I think you had too much kava juice left over from your Survivor summary, michel, or are you just playing Devil’s Advocate?! Charla and Mirna??!! Repeat after me “no.more.scary.thoughts.” I agree that the Blondes had some negative editing, but I don’t see Charla and Mirna winning! And regarding Oswald and Danny, “Can selling their yield powers be considered like selling their soul?” wish I’d thought of that for my heaven and hell theme!

“Much Ado About A Yield” (a great headline and one of my favorite plays). We saw the yield in different ways but both agree that this yield is important to the outcome of the race. I did notice many of the things that you said turned the Blondes edit negative. I choose to look at how they were regarded overall for the episode. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Blondes reached their peak this week and we see a more negative slant next week. However, TAR editors always show warts on their winners which is why I didn’t dwell on the negatives (but rather filed it away in my head for next week).

The Yield scene was heavily edited and choppy (and I have no video editing experience but what I’ve learned on these boards). I thought it showed both Oswald and Danny and Dustin and Kandice in a negative light. Remember that Oswald and Danny needed to be shown poorly because they are close to elimination. I found Oswald’s “woe is me” behavior more negative than the Blondes buying a yield. It is interesting that both you and Peetah mentioned Kandice’s comment about Mirna’s hair. I also noted it and wrote, what are the editors trying to do? It was one single sentence taken out of context because all of the other people were looking in different directions. From that scene we got one sympathy vote, one phony vote and one vote of confusion! I think these two teams comprise of really nice people and the editing had to struggle to manipulate them all in a negative manner. They weren’t entirely successful.

Here is why I think your scene #2 is what is going to happen: A lot of the Blondes storyline in season 10 was tangled up with Tyler and James. This season most of their story has been over the use of the Yield. Eric and Danielle were yielded twice. Tyler and James got the best of them last season; I think Eric and Danielle are going to get the best of them this season. I was surprised that Tyler and James “turned” on them in a matter of speaking. I thought they had developed a friendship over the race, but the models thought the Blondes were their biggest competition and worked to eliminate them. Dustin and Kandice think that Eric and Danielle are their biggest competition, but they haven’t been able to get Eric and Danielle eliminated. And now Eric and Danielle have received an underdog edit! They took a step forward in being rehabilitated last week and I expect it to continue. I’m not sure the editors want us to love the winners (that might give the ending away too much), but they want us to think that the winners are good racers, and we do acknowledge that with Eric and Danielle. After looking at the editing for the past three seasons, I think that the producers are more interested in a good race and interesting stories, than producing winners we like. It’s not like Survivor where we tend to like the ultimate survivor. Alternately, the Blondes win and they are getting their BJ and Tyler negative spike, but I’m leaning towards Eric and Danielle winning. Last season, Rob and Kim behaved despicably during the early part of the race and we ended up thinking they would win. I still think it’s going to be a showdown between the two strongest teams at the end.

Charla and Mirna say they want to play clean, and they have been generous with the other racers at times, but we’ve also seen them to be manipulative and petty and cartoonish. The editing has not convinced me that they are capable of becoming the winners, and they are as disliked as Eric and Danielle if not more. It stands to reason that if Eric and Danielle won’t win because of their behavior, then Charla and Mirna won’t win either!

Peetah – glad you liked the shout-out. If you’re gullible, than so am I since I was looking for someone to confirm my feelings about Eric and Danielle!