Fans of the Survivor franchise may already know that the current Australian Survivor season has seen its fair share of twists, blindsides, and betrayals, but there are fans who are having trouble enjoying the season due to some of its editing choices. The season marks the seventh entry of the Network Ten era of Australian Survivor. It's a "Blood V Water" season, meaning that the cast is comprised of pairs of loved ones competing to win the title of Sole Survivor.

The Blood V Water cast is mostly made up of new players, but the season also features some notable heavyweight returnees. The biggest name in the cast is a two-time winner of American Survivor, Sandra Diaz-Twine, who made the journey to Australia to play the game with her daughter, Nina Twine. Unfortunately for the duo, Sandra was voted off in the pre-merge shortly before Nina was medically evacuated from the game due to an ankle injury. Now, the only returnees remaining on the season are married couple Mark Wales and Samantha "Sam" Gash, who met and fell in love during Australian Survivor season 2.

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Despite some very compelling gameplay in the first half of the game, the season's editing has been met with a critical reception from fans. One of the most commonly mentioned editing issues has to do with the way that Australian Survivor edits confessionals, the moments in which the contestants speak privately to the camera. It's often pointed out on social media that Australian Survivor, like many reality shows, frequently employs "frankenbites" in confessionals. A frankenbite is an editing technique in which audio clips taken from different conversations are spliced together for the sake of clarity or narrative cohesion. The technique is commonly used on Survivor when a contestant speaks about another person using a pronoun.

Under-edited twins from Australian Survivor

With "frankenbiting," the editors insert audio of the player saying that person's name in place of the pronoun, in order to make the meaning clear for the audience. Australian Survivor has gotten shade for its overuse of this technique, and for major continuity issues in the editing of confessionals, which are often obviously spliced together from several different conversations. Sometimes, they include noticeable and distracting changes in vocal cadences, which viewers find jarring.

The frankenbite issue isn't new for the show, but the main editing qualm that fans have had with the Blood V Water season, in particular, has been its under-editing of two contestants. With 24-person casts, Australian Survivor often struggles to give every player the same level of airtime, but halfway through the season, twin sisters Mel and Michelle Chiang have been under-edited to an unprecedented degree. Only one of the twins, Michelle, has had an aired confessional in the twelve episodes that have aired thus far. Mel, on the other hand, hasn't had any confessionals featured on the show. By comparison, Briana Goodchild, the second person eliminated, had nearly twenty confessionals in her short stint on the season, while Sandra had over fifty before being voted out in episode 7.

Overall, it's hard to argue with the editing criticisms. Australian Survivor has many great elements, but its editing flaws have the potential to turn off many viewers. Obvious and constant frankenbite usage can make viewers distrust the narrative being presented, while a vast disparity in airtime between contestants leads to unbalanced storytelling. This can foster predictability and a lack of clarity in the narrative. Hopefully, future seasons of Australian Survivor can address some of these problems, to make the Survivor franchise show even greater than it already is.

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