WARNING! This blog post is a
long and rambling blog post that is filled with a ton of intricate detail. This
may have a lot of information that actually has nothing to do with Survivor:
Borneo, although I am working on that. This should have some sort of information
about Survivor: Borneo, but I’m not sure that it will at the end. In fact, I
highly recommend ignoring this blog post completely. Go ahead and cut your
losses. It doesn’t matter. I don’t care. It’s not like you’re reading this
anyways right? Are you reading this right now? Are you ignoring my advice and
continuing on this dangerous road that nobody wants to go down? Please stop
reading this. Have you stopped yet? You’re still reading this, aren’t you?
Well, you’ve been warned that reading this might be a huge waste of time that
you’ll never get back. At least reading this blog post isn’t as bad as writing
this blog post. Trust me, I have wasted more time on this then you ever will.
I’ll let you know in big letters when and if I get to the point. For now, my
horribly long, rambling blog post that has almost nothing to do with the first
season of Survivor is about to begin. But, at least my other blog posts after
this should be more normal. Seriously, though, stop reading this. Please stop
reading this. Trust me, it’s not worth your time. If you don’t stop, at least
you’ve been warned. END WARNING
The first season of Survivor
was legendary. It went down as a great show in reality TV history. Some fans
say that there could never be a better season then this, the first one. I’m
going to blog about it now. There are a bit of confusions with the name of the
first season. Some call it Pilau Tiga based on the island where it was filmed.
Wikia claims that the first season was universally known as that until the
eighth season called players from it Borneo, but I was a fan starting into the
second season and I always remember the first season as being called Borneo.
I’ve even heard some contestants refer to the first season as Malaysia based on
yet another name of the location where the first season was filmed. So the
season has three names, although I always knew it as Borneo. Thus, the blog
posts will simply be named after the way I normally do them for a season that’s
currently airing.
Also, the posts may seem
strange depending on if I’m going back to the old way of doing it or not. I
think that I’m going back to the old ways, so look for blog posts older than
episode 25.2 and you should be able to see the difference. I think that I’ll
blog about the special about the season before I watch the whole season,
although I’m probably going to watch the special again once I’m done to see the
major differences. I’ll let you know sometimes how the die roll goes and
hopefully there won’t be any problems with my crazy OCD schedule that I have to
be a bit annoying. The only real problem would be the movies. I’m not sure that
Survivor even has to be on the TV show list. But at least there are currently
no other TV shows that start with the letter s that I plan to watch at the
moment. In fact, Survivor is the only show that I own that starts with the
letter s because I’m borrowing the other one (Stargate SG-1) that I’m watching.
I probably won’t watch the episodes only on Sunday, if I even watch it before
that summer. I might have said that I would in the past, but I decided to
change my mind about it. But I will only post the updates to that old season on
Sundays if I do end up seeing it before the summer, but it is very likely that
I wait. Besides, the likelihood that I roll an s on either day is 11 out of 36
(if I’m doing the math right, that is) so it could take a while before that
happens if it happens at all. I might have to make exceptions the moment that
the finale of Cagayan airs, if it hasn’t already by the time this is posted
online. Besides, if I post this sooner than the summer, than what am I supposed
to post about during the summer?
Maybe the first time I watch
it should just be for fun and to write about B. B. Andersen’s influence on the
game, listen to the commentaries, and save the full fledged blog posts for when
I watch it the second time. And I could end up watching it a lot and only post
one update a week because that’s the limit that I’m planning on doing. But
whether that even happens or not has not yet been decided while I’m writing
this, but has been probably by the time you are reading this. So this might be
a pointless conversation that I’m having right now. But, since nobody reads my
blog anyways, I figure that I have nothing to lose. I like to say random and
interesting things in my mind, but if anyone else enjoys it is anyone’s guess.
You’ll see it at random times during the summer if that’s when I’m posting it.
Just keep in mind that it won’t be posted more than once on the same day. And
you might not see anything else during the summer at all. Plus, there are only
a certain amount of shows that I can watch if they are limited to the die roll
list. I’m not certain yet if this will be limited. But don’t expect anything
else out of me during the summer break if I do end up posting this season there.
I am thinking of posting an elaborate fan fiction of some sort relating to a
new Survivor season, but I more than likely never would do something like that
at all. If I had suggestions for what I could do in it, then I would. But since
nobody reads this blog, that will pretty much never happen. If I’m wrong and
people do read this blog, then comment and point out what I should do with this
heading in the comments: Survivor fiction idea. Or just continue to ignore this
blog of mine. I’m not sure why I’m telling you this considering how you are
just ignoring this blog post anyways.
