Board Thread:Virtual Tribal Council/@comment-1294345-20151105082343/@comment-1294345-20151109015942

Surferdude1219 wrote: IAmNothing712 wrote: Surferdude1219 wrote: IAmNothing712 wrote: Surferdude1219 wrote: Master Hydraffe wrote: LincolnAloisio wrote: Tasha is this season's Russell. A more bearable version, though. I'm sorry, but no. Russell and Tasha are EXTREMELY different. Russell lied every other second in Samoa, whereas Tasha has only lied a couple times. Russell started fights between others while Tasha has found herself in the middle of fights.

I view Russell as a sort of Survivor god. He just pulls strings and people do what he wants. Tasha doesn't have that kind of power. She's very much at the vanguard of her alliance (which, by the way, draws no comparisons to Russell's) while Russell was a bit more under the table in his control over the game. Overall, people are playing much harder in Cambodia than they were in Samoa. Russell was, at times the only person who was playing the game in Samoa, while Keith is the only one NOT playing the game in Cambodia. Tasha has feelings. Russell does not.

If he is a god, he is the one who deserves to be blasphemed. But still, him being considered as a god is beyond me. By virtue of losing three times the way he did, he'd be the god that sucks. He lost Samoa because of a bitter jury #factsonly. But the god analogy was only meant to convey the fact that he ran his game. A god controls the peasants. He didn't have regard for anything besides winning. He showed no emotion when he won or lost. We was just like, meh, I'm above this. I believe bitter juries exist, and it's up to the finalist to tame them. Russell wanted to play as ruthless as possible without regard to the "outplay" element, which is the social aspect of the game. You have to be at least respected by the jury enough for them to vote for you. It's not all strategy, and your tribemates are not emotionless chess pawns you can easily throw away to pull off gambits.

Russell is a good strategist, but he still doesn't understand why he lost, and never will. Agreed, but Russell did make an attempt at a social gameplay, at least up until the early merge. Then it collapsed underneath him. Anyways, I realize my god analogy wasn't perfect, but the point was to convey the fact that, like you said, Russell treated everyone else as pawns, but still had moral and social flaws. I guess you could say he's more like a Greek god. Not enough. You see, in his last RHAP appearance, Russell admitted he did not make bonds with the eventual early jurors like Erik and Kelly. Goes to show how inept he is in the social department. The 12-person merge is not an excuse.