Survivor this season has been interesting. Russel has kind of changed his gameplan from the beginning. At the beginning he was all about himself, going to the extreme of making things uncomfortable to his team mates (unbeknownst to them) by going as far as burning their socks. In a way he might have been partially to blame for the hole his team found themselves in.
On the one hand he is amazing because he found the first immunity idol (II) by himself just by looking. That was the first of many WTF moments. Finding the second one was even more unbelievable. However, he has been making many mistakes, not the least of which is he can’t keep his mouth shut. I thought for sure he was going to get booted in the first few weeks just because of how stupid he played his beginning game by giving the EXACT SAME SPIEL to three different people. How that didn’t come back to bite him in the butt is beyond me.
The girl who won the last to immunity challenges has to go. She is a C in a big way. This season reminds me a lot of the season where Vecepia won. There was a tribe that destroyed the other tribe, but they got so cocky that they eventually had the tables turned on them.
This week is the turning point. Shambo actually did something very smart by voting with her old tribe, and playing dumb when Russel threw out the II. Her tribe that has been nothing short of awful to her will now turn to her to be the 6th member to maintain a majority. I would imagine the vote this week will be a tie between Russel and someone from the other side and Russel will win the tie-breaker. Russel is on the next season so I imagine he makes it nearly to the end.
Russel’s main problem now is numbers, but not the number problem he had before. The jury has two people currently. Eric will vote against his old team for booting him. The problem is there are 4 Foa Foa and 6 Galau (sp) left. If it ends up being three FF in the end, that makes the jury 1 FF and 8 G, of which Eric would vote for Russel. The best play for Russel is to get to the finals with 2 Gs, and himself. That gives him 3 FF votes and Eric, giving him 4. Shambo could give him the 5th. Either way, for the first time in a long time there is someone who definitely deserves to win, and it’s him.
As a side note, at what point do people consider function over form? The blond girl is wearing a swimsuit that has all of these rings holding it together. Certainly that is not the most functional swim suit for Survivor, no matter how good she might look in it.
Lastly, Russel is the first player since the car dealer/soft core porno dude that I think could mentally outplay me in this game, since he appears to actually have his shit together.
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