So, as usual, I know that I
can cheat with the random die roll list. Neither the special on Borneo nor the
episodes even have to be on the list. I could watch them whenever I want to
instead of limiting myself to only a one in six chance of rolling it. I mean, I
do have only one last Christmas special to watch, but since it is on the random
die roll list, then it might take a while to watch it. Although, I probably
already have watched it by the time this is posted. I also have to wonder if I
will have started an OCD blog of mine by the time this is posted as well
because I really want to post about my random OCD habits and I might as well
have a blog to do that in. Regarding the list, I notice that I could also cheat
with the names on the list as how they are labeled alphabetically. Winnie the
Pooh, for example, is on my TV watching list despite the real name of the show
being called The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which starts with the letter
n and not w. But since NCIS is already on the list and will be there for quite
some time, I decided to cheat with the names.
I should be lucky that I even
have a tape of recorded episodes of that show anyways since as of the time I’m
writing this, there has yet to be a DVD release of any complete seasons of that
great TV show. In fact, a lot of the recordings that I watch are not released
otherwise. For example, The Wish that (or which) Changed Christmas is on a VHS
recording originally labeled X-mas (hence the way I’m able to cheat once again
by putting it on the list since w was already taken but x was not and probably
never will be unless I watch something that starts with x). As I was saying, if
I didn’t want to wait until s was off the list to watch either TV shows or
movies, they I could cheat and put p, m, or b on the list based on the three
season’s names. This could, however, lead to even more problems.
While I currently have no
problems with the three alternate letters for the list of TV shows, since I
want to watch a movie first, I have the problem with the letter b. The number
associated with each movie cannot be changed. I cannot, for instance, move a c
movie to the number two if it is already at number one and I haven’t watched
through all of these movies installments (it’s actually a concert series and c
is the letter that starts the group’s name. It will probably always be on the
list because the group is that good to always watch it, which is another
problem which I will get to) it must remain on the list at that number and thus
I cannot add any other letters before or with that same letter alphabetically,
then b cannot be added to that list at the moment. That list is Sunday movies
by the way. Keep in mind that one of the many problems with this is that I’m
not even sure that I’ll be able to watch a movie on that day anyways since
other things happen during my life and I’m not a faceless nobody, despite the
fact that I have this blog where I ramble a lot about things that have nothing
to do with Survivor that probably bores my readers to death or at least forces
them to skip certain parts of my blog. But enough of my ramblings.
Tricked you, if you thought
this was the beginning of the part of this blog post that you would like.
Unless, of course, you’ve been generally amused by the post thus far. The
highest letter for the other number 1 choice is h, which will have to stay
there for three movies and which point it will probably be time to add my
favorite movie trilogy, Back to the Future, to the list since I watch it every
summer. (I know that I could watch it any time of the year, which is why I’m
not even sure that I’ll wait that long, it just might take a while with the
other choice being three movies long as it is another trilogy that I was
wanting to watch again.) After Back to the Future is done being watched, then
the summer might be over as I only watch a movie like this only once during a
week (this list being Saturday). And since the other movie list is a different
day in the week and only that day, I will have problems unless I am somehow
able to combine the list and use them any day of the week since there are
typically boring stuff during suppertime during the summer when I’m normally
devoted to watching other things. With b off of the list, then only m and p are
left and I don’t think that either of those count as real names for the season
so I won’t consider either of those as alternate letters anyways. And I do want
to combine the lists at some point, although I’m not sure that I will ever be
able to, although I probably will or at least want to. So we’ll see what ends
up happening, although with all the other screwy rules that I haven’t even told
you about yet, I might end up rolling that desired letter s in good time. I’ll
let you know and hopefully avoid trying to constantly repeat myself. I also
realize that I could add the letter f representing the word first and Survivor:
Borneo was the first season of the show.
Speaking of constantly
repeating myself, I think that I have already mentioned what was in some of
this blog post earlier. I know that the format of this blog, for instance, is
already mentioned on the show. In fact, this is more of a new format than a
reverting back to an old format. I just wish that Word didn’t decide to
randomly stop posting my blogs online from it. I don’t even know what I did
wrong. In fact, I’m guessing that it was probably not my fault as I never did
something that I think could have changed why I’d be able to do that. Did Word
do it or did Blogger do it? Oh, well. I guess this is just one of those things
that you’ll have to live with sometimes. Hotmail, for example, still says that you
can reply to an email to comment on a status on facebook, but I haven’t been
able to do that for quite some time. Is that Hotmail’s fault or facebook’s
fault? Did I do something wrong? Why can’t I reply to an email notification
from facebook to comment on something as if I was on facebook? I used to be
able to do this, but not anymore it seems. I wonder if it is actually both of
their faults.
