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Survivor Samoa: How Well Can Russell Play With The All Star Cast?
Commentary by RTVC Staff Writer Kathleen
December 27, 2009
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Plays well with others?
My thinking started when Russell was behaving so childishly during the live results show for Survivor: Samoa. How would that affect his play on Survivor Heroes vs. Villains?
Of course Survivor HV had already been played. It was completed before the season 19 reunion show we saw just over a week ago.
Hmm. Interesting. That leads to a fairly critical point for those of us who do armchair analysis.
Russell has had the opportunity to access the film of every season of Survivor so far to know in advance how these people have played in the past. Nobody else has that advantage. What? Yep. They can know all the players except Russell.
All these folks were already playing the game by the time we couch potatoes were introduced to Russell. They never saw his antics and were never privy to his confessionals about his happy manipulations. They had to take Russell as a total unknown along with 19 other more famous players.
Advantage, Russell.
Did he do anything with it?
With Russell’s recent run fresh in my memory I started comparing him to some others that have been listed one place or another as likely competitors. These are NOT spoilers. Just my opinions of who might get picked to play if I were running the circus.
Rupert. Everyone loves Rupert. He’s big. He’s goofy. He’s a “nice guy”. But, can he go head-to-head with Russell? Not for a nano-second.
Rupert’s shining moment was on Pearl Islands when with a piratical flourish he stole all the shoes.
Cool move, Rupert. Brash, clever and effective. There was, however, no outwit or outplay in it. It was just a clever thing to do that happened to have a brief positive outcome.
At the bottom of his report card, Rupert was the mastermind behind the stupidest shelter decision in the entire run of Survivor. You do not create a snug dry shelter by digging a hole in a beach.
In school Rupert apparently missed all the lessons on sea level, water-tables and tide-lines.
And the silly man brow-beat his companions into going along in spite of their vocal misgivings.
Russell versus Rupert? No contest. Russell in charming mode could probably align with Rupert in charming mode but it will be Russell (or anyone else playing a strategic Russell-like game) who would be calling the shots.
Coach. I have to be upfront here that I dislike Coach Ben Wade with an intensity that alarms even me.
He is a monumental, unthinking, egotist. He is possibly a toxic narcissist. The hideous part is that his past vocations have allowed him to be a person in a position of trust with children. Wrong! So wrong!
He is a Fame Whore right up there with Richard Heene (the author of the Balloon Boy hoax). These guys subscribe to the theory that any press is good press as long as their names are spelled right.
OK, Kathleen. Tell us how you really feel.
Can Coach get anywhere in the HV season? I can’t think of any reason why he could.
Anyone selected to be a player will have.....
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