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Originally Posted by VarianceMinefield
i dont remember him getting lucky. i remember other people playing stupid and him abusing them for it. if i remember correctly he was so well liked that people didnt want to vote him out. he also pulled the trigger on JRB cause he knew he was one of the only thinking players.
pulling the trigger on JRB was probably the biggest mistake he made. No one seems to remember the fact that if James doesn't "roll the dice" one last time, Todd goes home that night. Why? Because Todd switched the vote from James to JRB for no apparent reason at a previous tribal council.
Todd was likable, but foolish. The whole "Give James two idols so he can blindside Jamie" plan, which he famously referred to as "BRILLIANT", was idiotic. He could have found the idol and kept it for himself, while throwing the challenge and voting out Sherea. To compound his mistake, he decided to search for the idol in the middle of the day in front of the entire tribe, which was a huge disaster.
But yeah, he got a great edit. He had a great FTC performance and people liked him. Amanda had a terrible FTC performance, and may have lost the game in front of the jury. But the way people talk about Todd as if he played a flawless game is just incorrect. Todd did everything possible to give James power in the game, and then relied on James making one of the biggest mistakes in Survivor history to allow himself to survive past the F7. Not really the stuff of legends, if you ask me.