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I could not disagree with you more.

First off, it is NOT like all Probst does is challenges and TC's. I believe he reviews EVERYTHING that production puts down to him, that he is shown EXACTLY what is going on in camp, including the two cents of Psychologists, whom will tell Probst things that they mean and so on an so forth. I firmly 100% believe that, and Survivor is too high up the food chain NOT to have such a thing.

Remember how in Survivor Pearl Islands, how at the final 4, there was a IC where the Jury got involved?

I beleive that was a 100% result of the producers and test audience telling them that Rupert would be well liked by the viewers when the show aired, so they devised that as a way of getting him more directly involved in the episode.

I've seen probst do/say things that I don't believe he just stumbled upon. Sure, I think when someone says something that he already knew had happened, he opens the door for the Survivor's to go into it.

ANd Probst also shuts down things that don't conform to what the producers/test audience has said will work/won't work.

For example in season 6. Sure, the male tribe had a good lead when they hit the balance beam. And we all remember how Daniel Lue squandered that lead. But they still completed the balance beam at the same time as the women did; and when they hit the final jigsaw puzzle part, we all saw how it was Rob C and Dave Johnson that ultimately cost them the challenge- the women had finished the puzzle and were winning before the men even finished the puzzle.

At Tribal Council, Probst did a lot to put the entire loss on Daniel Lue's shoulders. Daniel said in an interview that he wanted to try to deflect some of the blame for it onto Dave Johnson, whom was leading the "Dan Choked" crowd. But you see on TV that the instant Dan starts to bring up his deflection angle (which he as a Survivor had EVERY RIGHT to bring up), Probst immediately shut it down.

Probst had no business doing that. He should have let Daniel say what he wants, and then in editing they could edit it in that he cut off Daniel if that is what they want. But I think that between Daniels VERY sexist's remarks combined with that "I'm so honest/honorable'"speech that Dave Johnson gave, that the test audience noted that Dave would be very popular (which he was) and Daniel would not be that popular, and the result is that Probst was told to protect Dave and try to spin Dan to look bad.

My two cents.

As far as Janu goes, if she REALLY wanted to quit for the reasons she gave on the show, they would have let her quit without ANY prerequisites or anything. The fact that yes, I hear there was a legal questions about Janu's status on the Jury and regarding her cash prize for finishing where she finished. But I do believe production, up to and including Probst, wanted Janu to quit in order to save the very popular Stephanie for another episode.

He has also said that he knows very little about what is going on. In any case, I believe Probst is given an agenda of things they want to accomplish in their TC's and promoting people to "hero" status or putting others in "Villains light" is part of the process that Probst is in on.

I was not discussing ALL STARS in this thread. I was refereing to questions that were never answered and the question I had was whether or not production WANTED Janu to quit in order to give Stephanie another episode. I personally believe that they did indeed want Janu to quit and EVERYTHING that happened in that episode was orchestrated on the basis that.....

***Production knew via what was going on that Stephanie was going next.
***Production knew that Janu had been weak for a while now.
***The Challenge where the person that lost would automatically go to 'exile', which had not been done in Survivor yet, was designed to help break Janu.
***The challenge itself, one of will power, was designed that Janu would come in last.
***Everything at Tribal Council was designed to open the door for Janu to quit in order to give Steph another 3 days.