I think, though, that Edgic rules are in place for a reason, and Marcus's departure seems to have opened people's eyes to bending rules here and there to support unorthodox choices-- something that while interesting, should not be the main focus of the edgicer's thought process. The INV works. Keep it. Ep1 visibity should be significant. Keep it. The winner's story should pick up at the merge. Keep it. Near the end, the winner should have some doubt (especially in the penultimate ep). Keep it.
For me, at least, Ken is far and way the best choice of our final six. All those guidelines above... he fits to a T. He's never been INV. He has the most significant ep1 of the six left. His story, which other than perhaps Sugar has easily had the most of an "arc," has picked up at the merge. And he's got a load of doubt (my non-watcher roommates who watched with me last night thought there was no chance "that asswipe" could win).
I still can't eliminate Matty. He's always had a presence in every episode-- with reaction shots all over the place-- but his lack of a long-term story, doubt, and personal endgame complexity puts him at a distant second. I've eliminated Crystal, but I could maybe see her still in contention. But the others-- while they may seem to have the game logic to go the distance-- have an edit that has not followed in line with the typical winner: and isn't finding the winner based on rules developed in previous seasons the whole point of Edgic in the first place?
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Oh, and I have Matty as CPP this ep. I think his post-engagement confessional was far too meaningful to label him as a one-note OTT. I could maybe go for MORP (with his non-entity-ness later on), but not OTT. And Sugar definitely had some N-ness at the beginning, but the family visit was easily PP. So I'm not sure which is the appropriate way to go-- either just P or M.
(^ subject to change after rewatch ^)












