, Ozzy, and Amanda at the top of the vote fior $100,000 - the Couples Alliance Loyalists, with Cirie being snubbed.

Editing did side with Parv\Cirie in Ozzy's boot episode (they were Neu and Ozzy was N, though Parv was wrongly voted N by a narrow margin). However, that wasn't enough to undo episodes of Rupertization that Ozzy got in S13. This says nothing about Parv's S16 edit, but is a fact of returning player seasons.

Parvati did not get a villian edit.

1) She was not lazy, we saw her climbing a tree to cut down coconuts in the Finale. All the New Airai Faves were praised for their work ethics and skills by the fans in ep.5.

2) She did not trash-talk her allies, and only slammed a couple players who were wisely disliked or edited as idiots. She made fan allies rather than slamming them the way Amanda\Cirie did on New Malakal. She also got virtually no Negative SPV, even from Eliza or Jonathan (who called her a great social player).

3) Her betrayal of Ozzy was justifed as a necessary game move. She spoke well of Ozzy and cried when James left. Rather than being an arrogent mastermind, she was shown worrying about the pickle she was in with multiple alliances. Ultimately she did not betray Alexis or Nat and thus retained their votes, while Amanda and her were loyal to the end.

4) Parvati was presented as strategic, reflective, and there to play the game. When she lost the RC in Ozzy boot episode, she got a confessional about how she'd wished she's got to visit the natives because she's inetrested in other cultures. Hardly a shallow girl.

I think final impressions should be given some weight, especially in borderline cases. Thus the N for Ozzy, the OTTN for Joel, and the CP Neu for Parvati.

However, one episode does not an edit make. Natalie was ruled out for having a long string of UTR\INV epiodes, and only went OTTN once (and the OTT was due to colorful confessionals not actions).

I'm not getting the P for Amanda She started as Parv and Ozzy's shadow. She bitched about the fans on New Malakal and about Alexis\Nat at the merge. Ozzy was N which undermines any "revenge Ozzy against the betrayer" plot. She had one heroic episode flinding the idol. She was in the thick of deceiving and manipulating Erik. At the end, she got into a stupid fight with Cirie, drew a lot of negative SPV from the jury, and screwed up her jury performance just like last time.

The finale gave to lie to all the BS about "can't go up against Amanda, she's too likeable." That was all editing spin. The truth is that Eliza and Natalie really disliked her personality.