Episode 26.5

I don't know what I'll do if I ever miss an episode again. I guess that I could just skip the blog entirely. I do wish that readers of this would post what happened instead should that ever happen again. I'm not sure what I'd do. You know, I will continue to post the firsts this season and post the three dumbest moves this season at the end of the blog. Not quite sure what's happening in the episode, but I guess we'll see what happens when it airs. All I know is that it will be remembered forever. Or, at least that's what Jeff says will happen. I've noticed that this season has gotten lower ratings than usual, but each Survivor season consistently gets worse and worse in the ratings with each and every new season. But, the show does better than most scripted shows on non CBS networks at least. Normally, nonscripted shows like Survivor don't have to do as well as scripted shows in order to get renewed (although there are arguments that the show is fake, I'd rather not get into that here). So it will probably get renewed, although no official news has come yet. I will say the moment that I know for sure, one way or the other. I hope that they do three or four tribes in future seasons because the day one majority alliances are getting bothersome and obvious. I just hope that if they do four tribes, they won't be disbanded early into the game. We also know that Exile Island will never appear again, although I'm not 100% sure why it was retired in the first place. I thought that it was a good way of handling the hidden immunity idols because without it, the idols are too easy to find by everyone and are thus not as good a twist as it could be. They mostly stopped doing clues for them even. I do wonder what happened to the hashtag on twitter of #immunityidol. Maybe it didn't work to well to use again this season. I'm not that big a fan of the idols. Call me crazy, but I liked the outcasts twist and Redemption Island, but I don't like the hidden immunity idol. That's weird. I don't know why they let the contestants see what happened on Redemption Island, but they should let the viewers see. If they do Redemption Island again, they shouldn't have the hidden immunity idol, although it has appeared in every season since its introduction. But I think that Exile Island wasn't working that properly in the first place because there were no limitations to sending contestants there and thus people like Sugar who end up going there many times in a row. I heard that it was Coach who made the most of the island and had such a good time there that the producers decided to retire it forever. I don't know if it will ever make a surprise appearance in future seasons or not, but it probably won't. I also don't know if I'll ever blog about Survivor: Palau again, but I could. Like I said before, a contestant from the season would have to die before I'd buy that season. I know that sounds morbid, but I have to limit the seasons I own somehow. Don't worry though. If I do buy a season, I will blog about it. And repeating the tenth season again would be fun, although I wouldn't do it for a while. I hate to say it, but someone else from that would have to die for me to watch it again. But enough of my ramblings.

So this episode was very unusual. The promos were right, we've never seen Survivor like this before. Brandon wasn't ejected from the game, but he was voted out. He will probably win the award for stupidest move of the season, although the rest of the season has to happen first. I don't think that someone could get dumber than he was. And he was the dumbest Survivor contestant the first time he played too. I'm not sure that he'll ever play again. I hope that he doesn't, but he might. I don't know if the wasted immunity challenge will be reused or not. In Survivor: All Stars, when Jenna M quit the game at the immunity challenge, they used the same challenge in the next episode, only they actually fought it the first time. Tandang proved last season that a tribe could forfeit a challenge, but the main differences are these: Tandang gave up reward and Bikal gave up immunity; Tandang had other deals made with the other tribe for the quit and Bikal didn't really do that; Tandang gave up the challenge after an hour of trying to compete it before they realized that it was hopeless to complete and Bikal didn't even let the challenge start. The fans lost the reward challenge, but the resulting win is what damaged the favorites. I still don't know if Phillip or Brandon started it, but Brandon got what he deserved. He is now the second person to be voted out at a challenge. What makes it different from Ian in the tenth season is that the challenge had run too long and it was too late for tribal council and there was no challenge competed in this time. Brandon left the game strangely without his torch being snuffed. He's not the first contestant to leave like that and might not be the last. In fact, some contestants have left before they even get a torch. Also, I still don't know enough about this dock at the favorite's camp that many contestants do confessions at. I don't remember seeing it last season and I thought that this was the same filming location too.

You know, I'm not into spoilers, but I know that there are some websites saying that they know what the vote out order is. I wouldn't look them up know, but if I can still find them after the season finishes airing, I might look it up just for kicks to see if it is accurate or not. Reynold found another hidden immunity idol. Maybe this time, he'll actually need it when he uses it. He could always give the idol to someone else if he had to. This episode is still not as shocking as Bum Puzzled from One World, but it is very interesting. I still don't know if I'll do a most memorable moment to this season or not. I would have last season, if there was such a moment. It looks like next episode, Phillip gets a new rival in the game and both tribes might go to tribal council. Also, it is rumored that there might be another medical evacuation this season, but I don't know if that's true or not. I don't know when this blog will go back to normal or not, but it should be after the next post, if not sooner. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.