Can anybody 'splain this disconnect?
When we first see him, the guy is for some reason bloviating about he will control his tribe.
His means of doing this?
By sabotaging his own tribe.
This was idiotic. No excuses whatsoever. Weakening your own tribe pre-merge weakens you -- lose an IC, and expose yourself to an early boot, not to mention going into the merge in danger of being Pagonged.
(Plus he knocked out sweet sweet future Mrs. P'ha Marissa in his mania.)
And then he starts beating his chest in the confessionals for no credible reason, EPMB gives him Rupert-class airtime, and I was certain we were looking at the biggest moron to play the game since Patricia demanded that the Marquesans follow her rules about the tool tree.
Contrast the above with the guy we've seen playing since he first found the first HII. Smart play, excellent anticipation of what's coming next, and he's even patching up his social game.
His deployment last ep of the 2nd HII was nothing short of a masterstroke: one of the few truly brilliant moves in Survivor history.
What is it in his psychology that makes this make sense? To go from a self-defeating idiot to the guy who is singlehandedly on the verge of breaking Galu?
Does he feel some need to fight only from an underdog's position?
Did he go into the game wanting to play hard and do anything, something, to keep himself moving even if it meant screwing himself and only now it is that he's able to compete against something more than shadows?
Russell on day 1 is a complete disconnect from Russell at the last TC.
And I loathe saying this, but Dicque's early game was idiocy, too, and with the same self satisfied blather to the confessional cameras.
How and why can a guy go from idiot suicide bomber to an evil genius like this?
When we first see him, the guy is for some reason bloviating about he will control his tribe.
His means of doing this?
By sabotaging his own tribe.
This was idiotic. No excuses whatsoever. Weakening your own tribe pre-merge weakens you -- lose an IC, and expose yourself to an early boot, not to mention going into the merge in danger of being Pagonged.
(Plus he knocked out sweet sweet future Mrs. P'ha Marissa in his mania.)
And then he starts beating his chest in the confessionals for no credible reason, EPMB gives him Rupert-class airtime, and I was certain we were looking at the biggest moron to play the game since Patricia demanded that the Marquesans follow her rules about the tool tree.
Contrast the above with the guy we've seen playing since he first found the first HII. Smart play, excellent anticipation of what's coming next, and he's even patching up his social game.
His deployment last ep of the 2nd HII was nothing short of a masterstroke: one of the few truly brilliant moves in Survivor history.
What is it in his psychology that makes this make sense? To go from a self-defeating idiot to the guy who is singlehandedly on the verge of breaking Galu?
Does he feel some need to fight only from an underdog's position?
Did he go into the game wanting to play hard and do anything, something, to keep himself moving even if it meant screwing himself and only now it is that he's able to compete against something more than shadows?
Russell on day 1 is a complete disconnect from Russell at the last TC.
And I loathe saying this, but Dicque's early game was idiocy, too, and with the same self satisfied blather to the confessional cameras.
How and why can a guy go from idiot suicide bomber to an evil genius like this?
