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Okay here's a question I had when it first aired, then I rationalized it away but with the Yul elim I'm wondering about this again.

In episode 5, they spent a few (valuable) minutes of showtime having Yul recount the story of Penner and his wife, the ALS troubles, he cried a bit and was consoled and showed a lot of emotion recounting their struggles.

And I remember at the time thinking, ah... Jonathan Penner is one of my favourite characters of all time so it's nice to see him (at least in flashback form), and it is heartbreaking to hear about their story, but why include this in the episode? It just felt like it came out of nowhere.

So then I rationalized it as, well, winners usually get some kind of character building/emotional moments so maybe this is for Yul. Even if it's not a personal emotional moment, it was still a moment for him, so fair enough.

....and now he's gone so I'm back to wondering why it was included again!