As much as I hate to admit it, yeah he absolutely played the best strategic game ever. Personally, I thought he was a douchebag and am glad he didn't win. For as great as he was at the tactical aspect of the game... and he was probably the best ever... he sucked at the social aspect of the game. And unfortunately for him, that's a big component of the game.
But yeah, you're right... if they do another All-Stars, he'll definitely be there.
I'm not sure how you can say he sucked at the social aspect when he managed to get every single person on his tribe to trust him and want to align with him. I don't understand this at all- he struck me from minute one and a skeezy slimeball and I was *boggled* that anyone at all trusted him, but they did. They all acknowledged that he was the most powerful person in the game and yet it didn't occur to anyone to say "we'd better blindside Russel and get him out, he's a threat"? Astounding.
I say he sucked at the social aspect because the jury was stocked with people that hated him. Yeah, his teammates road his coattails... I think Natalie was the only one that "trusted" him... but I'm surprised he even got the 2 votes he did to be honest. He was loathed by jury members... except for Shambo. So that's why I think he sucked at the social aspect... more enemies than friends.
Ok, I can see that. I honestly thought he'd get the votes for having played the game cleverly but I guess the jury wasn't that generous. They'd rather give it to Natalie, who wasn't any different than any of the other women who "rode coattails" to the end in recent years and usually don't get a single vote.
I think the one starting in Feb must be too soon for Russell to have gotten on the Villains tribe? I haven't watched every year, so I never know who everyone is on the "all-star" teams. I should netflix or something to catch up-- if I knew who I needed to catch up on.
Oh lord, I don't even know where to start. He got everyone to trust him, wormed his group that was down 4 players to 8 going into the merge into the final 5 (picked off 7 off the other team in a row - got them to vote each other off), found 2 hidden immunity idols with no clues just by looking for them, deliberately sabotaged his own team early on to create dissension...you really should watch it, it's worth it. or at least go read the Television without Pity recaps or something. He's a genius at the game.
He did something at the start that bothered me a lot: he told the other contestants that he'd been in New Orleans when it flooded and that his dog had died in the flood. He hadn't been in New Orleans and he'd never had a dog. Friends and acquaintances of mine were in and near New Orleans when the hurricane hit and the levees failed; I'm sensitive to that.
It was one of many signs of Russell being a jackass, and sometimes he was a hilarious jackass and sometimes he was a maddening jackass.
I think it was because the jury was so stacked with members from the other tribe. He beat them like no one has ever been beaten on that show and giving the votes to someone else was their way of soothing injured pride.
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But yeah, you're right... if they do another All-Stars, he'll definitely be there.
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I think the one starting in Feb must be too soon for Russell to have gotten on the Villains tribe? I haven't watched every year, so I never know who everyone is on the "all-star" teams. I should netflix or something to catch up-- if I knew who I needed to catch up on.
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Also, I think I have a crush on Brett now.
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It was one of many signs of Russell being a jackass, and sometimes he was a hilarious jackass and sometimes he was a maddening jackass.
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I really liked Russell. Slimeball or not (and I think he's probably a nice guy in RL) he totally deserved to win!
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Also, the next season is an all-star one: Heroes v. Villains, so you *know* Russell will be on the Villains team.
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