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I've been traveling and just watched this past week's episode late tonight. I see I'm first to the party this week from an editing perspective. Here are a few initial thoughts for Ep. 6:
- Strong episode for Julie and Michelle from an edit perspective. Both were featured in the recap (esp. Julie) and had some very meaty confessionals and insights. I've felt like the Beauty girls had good editing vibes from the very beginning, but their stories were not really differentiated. This week both Julie and Michelle were finally fleshed out nicely and they were both positioned as resilient fighters after Anna's departure.
- I found it very interesting that Debbie's comments about wanting to see a woman win were featured in both the recap and later in the episode itself. I've been wondering why there was a fuss about Jason (and to a lesser extent, Scott) bullying Alecia when there was no apparent payoff after she was voted out. But this week's episode broadened the theme and appeared to show that many of the men are arrogant (like Nick and Peter) and underestimating the women. The he said / she said structure of Debbie/Nick and Michele/Nick was particularly interesting and overall I'm definitely feeling like a woman will indeed win this season. Perhaps an unassuming female will beat out a brash, arrogant male for the win? It's also interesting to note that the male who is presented the most positively and as someone we should be rooting for is Tai, who is humble and exhibits what many might traditionally call female traits.
- As much as I'd love to get on the Debbie bandwagon and find her to be a fascinating character, I feel she's too OTT and back to more of a comic relief character again with the goofy music, etc. vs. a winner edit. And her comment about "just wanting to make the merge" and just wanting to see a woman win leads me to believe that she'll get her wish.
- Neal seems to have fallen off. Will be interesting to see how he shows up in the merge episode next week.
- Peter is gone and it appears Nick can't be too far behind. Will have to check FloPo's confessional count, but it sure seemed like Nick had his spike this past week.
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