Comments on: ‘Survivor: Samoa’: Russell, the wizard

By: The Watcher

The Watcher — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:15:21 +0000

Good points, all. Shambo has very little chance to win the game. She strike me as one of those people who play the game without any plan whatsoever. If the final three were two Foas and Shambo, the jury would be 7 former Galus and 2 Foas. She would have to hope that her former tribemates would still support a turncoat.

By: whippletheduck

whippletheduck — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:02:12 +0000

The overall question for every survivor in an alliance is: Will this alliance get me to the end in such a way that I can win a jury vote.

Since I assume that this is a final 3 season in the final TC, I don’t know if Shambo can afford to openly betray her tribe to the old Foa-Foa alliance. There are 10 people still in game, meaning 7 more TCs. If she betrays her entire tribe NOW, then sure she has a easy run to the final 3, but it makes getting the votes to win much harder, since her entire tribe would be out to see her lose now and the FoaFoa’s would have to choose from Shambo and up to 2 other FoaFoa’s, dilluding that voting bloc.

By: The Watcher

The Watcher — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:18:58 +0000

That’s probably true. If the Galu guys think they are tight, then Natalie is probably who they see as the biggest threat to them from Foa Foa

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:38:17 +0000

That was one of my favorite Survivor eps in memory, when Russell found the HII and the blindside worked out like that. WOW! I think maybe the Galu boys were bringing up Natalie because they’d seen her making inroads with the Galu girls and didn’t want her to join their side against the boys perhaps….

By: The Watcher

The Watcher — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:59:29 +0000

Interesting observation about Jaison. I guess he would be next after Russell, although Natalie got some mentions, which surprised me. She must seem more formidable to Galu than she does to the viewers.

By: wejomerv

wejomerv — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:13:59 +0000

Kelly was invisible this season.

Russell finally did something this season to back up all his talk. He played that well. I still am not sure why he showed the idol to Shambo. It didn’t help him any since she already trusted him and only put in danger since she could have told her old tribe members.

I was surprised Shambo was smart enough to stick with the voting of her old tribe mates so they will still trust her. She played that nicely. She can still flip between the two tribe now if she wants.

You can tell Jaison was really nervous that the other people in the tribe might leak that Russell had the idol. He didn’t want to be put up for risk.