[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Riley95

I thought all Others would have had connections it's very random that only 3 do.

This is a good point, and it's probably a case for the pov that it's not a set up. It's probable that they wanted all the others to have connections but in the end couldn't make it work, for all the many reasons that people are stating as to why this twist isn't very plausible. Maybe there were a lot of last minute changes.

Something I noticed on launch that might mean nothing, but during Evelyns vt, she was shown to be interviewed in the background that had black balloons (like the others) instead of multi coloured balloons (like the main hm's), which suggests she was initially meant to be an other but there was a last minute change (unless I'm completely off the mark about the balloon thing lol)

Anyway that suggests to me that it's probably not a scripted set up, planned out totally in advance, and there was probably a lot happening and changing in the days leading up to launch to try and make it work best as possible