I agree with this! I don’t blame the HMs, although the casting can sometimes be a bit disappointing, but yes, I can completely see that the producers are failing to recognise the good stuff when they’ve got it, so we don’t get to see it. I know that all I have to go by is the edit, and I could have qualified my observations by saying so, but that’s a given! You know, I’ve never seen Reggie as the moral compass. She just seems to blithely drift through, completely guileless, so when she says something insensitive, or even callous, it just doesn’t seem offensive at all. In her season, I would have been happy for any of the top three to win. I’m happy Reggie won (and I’d be happy if she won again), but I was hoping for Chrissie, because she had such a generous spirit and she was smart. She played the game like a duck, with all the machinations beneath the surface, and came across as completely genuine, but at the end of the day, losing didn’t do her any harm… When you look at the few female winners, the thing they have in common is that they were seen as non-threatening. That’s the depressing thing about the game, that overtly strategic women don’t make it. Maybe this time! As for Tim, after the Twitter episode he might well have cooked his own goose if he makes final three.
Do you think the OG vs. Newb alliances was a good strategy? It kind of forces you into a position where you have to target beloved HMs.