User blog comment:Tiernan420/Survivor: Caracol Q&A/@comment-26485526-20180110013010/@comment-4975295-20180110022936

1. Honestly, my favorite to write was Kodi. Mainly because I never had such an invisible character before. Every season, before I write the episodes, I do a confessional count for each episode. Since Game Changers had just ended, Troyzan being so invisible yet a finalist was still stuck in my head and I just thought it would be kind of funny to have someone who had no impact whatsoever to go to the very end, which is why I gave Kodi such an abysmal confessional count. I also enjoyed writing for Duke. I honestly thought people would hate him yet he ended up being a fan favorite so it was a nice surprise. Chrissy was fun because of the whole Ming-Na rivalry and Sally was a nice character to write for as the scrappy underdog.

2. The decision to give Ming-Na four votes was honestly a decision I went back and forth on. When I wrote the episodes, I had it the same way it was now, Ming-Na getting the votes of Pete, Chad, T.C., and Chelsea. However, when writing out the episodes, I was leaning to give Chad T.C. and Chelsea's votes to make it 7-2-0. In the end, it went back to 5-4-0 because even though Ming-Na was a complete bitch, T.C. and Chelsea were still closer to her than they were with Chad. Chad had good relationships with Sally and Chrissy, who could sway Duke and Edward into voting him, while Cassie was basically Chad's number one within the majority. Plus I like to have that surprise of 'Holy shit, the goat nearly won.' even though it should have been obvious Ming-Na was never getting 5 votes.

3. I love Hawaii, but I think Caracol is my favorite of my finished fanons. I think if Hawaii was written in the way Caracol was, it would top it hands down.