Thread:Fedora Kid/@comment-2147650-20151030004752/@comment-1734566-20151030035537

Very well Let's get down to it!

Biggest shock this season: Jeremy. In case you didn't know, he was one of only two people I came into this season HATING (the other being Shirin, who was mercifully euthanized early in this game). But I seriously am glad to say the exact opposite for Jeremy; never before have I seen one person fix literally every single mistake they made and flaw they had in their previous run, and do a perfect 180 into a significantly smarter and more likable player their second time around, as Jeremy has from Season 29 to Cambodia. Right up there with Cochran from SP to Caramoan, and Tyson from HvV to BvW.

With my winners' predictions in S29 and Worlds Apart being such roller-coaster rides, I decided to take a break - this was the first season since One World where I didn't make any winners' predictions, but for polar opposite reasons; I didn't make any for OW because the cast as a whole was so perfectly bland that I couldn't single out any one possible winner, but here, I simply decided to skip predictions so that I could enjoy the season and simply root for my favorites. So with that said, my "picks to win" (i.e., my favorites) were pretty much Spencer, Joe, and Keith, with Ciera and Savage close behind. Spencer has definitely exceeded expectations by basically pulling a Matrix game here, dodging one bullet after another; Joe is surprisingly off everyone's radar despite being the biggest threat his original season; Keith, I'm convinced, will go far once again since he's literally staying the exact same as before, and with Jeremy putting his petty feud with Keith behind him and Keith being surrounded by even bigger challenge threats (Joe, Andrew, Spencer, Tasha), he's definitely not gonna be on anyone's hit list anytime soon; Savage has only recently been gaining relevance through his partnership with Tasha, and he could possibly form a strong post-merge coalition and dominate just as he would've dominated Pearl Islands; but of my five favorites, it's Ciera who's sadly been the biggest disappointment, as she's obviously been largely ignored by the edit so far. But perhaps time will redeem her.

Abi is delightfully chaotic, IMO. Yeah, she's technically not any worse than she was in Philippines, but she's still definitely bringing the drama - she's literally been the cause of 4 of the first 7 eliminations thus far, and with her status as the most obvious goat with loyalty up for grabs, it's clear that everyone wants to take her far once more. And Woo, yeah, Woo was definitely actually becoming a surprise to me as well; he proved himself much more capable of defending himself this time around, much moreso than before (resisting Shirin and Spencer's persuasion, pledging his loyalty in the episode of Varner's boot). Although he was literally the ONE person that I predicted, pre-season, as having ZERO chance of winning, he was actually kinda turning around and might have been a bigger threat than before. But sadly, Abi had something else to say about that.

And your winners' picks are interesting indeed. Were some of them, by any chance, made based off of the infamous sharing of immediately post-season pics that fueled longevity speculation among the fans? I seem to remember that Spencer, Kelley, and Kimmi in particular posted pictures of themselves immediately coming back from filming, and all of them clearly appeared malnourished and frail - thus, naturally, those three ARE speculated to go far. If so, then that'll be AWESOME: Spencer going far = Pure win, and I'm officially in love with Kimmi after the Monica blindside. <3