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04-12-15, 08:30 PM (EST)
68. "RE: Episode 8 - The Battle Is On:"
Hey Michel, I've read your column for a couple seasons. I can't see Mike winning. I gave his edit the benefit of the doubt for the pre-merge episodes, but the last two episodes have confirmed my doubts. Mike's decisions are being repeatedly doubted by the edit usually by Rodney, and his edit leaves gaping holes. A couple examples:
- Mike has been called dumb several times by different people (mostly Rodney), and it never seems to be countered and often seems to be supported. When Rodney has been called dumb, like in Ep 7 with Joe, it is countered immediately with a scene of Rodney stealing Will from the No Collars. In Ep 6 he even tells us that people should not think that he's just a dumb kid.
- Mike and Kelly's alliance came out of no where and when she was booted Mike got zero reflection on supposedly his closest ally. In contrast, Rodney mourned Joaquin and swore revenge. Not only did he not mourn her but he was tagged as being the reason she left at the start of the episode, supported by the scenes of him (incorrectly) not trusting Will in Ep7. In fact Rodney is the one who gets the Kelly confessional, where he blames Mike for her going because Mike targeted Jenn to see if he could trust Will (when he could) by having him vote Hali. Mike is called an idiot redneck and tagged with being responsible for slaying his closest ally.
- Why don't we know Mike's end game plans? By this point we knew that Natalie wanted to go to the end with Missy/Baylor, we knew Tyson wanted to go F3 with Gerv/Monica, we knew Kim, Chelsea, and Sabrina had a F3 solidified, etc. Mike's only end game plan seemed to involve Kelly and she got booted with no insight from him. In fact the only contestant who seems to have mentioned long-term plans seem to be Rodney and Carolyn.
- Mike is being shown completely oblivious to Rodney's plotting against him. Whenever he tries to do "damage control" with Rodney it is usually countered with a Rodney confessional planning Mike and the BC's demise. We even heard Tyler say that he wants to target Mike and Dan.
- Mike's decision to save Joe at the Joaquin vote off is being depicted as an incorrect decision. When Mike says Joe has to go we see Rodney reminding us that Joe should already be gone, which is capped off with Rodney's post-IC confessional about Joe being a golden boy and how Mike's decisions have made this game harder for the Blue Collars.
And this is all post-merge stuff, looking back a lot of his pre-merge stuff has some serious flaws as well.
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