Overall, that season was a bit of a dud. There were very few weeks that had surprises in it - pretty much the only real blindside was Jason going home. Almost every other week just played out with the end result basically being known as soon as the nominations were made. There was also way too much yelling and fighting - I hope this is not the direction the show is heading because I did not enjoy watching 20 minutes of yelling per episode.
Still can't believe Paul didn't win (again). I think he's deserved to win both of the last two seasons. I'm trying to figure out why he didn't win and I have 3 loose theories:
1) He did so much "behind the scenes" work that he never got credit for how much he actually controlled the game. The fact that Paul never really admitted to being as manipulative as he actual was could have hurt him
2) The jury was just a bunch of sore losers. Paul outplayed them, and their votes for Josh was simply a vote against Paul.
3) Paul is actually a huge dick bag in real life and the edited shows didn't show his true colours. Even if the jury respected his gameplay, they were so turned off on a personal level, they couldn't vote for him.
The fact that he lost twice in final two when he was clearly the better player makes me believe that number 3 is the most likely factor. It doesn't make a lot of sense that this jury specifically was a bunch of sore losers; there had to be some personal aspect around Paul and just how he was as a human.
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