You know, I forget if I’ve
already mentioned this or not, but not every Sunday can I watch a movie on my
Sunday movie watching list. I can’t watch a Saturday movie every Saturday. I
don’t always have the option of watching one of my six TV shows on DVD (or
other random thing to watch) every time that I want to and almost never am I
able to watch something with breakfast on Sunday because I’m a good Christian
that goes to church and can’t afford a potential delay like that to slow me
down. Plus, there are other issues with the Sunday list such as only being able
to watch half of the things on this list do to the strange way of listing
things there and not being sure how to order if or if doing something strange
such as getting rid of half of the options that I should be able to choose
from. So, to put it simply, half of the six movies on Sunday can’t be
considered to watch thus increasing the odds of everything I want to watch
going up to 1 in 3 instead of 1 in 6. But when I am finally able to watch
Serenity, I will have to have the option that I want to add (Survivor: Borneo-
the Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments) be unable to be chosen from for three
weeks. Ultimately, due to all this confusion, I have the feeling that I won’t
be able to start watching the show until after Survivor: Cagayan finishes
airing and I’d finally start watching the first season by default. I hope that
no other contestants from other seasons die yet as they will only further
complicate various issues. Plus, they could be from seasons that haven’t been
released to DVD yet and won’t be for some time. Just as long as they don’t die
during the season they are filming, no serious problems will have happened yet.
Well, besides someone dying.
Well, I’m glad that I finally
get to see the first season even if I did miss it when it first aired and I do
have to watch it a full fourteen years later. I’m also sorry for the fake out
earlier as my ramblings are far from done. If you don’t want me to ramble, then
don’t read this blog. I have the feeling that many of you are already feeling
that way in the first place. I’m glad that Survivor, at the moment at least, is
still going very strong. Not much information has been released yet on the
upcoming 29th and 30th season besides the possible twist
for the 29th season that might not even be true. And although I want
a “normal” season to happen again, with the greatness of the seasons that we’ve
had that aren’t the “normal” seasons, I’m perfectly fine with not having a
normal season for a while, even if the highest ranked season of mine is a
normal season. In fact, a season that wasn’t normal hadn’t happened yet at the
time of my favorite season, that like many, is underrated, although I haven’t
heard enough opinions about it to know for sure. I’m sure that I’ll tell you
someday what the season is in due time, but for now, I will not change it,
although I was tempted to twice. Believe it or not, it was actually both
Nicaragua and Redemption Island that I considered being the best at some point,
although I still leave it to this mysterious season from early Survivor
history. Although, with the seasons post Heroes versus Villains being as good
as they are, maybe “normal” seasons are overrated. For the record, these are
all the seasons that I consider to be normal: Borneo, Australia, Africa,
Marquesas, Thailand, Pearl Islands, China, Gabon, Tocantins, and Samoa.
Even if this is just a season
watched during the summer, regardless of if it is on the list of things to be
rolled on the die, I have come up with a way of watching various Survivor
seasons and posting them on this blog. So you will only see these blog posts on
Sundays. I will post an episode each Sunday, although I can’t promise you that
it will happen every Sunday once it finally starts. Once I’m done with the
season, the Sunday posts will eventually stop and I’ll debate whether or not to
continue blog posts before the twenty-ninth season starts depending on how late
you are actually seeing this. I don’t know yet if any other former Survivor
contestants have passed away by the time I start seeing this for the first
time, but I hope that none do as it is always sad when someone dies. And that
even happens when they go to heaven, which is where we hope that a lot of them
go, but we might never know for sure. I would rather not judge people because
only God decides who goes to heaven and hell, although the person chooses for
themselves what they believe first before they die. But I shouldn’t get
religious here because this is not a religious blog. And I really shouldn’t
think about death as often as I do. Regardless, you will see blog posts about
Survivor: Borneo on Sundays alone so when the Cagayan finale airs, you might
not see it until the next Wednesday because that’s when I chose to post it.
Things could get even crazier should more seasons of Survivor come into my
possession based on the only rule I have for buying it. But now you’ll know
what will happen for future seasons.
