Episode 27.5

A lot of Survivor contestants are known to have stirred the pot. Some are quite good at it. In the first season, Richard stirred it quite a lot and mastered the art so well, he won the game because of it. Sue also stirred the pot by making her famous speech. Stacey stirred some pots after the show by suing it. Keith stirred the pot a lot in the second season and got far because of it. Lex stirred pots in the third season and so did Teresa which caused him to do it. Boston Rob was a memorable pot stirrer in every season he was in except maybe his third appearance. Brian was very good at stirring the pot in his appearance in the fifth season. Shii-Ann also stirred pots when she appeared the first time. Roger stirred pots in the sixth season and that's what got him voted out after the merge, but before the jury. Johnny Fairplay stirred as many pots as possible in the seventh season. Travis stirred pots in the ninth season and that's why he screwed himself out of the game. There are countless people who stirred the pot in the tenth season. Caryn, Coby, James, Ian, Janu, and maybe even Stephenie all stirred the pot. Judd was very good at causing drama in the eleventh season. Shane was a memorable pot stirrer in his season and so was Danielle. Jonathan Penner has always stirred the pot and that's what got him the record for most votes against a player in a season (which has since been broken). Dreamz stirred pots in the fourteenth season. If Melissa from that season counts, then so did she. Denise stirred pots in the fifteenth season. Natalie was a pot stirrer in the sixteenth season and caused one of the greatest blindsides ever. Randy, Sugar, Ken, and Crystal were all pot stirrers in their appearance on the seventeenth season. Coach is one of the master pot stirrers the first time he played. Russell Hantz stirred many pots in his days playing the game. So was Russell Swan in a way and Shambo especially. Cirie stirred pots in the twentieth season. Marty, Shannon, Tyrone, Jimmy T, and especially NaOnka were all great at causing trouble in the twenty-first season and Sash could count too. If Phillip Shephard never stirred the pot, then few people have. John Cochran stirred the pot by flipping and Bradon's incredibly stupid game play left nothing in the pot to stir when he was done with it. Colton infamously stirred the pot and Alicia did it as well in the twenty-fourth season. Pete stirred the pot in the twenty-fifth season. Shamar did that in the twenty-sixth season and it's possible that Brad could lose the game due to the pots he stirred this season. I hope that this paragraph makes sense to people other than me and the people who listen to a great podcast I linked to previously. I just wish that one of the people wouldn't say things that are wrong a lot, but it isn't that important.

Candice and John are spending time together on Redemption Island. If they didn't mind the cameras, they might try making a Survivor baby. One would think that could mess up someone's game, but that also might not affect someone who probably couldn't conceive in conditions like this. Besides, they give them birth control if they wanted it, I've heard. Are most couples even interested in making sex tapes? I have the feeling that, although it is a common television plot for some shows (just a few times typically for a single show) that most people probably never have and never will do something like that (unless they are porn stars of course). Would CBS even give them the footage of that? I don't think that they could ever show something like that to anyone. Just like the footage of Michael Skupin actually falling in the fire, we wouldn't want to see something like that. And if you do, you should be ashamed of yourself. I don't know why I'm bringing this up. I'm sure a lot of people don't know why something like this ever comes up. Maybe Candice and John are trying to make a baby right now. I don't think that they have kids yet, but they could by the time the reunion show airs. I probably shouldn't spread untrue rumors about things like this, but since this is all hypothetical anyways, it doesn't matter much, does it? Am I doing any harm? Don't tell me that you weren't thinking this might be happening. In the British version of Survivor, there were, in fact, contestants that had sex.

