*WARNING...THIS CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS*
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I was skimming through the interview with Boston Rob on the front page when I noticed they asked him about the differences between his first time (or even his second) on the show and this third time.
He commented that he thought that everyone had given up on the actual "survival" aspect and it just became a game of mind tricks and the such.
I think this is SO TRUE. Tribes are no longer voting for the strongest or the most helpful on the island, as they used to. They don't care about who can make a fire, catch food, or build shelter. All they care about is getting the farthest in the game.
In a way, this makes the intensity of the game go up, but it also detracts from it. The whole show is about survival of the fittest...but now its survival of the...meanest? Most cunning?
I'm going to miss Rob! That's all I can say.