LAST EDITED ON 02-27-04 AT 12:01 PM (EST)

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When editing the show, did MB have to give Richard as much face time as he had? If the positive editing theory holds true, Rich would have gone farther

While with any other player, I'd acquiesce but this is Richard Hatch we are talking about I don't think that MB would NOT have done this for anyone else. I don't know about anyone else but I fully expected the King of Survivor to get a special story/edit because he is the self touted and arguably the best player and the first winner. In fact, many believe he couldn't have gone last night because they felt MB would make sure his boot is solely about him and nothing else in that story. So I do believe MB "had" to give Richard that much face time. Let's face it ASS would not have been the same without Richard Hatch

As far as your thoughts on Colby, again, valid points BUT I do believe as I stated in the first post of the old thread that MB is going to do (I believe) a special job on the story and winner this time. It may not necessarily be all positive and golden but this is the winner of ASS! Now for me, if Colby was playing the game at all up until now (and from dribs and drabs I don't believe he was as invisible as MB showed us) then why are we suddenly getting feelers of a very different player? For some reason also, I feel a stage is being set for Colby that he bit off more than he could chew and the fact that we saw almost next to nothing of Ethan and Lex's relationship while Lex "allowed" Colby to basically usurp the strategy session makes me pause.

With regard to Sue, Chapera was doing a lot of victory dances yet we still saw quite a bit of activity there. Sue hasn't been portrayed as a worker or a team member. Though Sue's personality in S1 was abrasive, we saw her step up and work hard and take the reins in strategy discussion. I don't see that here. Mark Burnett picked the creme of his crop whether it was based on past win status, audience popularity or alpha personality. Sue was picked because of the impact she made on Survivor 1. I believe editing and story lines is very very important to Mark Burnett. In fact Jeff Probst indicated in an interview that tuning into the story is what makes Survivor great.

Naturally there are confessionals and blurbs that go in each week to entertain but as a whole, what we see of someone is IMO a message he is sending about the person and how they are involved in the game. But that is the beauty of this show, we don't all see the same thing. Sue, to me, is not the Sue of S1 therefore I feel that MB is only putting what he needs to show of Sue to keep the story smooth but her "character" if you will does not have any major impact on the outcome of the game.

true, nice call on the "both" sides. I think there are quite a few sides going on at MM. Lex and Kathy's friendship, boys vs. girls, Lex and Ethan's friendship, Jerri's preconceived negativism towards Colby (and I'm sure Colby's of Jerri's) the natural "pretty boy" competition between Colby/Ethan, etc.

Edited b/c of a typo