Episode 26.7

You know, people talk about doing Survivor in a cold location. I don't think that it would ever work. It seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen since cold locations are much more dangerous than warm ones and people could easily die. I'm not sure what would happen if a contestant were to ever die during a season, but I doubt that it would be good for the rest of the season. It might never air and they might not even finish filming the rest. There would probably be a special tribal council as to whether they should continue the season or not or they would continue without informing the remaining contestants of the one that died until the filming wrapped so as to not affect the game that much. As to a cold location, a foreign season of Survivor is trying that and if it's successful for them, it might appear here. Or, Survivor: Frozen could be a spin-off of Survivor that would be filmed in cold locations. If it fails, it would never have to be associated with the real Survivor and if it succeeds, it could give Survivor fans some good episodes during the summer when it would air (I would see no reason why it would air as a normal season unless they wanted it to be that way). We also wonder about Celebrity Survivor. I personally hope that it never happens. They might do it at some point as I read an online news article about a legal spat with NBC over I'm a Celebrity, Get Me out of Here over possible copyright infringement. If they did do it, I hope that they would have a good division for the tribes. Maybe they could be divided by how they are famous or how famous they are. But I'd hate to see what even passes as a celebrity and how they get them to play for charity and not themselves (because celebrity seasons of any reality show have to compete for charities). I personally just think that they should keep doing what they are doing with celebrities and hiring them as regular players when they apply to be on the show. (Every famous person on the show to my knowledge has been an applicant, although outside of Survivor: Fiji, it is hard to know who is a recruit and who is an applicant.)

You know, I don't know if I should ever post Survivor dreams I have on this blog or not, but I did have one that seemed interesting enough to make me think of questions about it. It was the first episode of a season and two identical twins were playing. They were chosen to be on separate tribes, which seemed disappointing for them. Now I'm not sure if any identical twin has ever played the game before (the other twin not playing), but I'm not sure if that would ever happen. Survivor is meant to be a group of strangers and except for all stars seasons, contestants aren't supposed to know each other before the game begins. It could always happen though, due to pure coincidence, but I imagine that the changes of that happening are pretty low. Now the identical twins could be given the task of choosing the separate tribes and thus not be able to compete together until the merge, if they both make it there. Or, what would be more likely is if identical twins are cast to be on Survivor, one would be put on the fall season and the other would be on the spring season. They could both play, but not the same season at the same time. Although I have no idea how they would handle it and we might never know. I'm not sure what would happen with twins, but there's always more potential seasons left to explore what could happen. I don't know what I'd do with this blog if Survivor were to end. I'd probably just end it unless I looked back at a past season again. I also don't know if this blog could be continued if I died. It would probably just end abruptly with nobody knowing what happened. I don't think that would happen, but you'll never know.

I mentioned how other countries have versions of Survivor themselves. It may seem interesting to know that most of the twists done in our version came from other first. The switch might have been American and it's possible that the purple rock is too. We might have been the first to offer mutinies and were probably the first to have a fake merge. We were not, however, the first country to do battle of the sexes. We may have done buried treasures and looting first. I'm not entirely sure that the outcasts originated in this country, but I don't think that they did. We were probably not the first to do full fledged all-star season, but we might have been the first to have more than one tribe or tribal dissolves. I think that in all the foreign countries' versions of Survivor, not one of them lacked a merge, but one of ours did. We may have started the one returnee per tribe and I know we were the first with Exile Island and hidden immunity idols. We were probably the only country to split by race. Rich versus poor did not start with us but kidnapping might have. Fan versus favorites was done in other countries first before we did that. Heroes versus Villains might have been an American Survivor first, but it is easy enough to come up with an idea like that. Old versus young might have started with us, but Redemption Island did not. One World could have been us first. That's all the major twists that I can think of at this point in time.

