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Originally Posted by SoBig
This is why Russell Hantz is the greatest strategist and manipulator in the history of Survivor.
HvV
Samoa
WHO SAVED NATALIE THERE TROY!?!?!
If she was so good socially why was she on the chopping block? I thought she would charm her way to the end? Russell convinced people to flip their vote. He SAVED her. Natalie was going home. Same with Paravtii. He saved both of them.
You better respect that man. |
In regards to Tyson's boot, that wasn't a good move at all. You'll see this a lot with Russell's supposed "good moves," they're actually not good at all, but he lucks out when someone else makes a blunder. Russell had NOTHING to do with getting Tyson to switch his vote, it's all editing. Read any post-game interview. Basically Russell thought that Danielle and Parvati would vote Russell and Russell vote for Parvati, making it 5-4. He hoped that their alliance would turn on each other and from there switched his own vote to make Parvati go home, not Russell. And besides, just because Russell giving Parvati the HII worked doesn't mean it was smart at all. It's actually one of the dumber moves to happen. Right there, he essentially sacrificed himself for Parvati considering nothing else crazy would happen. If you know the vote is going to be 3-3-3 and you have a HII and you're getting votes, why wouldn't you use it on yourself? It worked for Russell but by no means does that make it smart.
There's nothing extraordinary about Kelly being voted off in Samoa either. Russell played an HII, big whoop. Others have done it before too and you don't hear about them being the greatest players to ever win. There's nothing special about someone playing an Idol when they're targeted. How that's rocket science is beyond me. But besides, Russell wasted a HII right before that in the F12 by telling everyone about it. Had he not done that, he would've had two Idols and would've been an even better position. Plus the whole Galu tribe is to blame after they had the clue and didn't capitalize on it, allowing Russell to find the second Idol.
Likewise, the rest of Galu didn't make it much of a secret that John was 5th in their tribe. He flipped to avoid the Purple Rock once it was clear that Dave/Monica/Laura/Brett were a solid group of four, but he went about it the wrong way by trying to get Russell to vote Mick out the next round in return. A lot of the credit Russell gets in Samoa comes down to the stupidity of Galu. They made a lot of careless mistakes left and right that really shouldn't have happened.
And no, I'm not going to respect that man because there's nothing to respect.