GTM posted... Teach me edgic
Maria says something like "if we don't blindside tiff that would be a million dollar mistake". Since they used that and tiff went home, doesn't edgic call that a winners quote or whatever?
I don't know if Maria is winning this tbh. We've gotten very little personal content for her and you'd think they'd have wanted to invest more in the Malcolm/Denise thing for Charlie and Maria if it was indeed Maria winning. The comparison would be more obvious since in Philippines, those two child-abusing dirtbags took Denise to F3 instead of Malcolm, where she promptly waxed their disgusting butts. (Thankfully, there's no such scum this season.) I actually think
Kenzie will try to take Maria out and probably succeed.
[Charlie] is my top winner contender right now but I legit could see anybody pulling it out. A few notes here:
- Everybody keeps saying they'll never vote for Quitavius to win. This has to mean something; either he's getting owned at FTC like nobody has in a good while or he's gonna actually manage to change their minds. I don't know which it is, but the latter is much less likely given how people like The Hantz in HvV, Muffin, Troyzan, Laurel/Yanni, Angelina and Noura all got labeled as goats by mid-merge and that was that. None of them got any votes, save for Muffin since she threatened to ground Baylor if she didn't, and it didn't matter what they said at FTC. (Examples are F3s only.)
- Venus was an insignificant bystander for this last episode; if she was winning, we'd have at least heard some of her thoughts. My thought of her being the bizarro world winner was most likely wrong. She's starting to feel like
the pre-finale boot... Abi-Maria style. - Charlie talking about training his grip strength means
this isn't going to be the last challenge he wins, unless that was put in as a major red herring. - Kenzie was on my radar for a good while but she wanted to make BIG MOVEZ for no reason (Tiff was floored in her exit press, saying something along the lines of "Girl, you don't vote out your #1 with like ten people left on the beach!") and then was excluded from the idea she proposed. This right here feels like
it's explaining why she loses. She might be the runner-up. - Ben is drawing dead. We know zilch about his relationships at this point and only get him making "This does not rock" jokes, plus the fantastic scene where Kenzie comforted him when he was feeling lonely. That made me think
he'll vote for Kenzie to win the season, since he's likely finale fodder.
So my current thought for placement is something like:
1 Charlie....2 Kenzie....3 Quitavius4 Liz..........5 Ben........6 Venus....7 Maria.....With either
Charlie winning final immunity and taking Quitavius OR Charlie winning at fire. Obviously, there are OTHER things in play, too, like the "Siga Strong" crap. The editing has become extremely complex with the 90-minute episodes.
Of course there's a huge chance I am way off on this but that's the beauty of analyzing the edit. Sometimes you're right, sometimes you're wrong. Like I called Gabler one of the top two contenders going into the finale in 43 and some people laughed at me... and I still mock them to this day. Cassidy had been drawing dead since like F8, people!