Oowatanite wrote:I never gave Russell credit for the Erik boot, stop imagining things. I'm giving him credit for a successful plan to boot Laura, which fell to pieces when she won immunity. The cascade of events that subsequently led to Erik's boot did not happen due to anything Russell did, but they would probably not have happened had Russell not successful scrambled to get rid of Laura prior to the IC. In other words, Russell's plan to get rid of Laura was a sine qua non to Erik's blindside.
augustus713 wrote:
scepticA wrote:That's not true. His initial scrambling worked and they were set on voting out Laura. When Laura won immunity, John went to Erik about voting out Monica since they had planned on voting Laura. Word got around to Monica and Laura, which led to them turning the tables on Erik and voting him out. None of this would have happened without Russell's initial successful scramble to get rid of Laura.
I'm beginning to wonder if Russell was OTT this episode. He scrambled, but it was ineffective. He was completely desperate, despite his more-of-the-same bravado. And they basically snookered him into using his idol. He said the same lie to several people, and it backfired - they spread the word that he had the idol, got him needessly worried, and he threw away a huge advantage he had.. In other words, absolutely nothing he did worked. The Erik boot was nothing to do with him, but more with Jaison, if you're looking at Foa Foa. Frankly, this was a long time coming. He foolishly showed more than one Foa Foa the idol, and not for any strategic reason. Basically, he was boasting. He thought himself so much more clever than any other player that he couldn't imagine that people would compare notes. So he went to Galus as if he had the upper hand. He was smacked down. .
He was ineffective, snookered, confused, and "galloping off in all directions." To think he was successfully scrambling is to see a different episode than I saw. I just don't see CP for this one trick pony that utterly failed.
You're giving Russhole credit for the Erik blindside WHEN HE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, DID NOT BELIEVE IT WOULD WORK AND PLAYED HIS IDOL TO PROTECT HIMSELF ?











