Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-2142533-20141219081416/@comment-2142533-20141219145715

LincolnAloisio wrote: Jeremy's Alliance is so irrelevant...

Keith was not an affiliate there. We never had an real alliance agreement between him and Jeremy, and he was left out of the Drew boot after he said Jeremy had the HII.

"Coyopa Pairs" should be called "Fab Five" because that's how they called themselves on the show, and Natalie was an late addition, not an affiliate, since Jonclyn, Maylor and her clearly had an F5 deal (even if she didn't mean it).

The Keith on the Hunahpu Alliance was more on his involvement with Natalie in the last part. I would agree though, that maybe he shouldn't included during the early parts.

And the "Fab Five" was the post-Jeremy boot version of the Pairs Alliance. The Maylor-Jonclyn connection was already made during the pre-Merge, and just used that alliance connection to take control of Huyopa. Natalie is part of the F5 but it is given that the power is mostly in the hands of the pairs. She was the obvious #3 in terms of power with Jon-Jaclyn being #1/#2 or Missy-Baylor being #1/#2; maybe even say Missy and Jon were the #1 and Jaclyn and Baylor were #2. Natalie just used their power hence why she got power herself.

An affiliate technically could still have a spot on the so called pecking order (one example is which had the affiliate John Cochran be the first person eliminated after the rest of the minority was eliminated, or like in  where it is already given that Brenda and Erik replaced Corrine and Malcolm to the alliance, but they were still considered affiliates. That is why Natalie is considered an affiliate of the Pairs Alliance because Natalie really didn't have an original commitment with the alliance, which is a candidate for being an affiliate.

While I agree that Jeremy's Alliance didn't have a lasting impact in terms of voting, the same could be said about which really didn't have an effective vote (their only effective vote out was Randy and they failed against Tyson). However, both alliances' connections influenced decision going on -- Rob's Villain Alliance shows Courtney and Sandra being at the bottom, then turncoat Coach being blindsided.

Jeremy's Alliance's story shows the progression of how Natalie connected herself with Jeremy, Julie and Missy, all who have made the Merge. In extension, her connecting with Baylor in Exile is due to her wanting to connect with Missy to get more numbers for the alliance, and possibly also how she used Baylor to eliminate Jon. The start of the "Jeremy vs. Josh" rivalry also is a critical storyline during the start of the Merge, and on paper, you could see the "Fab Five" as an offshoot of the alliance in the typical "remove the main head in the alliance but target minority" similar to how Tony and Woo (Jon and Jaclyn) eliminated LJ (Jeremy) and put Jefra at the bottom (Natalie), but of course we know that is a different story. I think it should be included because you could say Jeremy's story is roughly Natalie's story too.