Great, I responded last night and see no post and got the "yuku teams" fix it message. Oh well.

I'll leave it at this for now and say some item for thought.

The first season was what it was. New, Rich Hatch in your face winning but the villain, so fans' wouldn't believe it. Second season, Burnett comments that this time he's doing things opposite. Hence, no Tina to start things.

Since then, there have been 14 Survivor games. The winner has been given a confessional in the first 30 minutes of the first episode, 14 out of 14 times. Is that coincidence? Chance? Or a pattern?

Final TC is the backbone of the show. One question that has to be shown, as a result the substantive question will require being shown during the season to explain them at the end. (Aras' Melinda boot, Ozzy loves Amanda.) And feelings toward the winner help determine how the winner is presented. Parvati can't be a heroine of epic proportions when she gets comments a la Eliza and Ozzy and James. Todd should be a strategic leaning edit, earning votes as a result of saying so, so no UTR edit there. It isn't hard to pick up cues that reflect on the same person throughout the season that are unresolved until the end. It could be chosen to ignore every facet of a winner until the end. But it isn't done. Even when it's threadbare, like "too much drama" and "cool chick." It's seen. Long time players of Edgic are better at seeing it.

After the Final TC issues are threaded into the outline of the show, it's make the rest as entertaining as possible. It's writing a book. You know your ending, you know your setting, you make up an outline. Now you have to make each chapter exciting, leaving readers wanting to continue. But you ty to save the best payoff for the last chapter. Watch and you'll see things repeated each year for the winner, and Edgic works.

I'll say flat out, Todd wasn't missed. He was dismissed by a lot of people who simply didn't like him. Parvati had a bunch of that this year, but Edgicians saw through it enough. If Amazon happend now, I wonder if the people now would see Jenna like the original Edgicians did. They would if they could step back. Few people started out doing it, now it's much bigger and broader. But the principles of it work. I wish you'd actually play and find out, Quiddity. I am glad to speak to you directly, by the way. Thanks.

Michael

P S when you spell Yuku wrong, why doesn't the spellcheck have it as an option?

Last Edited By: OnlyTheHunter 05/14/08 07:26 AM. Edited 1 times.