Oowatanite wrote:
Just to clarify, there was no "Alexis makes it to the finals" spoilers. Natalie and Alexis were spoiled to make the family visit and, after Natalie's opening string of INV/UTR1, Alexis at that time had the best "fan" edit. So some sucksters had her as the last fan standing, probably at the end of the game. She was hidden for a while but still edgically viable, despite the string of UTRs received while players were quitting and evacuating and New Airai was avoiding the TC every episode.

Alexis had a great merge episode but then fell out of sight again, which finally ended her Edgic winner chances. Both OTH and I agree that her INV was bogus, in that several edgicers wanted to write her off by givng her the INV in Ami's boot episode. It's interesting that many of these edgicers were also seriously debating Amanda's Edgic chances, despite her UTR/UTR/UTR/INV start. Go figure.


Edgic scored a big victory this season with their Parvati pick. Bravo. image

I was one of the very, very few who never believed the hype about Alexis, at all. I thought all the constant talk about her opening confessional was the most stupid, pointless discussion ever. It was a very simple narrative confessional describing the nature of the game, that's seriously it. They only gave that confessional to her because she's an articulate young woman who gave all the right soundbytes at the right time, hence why they put that confessional in there. It just really bothered me that everyone was putting SO much stock into that one stupid ass confessional and claiming she was a valid winner pick, yet it was Jason & Tracy who were the fans who were already getting developed in the first episode. Besides Natalie, Alexis was the last fan to get any sort of real development (and that's debatable, since at least Natalie laid out her strategy for us in Episode 4, while Alexis just said she wanted to meet Ozzy) and by then she still had a surprising amount of Edgic support. I guess it wasn't from spoilers apparently, but it was definitely a huge red herring and a complete waste of time to even consider someone like that, especially with edits like Parvati's and Cirie's, and Jason's and Tracy's, and even Eliza had some pretty substantial support for a while. I understood all of this, and those were my 5 main picks throughout the season, with Parvati at #1 every week, but I never put Alexis on my list because I never saw what so many others were seeing in her. I still don't. I don't understand how one narrative confessional makes someone a valid winner pick....

That being said, I'm glad we got the Parvati edit we did (which definitely resembles a mix between Chris & Jenna M.), and the lack of spoilers there were, so it really proved that Edgic can make and stick behind the correct winner pick. I'm happy to say I was one of the biggest Parvati supporters the entire time, the only week she wasn't my #1 pick was Episode 2 and even then she was only barely behind Tracy. I hope that makes up for all my Cassie support in Fiji. It proves that I can actually do Edgic correctly, although I still give out some weird ratings (like the CP2 for Natalie), but honestly, who doesn't? Look through everyone's ratings and you'll find a really odd one from every single one of us.

I was one of the first (if not THE first, actually) to throw Amanda onto my winners list, and I admit that I was swayed by the edit she got during the second half of the game. However, the edit I saw in Amanda was a better edit than a lot of the rest of you saw. For me, I had already given Amanda 2 CP's before she got her 1st one on the official chart, and her last UTR/INV episode on my chart was the INV in Episode 4. So, yeah it was a bad, slow start, but this was a truly unique season in that it had both 20 people and 10 returning players within them, her & James also being straight off the previous season. So if anyone needed a slow start, it'd be her & James, since we just saw them so much, and sure enough, that's what happened. I will admit that Amanda's second half edit was definitely a red herring for people like me, but then again she was never higher than #3 on my winners list. It was worth a shot though, and it was worth looking into just in case.