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It's interesting to think about a lot of things people are mad about - how Dan isn't that badly edited, how they didn't openly hold discussions about what happened publicly after the merge episodes, how sparse interviews have been, how little their statements actually tell us. A lot of people (including the people in this topic) are super hating on Survivor for not handling that stuff right.

But knowing Dan was kicked off now, I think that adds a lot of perspective to this - there probably is a lot of legal action being taken behind the scenes. The little black screens with font might be all they can legally tell us. If Jeff held a round table discussion with cast members about what happened, that could just be fuel for a legal fire. If they edited Dan to be a villain too strongly, then Dan might actually have grounds to sue them for smearing his name. Instead of smearing him, they just showed us what he was doing, all over the place. We saw it all season long. Casually. It's just normal footage of daily life at camp, so there's not really anything he can sue them over there.

One thing people are mad about is not pulling him from the game sooner, and maybe that's valid. But I don't think Survivor production ignored the problem or brushed it under the rug or anything. They just handled it the best way they saw fit at the time. Maybe they could or should have gone farther, but I think it's really weird to crucify them too harshly for not handling exactly the way you think it should have been handled. They didn't ignore it, they just handled it differently than you think it should have been handled, which of course they did, they were making choices in real time with what they thought was the right thing. I think saying "fuck survivor" for stuff like that is really childish and, honestly, hurtful.

And I think they did the absolute best thing they could - they showed it to us. We saw what happened. They didn't edit Dan to be a villain, but they didn't ignore it either. They just showed us what he did casually all the time. Then showed us how people responded - some people were hurt, some people stood up against that behaviour, some people used for their own advantage, and some people brushed it under the rug and act like it wasn't an issue. We even saw how the man himself minimized it and charismatically convinced people that he didn't do anything wrong and that he would never do anything wrong. It's a remarkable way to see how this kind of situation plays out in real life - everything about the way people can react to this kind of thing is captured by what Survivor showed us.

This whole situation doesn't hurt the season IMO - it elevates it to a remarkable case study in human behaviour, showing a genuine issue in society that really does happen today, and that lots of people try act like isn't a real problem. Take Jeff Varner's recent take, or even people in this very topic like Pokewars. They see an issue like this being presented in Survivor and complain about this SJW BS or whatever. I think highlighting stuff like this is peak reality TV.

So I think this is a good season, and that Survivor Production has done a good job trying to navigate a really difficult and real issue.

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