Any thoughts on WHY they offered the 50K?
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Tabbyking

Wednesday, June 26, 2002 - 08:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
kitty, you are right about it seemingly being TO GET ELAVIA OFF THE SHOW. why?

Fruitbat

Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 04:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have a hard time believing that production changes the game as it goes along to get rid of or promote a player.

I bet they were surprized to see Elavia at the bottom of the list a second time knowing she got an exemption for it previously. I think they were hoping to see some strategy with the players placing their mole pick at the bottom or at least having a different player.

I see this as a scheduled event.

The producers picked all the players for this game carefully and I am convinced they do not want to steer it in any way. Why would they not want Elavia to win?

The two men in the final 3 last time must have gotton the majority of the questions right from very early on. Both said they thought Kathryn was the mole right away.

Misslibra

Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 05:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't think it was to get her off the show. I agree with Sea when she said But, it could also be that it was simply scripted for this episode and not directed at Elavia. It just so happen it worked out that she was the most unliked. It could of happen to any of them. She also didn't have to take it the choice was her's to stay in the game or take the money. I think I would have took the money to. At least she walks away with something.

And Kellee made a good point mostly everyone supected Elavia as the Mole this knocked just about everyone theory out of the park and now they have to start over from the begining. Didn't you see the expression of OMG on everyone's face, and the smirk on Anderson's. I think this worked out just like he planned. Anderson is getting almost as sneaky as MB. :)

Faerygdds

Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 08:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Are you kidding MissLibra?

I think it turned out BETTER than they planned. I think they intended to shake things up, not topple everyone's house of cards!!! I was rolling on the floor watching the blood drain from their faces and watching the little beads of sweat popping out on foreheads... And yeah... you can TELL Anderson was loving it too!

Man... now THAT was fun....

(you thought I was going to disagree with you again huh? lol)

Tabbyking

Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 08:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
to me it didn't seem as if they were upset because they had thought elavia was the mole...it was more like 'she's getting some cold, hard cash and only one of the rest of us is guaranteed to get any money at the end!' i think they were envious.
it was pretty easy for elavia to decide, i think, although she 'seemed' to take her time in coming to a decision. she had to have been thinking, "okay, so these people mostly dislike me. my days here are most-likely numbered and this is a sure thing. even the mole doesn't get this much money and they have to stick this out for another month." she may or may not have thought "adios, mf's" in her head as she took the money and ran. lol

Hootyhoot

Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 10:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think that Elavia might have understood that her way of playing the game would make her some people's least favorite player, without meaning that they truly disliked her. She is not the most sociable person. And after all, several other people got votes as the least favorite player. If you meed 11 strangers, especially when you are all competing for one prize, how many of them do you think will become your best buddies? I liked that quote Elavia gave from her grandmother, something like she wouldn't have a lot of friends, but the friends she had would be good friends.

Tabbyking

Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 11:50 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i think it was 'a lot of acquaintances, but only 2 friends' or something like that. i thought 2 (true friends) was pretty low. i would say i have at least half a dozen true friends, who have been with me through thick and thin, for years and years. i liked the quote,too, but thought 2 was just not very many people. but then elavia seems to be a very private person and perhaps keeps people more at a distance than another person might.
then again, we see these people under one circumstance, that of the game, and they may not be much as we see them in real life at all! i mean bill could be a foxy man with a harley and an outfit to match the spiked hair. he could be a happenin' dude!! do we see that? no, we see a punk teddy kennedy on a bike, riding over the chappaquiddick with a gnome as a passenger.

Lobster

Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 03:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Tabby, of those half dozen friends, are there one or two that you spend more time with, or confide in more than the others? I think that's what Elavia's grandmother was getting at. Most people don't have 6 best friends. They may have six close friends, but only one or two that they refer to as their best friend. That's the way I took it. I could be wrong. It's been known to happen once or twice.

Tabbyking

Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 05:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
all 6 or 7 are the best. i wish they all lived closer to me! i can talk to each of them about anything. i am very lucky i guess!

Tabbyking

Thursday, June 27, 2002 - 08:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
plus, i have a lot of years on elavia, so her great-friend count will probably increase by a few over the years!

Spunky

Sunday, June 30, 2002 - 09:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well, I must admit that was the most interesting twist in this more and more fascinating game. (I'll take the Mole any day before Survivor and Big Brother).

I liked all your comments and as for me I'm still puzzled. I can't agree too much that Elavia scored high and so needed to be ousted somehow. If she really was scoring high she must have been pretty sure who the Mole was and she would have refused the money.

However, the silly thing in offering the money is that it clearly EXPOSED Elavia as not being the mole or BEING the mole for sure. The moment you offer the money it could go either way. Stay and they'll know you're the mole, take it and they'll know she never was the mole (By the way, it was so clear to me she wasn't the mole, right from the first game). She did good to take the money because I'm sure she wasn't scoring high and wasn't sure about who was the mole.

I think it was a nice gesture by the producers to make someone leave the game with that much money IF they knew the player really didn't stand a chance. But if they knew otherwise then they're a bunch of idiots.

I must admit though it kept the suspense for me.
I believe many of the players know who the mole is already and I was surprised to see them so....surprised that Elavia wasn't the mole.

My bet is either Dorothy or Bill. Al is too "visible", while Bill keeps in the shadow and Dorothy seems to know too much of too many things.... Very interesting game.

Kitt

Monday, July 01, 2002 - 02:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't think it would have meant (to the other contestants) that she was the mole if she didn't take the bribe. I think taking the bribe was the logical thing to do, unless she really was sure she knew who the mole was, which is doubtful... but the emotion based thing to do would be to stay, to "not quit". I can't imagine someone like Al taking the bribe for example, because of his personality, but that doesn't mean he's the mole.

Donut

Tuesday, August 06, 2002 - 10:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
this question could take on a whole new meaning since we now know that if they HADNT offered her the money, that Dorothy would have been executed!
hmmm They knew from doing the poll once before that Elavia was the most unliked and they knew from offering previously , just how much it would take her to leave, so did they also know that Dorothy lost and for some reason wanted Dorothy to stay and stuck in the money offer at the last minute??????
hmmmm wheres ewing, i smell conspiracy....