User blog comment:VeryUnknownFan/"Conveniences" that made players last a lot longer than usual (whether by writing, production, etc)./@comment-4742462-20170522202444

They probably could have voted out Duncan again if they wanted to, but Noah goes, because there was a chance Alejandro would leave if it was just the 4 of them voting

That and because they needed to make Alejandro so annoyingly perfect by quickly terminating any potential threat for him that wasn't Heather.

Duncan just so happens to convince Alejandro to NOT vote him out again, but instead to vote out Alejandro's minion Tyler

Actually from what I remember (forgive me if I'm wrong as it's been 5 year since I've last seen this episode), Duncan never specified for Alejandro to vote off Tyler.

The elimination for Hanging Dork to me always came across as they had originally written it to have Courtney be eliminated but decided at the very last possible second to eliminate Gwen instead resulting in an ending that clearly lack any effort.

Surprised you didn't put down Sweden Sour if not just for the fact that it (undeservingly) spared Courtney for the second time in a row.

By the way, the fact that you call out how several of these eliminations were for the sake of making Alejandro look better proves that he was the first villain where the cast was dumbed down to make him look better. And yet nobody complains because he came after a pretty crappy villain but they will whine and moan about it when Mal does the same things he did three years later...