From: SanityLapse | #126
Inviso posted...
In my opinion, Colton was the BB12 Rachel Reilly of Survivor. Yes, he brought a lot of drama and "entertainment" to the season, but the end result was eating up a ton of screentime and his screenhogging early on meant we were given quality characters to root for throughout the season. Had Colton not been in the game, maybe the men aren't SO f***ing divided (actually, they probably would've been regardless, but whatever). And Sabrina most definitely would've given the idol to someone else which could've potentially f***ed over her alliance later in the game. You can't look at it as "Colton leaving made the season boring." You have to look at it as "Colton's presence until his boot made the season boring once he was gone."
While Colton may have been the most shown (actually, wasn't Sabrina shown just about as much as Colton at that point in the season?), he wasn't entirely hogging the screen like some seasons. And saying that he deprived us of future character development doesn't make sense. The moment NaOnka left Nicaragua, suddenly the other contestants became visible. They just f***ed up big time with what they chose to show in the 2nd half of the season....or the contestants were really that dull (and I know that Leif, Michael, and Jay are actually that dull, so I'm putting a lot of the blame on the them). They salvaged the first half of the season with Colton. He was a blessing they got lucky with.
Colton was one of the most visible players EVERY single episode he was in. Sabrina had a strong start, but then the next four episodes she was ignored. And he DID hog screentime all season. For two episodes where the women went to tribal council, the show was about him. Two episodes where the men went to tribal, it was all about Colton. EVERY f***ing pre-merge episode was about f***ing Colton. And yes, Colton deprived us of future character development, just like Rachel in BB12 (aka the worst BB ever). By hogging up the screentime and making the show all about him for six episodes, when he WAS eliminated, suddenly there was this massive void that the editors hadn't really bothered building anyone up to fill. Yeah, you had Troyzan and Tarzan and Jonas, but even they were ignored pre-merge in favor of Colton.
The moment Na Onka left in Nicaragua, you know what happened? NOTHING, except suddenly the game opened up in terms of who could potentially win. But the edits didn't change. Benry was still ignored, Fabio was still a lovable doofus, etc. Na Onka wasn't eating up SO much screentime every episode that the producers had NO other established characters to showcase in her absence. THAT is what Colton did. He allowed the editors to get sloppy and give the same sort of Coach/Russell/Rob editing that they've gotten so used to, and when he was booted early, they had no idea how to make the season balanced. I'm sure they had plenty to work with. I mean, seriously, Alicia was a world-class delusional villain, yet it took like, five episodes or so after the merge before they actually bothered to utilize her in any meaningful way. We saw Sabrina's confessionals. Even if she was lazy or whatever, she was still a fun narrator and they decided to relegate her to maybe getting a soundbyte about food.
The editors suck and they have no idea how to edit a season so it DOESN'T revolve around one central character. Nor do they know how to edit women, since they had at LEAST Alicia and Sabrina who they just completely ignored for a long stretch of episodes. And what's worse is that Nicaragua was a season they got right. They gave even-editing to everyone for the most part, and the fans hated it. So we get stuck with trash editing like this season and RI and SP.
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