I’m actually not sure what the
point of this blog post is anymore. It’s okay with me if you ignore it. I will
post when and if I ever get to the point of it. I’m pretty sure that I was just
going to blog about the season as a whole based on what I saw from the Greatest
and Most Outrageous Moments special. While the specials have never really quite
worked long term, I’m surprised that they haven’t done something like that for
dead contestants at the moment. It would be nice if some people got a DVD like
that made in their memory. B. B., for example, would really benefit from
something like that since he only played six days of the game before he was
voted out.
I hope that there is enough
general information about all the series in this special so I can post stuff
about it here before finally seeing the first season the way one should be able
to see it. I might be able to cheat at this list I’ve been bringing up a lot.
Should I not have access to a movie on the list, I might as well watch this
special I’ve been wanting to see since October of last year. The Star Wars
movies I’ve been watching, I had to borrow from my brother who actually
possesses the movies. I am waiting to borrow the original trilogy from him. I
have finished watching the prequels. Since only Revenge of the Sith didn’t come
out on VHS (until the sequel trilogy is made), Revenge of the Sith is the only
one that I actually have on DVD (although it is more of a family owned movie to
be precise). I would love to watch that with commentary. I have strange order
of the six movies in terms of which one I like the most and which one I like
the least. Don’t hate me for this, but while it is a great movie, Revenge of
the Sith is my least favorite Star Wars movie. If you rewatch the light saber
duel on the lava planet, you will notice a lot of strange and ridiculous things
happening. For instance, you’d think that a lava planet would be built with
more lava resistant material. If you are not familiar with the youtube channel,
Cinema Sins, please go to www.youtube.com
and look them up sometime. They are quite good at respectfully making fun of
movies, both good and bad alike. They have not yet done any of the Star Wars
movies, but I’d love to see what they have in store for all of them. In fact, I
wonder how they haven’t done Revenge of the Sith yet because of all the things
they could do with it.
Back to the random topics of
this blog post, how will I deal with the different letters that this season has
on the place on the list should another season be able to be watched by me? Am
I making sense to anyone? The point is, as I’ve already discussed, the letters
that I can choose from are the most of any seasons. Keep in mind that important
letters in this paragraph will be underlined. I could go with the first
season of Survivor that was on the island of Pilau Tiga which is
in the region of Borneo in Malaysia. My conflict would be with
any season that has any of those five underlined letters. Obviously, since they
all start with s for being a season of Survivor, I would run into problems with
the second season, the sixth season, the seventh season,
the sixteenth season, the seventeenth season, Samoa, South
Pacific, and possibly any future season that starts with s. The only other
season that I’d have to worry about that starts with the letter b is Blood
versus Water. Other seasons that start with the letter p are Pearl
Islands, Palau, Panama, and Philippines. If I’m worried
about the letter f, then I’m worried about the fourth season, the fifth
season, the fourteenth season, the fifteenth season, Fiji,
and potential future seasons. This leaves the letter m with the seasons of Marquesas,
Micronesia, and future seasons that might be made during that time. So
there are a lot of seasons that could work like that.
Well, it finally happened I
was all prepared to watch Serenity with commentary and then something strange
happened. Well, I’m not sure if it was strange as much as it was unplanned. You
see I was certain that the copy of the movie was actually here. But, wouldn’t
you know it, the DVD isn’t there in its case. I could have sworn that it was.
But it seems that I’m being messed with in some sort of way. Not sure how or
why this happened. But I guess that someone else has the Serenity DVD, but I
could always borrow a different copy if I needed to. This then leads into very
great news for me and everyone else who reads this blog (so just me, I guess).
You see, since Survivor: Borneo- the Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments was
only going to be added to my random die roll list after I watched Serenity, I
can now watch the special that I’ve been wanting to see for quite a while
without having to watch Serenity and then waiting for a certain number to be
rolled in order for me to watch the special. I can even add the episodes of the
old season’s DVD as a different blog post for each episode. I can save money on
a new DVD box set, for the moment at least, by adding this old Survivor season
to the list of six DVDs (or stuff close to it) the moment something else
(preferably Stargate, since it starts with the same letter) is off the list of
random die roll.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! THE
IMPORTANT IMFORMATION IN THIS BLOG POST FINALLY STARTS NOW! I HAVE FINALLY
GOTTEN TO MY POINT! You will see me post updates on the first season on
Sundays. Here are the rules that I have about it: Basically, this is the rule
for watching only one old season. The first
old season must be posted on Sundays. For all old seasons’ posts, you
must only post one episode a week. You cannot post any more even if you have
already watched them. If you have not seen enough, then you must not post
anything that day of the week. You do not have to post something that day even
if you are ready to.
