Talk:This Could Be the Heist of the Millennium!/@comment-26485526-20180302231833/@comment-27391152-20180304003609

I'm not denying that Jacob's been shown as a really good guy in trying to help Adrian with his homophobia, but to say he's been shown as someone that can "do no wrong" just isn't true. Let's take a look at some examples of Jacob's "glowing" edit:


 * 1) He caused Adrian to have a panic attack.
 * 2) He moped around because he was constantly voting in the minority, which I know made me not like him as much. It didn't hinder his game, sure, but we're talking about the edit here, and it definitely painted him in a negative light.
 * 3) This: "I can’t believe Jacob isn’t going to work with us! I mean, how stupid is it that he wants to stick to a plan that’s going to get one of us- people who are willing to work with him- over Will, someone who doesn’t even like Jacob, and Jacob has voted for three times? He’s just mad that I lied to him and he’s not thinking clearly, being petty and just taking revenge. What he said, like, “you guys just suddenly decide you want to work with me because you need my help”, that pissed me off so much. He better have fun on the Jury because that’s where he’s gonna end up!" - Celia
 * 4) He's been constantly voting in the minority and rather than turning it into an underdog edit like it has with Oswald, they've more or less just included multiple clips of Jacob and Will talking about how bad of a player he is. Just because nobody else has had an entire confessional bagging Jacob doesn't mean everyone/the edit has "overlooked" it.

On the flip side, the only real positive part of his edit that differentiates him from say Oswald is how he's helped Adrian overcome his homophobia. Meanwhile, Oswald hasn't had any negative parts of his edit that I can remember. Actually, now that I think about it, if anybody's had a golden boy edit this season, it's ADRIAN! Not only does he have the thing about him overcoming his homophobia, but everyone and their goddamn mother have said countless times how great a player he is and that he'd crush everyone in the FTC.

As for Jacob magically sticking around, again, I feel it was mostly due to him A) having so many connections so that many people would want Jacob on their side, and B) because he never really had any true alliance so why would anybody waste a vote on him? For most of the early merge, most people were focused on splitting up the Gombey Five and the Somers Trio (rightfully so); I can't think of a time where the vote really should've been for Jacob but people didn't go through with it for magical reasons. You say that Adrian and Jacob have constantly pushed to save one another, but the only time I believe that's happened was when everyone was splitting between Oswald and Jacob, which clearly had no effect on the vote. Besides, the two clearly weren't some unbreakable pairing since they both turned on each other like THAT last episode.

In short, I will agree with you that Jacob's overall edit has been skewed positively, but he's far from a golden boy in my opinion.