The first episode is edited before the season is even over!
Pack up edgic and close the thread.On the contrary: this, if true, is great news.
First of all, the "first episode reveals the winner" notion is a relatively new idea in edgic. It's attracted believers over the past few seasons, but it's one of those approaches that looks best in hindsight. There are always several characters who get treated in the first episode in a way that makes it easy to look back and say, after you know the winner, "See, that scene is the one that revealed so-and-so to be the winner." It's not much different from "winner quotes."
Of course, all of edgic is based on observations made at some point with hindsight. But edgic is not dependent on any one scene or episode. As I said last week, overconfidence has led us to rush to predict the winner. There's a reason that the game of edgic has always been to predict correctly at the merge. If true, this news would reinforce the original intent of edgic to work over the long run. (It would also further undermine the "theme" bs, not that it needs undermining.)
Bless you, Eliza, I hope you're right.
We also know that the final edit of each episode is done very close to airtime, at a time when the winner IS known.How do we know that? That's certainly contrary to what Eliza is saying.
I remember that one season's finale was spoiled when CBS contracted for last minute music and sound editing a week before the finale was aired.What does that have to do with what Eliza posted? She didn't say the finale was edited before the winner was known--that would be pretty hard to do! She said the first episode was.