Interesting Survivor firsts this season involve the first immunity challenge to be forfeited and the first tribal council during the day. What's interesting is that sense Bikal forfeited the challenge before they played it and the same challenge would appear in the next episode, Bikal would end up losing it when they actually completed it. This makes it the first tribe to lose the same challenge twice, although it is hard to call it that considering the weirdness surrounding it. It is technically impossible for any tribe to lose the same challenge twice since no tribes return for another season and a challenge is only done once during a season, if it ever shows up again. That also means that Gota is the first tribe to win the same challenge twice. During the individual part of the game, some contestants have competed in the same challenge and lost it again or even won it again. However, nothing like that has ever happened in the tribal part of the game. I do wonder if only certain challenges are allowed to be reward challenges or immunity challenges. I also wonder if they have to use a certain amount/all of the planned challenges like that in the game and wonder if there are any challenges planned for a season that never end up happening because they don't have to use as many as they planned after all. But enough of my ramblings.

Previously on Survivor, Matt was eliminated because they thought that he might have an idol (or didn't think that and knew that he couldn't save himself). In the first segment, Corrine continues to scheme to get Phillip out of the game, obviously not aware that the two favorites voted out so far did the exact same thing. Phillip continues to have a lot of rivalries in this game. I can't remember him being this way the first time, but he might have been. Also, off topic, I will try to be on www.twitter.com for future episodes. I just hope that I can blog about them and tweet about them at the same time. Expect me to tweet on Sunday or sometime afterwards.

On the next segment of the show, Bikal got the treemail about the upcoming reward challenge. Phillip and John arm wrestled for a bit and Phillip wanted to show how strong he was. This challenge had appeared as an immunity challenge in Survivor: Palau in the third episode: Dangerous Creatures and Horrible Setbacks (remember that I have the DVD set of that season and can look up any information about it that I want). The oldest guy was in the front of the challenge and Phillip tried to run but barely lasted a few feet each time. The tribe had a horrible decision to put him in the lead. Bikal sucked at the challenge. If this is a repeat of Micronesia, Bikal will continue to lose challenges and go to every tribal council, but Gota will lose players regardless due to quitters or medical evacuations. But that seems unlikely. All I know is that Bikal isn't the strong tribe it used to be when it was full of just favorites. To think, Phillip had a good strategy in the reward challenge from a while back where his shouting random stuff prevented the other team from scoring in his basket and helped him win the challenge. Meanwhile, Gota won their first reward challenge and were enjoying the food that they don't typically have. Back at Bikal, everyone wanted to get rid of Phillip due to his poor performance in the challenge. There are some who want to keep him just to help the favorites win the game. I'm rooting for the favorites, but I'm perfectly happy with the fans doing well too. I also wouldn't mind Phillip getting voted out. On Gota, Reynold told Malcolm about his hidden immunity idol for some odd reason.

In the next segment of the show, the immunity challenge happened. I missed a lot of the explanation for the challenge and thus don't understand much of what is happening. Bikal was slow and out of most of the challenge. Gota won the challenge. To think, a tribe switch was the best thing to ever happen to that tribe.

In the next segment of the show, Bikal talked about losing the challenge. Phillip is either very truthfully saying that he threw the challenge to help get rid of Julia or, as John suspects, he's making up complete bullshit (yes, I said that in my blog) about why he sucked in the challenge. If they were smart, they would get rid of Phillip. I mean, the smartasses who come up with the idea to throw challenges typically get voted out themselves. Also, Corrine loves gay guys (even though they can't love her back, or at least not that way). So it's between Michael, Julia, Corrine, or Phillip. I have no idea what's going on, although it is probably a fan going home tonight. You know, I do wonder if this is the first time where it is known that the hidden immunity idol can't be on one tribe and two are in play on the other. There is a two way time for Michael and Julia, with the three people voting one way and four people the other way. I have no idea why there was a tie. I guess that they wanted to split the vote for whatever reason. Julia got voted out after the revote. So, hopefully, Michael does better in the next episode and that the other tribe goes to tribal council for a (sort of) change. Next time on Survivor, the merge happens and a feast proves disastrous. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.