The tribes merge and since Kathy, the target boot, has immunity, Rob is put in a precarious position where he has no choice but to vote out Lex. Rather than be an a****** and blindside him, he does the exact same thing that Lex did to the others and gives him the "It's just a game," speech. So what does Lex do when he gets a taste of his own medicine? He takes bitterness to a whole new level and threatens Rob that they won't be friends anymore if he votes him out. Yeah, that's right. After betraying his own friends and assuring them that it's just part of the game, Lex takes getting voted out personally. This is when he starts to become a total ass hat. Let's not forget that Kathy feels so bad for him that she offers to give up her immunity, but he politely turns down this offer yet still expects her to give it up to him, and when she doesn't at tribal council, he gives her a dirty look. In his final words he's so damn bitter that he doesn't even want Kathy, his closest ally for the entire game to win anymore.
So fast forward to the final tribal council and it's looking like Rob and Amber each have three jury votes, and Lex of all people is going to be the one to break the tie. Rather than take his own "It's only a game" advice, he votes for Amber out of sheer spite of Rob. I'll get to the effects of this a little later, but his actions got even more disgusting at the Reunion, when Rob, after just having lost a million dollars to Lex's vote, offers to let bygones be bygones and shake and make up, but Lex is still being a bitter b**** about it. And still is to this day. Even after Richard Hatch points out that Rob did to Lex exactly what Lex did to Colby, Jerri, Ethan and himself, Lex refuses to believe that he's in the wrong here.
And of course, there's the effect on Survivor history that Lex made. If Lex had not been so bitter, Rob would have won All-Stars, and thus Redemption Island, one of the worst seasons ever, would never have happened, and in effect South Pacific, another awful season, would have been vastly different. So yeah, Lex ruined THREE seasons, not just one. There's one other person that I would actually go as far as to damn them for being a bitter juror the way I do Lex, but we'll get to them in a bit.
PS: Thanks to SanityLapse for finding this Lex image that I had been scouring the internet for for the past week saved on his computer!
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