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Informal edgicing during the episode

-The recap was REALLY dominated with heavy handed editing on how we should think about people, more then usual. The purple tribe was painted as getting sort of overconfident, not even caring/knowing there was a game going on (they were in a promo for this episode to), no mention of Yasmin annoying the yellow tribe, instead her fight with Ben is blamed entirely on him (makes sense knowing Ben goes home though, and that the fight was part of why Jaison got mad at him).

-Evil Russel is getting repetitive quick with all of his talk about controlling the whole tribe, them being his zombies, hasn't he said that exact same thing in a previous episode?

-Once again the yellow tribe is dominating the airtime, and there hasn't been a challenge yet 15 minutes into the episode. There's only been like 1 short scene from the purple tribe, about them doing yoga and just relaxing, and Shambo calling those 4 lazy. Not good for any of those 4.

-Purple tribe is becoming another Fiji tribe of INV haves (what was their name, Moto?) with how little we're seeing them, it was obvious before the challenge even begun what the outcome was going to be.

-We're getting a lot of hints this episode about the purple tribe being the lazy tribe, especially the women other then Shambo (and whoever that other guy doing yoga was).

-Wow, what a TC, I'm surprised they hid all of that racial tension until TC, before TC it was just 'Jaison hates Ben, and we don't really know why, other then Ben getting a N edit'.

-Doing informal edgic (and not looking at an edgic chart) I'd say Jaison and Mick look the best right now. I'm not liking the chances of anyone on the purple tribe right now, the only one who I think a casual viewer would know is Shambo, and maybe black Russel, maybe, oh and Yasmin to entirely because of going back with the yellow tribe last episode.


Just a thought about Jaison, his edit this episode really interests me... think back to Fiji for a moment when we had an all African American F3. Remember when Dre kind of implied an all African American alliance (I think at the reunion show) by saying him, Earl and Cassandra had 2 other allies who didn't make it to the merge? And how they never had anyone in the season say or point out that those 3 were the African American alliance? So now think back to Jaison, why did they hide the racial tension until TC, when it was undeniable unless they were to skip Ben/Jaison's fight altogether (and lose lots of good footage in the process)? Could it be they just don't like that kind of contraversy and ignored it as much as they could, or maybe if he wins they wanted to avoid showing racial tension he was involved in as much as possible?

I just used my DVR to look at the last episode of Survivor when Yasmin came to the yellow tribe, to see what evidence there was of Jaison feeling racial tension. Jaison was the very person to get a confessional bashing Yasmin for being rude to his tribe. Also when Ben and Yasmin fight they twice cut to a shot of Jaison watching them, looking annoyed (at who it's not clear). Later after a commercial break Jaison tells Mick he's getting really annoyed with Ben and that Ben hasn't been useful at challenges. Nowhere in the episode does anyone even imply that Ben sounded racist when fighting with Yasmin, though he sure came off of the fight looking bad.

Well like I said before, maybe the simple explanation to all of this is that CBS just wants to avoid obvious racial tensions in reality shows as much as possible, maybe it doesn't really mean anything. Just something I found interesting doing informal edgic.