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Hello tropical rain, and thank you very much for all of these very thorough comments. It was nice to read all of your thoughts, and I appreciate you taking the time to share them. It was good to know what you thought about each part of the episode! :)

Yeah! I finally caught up... and this episode was awesome. And I'll give you lots of details. :)

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)

Okay... I loved the Kathy and Joel part. This is what I thought would happen on the show: a Joel - Kathy - Tracy allience. I really felt for Joel being there, and I was rooting for him.

I'm glad you liked the scene between Joel and Kathy. The only thing about a Joel/Kathy/Tracy alliance is that it would have been too similar to the connection between Leslie/Dave/Denise last season who bonded over "having kids" (even though Dave really didn't). I don't remember if you read China or not, I think you did, so I would't have wanted to make something so similar between back-to-back seasons. Glad you were rooting for Joel though.

Then... it switched to the power allience at Malakal. I can see it, but it's not my favorite allience (probably edited so I'm rooting for it to be overthrown?).

That's possible about it being edited in a way that you want it to be overthrown. We'll have to see what happens with that.

Finally, Brooke's thought process was understood and enjoyable to watch. You have to root for her, and I don't know whether I like Brooke or Eliza more (for my favorite Survivor this season).

Glad you like these two. You'll see more of both of them in the merge episode (although Eliza definitely won't be so dominant), and their content will be pretty important in terms of some future stuff that happens.

The next Airai scene was a little depressing, but when Airai won the reward everyone had to be rooting for them. It (the scene) was needed.

I agree. It was definitely to make you feel sorry for them, and then happy when they won the RC.

Reward challenge: Cool, but not my favorite. I couldn't stop thinking of how Leann struggled in Vanuatu on the hitching posts... then Kathy struggled! It was predictable.

Again, I agree with you. It definitely wasn't my favorite challenge, and I do remember Leann costing her tribe this challenge although I don't think Kathy cost Malakal as much time as Leann would have. Kathy didn't have a major problem - she's actually a pretty good swimmer.

Exile Island: I know that Tracy and Kathy had to talk, but I didn't care much for the storm. It was interesting (the strategy). But when the storm hit on the second part of Exile Island, it got a little boring, but that's okay, since it was followed by...

Yes, the storm was almost made entirely into a secret scene because I figured it wasn't the most exciting part of the episode.

Joel... I think it's a great move on your part. I really really liked Joel in your fanfic and was sorry to see him go. Really well written. I didn't cry or anything, but it left me in shock. You're too good of a writer.

Thanks for this. I appreciate your comment about it being well-written. I'm glad you felt the scene was shocking and that you had a reaction to Joel going. I figured this would be especially difficult since people disliked him in the real show, but I'm glad this went over with the reaction I wanted.

The reward was funny, but I got a tad confused. It was almost forshadowing Tracy getting voted out, but yet Eliza was also shown doubting her fate at the same time. Did you mean this to be confusing? But the food part was funny.

It wasn't supposed to be foreshadowing Tracy getting voted out, although I know that I said Jason, Mikey, and Eliza got closer because of the Reward so it might have seemed like she might be the odd person out. I don't remember Eliza doubting anything about her fate at the Reward though. I believe Jason was the one who said "I have a feeling we're still going to lose Immunity Challenges," and that was meant to be foreshadowing of Airai losing again. I didn't meant it to be confusing, no.

The little parts before the immunity challenge were good... I really don't have any comments on them except that they were needed and a tad interesting.

Thank you. I agree with this as well - they were both important scenes. The Malakal scene is important for the merge in a way, and the Airai scene was important for Airai losing the challenge.

Immunity Challenge: It was okay. Glad Brooke and Sherea were able to pull through, sorry that Airai lost, etc. Nothing too unique...

Yep, there was nothing special about the challenge other than the fact that people were supposed to be disappointed that Airai lost.

However; I loved the strategy talk after the immunity challenge. It was entertaining and intriguing. I loved Eliza (as always) and thought she played it great. Mikey B was irritating when he was questioning Eliza, but I knew he would pull through for some reason... Jason and Tracy thinking they had Mikey B going home for sure was funny as well.

