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TLS said:

Regarding story themes, the editors are never that detailed, mainly because reality rarely fits that neatly. Instead, themes are loosely applied so that the rough edges of reality will still fit. If the theme is good v. evil with temptation a major subtheme, the editors hardly need to line up the seven deadly sins. That said, association with the seven deadly sins is one of the surest ways of establishing some tone. The editors definitely do manipulate tone so the "evil" players' vices are played up in the editing, whichever sin it happens to involve.

That editing manipulation is achieved in a number of ways, including the portrayal of key scenes.

I think many people this season paid insufficient attention to key scenes which set the tone and were sufficiently manipulated to immediately raise red flags; they certainly jumped out at me:

1. The challenge in the very first episode which was so blatantly commented upon by Probst in favor of teamwork and against selfishness that it placed a hige question mark over Marcus'chances and sumultaneously elevated Matty's.

2. The first tribe swap where the great lengths the editors went to to highlight the conflict betweeen Matty and Ken, combined with the edited disapproval of Kenny's choices, should have alerted everyone that we were being set up for a climax between good, strong Matty v. evil, weak Ken and that Matty was likely to win that battle.

3. The extraordinary negatively-slanted editorializing in Jacquie's episode. I originally thought that this augured badly for Fang and well for Kota; however, it soon became apparent that it was the differentiated edits in that episode that were important. Thus, Ken and Crystal, who supported the decision were cast in a negative light. The opposite held true for those who opposed it (Matty, Sugar). In addition, the fact that Ace's resctions to such a key moment in the game weren't shown should have alerted us that he wasn't part of the long-term picture.


These were all key scenes which I feel deserved more attention. It wasn't so much manipulation of individual edits; it was more a manipulation of the overall story being told. Interestingly, there was much wider recognition of the fourth key scene of the season, that of Matty telling Sugar about Kenny's lie - another highly manipulated scene.