Survivor: Repetitive Island

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

everybody had to be under some lame assed "Okay, Rob, let's help you win" hypnosis.

I think it was more, "Please Rob, please give me some chance of winning."

Like he said at the reunion it was all about getting his foot in the door. All he had to do was survive getting voted off first. That gave him just enough time to lull everyone into the "Well, no one's going to give him the million anyway, so why don't we use his experience to help our tribe stay strong for a while" trap. Once he got past that threshold, it was all just a matter of him doing an absolutely masterful job of keeping everyone's blinders on.

If there's one truth about Survivor it's that people will almost always prefer to stick to the plan of record if the plan of record means they get to stay for 3 more days. As stupid as it may look from the audience's view, that has always proven to be the primary motivating factor out there. So all Rob had to do was be sure that, even though it was a terrible strategy in the long term for all of them, each of them 'knew' that at least they were there for another three days if they just stuck with the plan.