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Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote:

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Nogales wrote:

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I'm asking why you think viewers were coerced into rooting for Ozzy, Yau Man, James, Cirie through editing rather than us just liking them because they were good at challenges or strategic underdogs

You can certainly like them for those reasons, and I bet a lot of people do. Actually, I like all of the names above. I tend to notice though thatollee the asual audience will eat up whatevers thrown at them. Greg and Colleen were good friends, but the editing said it was a romance, so the casual viewers ate that up. Richard was viewed as a "snake" despite playing clearly within the rules, because the editing implied that he was wrong for booting Gretchen. And that is just for starters.

First, let me get this straight. I like Ozzy, always have and still do, but not for winning challenges, I just like him and he seems like a nice guy and it is always good to see someone skilled and intelligent on the show. I always knew he was full of himself, we saw it on CI, but people didn't care about his temper tantrum at the mutiny because we are 'supposed' to root for the underdogs. I don't root for underdogs just because. On the world stage, Islamic Fundamentalists are underdogs, should we root for them? I doubt people root for underdogs just on principle. Either people have a seriously ontrarian view on the show then I do, or they view Survivor as entertainment to pass the time, nothing to get invested in. In the latter case, you might as well root for the underdog because it adds a bit of suspense I suppose. In the former example, well the mass of people who watched Outback and then stopped watching Survivor did so out of misplaced expectations I think. People view Survivor, too many of them in fact, for something it is not. It is not a genuine survival contest in a strict sense, it is not a morality play, it is not a sporting event and it is not trash. It is an edited for time reflection of human nature