We know Anakin slaughtered a whole tribe of Sand People to get revenge for his mother’s death, and we still shiver when Anakin draws his lightsaber in the Jedi Temple, ready to slay every Padawan. It is General Tarkin who orders the destruction of Alderaan, and every time a character is captured and tortured, Darth Vader is only there to shout orders.įollowing a similar trend, the prequel trilogy shows some of Anakin Skywalker’s most vicious actions out of the frame. For example, in the original trilogy, Darth Vader supervises the construction of the Death Star, but most of the Empire’s evil actions come from the Sith Lord’s subordinates. That means there are millions of Darth Vader’s fans who never got to see him give into his rage and pain to the point of destroying innocent lives without even blinking. While the Darth Vader version depicted in comic books, novels, and even video games has always been brutal, most Star Wars fans only follow the main line of films – and now the Disney+ shows. And according to fans, real-life veterinarian Omar Zaheer is the frontrunner who will take home the win. The biggest strategic threat in Giang is out, and physical threat Jonathan Young is probably next, which sets a clear path for Escobar to slip to the end. Naseer Muttalif had claimed after his elimination that Pastor Shan Smith was able to dupe him precisely because of her religious background.Īs things stand now, Romeo Escobar’s apparent lies to Hai Giang have indeed bought him more time to play. However, it also manifested religion-wise last season as well. I mean, Jonny Fairplay’s famous “dead grandma” lie to incite sympathy on Pearl Islands? Enough said. And it usually makes for some of the most interesting and memorable moments in the history of the show. In the real world, it’s technically not good form to swear against things in good conscience, but as Survivor fans and former players can attest, anything and everything is fair game in a competition for $1 million. And that is something that I did not appreciate. And second of all, it’s really out of bounds.’ So that was part of where my intense reaction was coming from because I felt as though people were trying to use their personal beliefs to gaslight me. Don’t use religious whatever to persuade me because I don’t buy it, first of all. As the Survivor 42 contestant described it, “Romeo wasn’t paranoid because he was at the bottom he was at the bottom because he was paranoid.” Nevertheless, Giang underscored that how faith was used against him was actually the most hurtful aspect, saying, The game of telephone was all the more a betrayal to Hai Giang because it was also immediately after their major bonding moment early on. I’m like, ‘Did you vote for me?’ ‘No, Hai. And when I confronted Romeo about the information being relayed back to Chanelle, he was swearing up and down on his faith that he did not tell Chanelle this information.
And as someone who is an atheist, I came out there saying that no one is going to use their personal beliefs to persuade me. I love Romeo today, but he really played a game tied to his religion.
The Survivor 42 player reflected to the outlet, Then Escobar’s later throwaway vote against Giang at a tribal didn’t go over well. But calling each other “weasel” and “snake” – how did it come to that? Well, speaking to Entertainment Weekly upon his own ousting, Hai Giang said that what it came down to was, first, an unaired game of telephone that saw Giang throw Chanelle Howard under the bus to Romeo Escobar who then told Tori Meehan who told Howard who told Giang. Sure, they were on opposite ends of the power hierarchy so they couldn’t exactly work together. Yet, their friendship quickly turned sour as the game continued, and Giang has since explained how religion actually played into the falling out.īecause, in truth, it wasn’t exactly clear in the edit how their tentative friendship went bust. Their heart-to-heart over the difficulties of being openly gay in fact saw Escobar remark at one point that he’d remember the conversation for the rest of his life. Early on in the Survivor 42 merge, a bond was clearly struck between castmates Romeo Escobar (of the former Ika tribe) and Hai Giang (of the former Vati tribe).