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I think this episode was great for Jaison, and I also think that people may have been a bit quick to write him off. I've been a bit busy, so I haven't had the chance to make this argument in the past few weeks, but it's something I've really been thinking about.

First off, the UTR2 in episode 1 is bullshit to me. Compare him to Liz, who got the one confessional about people thinking she's sneaky, or Erik getting I don't know how he was 2 in that episode. Jaison had his first confessional about him being a water polo player and then he helped to set up a theme that makes no sense otherwise. That theme: race.

Why would the editors make such a big deal of Jaison being surprised Mick would pick a black guy for the swimming challenge, Liz feeling that she was picked for the puzzle because she's Asian, Mike commenting on "Afro-Americans" not swimming that well, if the culmination of that story was Ben getting voted out in episode 3, after not showing any signed of racism in episode 1? It leads me to believe that race comes up at some point, and Jaison fits that theme best.

He was the first person shown to be going against Russell and succeeding. Every other person has gone. Marisa didn't trust him, she's gone. Betsy didn't trust him, she's gone. Ashley tried to boot Ben over Betsy, she's gone. Liz didn't trust him, she's gone. Yasmin pissed him off, she's gone. Jaison went against his wishes and took out Ben. Jaison is still here. Additionally, Jaison was the first person Russell really said he trusted and showed the idol to. The editors could've easily left that out and made Jaison seem purely like a quitter, but Russell trusted him early.

Yes, he's been shown as a quitter, but at the same time, a lot of his quitting talk was backed up but the events we saw. We saw his hands pale white from how cold and wet it was. When he fucked up last episode, we got a good tribal council question from him explaining how he felt. Honestly, they had to explain him as the decoy boot for that episode, and that's how he went about it.

And now, in the merge episode, he got a great edit. When Erik went to the three of them to talk, it was Jaison who took charge and turned the tide. Yes, Natalie worked the girls, but it was Jaison's plan. And then at tribal council, Jaison was the one who Erik said had potential, and Jaison was the one who got a lot of tribal council coverage, alongside Russell.

If Jaison were to win, we were introduced to him in episode 1, he has had a storyline the entire pre-merge, and his quitting could show up at the final tribal council in a way where he says he overcame hardships to win it all. Hell, Jeff could even show clips of him wanting to quit at the reunion, in an ironic sense. It's entirely possible for Jaison to win still, and his numbers really haven't been THAT bad.