I really liked Marisa and was sad to see her go, the sad thing is that on the other tribe she should have been able to last a long time. I really wish Survivor would do a second chance version of the show, made up of people that were voted off with-in the first three eliminations of their season.

Evil Russ is a joke. His antics with the water and the sock are just the kind of thing that backfires on a person, as is the ridiculously hard game play this early on. He isn't enough of a player to pull this off as evidenced by his snap judgments about people based on such little observation.

I think everyone "went along" with his decision because, at the first ouster, everyone just wants to make sure they aren't booted. By the next one, they should have had opportunity to bond, make impressions, etc and be falling into more distinct alliances.

I disliked Russell for a number of reasons already stated here and for the story of his fake experience with Katrina and his beloved dog. There are some things you just don't lie about and this is one of them, in my opinion. I don't like liars and I don't like mean manipulators. He is both and can go hang out with Natalie from BB ... they deserve each other.

Jackie, it's good to see you back giving us the story as you see it. I enjoy your viewpoint and your wit!

I love the villainous characters in Survivor like Coach last season and Russell. They make me laugh, and they give me a reason to watch. It's quite obvious that the villains are hamming it up for the camera, though. They're playing a "bad guy" role, much like professional wrestling.

Evil Russell will make it more interesting, but as commented before, please get him out of the undies! It seems to me that they should get some kind of "dress code" clothes for the season so we don't have to look at this kind of thing. And I was shocked also that everyone went along with his wishes while saying that they didn't trust him. What he said about her not trusting him & making such a big deal out of it & all of them agreeing...were we not able to see the whole footage on this???

I loved it, Russell burns Jaison's socks LOL dumps out all his fellow tribe's water and the next morning he sits back while they were bickering at each other at the campfire seems he ain't much of a target to others when others are bickering at each other over when to go get there canteens refilled

I love Evil Russell. Not because he is evil but because of all he does and they believe him and won't cross him. He won't win this game but will get far. I wonder who crosses him next week. I hope it's not the cop cause I think she's the one who can take him down. It's going to be a great season.

okay, while some seem to like him, I am already ready to turn OFF "Survivor," just for the annoying factor.
And is it really fair to the OTHER cast-away-mates, to have him intentionally sabotaging THEIR game, destroying their stuff, etc?

No, I think this will be a season I fast forward through ALOT, just to not have to watch/listen to "pseudo-evil-russell" .. if I watch at all.

AND it's back with a BANG! Now I was thinking about dropping this season of Survivor in my quest to forgo reality TV this fall, BUT honestly when you put a sweet morsel like 'Puppet Master' Russell in front of my eyes, I can't stay away.

http://www.orble.com/teevee-survivor-samoa-ep-1/

Bring on the bad! I'm tired of whiny castaways.