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Beef et al, we need a new thread to sift through the last season looking for all the things we missed. We have to perfect the art of spoiling.

And, of course we havfe to beat the Elipsiiians!

Yeah, the strategy we were shown was very selective. Some votes were signaled and deliberated (Case in point Colby's "Strategy vs. Philanthropy.") Others were glazed over. (Amber ouster, was this a Tina betrayal of Colby?) We got to see the actual Jerri debate, which was really good.

I think MB missed out on making the story more dramatic. If we KNEW that Tina and Colby had this alliance all along then Colby's decision at F3 TC would be all the more dramatic. Betray your ally or try to win "honestly." Instead, it just seemed foolish and mysterious.

I thought, yes, Tina and Colby were allied from practically day one, but they had a "Gentleman's agreement" that the winner of the F3 challenge would take Keith to avoid the possibilty of pitting the two in a trash-talking contest and having betrayal take place there. (I still think Tina would take Keith.) Also, they wouldn't have to betray Keith, who knew he was going to lose ever since Jerri left, accepted that and had worked hard for 26 days putting up win every form of hell imaginable to help the both of them win. I agree with Jerri. Getting Colby to choose her was the biggest master stroke of the game.

Note to MB: show the game as it is. There's no use in keeping any secrets about it or spinning it. The natural human drama is far more interesting than anything you craft.

MB's downfall is his incessant need to keep his finger in the pie. To spin. To tilt challenge-wise and by manipulating the contestants. That's why Elipsiiis was so sucessful. Try as he might to hide and spin the events that go on, he can't hide HIS OWN need to SPOIL HIMSELF and to try to manipulate events for his own advantage. (More drama and surprises, higher ratings. Build up "good guys" and "bad guys." Think about story arcs.) To predict the outcome, all you really need to do is understand MB's desires. If he would let events proceed naturally and record them without spin or bias, the outcome would probably be LESS predictable.

I'm surprised we got a real genuine spoiler this year, the Ranch picture, and everybody attacked it. It makes you wonder if the show is spoilable at all. Even if we got ahold of a photo of Tina taking a bath in 50s and 100s and riding around in a Rolls with Tennessee license plate "I WON 1M," we'd be skeptical.

My guess is that MB releaseed the Ranch photo just to see how we'd react to real spoiler information. What difference would it make?

And the answer is none. We take all evidence with a grain of salt. The most we (read Elipsiiis) can do is spoil single episodes. And you have to tune in to make sure they are right.

The point of spoiling is to keep people from tuning in. Instead we are forced to go over tapes and vid-caps and transcripts just so we can watch the next episode to see if we were right.