User blog comment:Coolio15/Ghana Boot Order/@comment-5277627-20180603033943/@comment-9949103-20180604031211

There were really two driving forces for me giving Deborah the purple edit.

1. She was the losing finalist or the "goat" of the season so I thought that it would be necessary for me to downplay her edit in comparison to those of her fellow finalists. Deborah, for the first half of the game, was essentially a floater. She did whatever the hell Theo and Lauren told her to do on Walewale and then when she was switched to Kumasi, she basically did whatever Bridget told her to do. From the final eight on, Deborah's gameplay basically went from 0 to 100 real quick. After striking a deal with Sawyer at eight, she agreed to flip on the fans and vote out Lauren in exchange for the blindsides of Fawn and Jane at the final six and seven. Not only did she look like a flipper at Tribal, but she also came off as very erratic and wishy-washy, spinning lots of different stories to lots of different people and basically making her look untrustworthy as hell, so much so that everyone sans Don tried to blindside her at seven. Even after that though, Deborah was unpredictable, impatient, and completely off-the-wall with her gameplay. As I said before, she went from quiet to messy real quick, making her an easy beat at the end. For that reason, I thought purpling her for the first half of the season would help to show that contrast in gameplay (Similar to Alexis' edit in Peru).

2. From an editing perspective, all of the people that Deborah had significant interactions and relationships within the season's storyline are all people she didn't encounter until the tribe swap or the merge (Fawn, Sawyer, etc), meaning that it made sense to not really showcase her until the moments when she became relevant to the overall storyline.