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If Richard paid his taxes properly and wasn't under house arrest he could have returned in Heroes Vs Villains and that would have been an amazing season to see.

It’s funny how the majority of Americans polled stated that Richard’s way of playing wasn’t ethical, then in season 2 90% of contestants tried to play the same way as Richard using alliances.

It’s so funny what people viewed as ‘villainous’ now we see as playing the game well. Richard is an incredible winner, I always loved him and I think he’s a huge part of why this show has become a phenomenon.

Richard Hatch is incredible Smart, funny, charismatic, endearing, and he refused to pay taxes. That's someone I can root for.

It’s the foreshadowing of him playing with the snake for me

I hope Jeff Probst sends Richard a "Thank You" card every year for making the show so much more than it would have been if it had just been a show about who physically could survive the best

Dude this is some seriously good stuff. Subbed.

Richard not voting off Sonja, while not a smart move strategy wise, made sense in that they were the first 2 LGBT characters in Survivor history, which is probably the “subtle reasons” he mentioned in that first vote

If there hadn't been Hatch in the first season - there wouldn't have been this huge franchise. The organizers should be endlessly grateful to him, he literally invented the game.

Richard was so far ahead of everyone in strategy. I have always thought that Kelly did the best she could and would never have had a chance to set in the finale if she had not played the way she played.

You gotta start somewhere! This channel is destined for greatness and I can’t wait to see what’s in store for the future

Richard throwing snakes, bitting sharks, eating rats is one of the greatest. Hatch is Top3 with Boston Rob Mariano an Russell Hantz.

The a majority of the success of Survivor can be attributed to Richard creating The Alliance Strategy. Imagine if one of the clueless Pagong tribe had won this season- and the public saw Survivor as just a silly game of chance and no real strategy needed. Richard has put Survivor on the map... and then Russell Hantz totally re-invented the show in Season 19.

They keep calling it "the merger" because merger is a noun and merge is a verb.

WOW look how young Jeff Probst is! Also, I watched this season when it aired and my house could have blown up around me and I would not have moved.

Wow!! This brings back a lot of memories and shows exactly why Richard Hatch is the true "Godfather" (not Boston Rob) of Survivor. He set the bar high in this 1st season and was what kept the MILLIONS of viewers coming back week after week! Shame on CBS for not allowing this legendary player back in the game on "Winner's at War," Season 40!!

Of course Rudy didn't mind that Richard was gay. He was _in the Navy_ .

00:53 Introduction 05:32 Rising Action 13:48 Rising Action Part Two 25:34 Climax 27:12 Final Tribal Council 31:58 Resolution

So excited to be here before this blows up! Looking forward to eventual videos such as hopefully winner rankings, season rankings and more character videos. I know I’m overly excited lol

Rudy is my all time favorite survivor. I was in my late 20s when this sired and just out of the navy. Rudy was awesome!

I'm really glad after this season that they went to revealing the winner on live TV instead. It's much more fun to watch.

"hes fat but... hes... he's good" is the funniest way to describe someone

This is a great idea. I cant wait to watch all your videos. I hope you do this through out the series and your channel grows.

ive been watching a bunch of your videos, and i'll have you know you've got a great channel here. you've sold me on something i never thought i'd actually care about. i never watched survivor once before your channel, and i recently started doing so. good stuff, man.

Amazing, just amazing. Definitely subscribed and I look forward to future videos. Keep up the amazing work!

You know what blew my mind though? Richard was 39 years old when on the first survivor. He looks like he's in his 50's!

My upcoming videos includes... An Island of the Idols Preview Podcast, The Alphabet Strategy, Borneo Season Review, Was Jerri Manthey Evil?, The Story of Tina Wesson, and The Story of Colby Donaldson.

Your videos are awesome and I'm thoroughly enjoying them!! I love your player stories, and this one is particularly excellent!! Thank you so much for your great work, I'm sure your channel will grow in leaps and bounds.

