User blog comment:Coolio15/Canary Islands Boot Order/@comment-38115759-20190821030905/@comment-9949103-20190821220807

Jasper: Honestly, Jasper was probably my least favorite of the cast, aside from maybe Bowen? But even Bowen would get into some drama and get some redemption during his boot episode.

Jasper, ultimately, was planned to be old man asshole of the season. He was a gameplayer, and a very controlling one at that. I took a lot of inspiration from players like Domenick and Tony for his character, which is probably why I hated him so much xD However, unlike them, Jasper was being set up for a big downfall from the very first episode and the fact that he was on everyone's radar by episode 2/3 would've made him a more enjoyable character imo for the sake that it would be obvious that he wouldn't be having success in the game.

He would have some personal moments, getting sick during the fourth episode and feeling pissed that, having survived something as real and as ugly as cancer, that he's potentially letting a small stomach bug take him out of such a once-in-a-lifetime adventure. He opened up about his cancer story multiple times in confessional, wanting to keep the details away from his castaways as he knew that it would be seen as a sob story if he talked about it too much.

However, Jasper's skills as a gameplayer were lackluster at best. Forming the construction crew alliance was about his only smart decision as the rest of the game he had other players like Toshi, Patrick, and Kerri covering his ass for all the stupid mistakes he was making (Like trying to look for an idol in front of Paul, someone who he was not in an alliance with).

After he was banished to a new camp, he figured out from an idol clue that the idol had been banished with them and was now hidden somewhere at his new camp. He ended up finding the idol with Robbie, something of which they agreed to share with one another, but Jasper later claimed that he had no intention of ever doing so, something of which Robbie suspected and caused the two of them to quietly turn on one another as the merge arrived.

Jasper's controlling and transparent gameplay finally came back to bite him. He wasted his idol at the merge even though he had the numbers to take out Liz, let Kerri and Clay have their way in taking out untrustworthy Brianna over superfan snake Paul, and was so blinded my confidence in himself and his own alliance that he didn't see Robbie and Kerri pulling the wool over his eyes at the final eight to finally blindside him and put an end to his buffoonery.

As a writer, he was someone I struggled with a bit, but building him up for his long-awaited downfall would have been so sweet.