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that was soooo interesting.

and regarding the JT love fest...i know it makes it seem really really bad for him... but...

This whole Stephen & JT thing has been reminding me of Tom & Ian from Palau....they are jockeying for position, sometimes Stephen pulls ahead, sometimes JT. Both are likeabe and shown as equals, etc.... So for fun, i have been reading the Palau edgic thread... now there's an interesting read. Anyway... Tom was consistently labelled a distraction, too P, too hero like, too visible, too out front... but there were a couple of voices whole made some very astute observations... one of which was Pastordice who called Ian and Tom "mutal distractions".... i think that is a great fit of a term for Stephen & JT.

In many ways i see a real parallel between Ian / Tom and Stephen / JT, more than i do with anyone else. Maybe some shades of Yul / Ozzy, but i think the editing this time around seems more even and back and forth... Ozzy became really flat and one dimension fairly early early.

A second observation about Tom that really stuck with me is that... no matter how you slice it, Tom was a major force, he was dominate, a leader, positive... in just about everything... so how do you hide a winner who is so dominant??? Easy.... you hide him IN PLAIN SIGHT.

If JT does win... they are faced with another case of a dominant, likeable, leader... who...damn it...everyone LOVES. I think everyone has now bonded with JT and said they love him... If JT wins.... looking from the Final TC.... if a lot of people end up saying super positive things about him.... the editors need to show JT bonding with all these people. Additionally...let's assume that Brendan votes for JT.... the editors really need to show why, after all Brendan hasn't had a whole lot of contact with him... so this now explains the JT love fest / save JT plan.

And speaking of which.... what of that STRANGE conversation between Brendan & Sierra.... that is something that will be coming back to us.... what was Brendan's plan??? Sierra knows it... maybe Sierra manages to worm her way into staying and carries out Brendan's "we love JT and want him to win" plan??? oddness there.

And it's not like JT is the only front & centre... JT has (and has had) tonnes of distractions around him. He has his CP-distraction in Stephen, the loveable-spunky female distraction in Taj.... the Crazy old lady Sandy, whatever the hell Tyson and Coach are... AND the coolest alliance EVER (cross tribal...woot woot!). I just feel like we have been down this road before... and while edgically, JT is not perfect... his editing pattern to date still fits past winners better than anyone else. And JT (and Stephen ) still have doubt... they are way down in numbers, JT has been singled out as a threat (which as we know is bad for Stephen)and JT's having a hard time winning immunities cause Tyson is just all-over them. And to the casual viewer.... is he reallt that obvious??? They are probably thinking... wow! JT totally dodged a bullet. That was so cool.

but even after all of this, if he wins... his win will make sense to the audience.

Anyway.... I'm just throwing it out there... We are so busy looking for "the hidden winner"... that maybe we are missing the forest for the trees.