I have no idea what they do with all the unused footage from each season. They probably have at least a year's worth of footage if they keep it at all. Brad could be a buzz kill for the two people on Redemption Island. I don't know if his wife switching with him on Redemption Island will happen or not considering the trick edit with Tyson switching. Maybe it will and maybe it won't. I predict that she will (but I was wrong the last time so maybe she won't). I want Brad (or Monica) to lose Redemption Island and I'm still rooting for Laura Boneham to win, even though her few confessionals make it seem like she won't. But I still don't know if few confessionals is a good thing or a bad thing. I, for one, would rather have little airtime and make it far in the game than have lots of airtime and not make it far in the game. I hope that Monica doesn't do something that prevents her from making the merge twice. If that keeps happening, there will be less pre-jury boots as returning players and they might stop having them all together, unless they finally do a second chances season that most of us have wanted them to do. I can't imagine most people working for a season like that who all made it to the jury. That defies the very nature of a season like that, in my opinion.

Colton quit in order to save Caleb from possible elimination. That plan might have mostly backfired to my knowledge. He could have quit at a better time. But it looks like now Caleb is better without his alliance that could be quickly falling apart. Vytas could end up being in charge of the game and win, but I have the feeling that he's only in the right order alphabetically at the moment. I'm not sure if anyone is getting the so called winner's edit right now or even at all during this season. But my somewhat mostly accurate confessional counts are pretty interesting at the moment. Will someone from the returning players tribe finally get voted out because they finally went to tribal council? I just know that someone is getting blindsided today. I do wonder what season of Survivor currently has the record for most blindsides. I have the feeling that it could be this season by the time it finishes airing. If you know, then let me know. Will Caleb's reign of terror be very brief? Will a returning player or Laura Boneham be voted out? Will it be a blindside to the viewers as well or just the contestant affected by it? Why do they seem to always put more into the second promos than the original ones? Why do I always ask a lot of questions?

So this season has been very interesting right now for me for the most part. I do wonder if they will do this twist again. There are a lot of interesting alternates for this season. I should include a link some time, but I'll probably talk about it at the end of the season. Since half of the alternates are new players, it would be interesting to see these potential new players in future seasons. I have no idea if the all new players next season (which I'm not even certain is a true rumor) are any potential players that could have been on this season. I will post what new players we could see at the end of this season based on what returning players rejected being on this season. Just look at wikia for the information since wikipedia doesn't have any alternates mentioned except for RC. Meanwhile, I think that I have talked way too much on a blog like this about stuff not related to the episode. But enough of my ramblings.

So, in the recap, Brad shushes a woman while denying that he does that. Brad got blindsided. Tadhana talks about what happened after tribal council. Caleb is now in control of the game and could be a great player. Brad arrived at Redemption Island and the players there enjoyed the idea of that.

In the next segment of the show, we see a strange massage happening between Aras and Laura Morett. Laura Morett was the person giving the massage. This was shown on the Survivor Live after Show. Laura Boneham was trying to get used to the game and being in a tribe of returning players, which is a first for a new player if you didn't already know that. Will Monica switch with Brad? It looks like she won't, but she could be making a move in the game. Maybe she throws a challenge to get someone from her tribe out of the game for a change. There is typical banter between the contestants. The challenge is a common challenge, as usual. Then again, maybe it isn't. Brad has a bad strategy at this challenge. Jeff incorrectly says that nobody beat Candice at Redemption Island. John did in the last episode and she came in second. The challenge is mostly going back in forth between the contestants for a lead. John wins the duel. Who would he give the clue to? Who will lose the duel? Candice lost a very close duel. This means that a record three people don't visit tribal council in a single season. But she could be pregnant right now and that could make things better. I'm sure that we'll see her again in the 34^th season, whatever that could be. Look up the seasons she was in and that math will make sense to you. Monica was once again given the clue for some odd reason and she once again destroyed it without reading it. Candice's departure means that Cook Islands is the next season to be eliminated from the game. At Galang, the tribe comforted Monica on her husband being sent to Redemption Island. John is without a partner in the game, but there has yet to be two partners gone at the same time. That will probably happen at some point. The close duel makes me wonder what kind of controversy could be caused if the wrong contestant is declared the winner of a duel. If it were quickly fixed, then it wouldn't affect the game. But they have messed up an immunity challenge and that challenge is no longer used in the game. A challenge could be very close and that would seriously be a bad thing for the player and Survivor itself if the wrong person won the challenge. People are wary of Caleb after blindsiding Brad. Vytas brought it up, even though he voted against Brad himself. There are a lot of injuries in the game, but we still have no idea if that will affect someone's game in any way. Will it be serious enough to get them pulled from the game? Will they get pulled before getting voted out or once they are on Redemption Island? That's one of the reasons I don't ever want a medically evacuation to happen in a season with Redemption Island because things would get very complicated very fast.