Glad you liked the strategy part. I think it might be not quite as good as some people thought, but hey, if you liked it, that is great. I definitely won't disagree with you! Although I did the part with Eliza. :)

Then Tribal Council! Intense, confusing, and great. Glad Jason was sent home, even though Mikey B isn't my favorite. A good end to the episode.

Unlike the Reward, the Tribal Council *was* supposed to be confusing with some of the strange and conflicting answers, which Mikey picked up on.

Sorry for the rambling and I hope this made some sense (if so, you're really smart). I really loved this episode and you have me hooked for the rest of the season... good job.

No need to be sorry. I could understand all of your comments just fine. I'm glad you enjoyed the episode and are looking forward to the rest of the season. Hope you continue to enjoy! :)

9. Reasons for it not being a 10: Joel getting voted out and Airai's continued tribal council visits made it a tad depressing, but I understand it was necessary for the story.

Thanks. I'm very happy with a 9! :)

Interesting predictions for next week, and thanks for filling out the Popularity Poll as well.

Great job on those Edgic ratings - thanks for posting them. There are a few corrections I would make, and I'll explain them below:

Please correct me on any of these - I'm still trying to get the hang of edgic!

Alexis - UTR2
Aras - MORN3 (CPN3?)
Brooke - CPP4
Eliza - CPP5
Ian - UTR2
Jason - CPM5
Joel - OTTP5
Kathy - MORP4 (OTTP4?)
Mary - MOR3
Mikey - MOR4 (OTT4?)
Sherea - UTR2
Tracy - CP3

First, Aras being rated MORN3 or CPN3 is probably a bit much. He'll either end up UTR2 or MOR2. He only got one confessional and was pretty much only featured in the opening scene at Malakal, and even though his confessional was a little bit strategic, I'm not sure if it would be significant enough to bump him up to MOR. It may not be. And I didn't have a clear intention of making Aras negative in this episode, even though it might seem like you're supposed to be rooting against his alliance. That may be true, but if I wanted him to be negative, it would have been made very clear.

For Brooke, I agree with the CP, but I don't think that she should be positive. I think you may have given it to her because you thought the audience was supposed to root for Brooke (and against Aras) when she was trying to form an alliance with Joel, but like with Aras, I didn't have a strong intention of making her positive in this episode. In fact, I would say she was closer to negative than anything, partly based on the comment that her "back-up plan was just taken away on the boat" when Joel was evacuated. Sometimes it can be hard to figure out tone though, so don't feel like it's a major issue.

I thought Eliza would be CPM: positivity from the Reward, and then negative for screwing Jason over = Mixed. Quite a few people have given her the CPP though, so I'm not sure what will happen with this one.

Sherea should definitely be INV1. She only ever had one sentence in the whole episode and she wasn't a part of any scenes. I'm not sure if you saw it, but after each episode, I post a Visibility chart that ranks everyone's visibility and gives them a 1-5 number which tends to be a good guidelines for Edgic.

Other than those, the ratings that you had were very close to what I intended, so I definitely think you did a good job, especially for still being new to Edgic. You'll get better and better with more practice, and you're off to a great start already so it should be no problem for you soon! :)

Your Contenders and Eliminated lists show that you have an understanding of how Edgic works. Very good job on both of those!

Thanks again for your comments. I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts, and it's great to have you reading along this season. Hope you continue to enjoy the rest of the story! Have a great day! :)

I hope you don't mind me commenting on your comments, I mainly wanted to clear up that it was me going crazy about the reward foreshadowing. I hope you have a great day as well!

Of course I don't mind. You can comment as many times as you want! :)

Thank you very much for your comments, island sun. I've got another busy day ahead of me, so I'll reply to them tonight, and then I'll respond to your Episode hopefully tomorrow night.

Just wanted to say that I basically finished the Micronesia page. Working on Guatemala right now. Only thing missing is the episode summaries.

Survivor: Micronesia

Wow, Mr X! That looks fantastic! Thank you so much for putting all of that together! :)

The episode will be going up at about 2:15. I just want to say to please read the notes though because I'm explaining a lot of the strategies and thought processes and I think it would be really beneficial for you to know what's going on, since some of the things might not be fully clear.