# Survivor Finale

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 16, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686 "2010-05-16T22:42:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 9

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/161 "2010-05-21T17:04:42Z")

</div>

> [@interface2x](#):
>
> Jeff Probst [disagrees](http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/04/16/jeff-probst-blogs-survivor-heroes-vs-villains-episode-9/):

Jeff’s wrong. Nobody would have let him get away with one tenth of the lies he said. There is no shot in hell JT would have given him an idol. That’s one example of many.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/162 "2010-05-21T18:05:31Z")

</div>

> [@Moonchild](#):
>
> I’m saying when it got down _to the final five or six_ those in power decided it would be best to keep him around. If everyone had seen him from his previous season they never would have let him last more than two or three votes _max_.

Can you explain _why_ they would vote him out? If you were playing Survivor, why would you vote him out?

In the beginning phase of the game he is strong and helps the tribe win immunities. After the merge, he is good at alienating people, which makes him a good person to take with you to the final.

If all you had seen was his first season, it looks like a winning strategy to stick with Russell from the beginning, letting him do all the dirty work and alienate people, and then get all the votes in the final (which worked for Natalie).

Of course, now with his second season, it looks like that strategy might backfire, as it did for Parvati.

But, your point was about the villains & heroes only having seen his first season, and based on that Natalie’s strategy seemed to work out quite well for her.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686/163 "2010-05-21T18:09:13Z")

</div>

> [@Moonchild](#):
>
> There is no shot in hell JT would have given him an idol.

This I will give you. And if JT had not given him the idol, Parvati could not use the two idols on Sandra and Jerri, and could have picked the wrong one to give it to, which would have meant the heroes would have the majority. That would most likely have lead to Russell being voted out, but we can never know for sure.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-finale/539686.md?page=8)