In the next segment of the show, Vytas likes how good the place where they're doing the season is because it is beautiful. Tadhana is hoping to finally win a challenge. This interesting challenge has people sliding and getting rings to score points. In the first face-off of Caleb versus Gervase, Caleb wins somewhat easily. Hayden and Tyson face off against each other and Tyson scores the point. Katie and Kat fight against each other and Katie scores the point. Vytas and Aras then fight. Vytas scores the point very easily. Tina and Ciera face off against each other and Tina wins. Caleb and Tyson then face each other. Caleb won the point and it looks like Gadhana might finally win the challenge. Hayden and Gervase face off against each other. Hayden won which means that Tadhana finally wins a challenge. This could be very bad for the returning players plus Rupert's wife tribe. So this makes me wonder who on Galang would get voted off. Gervase is probably safe and so are Tina, Tyson, and Kat. Laura Boneham has been the odd woman out for quite a while. Laura Morett could be on the chopping block too, but I'm not so sure about that one. Aras could have his alliance crumble. Monica could especially be in danger considering how her husband was controlling the game and she kept getting rid of immunity idol clues. All that we know is that someone is getting blindsided. Laura Boneham stirred up trouble by telling Kat that the other two sit-outs wanted to stay in the challenge. Tyson is apparently recovered from his injury. That didn't last long. Everyone thinks that Laura Boneham should probably go, although that seems too obvious to other people. Laura Morett got wind of the plan and could mess it up. Is Aras still in control of the game? I have the feeling that Laura Boneham's time in the game could be up. So at tribal council, different stuff came up. They discussed the main twist for the season. Jeff asked very direct questions to Laura Boneham. People think that she should stay in the game, but others don't. So the voting happened next. The Lauras are voting against each other and that's possibly the only name that will come up today. Nobody has an idol (to my knowledge), but Jeff asked for one anyways. Laura Morett was, in fact, the person voted out today. Will her daughter switch with her? I wouldn't be surprised if she did.

What will happen next time? Gervase and Tyson are making a move (that probably means nothing, as usual). There is also some sort of switch up, which doesn't make a lot of sense, in my mind at least. A switch up could be unfair, like they typically have been in the past. Why have they never repeated it the way they did it the first time? I liked the first tribe swap, although there might be a couple of swaps that were better.

Confessional counts of players on Redemption Island: Brad- 16, John- 11, Candice- 6. Confessional counts of players in the game: Hayden- 6, Gervase- 4, Tina- 4, Tyson- 7, Caleb- 8, Aras- 9, Vytas- 10, Laura Boneham- 5, Katie- 4, Monica- 8, Ciera- 8, Kat- 4, Laura Morett- 6. New confessionals this episode: Laura Morett- 3, Hayden- 1, Gervase- 0, Tina- 1, Tyson- 1, Caleb- 2, Aras- 2, Vytas- 2, Laura Boneham- 2, Katie- 1, Monica- 2, Ciera- 3, Kat- 1; Brad- 1, John- 1, Candice- 1.

I'm not sure what will happen next. Brad is my favorite to lose Redemption Island and it looks like the person who has been there the longest is typically the one who gets eliminated. Hopefully the tribe swap, if that's what's really happening, is a good one, because a lot of the recent ones have been bad. Whatever it is, I can't wait. That Christine edit proves true again, this time, by striking Candice. Laura Morett could be the next person affected by this edit (or curse). This is Adam Decker, signing off.