Probably because it was the first one of its kind ever, but I'm always still fascinated by the first season. It's so interesting to see how they did every aspect of it, when kinda nobody knew what they were doing or if this was going to be a thing. I read Jeff's book way back when about this first season and it was so interesting - he talks about stuff like how most of the Pagong people basically thought the show was going to go nowhere, so they were constantly goofing around, they tried to vote Jeff out, etc, whereas Tagi was largely the opposite. I don't want to diminish Rich's win because I think he really did play a great game, but I also think a huge part of that is that nobody was really playing as well until it was too late. And while all of his strategies worked great here in season 1, most of it is not stuff that would fly even a handful of seasons later. Still, he 100% outplayed everyone really well and eliminated any potential threat (ie Gretchen who was awesome at survival potentially upsetting his spot as main provider, he saw that Greg had caught on to him and was trying to play him back, etc). I love the dynamics in this season (and how we got to see so much camp life, which I've always loved seeing, and is virtually non existent in new school survivor) and it will always be the first, OG season. ❤👌

Earned yourself a subscriber, exited for more videos

Found you yesterday and haven't been able to stop watching these stories! Never watched survivor much but this is awesome stuff.

This is gold, great work

If this final 7 were in Modern day Survivor, I might think Kelly might work with Sue to join forces with Gervace & Colleen against Rich, Rudy & Sean.

Once you finish making all of these would you make a winner ranking where you rank them based off their percentage of smart moves

I watched season 1 beginning to end and loved the show so much I didn't want to watch any other season because it couldn't live up to that. It wasn't until like s9 or 10 when my co-workers would watch it that I watched it every week again (I actually saw the Johnny Fairplay episode the day it aired, but skipping that)

Richards smartest move was purposefully losing the last tribal. It's truly outside the box thinking but like you said I do think his connections to Sue, Rudy, Sean and Greg really got him the win.

Please keep doing this!!

Reddit brought me here, great content! Can’t wait to see more

Dude I loved Richard

It's like you're interpreting the game through a D&D filter, lol. You could add things like whether a player is chaotic/neutral and stuff too. I mean, Survivor is basically a campaign and your tribe is your party. I just found your channel, those are my thoughts. I like it.

Subbed. Keep up the great work!

Love what you're doing with this channel, will be interesting to see the narratives of each winner + some other iconic players. You have a lonnnnnnnng road ahead friend but good luck and I'm looking forward to more.

Really well made first video, just got yourself a new subscriber.

You are a very smart youtuber I’m shocked you don’t have more subscribers

Very good video here! Loved Hatch on this season as he was such a great character that I immediately was hooked to. While he wasn't the one to start the alliance, he was clearly the leader of it and seemed to be in control pretty much the whole game. Now part of this is due to the Pagong tribe being dumb and not trying to amount an opposing force sooner than they did but he stayed loyal to the people he needed to and formed strong social bonds with people like you said in the video that was able to get him the votes he needed. He also had quite a few very funny moments imo such as the F6 challenge that will never get old to me and despite the controversy it caused, I found him being naked to be pretty funny this season. He's a huge reason for me why this season is as good as it is although I do wish we could have had someone that was an opponent on an equal playing field with him as Kelly was way too wishy washy to be able to stick to what she was doing. I wish there were more story videos for this season because there are quite a few memorable characters on this cast that I would have loved to see a video like this on like Rudy, Greg, Sue etc...

Loved the first episode! If I had any feedback it would be showing more examples of the things you're talking about. For example, you talk about how Richard deflects Jeff's question, but don't show the response. I'm definitely subbing!

A legend was born

And so begins my journey of watching every video on this channel. ;) Great content!

Regarding Rich's answer to Colleen, I think he actually gave a good follow-up answer after she laughed in his face. He explained exactly what he meant by "observation" and how it differed from her definition. He didn't get her vote, but I wouldn't call it a "blunder" either.

Regarding "The Merger": ' even the official episode title is "The Merger" (though many episodes are taken from direct quotes from the players). But yeah, on re-watching, hearing it called "the merger" definitely sticks out.

