Dabo: I love that you chipped in and gave us your analysis! I also agree with the outcome...at risk: Kass/Spencer/Woo....I don't know about Jeremiah yet. He is an enigma, always seems at risk, yet last week his name never came up. Makes me wonder if he has some kind of hidden tie to either LJ or Jefra, his former beauty's?But, I have a few questions regarding how you arrived with these conclusions. First of all, I assume that the "totem pole" is the hierarchy with how many confessionals they have received throughout the game so far? At the top, the fewest, at the bottom, the most?
I liked that you noted the pairs. I would say that LJ is paired with Jefra, but he could also be considered paired with Tony, or paired with Trish at this point. Having the most options.
Historically, I have noted that the boot either has a rise in confessionals, spike, just before the boot episode, (they fall into drama of some sort), or a sharp decline, (aka the hidden boot), and if they have no real change in numbers of confessionals and are booted, they are most likely not really contributing or significant to the story? (?)
Then we have stars of the show that get tons of confessionals, above and beyond everyone else...Robfadda, RussHell, and even Coach come to mind, all stars of the show.
I wish Corvis would come in here and weigh in. I loved the breakdown of the confessionals as well, re: the dynamic confessionals speaking to the machinations of the tribe and strategy, vs the narrating confessionls. Or something like that.
Thanks so much, dabo. I enjoy your thoughts, please keep them coming!