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craig wrote:

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Kelly and Matty have scenes backing Randy's view of Crystal much more strongly than one negative word uttered by certain folks about Corinne. Yeah, Corinne is self-aware that she wasn't nice to somebody, but Crystal would never admit it to herself. She just say others were "evil" for going against her (re scene with Matty).

Yes, 55% or a 10% lead over the 2nd most popular option should be the cut-off for close calls.

The scene you refer to was on Insider, not on the show and thus not part of the editing we analyze, and what do we see the following episode regarding Matty? While he's glad he stuck by his word to Ace, he resolves not to put himself in that position again. He joins the "clean slate" scene, crediting the others with being Survivors, and we haven't seen him complain about Crystal since. The key line may be Crystal imploring Matty "not to let anyone get in his head". (That was the underlying message of the Insider scene as well by the way.) The editing effect is that Matty let Ace get in his head, but with Ace removed, the Fangs can work together again. I can only speculate as to why the Insider scene was cut from the show, but my educated guess would be that it wasn't necessary to establish the strain between Crystal and Matty and that it painted both of them in a harsher light than the edit team wanted them to have.

You seem to have a real hard time separating your perception of reality from the edit that is shown to us. Perhaps you are dead right about Crystal as a person (that she's a hypocrite who won't acknowledge her own flaws), but that isn't what is being shown to us. What we've been shown is a passionate competitor who yet can't perform up to her expectations, a steadfast ally to those she's bonded with who doesn't hesitate to deceive those outside of her circle, someone who will stand up for herself and speak her mind but who can alienate others in the process, and yes, someone who can be a bit surly when she's down.

Crystal explained her $+++@ to the audience and anticipated Kelly's badmouthing. Thus, Crystal is presented as the one who is right - Kelly is just acting as Crystal predicted. Matty's badmouthing of Crystal was done in the context of the episode in which he voted for her in conjunction with Ace, but we got the alternate viewpoint from Ken supporting her. With Ace portrayed as a bad influence, at best that is a wash. I'm not saying that those didn't reflect negatively on Crystal, but those weren't this last episode either. I believe I gave Crystal N tone in at least one of those episodes, and at best I gave her M tone in the other. But she wasn't OTT in either episode because the editing was not clear cut that she was someone to be rooted against, especially not against the likes of Kelly and Ace. As for Randy, he was being gratuitously negative toward Crystal without proximate cause. Perhaps he does have cause to dislike Crystal in reality, but he doesn't have cause to throw insults out of nowhere.