User blog comment:Tanglefrost/Grenada Q&A!/@comment-28913090-20190102090127/@comment-5277627-20190102092449

1) It was always going to be final two.

2) Ummmm, that's a hard one. Probably Meiling? She had a huge fanbase at the start of the season and I didn't think it was warranted.

3) Honestly, yes and no. Lulu was meant to be a kind of boring background character who left pre-merge, but people started responding to her and, as I expanded more on the friends thing and Kendra stayed longer, I wrote her as someone who fit in extremely well on Gouyave and then turned the boring pre-merge boot into a tragic swapfuck, because I felt that suited her better.

3) Topher. Always Topher.

4) Actually, Jason was originally first boot. I had Kory written as my underdog hero but the response to him was very bad and Jason's response was much more positive, so I swapped them around. I remember really wanting a medevac in this season, and I was going to have Kory being my underdog hero who got medevaced at F10, which is why I built Kory and Jamie so close in the first episode. Then when Jason stayed, I gave it to Jason. The story was that he'd turn on Jensen and everyone but Meiling would be in on it, but before he could do anything he'd be medically evacuated. Then Jason left and because of all the boot order shuffles that story got lost.