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"The flaw in the plan."
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"The flaw in the plan."
LAST EDITED ON 09-18-09 AT 07:55 AM (EST)

Let's break down Misirussell's strategy step by step.

1. Sabotage your own tribe at every opportunity: physical, emotional, comfort -- everything. Make sure they lose challenges, personal possessions, mysteriously develop holes in the shelter roof -- whatever you can do to make them weaker, you do it.

2. A weakened tribe is going to be easier to dominate in all ways. Of course, a weakened tribe is also going to lose challenges, some of those challenges are going to be for Immunity -- and the weaker they get, the better the chances of going on an all-out Ravulong streak. But that just lets you get rid of the threats in your own group: since you have alliances with most of the pack and they'll be afraid to vote out a strong guy during the tribal stage, you'll be safe until the merge.

3. Make the merge as part of a very small minority (thanks to all those planned Immunity loses), joining a group that's had time to develop a very cohesive tribal identify because you gave them so much time to sit around celebrating their strength.

4. And what's the best way to keep that identity intact a little longer before having to cannibalize their own? They vote you out.

5. Spend a record-setting eighty minutes in Final Confessional screaming about how they had no right to do that to you, you're going to use your oil company influence to raise prices up to $300 a barrel just to get back at them, and that's assuming you just don't save a lot of time by killing them all in their sleep.

This is a reversal of the normal formula: 'good' may wind up triumphing over evil because evil is dumb. Misirussell may be the first contestant in series history who needs a tribal switch to stay alive: unless he can sabotage both groups, his such-as-it-is plan is doomed to failure -- and even if he gets to work his anti-magic on everyone, it just increases his chances of getting caught. And he's a bad liar: people are already becoming suspicious of his body language (note that he has trouble making direct eye contact) -- plus those who believe his sob stories see them as a reason to vote him out. Who wants to sit in front of the jury next to a Katrina victim? No one -- time to make him drown in a somewhat more localized storm.

Let's say for a moment that he's telling the truth about being a multi-millionaire oil company owner. (He cares nothing about the suffering of other people and just wants his cash no matter what it does to them. Natural match of industry and worker, don'tcha think?) He'd better hope every contract people have with him is lifetime with no escape clauses, because after getting a look at what he thinks of the world around him, anyone who can is going to be switching to natural gas. His attitude appears to be 'anyone stupid enough to share a world with me deserves to be victimized -- and that's everybody': is that someone you want to do business with? Misirussell hasn't shown any comprehension of 'consequences' yet, and I don't think this part's occurred to him either. He should be glad he's got his packet, because he's not getting much more -- and it wouldn't surprise me if his previous customers and partners were calling lawyers to inspect their deals, looking for the ways they'd been bilked. Ways they could sue over.

But for the Misirussell we're seeing on the screen, that time is later. Right now, he's about as protected as any coward on his level could ever wish.

Yes, I called him a coward. Give me the opportunity to do so and I'll say it to his face. He's indulging his urges in an environment where the only means of getting back at him involves writing his name down. As far as he's concerned, he can do anything he likes and it's just what people deserve -- but the instant anyone starts plotting against him, the natural order of the universe has been overturned and he must punish those who try to think. Only Misirussell is allowed to think. Or act. Or have money. (Still a natural match.) But he strikes in the dark: no direct confrontation, because that's where his real personality would come out, and he couldn't survive that. He can't even manage direct eye contact: how much internal fear does that need to continually avoid? No one can see how small and petty he is, so no one can get a chance to look inside.

But for now, he'll have his fun. He can destroy every piece of personal and tribal property he can reach, and guess what? The rulebook allows it. (No protection of items, no rules against searching them -- he could probably rip clothes off bodies and toss them into the ocean without fear of punishment, but it's too direct for his style.) He can dominate the women, and he needs to dominate women: it's payback for all the times they wouldn't let him get close enough to attack, and he's too afraid of the men. He'll contaminate the water supply to make people sick, rub his feces all over the food, and burn down the shelter, preferably while it's occupied. He just can't get his ultimate punchline.

Because he came out here to show how easy the game was to win, to keep the money away from other people, to have fun at the expense of others while never seeing a single bit of payback from the universe -- and he's going to fail at all of it.

He can't win the title. He can't take the million. He will see backlash. And in the end, all his self-described evil gives him the power to do is two things.

He can be a monumental waste of our time. And he can drive viewers right out of the series. Because if it ever does look like he might take the whole thing, or if people just grow tired of his antics -- well, look what happened to Big Brother's ratings this year: cut in half in one week when it seemed certain Natalie would claim the prize. The audience does become sick of this, y'know. That's a lesson MB and Jeff could stand to learn, and soon.

I know he's going to fail. It doesn't mean I have to be there when it happens.

'You don't call a man a coward if you intend to let him live.' I'm not seeing a man to begin with. Bullied kid emotionally locked in at seven who decided to put on a few pounds and make the world pay for every insult? That's closer to the mark.

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 The flaw in the plan.   Estee     09-18-09       
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   dabo     09-18-09     1  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   nailbone     09-23-09     38  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   LFJ     09-18-09     2  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   byoffer     09-18-09     3  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   mindy23     09-18-09     4  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   samboohoo     09-18-09     5  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   Snidget     09-18-09     6  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   Bursar     09-18-09     7  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   Karchita     09-18-09     8  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   jbug     09-18-09     10  
         Edit that?   Estee     09-18-09     11  
             RE: Edit that?   jbug     09-18-09     13  
                 Sure...   Estee     09-18-09     14  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   MissMyth     09-19-09     23  
         RE: The flaw in the plan.   PepeLePew13     09-19-09     24  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   nailbone     09-23-09     39  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   CTgirl     09-18-09     9  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   Estee     09-18-09     12  
         RE: The flaw in the plan.   finallytyping     09-18-09     17  
   He used to have oil in his hair<...   Estee     09-18-09     15  
     RE: He used to have oil in his h...   LFJ     09-18-09     18  
         RE: He used to have oil in his h...   Estee     09-19-09     20  
             RE: He used to have oil in his h...   LFJ     09-19-09     21  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   michel     09-18-09     16  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   Colonel Zoidberg     09-19-09     22  
         RE: The flaw in the plan.   michel     09-19-09     26  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   emydi     09-19-09     25  
         RE: The flaw in the plan.   Brownroach     09-23-09     40  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   Survivorerist     09-18-09     19  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   Riordan     09-25-09     49  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   udg     09-20-09     27  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   Survivorerist     09-20-09     28  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   more_cowbell     09-21-09     29  
     On the plus side...   Estee     09-21-09     30  
         RE: On the plus side...   more_cowbell     09-22-09     35  
             RE: On the plus side...   Estee     09-22-09     37  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   weltek     09-21-09     31  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   dabo     09-21-09     32  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   PepeLePew13     09-21-09     33  
   Article/Blog entry.   Estee     09-21-09     34  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   more_cowbell     09-22-09     36  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   michel     09-23-09     41  
         RE: The flaw in the plan.   more_cowbell     09-24-09     44  
             RE: The flaw in the plan.   michel     09-24-09     45  
                 RE: The flaw in the plan.   more_cowbell     09-24-09     46  
   RE: The flaw in the plan.   toddE     09-24-09     42  
     RE: The flaw in the plan.   Estee     09-24-09     43  
   Speaking of flaws...   Estee     09-25-09     47  
     RE: Speaking of flaws...   Sunny_Bunny     09-25-09     48  
     RE: Speaking of flaws...   udg     09-26-09     50  

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