User blog comment:Sambarnes/Survivor: BSSS Q&A 1/@comment-28913090-20200211172150/@comment-26098956-20200212141038

Your questions aren't lame! They're actually quite creative.

I never wanted to purple anyone. As tempting as it was to create a Sam (a lá CvC 2019), I felt it would be an injustice to the cast, as all of them played some part in the season's storyline. As I've hinted to and alluded to before, I hated Jimmy and Molly. In the original Survivor: India, their personalities didn't exist: they were created to fill in the last slots of the two tribes. I gave them subdued edits, but purposely gave them some key moments (the epitome of me hating those two was their stupid egg fight). Given the choice, I would've silently booted them earlier. But as for someone I didn't purple... I wanted to give Carlos less screen time because there was a point in the merge where I realized he was becoming Chad and Carrie's bitch and I got tired of writing him for awhile, but I needed to justify his presence in the Final Three.

My returnee short list will be revealed eventually! As of now, I have a whopping 12 names on that list – that could be shortened or adjusted.

I said this at the start of the season, but what I enjoyed most about the season was the cast. In fact, I think it was you whom I promised that everyone would be entertaining. I enjoyed getting to know all of them and playing around with them, even the ones who were a little more dull (like Don and Frank in particular – they had their moments pre-swap... but moving forward, I felt like they had their fun). I enjoyed writing the post-swap episodes the most because a lot of it was built on character-based moments and I got to play around with a lot of different characters and scenarios that the swap brought about. I was also blessed to have kept Bernice around... she was the gift that kept giving!