Edit Bay this season is going to be a much shorter analysis due to spoilers. However, I will still assign ratings to each player, so readers can track the chart throughout the season. And I will highlight a few potential story arcs and important alliances. But there will be no discussion of potential winner edits.
OVERVIEW
Firstly, apologies for the delay on this final Edit Bay post of the season. Below you’ll find the Edgic ratings for the finale episode, in addition to the overall ratings for the final five castaways.
The Survivor 44 finale went pretty much as expected, with very little in the way of surprises. In many ways, it was the opposite of the Survivor 43 finale, which seemed to come out of nowhere and left many viewers in a state of shock. Here, everything made sense based on the edit we’d seen across the season, culminating in a final three and a winner that felt satisfying.
As we’ve said over the past few weeks, this season was the story of the Tika 3, Yam Yam, Carolyn, and Carson. This was their story from the start, and it meant a lot of the other characters were side-lined or underedited, including fellow finalists Lauren and Heidi. This style of editing has its positives and negatives.
On the one hand, the focus being so much on the Tika 3 meant that we never truly got to know a lot of the other players. This resulted in gaps in the narrative and took away the emotional impact and investment when it came to those players’ eliminations.
Yet, on the other hand, having such a clear and well-developed arc with the Tika 3 provided consistency across the season. We understood Yam Yam, Carolyn, and Carson, their strategies, their personalities, and their relationships, particularly with each other. It was a story about this weird little family with their own quirks and ideas. They bickered and disagreed yet loved each other dearly nonetheless.
This love between the Tika 3 was seen throughout the finale, in the way Yam Yam and Carolyn talked about each other at the final tribal council and how Yam Yam helped Carson practice fire-making, despite knowing he was his biggest competition. This bond between the three of them made them easy players to root for.
Fans will likely look back on Survivor 44 positively, as the story of the Tika 3 gave the season a clear direction and focus that paid off in the end. But that doesn’t mean the editing was perfect. There was still a struggle pre-merge when it came to balancing character moments and camp life with twists and advantages. And many players could have been better fleshed out and given their own story arcs to sit alongside the Tika 3 narrative.
It will be interesting to see how the edit changes, if at all, in Survivor 45 when the show expands to 90-minute episodes. Theoretically, the extended time should allow for more camp life and character depth, which in turn should make for more satisfying storytelling. Time will tell.
EDGIC CHART
Definitions: https://insidesurvivor.com/survivor-edgic-an-introduction-3094
| Name | EP 1 | EP 2 | EP 3 | EP 4 | EP 5 | EP 6 | EP 7 | EP 8 | EP 9 | EP 10 | EP 11 | EP 12 | EP 13 | EP 14 |
 Yam Yam |
MORP4 | CP4 | OTT2 | OTTM5 | CPM5 | CP5 | CPP4 | CP4 | CP3 | MORP3 | CPP3 | CP5 | CPP4 | |
 Heidi |
MORP2 | UTR1 | CP4 | UTR2 | INV | UTR2 | MOR4 | CP4 | MOR3 | MORM2 | MORP3 | MOR2 | CP3 | |
 Carolyn |
OTT3 | OTT5 | UTR2 | CP5 | CPM5 | CP4 | UTRP2 | UTR2 | CPP4 | MORP3 | CPM5 | OTTM3 | CPM3 | |
 Carson |
MORP3 | CP5 | MOR2 | CP3 | CPP2 | CP4 | MOR2 | MORP3 | MOR3 | CP3 | MORP2 | CP3 | CPP3 | |
 Lauren |
CPN4 | UTR2 | UTR2 | UTR1 | INV | UTR1 | MOR3 | UTRP2 | MOR3 | OTTP2 | UTR2 | MOR2 | MORP2 | |
 Jaime |
OTT3 | UTR1 | OTT3 | OTT4 | MOR2 | MOR3 | UTR2 | UTR1 | OTT3 | OTTN4 | MOR2 | CP3 | ||
 Danny |
UTR1 | MOR3 | CP5 | MOR2 | OTTM3 | UTR1 | MOR3 | CP4 | CP3 | MOR3 | CPN4 | |||
 Frannie |
MOR3 | MORM3 | CP3 | MOR2 | MOR2 | UTR2 | MORP3 | MORP3 | MOR3 | CPP4 | ||||
 Kane |
MOR3 | MOR3 | OTT2 | INV | MOR2 | CP3 | UTR2 | MOR3 | MOR3 | |||||
 Brandon |
CPM5 | MOR2 | OTTP2 | UTR2 | OTTN2 | MOR3 | MOR3 | MOR3 | ||||||
 Matt |
CP4 | MORM3 | MORN4 | UTR1 | OTT2 | CP4 | CPP5 | |||||||
 Josh |
UTR1 | INV | MOR2 | CPN5 | CP5 | CPN4 | ||||||||
 Matthew |
CPP5 | CPP2 | CP3 | CP2 | OTTP3 | |||||||||
 Sarah |
MOR3 | MOR2 | MOR3 | MOR4 | ||||||||||
 Claire |
UTR2 | UTRN3 | MORN5 | |||||||||||
 Helen |
MOR3 | MOR4 | ||||||||||||
 Maddy |
MORN3 | |||||||||||||
 Bruce |
UTRP2 |
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What were this spoilers about? The finalists? Or the winner?
The spoilers I saw were the winner. But I believe the final four was also spoiled.
I wanted to know your opinion on mat chat theory? where basically the winner can be narrowed down to the few players who speak to Jeff on the mat during the premiere.