That's right, Blake, fan the flames. Lol.
No, I did get sloppy. I've posted long enough to know if you don't name who you're comment is going to, someone who posted recently is going to think it's them.
I just didn't have the energy left to write a decent post on the subject and took shortcuts.
But since you brought it up, I want to give an answer to TLS a go:
This is the basic mistake I see in everyone's defense of Crystal's opening scenes and confessionals. It isn't the act of failing that is damning for her chances, it is her comments in which the edit has framed that failure.
Would her failure to get up the hill shock the viewer if she hadn't been shown talking about her Oylmpic gold-medal athleticism? No. She would have been seen as another anonymous loser, like Susie.
She puts all her winner eggs in one, Olympic runner basket.
I'm not grandstanding to say she is off my winner list. She can't win if the opening confessional theory applies.
Crystal told us her journey and it was "I'm going to use my running excellence to win".
If she was going to have a redemption, I'm convinced that it would have happened in the confessional after her shocking failure. If she had told us that she needs another way to win, she'd be in the running, maybe even in the lead of potential winners.
But she made an excuse. It was a poor excuse. I'd even say it was an embarrassing excuse, as presented by the editors. No winner would have had this careful crafting of Setup-Shocking failure- Lame excuses, that the editors constructed.
She gave a confessional of how she was going to win. She failed with that plan immediately. She followed with a denial of her plan's failure and a silly excuse. That is an explanation of why she loses not wins.
No, I did get sloppy. I've posted long enough to know if you don't name who you're comment is going to, someone who posted recently is going to think it's them.
I just didn't have the energy left to write a decent post on the subject and took shortcuts.
But since you brought it up, I want to give an answer to TLS a go:
TLS:
What if the final tribal council includes a question along the lines of "What obstacles have you overcome to get here?" and Crystal responds, "Well, I found out my athleticism has its limitations - two minutes into the game, and I'm already struggling up the hill. It forced me to round out my game and concentrate on the strategic aspect instead of relying on my physical skills."?
This is the basic mistake I see in everyone's defense of Crystal's opening scenes and confessionals. It isn't the act of failing that is damning for her chances, it is her comments in which the edit has framed that failure.
Would her failure to get up the hill shock the viewer if she hadn't been shown talking about her Oylmpic gold-medal athleticism? No. She would have been seen as another anonymous loser, like Susie.
She puts all her winner eggs in one, Olympic runner basket.
I'm not grandstanding to say she is off my winner list. She can't win if the opening confessional theory applies.
Crystal told us her journey and it was "I'm going to use my running excellence to win".
If she was going to have a redemption, I'm convinced that it would have happened in the confessional after her shocking failure. If she had told us that she needs another way to win, she'd be in the running, maybe even in the lead of potential winners.
But she made an excuse. It was a poor excuse. I'd even say it was an embarrassing excuse, as presented by the editors. No winner would have had this careful crafting of Setup-Shocking failure- Lame excuses, that the editors constructed.
She gave a confessional of how she was going to win. She failed with that plan immediately. She followed with a denial of her plan's failure and a silly excuse. That is an explanation of why she loses not wins.
