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Mewtwo59 posted...

I didn't really feel like Noelle had any more personality than the rest of them. This season, it felt like they're using interesting backstories to make you root for these people instead of their personalities, and Noelle's backstory was the one with the most screentime.

Noelle had the "leg jokes" line and "It's time to vote, right?" exchange with Jeff. Her hyper-competitiveness and sense of self-deprecation are traits more identifiable than anything most of the others have. Gabler, Cody, and Sami are the others, but even Cody's gotten dull, and Sami's arrogance isn't exactly an endearing trait.

Please note that Noelle doesn't have the same complex personality as castaways from better seasons. She just stands out in this bunch of bores.

Underleveled posted...

This season has had a lot of strong and competent teams.

This is boring, right?

Underleveled posted...

Edgic talk/winner speculation: Yeah, after last week's episode I am 100% convinced that the winner is Cody or Jesse. They are Dom/Wendell-ing this thing and as soon as Gabler actually cast some doubt on them leading up to tribal and nothing came of it I was like "there's the smoking gun - the winner is from that pair."

Yeah... I can't see anyone other than Cody, Jesse, or Gabler winning it all at this point, edit-wise. Gabler needs to take them both out, but with two idols between them, I don't see that happening unless the guys get extraordinarily cocky. At which point they should be talked about as among the dumbest Survivors ever. But that's a possibility. Gabler's definitely gonna try something.

And you do have a point about Edgic. They look for whatever semi-attractive young female they can latch onto and justify their thinking backwards. I used to be guilty of that, but Cassidy ain't winning. I'm just not going to mention that on Reddit because I get downvoted to hell, and once Cassidy loses I will be like "SEE? I told you guys that Cassidy wasn't winning." That said, I blocked a couple of jerks who mocked me for daring to challenge them.

Cassidy is basically getting Erika's edit, but without the supplemental evidence to her strategy. Erika had the "lamb to lion" confessional and her edit was thus a slow burn, but it still showed that she had agency in the game and was involved in numerous moves to build that up. Cassidy is a bystander, perhaps by choice, but she's not seen as a big threat likely because she isn't. S41 was Erika's story, how she appeared on the radar late in the game and won it all. S42 was Maryanne's story, but she was shown from the beginning as a relevant player. Cassidy has just been kinda there all season. And Edgic is latching onto a couple of confessionals of hers as if they were winner quotes that the others don't have... when some of them do.