Rudy was the one who wanted Gretchen gone. He said he felt like she could be the new leader.. So convinced the rest of the alliance to vote her out

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Can't believe he was only 38 at the time

you forgot that he turned 39 on the island NAKED!

Richard Hatch reminds me of the tv character Frazier

I think Richard is smart enough to adapt to a modern game but he def benefited that in the early seasons, if you were a provider and fun to be around (and he was both), you didn't get targeted. "Threats" to win the game wasn't really a vote out consideration until there were very few people left. The early seasons pretty much booted lazy people at camp and people who got on people's nerves. True in season 2. Any idiot can watch australian outback now and can see Tina and Colby as the poster couple for getting to the end and one of them winning yet I don't think they got any votes for almost the whole game.

Are you going to do one of these videos for each of the players in Survivor S40? I would love that. I'm sure it would help other people like myself who need their memory refreshed. I remember my favorites and recent winners, but not all of them.

I never saw Rich as a villain. I mean, he doesn't make a great first impression, I thought he was kind of a cocky whiner in the first episode, but I was wrong. The guy is smart. Always watching. Always listening. Always thinking. Always weighing the alternatives and measuring what the other players can give to him or take from him. He wasn't a young guy. He wasn't an old guy. He wasn't weak. He wasn't in great shape. He sure wasn't stupid. His mind is what put him leaps and bounds beyond anything the considerably younger and stronger Pagong tribe could throw at him. They might beat him in most physical challenges, but they couldn't out think that dude. Their youth was no match for his ruthlessness. Richard Hatch wasn't a hero or a villain. But he was the king of Palau Tiga and nobody could take that away from him!

I'm 3 years late to the comment party but just have to say: The man hung dong and won. That's a power move.

I’ve always loved Richard Hatch. He’s intelligent, charismatic, and endearing.

Probably the only guy that was arrogant enough to announce he was going to win Day 1... and then ends up winning.

Fun Fact About Survivor Vanuatu: Vanuatu is the 9th Season. What number is the inversion of 9? 6. The 6th Season is Amazon. Amazon and Vanuatu were the first two seasons in which the tribes were divided by gender. In Amazon, the men had the majority during the merge, but the last woman standing [Jenna] won the last two immunity challenges and ultimately won the game. In Vanuatu, the women had the majority during the merge, but the last man standing [Chris] won the last two immunity challenges and ultimately won the game. The runner-ups of both seasons (Matt and Twyla) were work horses around camp who arguably played better than the winners strategically, but both ultimately lost do to their lack of competent social skills. The oldest members of both juries respectively (Butch and Scout) voted for the runner-ups. Amazon and Vanuatu [seasons 6 and 9] are nigh literal inversions of each other.

amazing what the game has become

Have you considered reviewing the Stacey vs Rudy saga and fairness thing?

I was a baby when season one of Survivor premiered and my mom really wanted to watch this but she had to tend to me btw, I watched se 1 during lockdown

The doctor breaking the machete still gets me till this day 😂

it wasn’t that Richard wasn’t on the same page on the Sonja vote, he threw that vote for Stacy because he wanted out strategic players, he didn’t have the physically strong mentality the rest of the tribe had

There are a lot of really great winners (and losers) but Rich is my favorite.

Who from this season would you had give a story video given you've been doing 5 per season nowadays?

If he didn't cause so much controversy, he would been on Winners at War----just has the original King should be.

The snake wasn't deadly. It was a mildly venomous mangrove snake that isn't really dangerous to humans. The snake didn't want to be in the water because its not a banded krait like Hatch thought it was.

How do you get this in good quality?

I love how after everything Rich did although seen as bad at the moment became common to the point of necessary to win future seasons. Except for the nudity, still not sure what that was about.

RIP Rudy

never realized how good looking how Colleen was

See you in a couple weeks when you are very popular.

You should do story arcs of two contestants like Colby and Jerri !!

Can we get more of these contents plz?😢

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Luke never turned to the dark side Kelly

No way that girl said Luke Skywalker 😂😂 you got the wrong dude

Dude, they all get so torn up by the bugs.

