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* "I started at the bottom of the food chain, I climbed my way to the middle and now I'm at the top, baby!"
* "Would you say that we are in control of the game?" - "I would defiantly say we are in control of the game"
* "Once we get the two idols, we basically have security to the merge and once we get to the merge, we'll have a secret 4 way alliance that no one knows about and you can't break up."
* "Now we're in the dominant position. Now the Timbira people are coming to us, basically begging for our mercy"
* "If Brendan and I can line up our cards exactly like we want them, we will have a secret 4-way alliance that no ones knows about. It will slap them behind the head and they won't see it coming."
* "We don't need any of them to be loyal right now, as long as we have a strong alliance, we can pick them off one by one"
* "I told him that I also found the idol so, now, this 4 person alliance has both immunity idols which is great because it's going to put us in a powerful spot"
* "We ain't got a damn thing to worry about"
"I mean, right now, we have played an awesome game. And no one wants to vote us out"
"I don't know why, either"
"They all know we are running things, they want to be on our good side".
* "I found the immunity idol and I felt a very huge sense of relief because everything is in place now. We have the foursome in place, we have the two immunity idols. All we have to do is make it to the merge with everybody intact. I just love it when a perfect plan comes together."
* "The stage that we've set has worked and every time we have layered more people, we've gotten more and more powerful."
* "No one else in this entire tribe knows what's truly going on the way Stephen and I do"
* "You know, every time something goes our way I try hard not to do it, but I always look at Stephen and smile, because he knows like I do - we just keep battling it out, keep doing what we're doing. We can do this".

The Stephen\JT alliance is the Exile Alliance of the post merge.
Like the EA, we are beaten over the head with how powerful and awesome it is. Like the EA, it is IN FACT powerful and awesome. Like the EA, all it's members receive positive editing that is layered with a slim shiny layer of hubris, making you wonder weather you are supposed to root for them by virtue of their awesomeness or kind of wish they get their comeuppance for thinking they're so great. Like the EA the S\J alliance is OUTNUMBERED. And most importantly, like the EA - Stephen is the only member of the alliance showing any trepidation regarding it, even if it is only insinuated here in stead of stated clearly in the case of the EA.

We all remember that Brendan was Edgic's no. 2 choice, right? He wasn't just some guy we knew nothing about or an OTT distraction. He was the Timbirian JT - handsome leader and all around good guy Brendan! And look where he is. And for wanting to take JT to the finals, no less.

Can Erinn's edit get any weirder?
No, it cannot. Unless she does go OTTM next episode like the preview suggests. That would be intensely weird.

This was, again, not a very good episode for her. It was a holding episode, but defiantly not the Big Move she has to make at some point, because she told us she will. I mean, maybe getting Tyson out WAS her big move and everyone was right and I read too much into that confessional. I don't know, but her edit has been so utterly… weird, from the second episode on. And an Erinn victory fits the themes and the story like a glove.

It's just… I don't know if I'm entering Tinfoil Hat Territory here, but Erinn's story seems to be so crudely sewn into the overall story of the season (which is Stephen's), that I kind of wonder if the Erinn victory might have surprised the story editors too. Maybe that's a part of the reason comeback winners are edited differently - they do start breaking the story while the season is shooting, and at F4 I imagine they have a pretty good sense of what their season is about. If a surprise winner wins, you can make a lot of alterations, go back and give them special care or amp up the now decoy winner's hubris, etc, but I would assume it is very difficult to completely re-write the season. That's what Erinn's edit feels like to me, sometimes. I mean, what the fuck was that with her going over seemingly to talk to Coach, but never reaching him somehow? So… she just left? And we got all this beat because… she got up and left? It seemed like a rough cut.

But it's probably Stephen. If he's a decoy, he's like the master-decoy all other decoys would be compared to until the end of time. He makes Marcus look like Kenny. And if he is, then the only tool we seem to have in figuring out decoys is lack of doubt. JT is a doubt-machine for everyone else, but Stephen is still sitting way too pretty at this stage of the game, in this particular season.
This is a season about blindsides, mistrust, momentum and first impressions being wrong. Erinn, at this point, fits the first three better, while Stephen fits the fourth <\broken record>.

But it's still probably Stephen.

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FLF - Erinn's story was never about winning the game. Her story now is her triumph over her difficult living conditions and her ability to make it so long.
But, that's where it stops. She never goes on to talk about that next step: the win.

Blake - Oh please shut the fuck up Erinn is toast.

What does that even fucking mean, when referring to Edgic? Stop posting? Should all people who disagree with you just go away so you wouldn't have to read disagreeing notions?

I mean, I get that you just don't see anything in Erinn's edit at all, and you are completely dumbfounded by people writing this much about her and even discussing her UTR-ish edit with such much better edits out there. I felt a similar way about Brendan's edit, which I never got at all, but I didn't go around telling people to shut the fuck up about Brendan as I am not a child.

After Bob won last season, it just seems so unadvised to refuse to debate anyone's chances. If someone were to make a case for Taj I'd read it, and I'll probably argue against it if I have anything constructive to add. And if I wouldn't, then I won't, because how does a "Oh shut the fuck up you people who disagree with me" post do anything but make for a great ironic quote if you're wrong?

It's not like if Erinn doesn't win (which 90% of "Erinn supporters", including me, seem to accept as the most likely outcome) anyone is going to go "Well, Blake did make that great point about me needing to shut the fuck up about Erinn. Gotta give him credit".

It's just so stupid, and if you hadn't been so hostile and dismissive about other opinions all season long, I would have probably thought it was some kind of joke. If you want to actually make points against Erinn's edit that's great - god knows there's a lot to pick from - but the dismissive attitude and the thinly veiled assumption that all Erinn supporters are biased towards pretty girls is both off-putting and unproductive.

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The fact that Erinn is such a question mark is not good for her. Pre-merge, it's intrigue, so the legs will tie up. But this far in, it's just neglect: plain and simple.