LAST EDITED ON 03-23-15 AT 03:39 PM (EST)

Exactly, Agman!

In fact, evidence of 'bonding' as the result of common experience - or of its absence - has always been a staple in spoiling boot orders:

'Were they together on vacation/at Ponderosa?' 'For how long?'.

Too, although I'm sure that there have been several more subtly executed, unpublicized pre-jury 'withdrawals' from the Game than we will ever know, Julie's very obvious exit-of-convenience had to have been a pretty bitter pill for production to swallow. And the spector of a trend even more unsettling.

Note: Jeff Probst is a Scorpio. And Scorpio have a tendency to think the worst and assume the catastrophic ...

So, while I'm not at all certain about the whole 'augmented jury' theory, I do think that there was a pretty fundamental change in the Game's structure that brought about this suddenly universal comaraderie.

That, or Max has been a far more effective 'mastermind' out of the Game than he ever was in it.

G