Jeff Probst blogs ‘Survivor: Samoa’: episode #8 | EW.com
November 5th, 2009 | posted by cwalton |
SOMEBODY COCKY GETS BLINDSIDED
Erik was such a fun guy to have in the game, he has a huge heart and that was fun to watch. It may also have been his downfall.He bled Galu purple to such a degree that I think he forgot that it is… an individual game. You have to make moves in this game based on the idea that everybody else is making their best move. Erik was a major threat in the game with a major attitude.
He lost sight of how others saw him and never considered that the best move might be to get rid of him. Because not everybody on Galu bleeds Galu.
He was so confident that he forgot to consider the other people in the game were also playing to win and they might not care about keeping Galu together.
And boy did it cost him.
Talk about a blindside. Wow. One of the biggest and most memorable in a long, long time. Erik could not have been cockier. He was absolutely certain the outcome was set. He never-saw-it-coming. Neither did Laura, nor most anybody else on the former Galu.
Russell’s HUGE move to play the idol is yet one more pencil in his jar of “this is how ya do it.”
RUSSELL: “Figure it I have it I might as well play it.”
NOTE: To all future Survivor players… You Don’t Hold Onto The Idol If You Have The Slightest Concern You Are In Trouble.
If you have it and you think you need it – play the damn thing.
Russell is playing to win. He doesn’t care about second place. He may not make it, but with each passing week you have to respect the game he is playing.
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One Response to “Jeff Probst blogs ‘Survivor: Samoa’: episode #8 | EW.com”
By Anon A. Moss on Nov 8, 2009 | Reply
Yea it would be hard to disagree with that for certain. Once he went after monica, it only took the wind blowing the wrong way for an instant for Laura to catch wind of the stench. This is likely why john is so keen to get rid of Laura as well. I can’t see an immunity-idoless Laura making it beyond john and shambo’s next vote opportunity. And as Mr. Probst points out, players evaluate (whether they realize it or not) on the their best next-individual-move; for foa remnants, that should likely be to side with John and Shambo.