Hello AveryC! Thank you very much for reading and commenting on the episode! I enjoyed reading what you had to say, and I appreciate you taking the time to be very thorough and detailed with everything! Thanks! :D

I thought it was of this season's finest yet. It really set the tone for the Merged game.

Thanks. I think this season has potentially the strongest merge since China, and it's interesting because both of them are 16 people seasons. Maybe it is just because the characters are able to be a little stronger that it feels improved.

The strategising once again. Since many people had been lacking a Tribal appearence there was far more depth to what was going on. Tribal itself was awesome too.

Yes, that is an interesting point. Some people, like Candace, Tyson, and Taj had only been to 1 TC premerge while Spencer had been to 5/6. It varies in between there too with some people going to 2 or 4, I believe.

Perfect 10 from the content to the boot choice.

Thank you very much. I really appreciate that! :D

Why did Coach abandon his plotting against Candace from the Jalapao days? Did she improve or were Carolina/Erinn better targets to him?

Good question. It's like you said. Carolina and Erinn were better targets and he thought they should have been out a long time ago. On Jalapao, Sandy and Candace would have been his targets but once C/E were back in the picture, they went back to the top of his list.

The winner of your stories are usually pre merge boots (exception of Stacy) who appear on the bottom of the season logo (exception GC). With this I'd give Spencer the edge right now.

Yeah; the premerge thing is really weird and I'm not sure why it happens but it least it's resulted in a variety of different winner types. By season logo I'm assuming you mean the image that has all the Survivors' pictures. I had never considered anything about that. I think Tracy was on the top of it though, unless you mean after the merge.

Tyson seems to have a thing about voting out people he can't control, and I think Erinn is the next boot because of this.

Important point.

Thanks for your predictions, and for filling out the Popularity Poll. Good to see that there is a JT fan out there, lol.

Finally, thanks a lot for your awesome Edgic ratings and especially for the comments on each of them. That is really helpful.

Candace - CP2 Unusual rating but she seemed very insightful this ep. It's the first time I've considered her strategy.

You know, I could actually see this rating working for her. I agree with your assessment. But I think she'll end up with MOR2.

Carolina - OTTM3 We understood her point of view, but still were exposed to her negatives as well.

I'm not sure on M or neutral for her. We were exposed to her negatives, for sure; I'm not sure there was positive to balance it out.

Coach - OTTN5 Obvious.

Agreed. Possibly NN though.

Erinn - CPP4 Weak P, but her pleasantness with Spencer after the vote seemed P to me.

I agree with this too.

Jerry - UTR1 due to SPV and the vote at the end.

This is one I'm not sure of. If Taj is UTR1 then I'd say Jerry should be INV1 by comparison. I know his name was mentioned and he got a vote but he had absolutely no development or involvement in anything else.

Sandy - CP3 Like with Candace she was shown explaining her views and her decisions based upon those.

Glad that a few people saw the CP in her. That was my intention, actually, but I think she'll just get a plain MOR3.

Spencer - OTTP5 We were meant to really like him this time.
Yes you were definitely meant to like him but I don't think this worked on everybody either.

Taj - UTR1 image

Sorry, she starts to resurface a bit in Episode 8.

Tyson - CPN4 Came off as cocky to me. Fits what we've seen so far though.
Yep.

Thanks for all your thoughts on the Contenders/ Eliminated people. Very interesting to read. We'll see how it plays out...

Thanks again for all of your comments, AveryC! Great to have you reading and commenting along with this season. Hope you continue to enjoy the rest of the story and have a great day! :)