I love Survivor but I started watching it with Season 7 and was a dedicated fan watching every week through Season 15 then it became hit or miss because of life. I always heard Richard was a horrible villain in Season 1. So I just got Paramount+ to watch all the seasons from the beginning and I was completely wrong about everything I heard. He was one of the only playing the game. Everyone else was stupid saying, “we don’t need alliances.” The votes were so scattered and when they saw four votes keep coming up, they still did nothing. They knew Rudy, Kelly, Sue, and Richard were in an alliance and still did nothing. Remember I am just judging him from Season 1 because I didn’t like what he did to Sue in Season 8, that was horrible. But he isn’t a villain, he played the game. People I consider villains are people like Boston Rob and Johnny FairPlay who are just evil. But Richard outwitted everyone. Now I would be interested in seeing how he would have done when the game wasn’t new and people knew you needed alliances.

Greg never was actually leaving it to chance. He just said that.

I think most contestants enter the show with the mentality that they should always vote out the least deserving contestant.

isn't flipping on your alliance worse having an alliance?

he just didnt have any resistance, he got lucky

Russell Hantz

He should've been at Season 40, No Pioneer wtf

his video felt like it was half about Kelly.... who seemed to have two personalities. Flipping from hating alliances and liking it. But her actual strategy seemed to be more about playing both sides.... almost seems like she was doing something underhanded herself. But the show doesn't bash her like it tries to picture Hatch, she just came off as kinda dumb from this video atleast. Indecisive and stuff, stuck between playing smart with the alliance or not doing that..

Flippin’ Rudy bruh

Kelly was such a horrible hero for the fans to get behind. She was so wishi washi

Richard Hatch was so disappointing and so much less interesting when he returned in All Stars, but they had a previous winner bias from the very beginning of that season, so I think he wrote of his chances of winning early and just phoned it in for the rest of the game. I wish they could get him back for a season where he can actually be himself, before he gets too old for it, but I think that's unlikely to happen.

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I don't see Richard as the villain. He was the only one playing the game for what it was and playing to win from the start. He was the first to really recognize that alliances would be what a survivor winner would have to do outside of winning immunity challenges. Having said that...Richard is not great enough to be the villain...he's not smart enough to be an evil genius...he was strong in some areas but he lost a lot of challenges and his only survival ability on the island was catching fish. Richard was extremely lucky to have ended up winning. And sometimes I do wonder if it was a fix like that lawyer Stacey claimed...she actually sued the shows producer for lost wages. I just went and watched the first season recently and it was pretty interesting. Richard could have been voted off a number of times and it never happened. I thought Rudy was the most impressive. The first two booted off of season 1 were the two other elderly people. Rudy made it to the final 3! That's insane. That says so much in my opinion. I think Rudy was also a fan favorite and arguably the best part of the show. I would actually love to see a true survivor show...no alliances. Imagine that?

A "king" who sexually assaulted a woman, apologized for it, and then took back the apology and called her crazy when he wasn't allowed in winners at war.

Richard is naked too often. Like bro, ain’t nobody trying to see that ish 🤮

It's unfair that you brought people together to make more structured and under control votes instead of random votes and just hope your vote ends up being who goes. So strange looking back on season 1 and seeing totally normal tactics to be considered cheating and unfair. Alliance strats are some of the most basic tactics of the game. Even weirder when you saw some people in early seasons refuse to make alliances even after this became a quintessential strat that's not even really a strategy it is just a part of the game, and relying on alliances and playing socially/manipulatively is what it evolved into. May seem obvious now looking at twenty years of history, but first season players were truly the pioneers of uncharted territory. Richard became more of a villain because his arrogance began to slowly show, and he was 'ruthless' for peoples expectations of the show at the time. And of course being both gay and admitting he thinks religion is useless.... that probably didn't help his case back in those days either.

The King? Why don't you say how he gets kicked off for sexual assault 🙄😒🤔