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I too was pissed at Dreamz. I felt like the show echoed that; they'd spent the previous day of game-time building up the "honorable four survivors" feeling, with the boat trip and the burning previous contenders and all that, and they weren't playing it for suspense. I didn't know that the contestants didn't know about the voting being with three instead of two, though; that was a weird twist. I wonder when they thought of that.

Earl... I definitely understand his position, in that after what Dreamz did, there's no way Earl would beat Yau-Man in the vote. Not a single chance. And I'm glad that Yau-Man said that they're still friends: I don't know what it was like there, so while Earl's choice looked sketchy to me, Yau-Man has to be the final arbiter, and I don't believe he'd directly lie. :)

Yau-Man of course rocked.

Cassandra proved to be impressively good at networking and machiavellian scheming. She had the knack of getting on people's good sides, telling them what they wanted to hear while never truly saying much, and maintaining good ties with people. She also played a pretty good game, getting in with the Earl alliance after the re-org, and stabbing Yau-Man at a good point. But she didn't talk as much about her gameplay as Earl, and she wasn't as straightforward with the jury, and I think that cost her the win. As well as the misogyny, of course; some of the people on the jury were Right Bastards. But I was really impressed by that challenge where she guessed correctly what everyone thought of everyone else, and I would not have been upset had she won. She simply wasn't as impressive as Earl, but only some of that can be ascribed to gender roles, background, etc.

Lisi is a walking stereotype that encourages misogynists. Rocky is an ass. Alex and Stacey have some admirable traits, but are blind to their own serious faults, and thus become rank hypocrites. I really don't know what to make of Mookie, other than "by your friends you shall know them", and he picked Rocky. Boo's speech on Christianity came out of right field for me; religion hadn't featured at all, that I remember. I am rather impressed that he held to an internal moral code while never making a big deal of it.

I wonder what Anthony makes of it all, especially whether he thinks the presentation skewed our perceptions of what was going on, and whether the other contestants were more or less as portrayed to us. (I.e., whether Yau-Man and Earl really were that nifty.)

Thanks! It was a great first Mother's Day as a Mom. Did your mom get to come to NY with you?

It's interesting - it seems like all of you had a much more positive sense of Dreamz than his edit gave him.

Yeah, it looked like you were brain farting a bit, but I can understand under the circumstances.

I'm glad Earl and Yau are good people, and I'm really glad you got a neat bunch of friends out of the whole deal - lots better than a truck. :)