Thread:Fedora Kid/@comment-2091662-20141218114510/@comment-1734566-20141224232954

Exactly my thoughts. When I first heard of the divisions based on "socioeconomic status," I went nuts. Now I know how viewers felt when the division based on ethnicities was revealed. XP

I mean, yeah, it plays like, zilch role in the season at first...but boy, does Jeff Probst know how to spin things around. First off, he made it clear why they had to do this: He states that what worked so well with Cagayan was that they cast the group first, going for the absolute best applicants they could find, THEN created a theme around them. He says they did the same thing with S30, and that's why they were stretching for a clear theme here, even if the cast is REALLY good (according to Probst). He uses this to, once more, acknowledge the crap that was the 29th season, because they decided to return to the "Blood vs. Water" theme again, and they cast BASED on that theme, not before it. So that's why the S29 cast was so bad, and thus why the season as a whole was so bad.

Even further than that, Probst argues that their job-related background COULD play a role in the show - for example, he talks about how "white collar" people follow a clear set of rules, "blue collar" people make their own set of rules, and "no collar" people basically say "f*** your rules, we do it as we please." So, OK, that COULD make for some interesting post-merge/inter-alliance dynamics, but as a tribe, I don't expect much. I really REALLY hope there's no tribe swap, though. I much rather prefer when they go the Palau or Philippines route - if your tribe sucks, deal with it and keep losing until there's only two left, and then we split those two up to the other two tribes.