[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

Beorn's tribe is not paying the bills. The advertisers are paying the bills. The advertisers want conflict and drama because they have numbers that show that is what people want to watch. I mean, who watches to see serenity? How boring. The producers want what the advertisers want.

To quote the producers, "OUR NEXT SHOW!!! OUR MEAL TICKET HAS BEEN PUNCHED!!! BAWH-HAWH-HAWH-HAWH-HAWH!!!"

Oh, the good old times, when people cared about something else, too, than just about money.

What's deserving got to do with it? This show is about ratings and remorseless vendettas (mostly the vendettas).

Deserving has got a lot to do with it, my good Dwarf. The viewers pick their favourite contestants and root for them. They choose characters who are sympathetic and whom they can relate to on some level; they choose characters who deserve to win. Girion isn't one of these sympathetic characters, so he's not a bad choice, but neither is Beorn. If we vote off the viewers' favourites and leave just a bunch of their least favourites to compete for victory, people will lose their interest because they don't care anymore, who will win.

I didn't vote them off.

But they are now gone, nonetheless, and judging by what I've heard, the show still has as many viewers as ever. Getting rid of controversial charachters doesn't necessarily affect the popularity of a show.

He had this disgusting cough that was grossing out the viewers and the producers were afraid he was contagious. Who'd want to watch a show full of invalids?

Quite a few, apparently, since ER is still rolling...

Only somebody who failed to take a charitable view of human, elven, dwarven, hobbiten, orcish, eagleish, spideren, and enten natures would say something like that. How could you?!!

Now, now, let's not take this to a personal level... I'm just making observations.

Originally Posted by Celuien

Additionally, his name can be rearranged to spell No, I rig. Clearly, he was involved in rigging something and was proud of his nefarious activity. His honor is therefore called into question by this discovery and he doesn't deserve to win the contest.

If we start voting people off based on anagrams, what do you say about Beorn, then? Beorn = No reb (reb = master). It's quite clear that if someone doesn't deserve to win, it's Beorn. Even his name's anagram means a loser...