User blog comment:TDFanatic52/Character Analysis- Mal/@comment-24152851-20170222034856/@comment-27157772-20170222035824

In a way, Mal breaking things was strategy. My interpretation of it was sabatoging the competition. Sorry for the Survivor analogies but it is like ruining all the rice, soaking the firewood, and/or hiding the machete. It is basically psychological warfare as the strong would survive.

I wouldn't call the cast of the season dumb, but I would use the word unaware or Mal. Duncan and Alejandro did caught on to Mal's schemes and did attempt to warn everyone. However, the reason why nobody listened is that the two of them are known to lie. Duncan's been to juvie so lying is probably something he does on a regular basis and Alejandro built his TD career based on lies. Plus, Mike was a generally liked character in ROTI, so it is safe to say that while Duncan and Alejandro were in the right, the others could have thought that it was a way to get rid of Mike.