JT4ever wrote:That's JT mania? Funny - in reading your first paragraph, I thought I came off better! You're probably right that there was some amount of genuine hurt there. That said, JT knew that I couldn't beat him in the finals, and he knew -I- knew that, and he knew I was playing to win. He was clearly anguished before he voted Erinn out, and I'm sure part of that anguish was skepticism about whether or not I would have made the same decision.
JLK Name wrote:You know, I always thought JT's mancrush on Stephen was bigger than Stephen's crush on JT. It was interesting to me that Stephen kept plenty of things from JT all throughout the game, whereas JT had absolutely no secrets from Stephen. It's as if Stephen was able to separate his affection for JT from the need to play the game, while JT couldn't imagine his game without Stephen. Their respective relationships with Brendan was telling, I thought. Stephen had no problems allying, and spooning, with Brendan, even though they were wary of each other's game, while JT never even considered Brendan's -- apparently genuine -- overture. His first instinct was to tell Stephen all about it. I know that the official story that JT's distress at FTC about Stephen's assumed betrayal was an acting job. And maybe it was. But if so, it was method acting. There are a couple of confessionals with JT in the last episode where he ponders Stephen's double dealing with Erinn, and much as he tries to hide his feelings behind the easy smile, there is palpable, unmistakable anguish in those eyes. Anyway, my JT mania is showing. So I best move on.
I remember that, it was the start of your big crush on JT
Question for you, Stephen.Would you ever try to read things into the frequency with which folks were called to confessionals. Did everyone pretty much get called on a regular basis, or where there variations that might be seen as meaningful? For example, it's hard to imagine that Russell gets called to confessionals exactly as often as Brett. Can it be?
I would absolutely read things into the frequency with which people were called off. It worried me a lot at Jalapao, before I had a great handle of what was going on; once the merge happened, we were pretty much in control, so I always had a good sense of what people were going to be asked about. Also I was typically called off last before tribal councils. If they had called a bunch of people after me, I might have started to get nervous.
