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I know I've been warned that taking Jeff at his word is a parlous habit, but I can't shake the fact that he earlier enthused:
It would not surprise me if the winner of Season 30 became one of the favorite winners of all time. I do think when this season is over, the audience will feel that whoever has won has absolutely earned it..
It can't apply to Dan, Will, or Sierra; nor can I see that consideration being applicable to Rodney, whose only redeeming moments in the edit have been as comic relief. So that leaves Carolyn and Mike alone as fitting Probst's encomium—and as you've pointed out in your typically excellent analysis, Michel, Carolyn's strategic moves are still, via the edit, fully capable of being questioned as to their aptness towards leading her to victory. IMO, only Mike has been given enough personality space, enough character growth, to qualify as a favorite; and seeing as, from what we have been shown, Carolyn has (so far) mostly benefitted from, and been held secure within, the loyalty of the strong six, I'm not sure her earning it approaches the level of Mike's in regard to having absolutely earned it, in that his every immunity win has been the only thing keeping him in the game, whereas Carolyn's wins have primarily served merely to deprive that reprieve from others.
The thing is, I look at the six remaining, at Dan's vote advantage and Carolyn's idol, and I cannot see how Mike wins apart from the nigh impossible feat of winning three straight immunities—and yet, with that said, Probst's words continue to give me the conviction that he is the only possible winner who encapsulates the whole of the host's praise...
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