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Kitty Pryde1 wrote:

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Biggest problem with Mick is the lack of tone. Foa Foa have been the underdogs that made a complete comeback and took down an 8-person tribe with only 4 people. As such, we're supposed to root for them. And as a tribe, they've received a collective positive edit. But then, in this situation, wouldn't it be extremely easy to give Mick SOME kind of personalized positive edit? Jaison has had several episodes of positivity, even if they've been balanced out by his quitter edit. Natalie has gotten a few episodes of positivity. Hell, even RUSSELL has gotten a P episode. Mick's only positive moment came from the first episode, fifteen minutes in, when he made the right picks based on first impressions, and Marisa gave him positive SPV. That's it. Since then, Mick has been straight narration. No tone. No nothing. Honestly, aside from Brett, Mick has been the flattest character until the recap, in which he looked like a complete buffoon of a leader (which matches the hypocrisy of "I'm a leader in the OR so I'll take the job" to "I don't know what I'm doing, so I'll let the racist asshole handle things") I mean, we're supposed to be rooting AGAINST Galu, but Russell was ALWAYS portrayed as a positive leader on that tribe. Couldn't they have done SOMETHING to make Mick appear more useful? Couldn't they have given us some sort of confessional PRIOR to the recap?

That's my biggest problem with Mick and Jaison's edits, the editors have passed up the opportunities to make them look useful to their tribe, to make it look like they were more then just votes in the battle to turn the tides against Gelu.

If Mick or Jaison won then shouldn't we be getting more game confessionals from them now that we're in the merge? Shouldn't Mick and Jaison be getting credit for something? I mean heck, why can't they get the credit for thinking up the plan to get rid of Erik, or for Russell to idol Kelly?

I mean we saw Jaison suggest they throw 4 votes against Erik, so why didn't the recap say "then Jaison got the idea of Foa Foa targeting Erik, and his plan worked when Foa Foa got Gelu on board with getting rid of Erik"? Instead we hear it was all Natalie who got Gelu to take out Erik, Natalie got the credit over Jaison and Mick, it's not even mentioned that it was Jaison's idea originally.

Then the next episode, surely Mick and Jaison explained in a confessional why Foa Foa was targeting Kelly, they could have shown that instead of just making it be that Shambo suggested it so they went with her. And the episode after that, it was a 5/5 tie (with Mick and Jaison not given any credit for getting Shambo on Foa Foa's side and causing the tie in the first place), and who do we see get John on their side? Russell, not Mick or Jaison. The editors couldn't even be bothered to make it look like it was all Mick or Jaison's genius idea for Russell to run to John and tell him about how Gelu was trying to get Foa Foa to throw their votes at him.

Instead the editors choose to give Russell and Natalie all the credit for Foa Foa managing to turn a 8-4 disadvantage for Foa Foa into a 5 to 4 advantage for Foa Foa.

Now the winner hasn't usually gotten all the credit for turning things around, for example Chris was shown needing Scout (or was it Twila?) to spell out how to flip things at the F7, but then it was Chris who was shown talking to Eliza in order to flip things on Ami, it wasn't someone else who didn't win the game who was shown getting Eliza to flip.

Yul was shown talking to Jonathan to get him to flip things in favor of the Aitu 4, not one of the Aitu 4 who didn't win.

I could go on, but I'll stop there with the examples of winners from the tribe that was down at the start of the merge getting some of the credit for turning things around.