[The Saucepan Man]

Goodness me! Calm down everyone! It's only a game (show).

Originally Posted by Folwren

So don't flatter yourself.

Er, I was rather under the impression that it was you who was attributing your vote to your (seemingly endless) quest to avenge yourself on me.

Originally Posted by Folwren

Ennoblement of the humble?

WHAT ON EARTH DO YOU THINK SAM WAS THERE FOR?!

Yeah, but Sam got kicked off early in the show. (He got voted off by a majority, might I add, not just one (my) vote. Sheesh! I am really being given far to much credit for the way the voting has gone than I deserve here.) That being the case, of the remaining contestants, Pippin best represents the theme in my opinion.

Originally Posted by Folwren

Yes! Okay, so I do bear a grudge! Pippin's going down, if only for your sake!

Am I to feel flattered? Or am I flattering myself again?

Originally Posted by Lalaith

You know, the dish best eaten cold and all that.

I am sorry that you still hold Galadriel's eviction against me, Lal (even though mine was, again, only one vote amongst many). But I don't go in for positive discrimination. All these arguments about keeping so-and-so because they are the only female left leave me cold. If I don't like a contestant, I'll vote for them whatever their gender.

Originally Posted by Anguirel

But I would contend that Gimli, Lord of Aglarond, deserves victory now; and that the comeuppance of the Pan Man is long, long overdue.

I might point out that (unlike some that I could mention) I have never voted for a contestant purely to spite a fellow viewer. I have voted for those who I felt deserved to go and to try to protect my favoured contestant. If I have upset people by doing so (and clearly I have), well tough. That's the way these things go.

Assuming that Pip goes today (which looks likely), I really have no preference for who wins the thing. Whoever wins out of the three, I would not feel unduly upset, but neither would I feel overly enthusiastic. As I said, just as in "real" Reality Shows, we end up with a compromise candidate. And that, my dear Ang, is most certainly not solely down to me, but to everyone who has participated in the voting.