Episode 26.2

I hope that people have been able to use the quick link I posted here to the podcast that my sister used to help with. I would listen to it if I wasn't unable to for some reason. I'm sure that it's great. Fans versus favorites 2 is doing well so far. Once again, a favorite was voted out first. But I'm not sure that the fans will do well or even win this season, but I don't know for sure yet. I hope that Malcolm wins, but I don't know if he will or not. I can't think of anyone else to root for just yet. I'm not sure if there's a fan I'm crazy about yet. I do wonder if future seasons will start with three tribes again. The producers or at least Jeff has said that they did that to avoid day one majority alliances to rule the game. Also, I'm not 100% sure why they retired Exile Island. If anyone knows, I'd like you to mention it here. NP, whoever you are, I might enjoy more comments from you, although I haven't checked recently to see if this blog has more comments or not. I also notice that this season is not using Redemption Island, which seems okay, I guess. But since it didn't save Francesca the first time, it probably wouldn't the second time. I also don't know if they'll ever do more seasons in Palau or not. They probably won't as they don't typically reuse locations that often and if they do, they didn't want to. I just think that they should go there and make sure to bring back contestants from the tenth season to play in it as well. I'm not sure Palau is my favorite season, but it is pretty high up there. I do wish that if I could never be a contestant on Survivor, that I could at least be a creative consultant or maybe even a producer. There are lots of twists that could happen on Survivor that haven't happened yet. Some of them might never happen. I would suggest them, but they can't accept my ideas unless I work for them. Besides, they can probably create them without me anyways. But enough of my ramblings.

So the fans went to tribal council and voted off Allie. I'm surprised they didn't go with Shamar, but I guess the strategy of keeping hated people around to beat them at the final tribal council worked this time. Poor Allie. Also, this is kind of a side note, but does anyone realize that when they show the dream team doing the challenge while Jeff is explaining it, that typically the person they show to win is normally the person that loses the challenge? The dream team showed that the fans won the challenge, which I recognized as an age old trick they've been doing a while now which actually means that the favorites would win the immunity challenge. My prediction was right, but I don't think that it always is. I do hate it when Survivor is predictable, like in the third season where the opening of the episode showed the tribe that would win immunity and the tribe the read the treemail before a reward challenge typically won it. I'm not sure if any other season had obvious giveaways like that. If you don't believe me, you can watch that season again for yourself. Anyways, Reynold found the fans hidden immunity idol and because someone saw him with the bulge in his pocket, he had to reveal that he had an idol a la Malcolm in the last season. He still has it and could have used it to save Allie, but he obviously didn't know she was on the chopping block and he probably wanted to keep it for himself anyways. If there is a switch this season, which there probably will be, I hope that he winds up on the same tribe as Malcolm as the two of them are alike. No word yet on the favorites hidden immunity idol, but if a hashtag like that appears. Not sure what will happen in the next episode, except that Shamar goes crazy (really? A black guy going crazy? Do we really need more of that?) and Brandon continues to be cynical. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.