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gf: Can you give a quick explanation why Matty deserves a CP? I'm willing to wait if Warrior is.

Yes, I'm sorry; I've been swamped by school work these past few days and I haven't had any time to do so. I'm finishing up an essay probably in the next 2-3 hours and then I'll do a post right after that. Sorry for delaying, but I appreciate you wanting to hear my explanation for why I changed.

I rated Matty as OTT, based on his speech about how he was doing it all for the love of his life and that he's never go against his word, not even for, what was it, 4 million dollars?

I still think that was an OTT statement. It's just about the extent of Matty's inner thoughts this ep. What else do we learn about Matty, other than he's doing it for his girlfriend and he'll jump at any kind of reasonable plan?

This is what I originally thought too, but then I thought that we really got into his head about his motivations, his personal life, his awareness of his position in the Fang tribe and needing to make a change, which led to the pact with Ace. It was mostly the character development from the first two confessionals that I ended up deciding made him a well-developed character that people could relate to rather than a one-note caricature. I'll write a more indepth response later tonight, but as I said, I definitely can still see it both ways, and if he still gets OTTP, I'm okay with that.

Sorry for causing a delay in the process though.

1) CP means a character that is well-developed. Their editing has depth to it, and their choices are presented to the audience so that we get an insight into their thinking. We generally see their strengths and flaws.

Matty: I know what means the most to me in my life. Every night I dream about food, my dog, and my girlfriend.

MATTY CONFESSIONAL: This is by far the hardest thing I've ever done, but my whole driving force out here is Jaime. Jaime's my girlfriend, so I'm trying to make some sort of ring-type thing; just something to keep myself reminded of her. Because of her, I want to finish this out to the end. I'm in a terrible position and I feel like I've been in a bad position the moment this game started with Fang. If somebody approached me with a legitimate, logical, reasonable plan that might work, for sure I'm on board, man. I am jumping on board and I am flying with it.

I think this confessional really fits the criteria for CP. Not only did it provide significant character development for Matty in terms of his motivation for being in the game, but I feel that it also helped people relate to him on a more personal level, whereas for me, I almost think of OTT distancing the character from the audience in a way by making them outrageous villains or huge heroes.

For the second part of that criteria, this confessional presents Matty's choices to us in that we understand why he's aligning with Ace: a negative player from the opposing tribe. We know he wants to stay in the game for his girlfriend and he recognizes his poor position at Fang, so he needs something to change.

We then have the scene where Matty makes a pact with Ace on swears on his girlfriend that they'll help get each other to the merge.

2) CP shows complexity of thought about the game, and or complex emotions that might be construed as Positive

MATTY CONFESSIONAL: I think Ace and I are probably some of the top competitors out here physically and I do like him on my side, and I made a pact with Ace that I can't break and I promised on my girlfriend, which is the love of my life; she's my driving force out here and I'm not gonna break that promise for a million dollars. Not for five million dollars.

I suppose this is debatable, but I think this confessional (and the scene with Ace) shows complexity of thought about the game and also reveals more into Matty's character that he would not break the promise for even five million dollars. I totally get your arguments for OTT though, flf, and as I said, that was originally exactly what I thought too, so no hard feelings

The one scene that makes me question the OTT is the scene where Matty tries to talk Ace into blindsiding Sugar to out the idol. I know very well that strategy does not equal CP, but I decided that he had too many dimensions to him to just be simplified as OTT. It didn't seem to fit with him being the "amazing, challenge-dominating hero." There seemed to be more to him than just that aspect, and I got the same impression from his brief strategy talk with Crystal (where he ultimately tells her to vote out Kelly, and then assured Ken of the same thing). My opinion is that if he was going to be OTT, these scenes would have maybe been left out.

4) If the player gets quality screen time and is either shown multiple times being strategic or shows a multi-dimensional side, then you go with CP.

Without realizing it, I addressed this one already because I do feel that there were several different dimensions to Matty in terms of his motivation from his girlfriend, the pact with Ace, being the guy who did well at the challenges, wanting to blindside Sugar, then telling Crystal and Ken to vote out Kelly, and at Tribal Council, he was shown to be one of the only safe people in the tribe, but said that it could be any one to go.

So that is my reasoning for why I changed to CP, but again, you have great points for OTT as well. I definitely could see all of them, and thanks again for wanting to consider my point of view before making a final decision. I appreciate it! :)