Thread:Fedora Kid/@comment-25206252-20151029014533/@comment-1734566-20151105160145

Exactly, to all your points. For an "All-Stars/HvV"-type season, which was SO hyped up in the months before - primarily on the strength of its cast - the editing has been terrible. Pretty much ALL of the women have been ignored with the exceptions of Abi, Tasha, and kinda Kelley. Varner hogged three whole episodes just to be booted 4th, and now the spotlight seems to be on Jeremy, Spencer, Tasha, and Savage. Ciera especially is SO non-existent that it's genuinely heart-breaking. I REALLY wanted her to be even better this season and break out of this shell of "the only thing she ever did was vote off her mom!" which I am so FRIGGIN' tired of hearing about nonstop from Probst and others. But sadly, it seems that won't be the case. She's pretty much got the same level of invisibility that Monica had, and if this is any indication, she probably won't last too long.

And yeah, most of your character analyses are spot-on, TDWTisAWESOME. Most of them just aren't as good as they once were (again, largely due to editing), with the one major exception being the incredible turnaround of Jeremy. Abi and Keith are both exactly the same, but still awesome whenever they get focus - Abi especially, as BarBar once said, is pretty much THE main source of juicy drama this season. Joe is slightly better, but not getting much of the edit he deserves. I still like Spencer, so meh.

And Bar: I call it S29 because, to me, it not only has a ridiculously long name that I'd rather not bother typing out, but it's also just SUCH a bad season that it's basically my equivalent of "that-which-shall-not-be-named." :P Again, a stupid cast of either mostly cannon fodder or just genuine idiots, if not some downright unlikable people, with strange editing and overrated gamebots (again, like Josh and Jeremy at the time), a lukewarm winner and just an overall mediocre feel to it. WA, again, had an amazing cast that was almost entirely memorable, and had a good sample of each kind of player: Awesome dominant players like Mike and Joe, smart and beautiful women like Jenn and Hali, strong UTR players like Carolyn and Tyler, terrible players like Will and Shirin, great comic relief with Dan, and a solid villain in Rodney. Combine that with some very shocking boots as early as the pre-merge (Vince, Max, etc.) and THREE perfect idol plays, and the season really is above-average. Again, please stop using the whole "oh, the boot order was predictable, Pagong-style." You're only saying that NOW, in hindsight - at the time, you were just as much on the edge of your seat as I was because the editing was so good that even the Pagong-ing episodes were still intense.