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Ha ha, yeah I was thinking the same thing. What's even funnier is that JFP and Rob C were essentially the same characters on Survivor, and that's the exact same thing Rob C said the first time he read Alaska. He said, "Hey, Greg was almost exactly like me! How did you do that?" So I guess it was only fitting that Fairplay got his Greg moment as well.

Yeah last night's update was the first one where I really veered off my original episode 9 storyline. I added the whole Tina/Kathy conversation and then all the subsequent drama over whether to tell Colleen and what Colleen is going to do or not do about it. Even though I was able to keep the basic framework I had before (which makes things easier), the new sections in the middle really open up where I will be able to go with it this time.

Once I realized that this episode wasn't all about Colleen (as I had stubbornly insisted it was before), it made it much easier to write. Like I said, last time around I was writing towards a conclusion. This time, I'm just writing as it happens. I just sit there and think, "Well what would logically need to happen next?" That's the way I always wrote my old stories, and is one of the problems I've faced since day 1 in doing the rewrite. Once I get an idea of where I want to go in the future, it's very tempting to try and cheat just to get there.

So with the latest scenes in episode 9, the following things now need to happen before we go to Tribal Council.

* The surfing IC has to happen
* Vee needs to have a chat with Rob over what he has missed
* Vee needs to talk to Tina
* The Ahis need to scramble if they think they are in danger. If they are in danger, how committed are they to all sticking together? And if they aren't in danger, then what's going to happen to the people who were plotting against them?

There are three big questions I haven't decided yet when it comes to where this episode is going to go. They are
1) What is Tina's motivation?
2) What does Colleen do with all her new knowledge?
and 3) What does Rob do if he thinks he might be in danger?

Once I figure out the answer to those three questions, I will know what to do for the ending. Although it gets complicated at that point, because depending on the answers to #1 and #3, it could very well set into motion an interesting chain of events for not only this episode, but the following episode. For example, if Tina really ISN'T playing for the Kekos, but is playing for herself, then you're completely correct in that she very well could flip right back to the Ahis if Rob is no longer there. The statement that Tina isn't really all that different from Vecepia could very well come into play. I haven't decided.

By the way, for the first time all story I actually do think I know who the winner might be now. I'm trying not to look too far ahead (because that's how you get into trouble), but I've started to come up with an interesting storyline.

No hints though.

Maybe they will. :)

I apologize for the fact that I don't post new updates every night. I'm sort of balancing my Hawaii rewrite nights with my Pop Culture blog nights (which I'm doing on my My-Space page). Some nights I work on one project, some nights I work on the other. But I should have Hawaii stuff up again tonight. Just don't expect updates every night for the next few episodes.

-Mario

I cut out the Tina/John stuff for pacing reasons. The immunity challenge was way too long, so it had to go.

Whether it will come up again in the later scene with Alicia and John, I don't know. I haven't written it yet. :)