This could delay me posting the finale of the show’s current season. But
I hope and plan to be back here every Sunday as often as possible with a blog
post of an old episode of the first season. So without further ado, I will now
post information about the first season.
Here’s what I’ve learned from
watching the special: One of the weird things right off the bat was how the
contestants were allowed to talk to each other on the boat ride there to the
beach. They have never allowed the contestants in any other season to talk to
each other before the game officially began. This will be the last time that I
watch this special before I’ve seen the season as the way it was meant to be
seen. I will start pretty soon with watching the episodes of the first season
as a whole. The marooning was very interesting and I don’t think that they’ve
done this the same way again. That happens with a lot of things in various
Survivor seasons.
You know, I’m eating a nice
lunch with this movie. Richard laid out a bunch of strange rules and quickly
became the cocky player that we know him to be today. Sean thinks that he’s
always right. One of the female contestants on Pagong built a place to go to
the bathroom. I forget what the official term for that is. (I didn’t actually
forget, I just can’t remember how to spell it.) I wonder why they never show
the bathroom aspect of this show anymore.
We get to Sonja, the first
person voted out by learning about some of her life in the game. She was the
first person voted out because they cost their tribe the challenge. She is a cancer Survivor. We get to B. B.
next. He’s the reason that I wanted this season on DVD. He was the first person
voted out for being an unbearable person. Some say that he actually quit, but I
haven’t seen enough of it yet to know what happened for sure. It’s interesting
how they had the gong to symbolize the players at tribal council. That would
have been a good thing to still have in the game, but I can see why they got
rid of it. It was corny after all. But he probably did ask to be voted out
although Jeff from Palau is considered by many to be the first real person to
quit that way.
We get to Stacey, the only
player to have sued the game and claimed it was fake. If there’s a list of
contestants who are banned from playing the game again, she would have been the
first person added to that list. There was simply an alliance in my mind that
got her out. But she’s convinced that people switched their votes. Someone from
off camera talked during what I believe to be Stacey’s extended exit
confessional, although I don’t know what the one they showed us in that episode
is like yet. I just know that based on this movie or special or whatever it is,
they show us a lot of information that we good to be cut from the episodes.
This supports my theory that in every Survivor episode, the most interesting
parts of it are the hour that airs. While I’d like to see more of the unused
footage from various seasons, should they still exist, I still don’t think that
most of it was worthwhile. We get to Ramona who was the first person who wasn’t
Caucasian who got voted out. She didn’t grab her stuff until after her torch
was snuffed which is something that I don’t think I’ve seen other contestants
do.
The contestants were trying to
cook something very strange and weird. I don’t think that anyone actually ate
it in the end. We get to Dirk who had one of the more interesting audition
tapes. You can tell that this is one of the earlier seasons since everyone had
one and I don’t know when they started using recruits in the game. It was
probably before All-Stars and might have been as soon as the third season. Dirk
brought a bible as a person item. He wasn’t the only person to do that. Nobody
really explained why they were voting off Dirk from the game during their
voting confessionals. He was probably the first contestant to use religion a
lot on the show. So if you don’t like it blame him. But I’d rather thank him
for giving the other contestants an excuse to do the same. Rudy says he’s
religious but would only bring a bible as a personal item for toilet paper. No
offense to any of my readers, but I’d rather bring something like the Book of
Mormon instead. Is it supposed to sound made up? I’d bring any book that I’d
consider crap to be good toilet paper. So the works of Shakespeare and the
Scarlet Letter would make great person items for me. So I’ll learn more about
why him and other contestants were voted out when I watch this season. I just
hope that they didn’t edit out the real reason why any of the contestants from
this season were voted out. We get to Joel who was probably the first person
voted out over a battle of the sexes. True to their natures, a man was being
stupid and a group of women were smart enough to get rid of a sexist person
like that. He’s the only person successfully voted out by Greg Buis.
At the merge, many revealing
stories were told that apparently aren’t appropriate for the military. We get
to Gretchen who was voted out in the most confusing vote in the show’s history.
I, for one, would really like to know, if I can, what happened at that tribal
council that caused such a confusing vote to happen in the game. She was the
first one voted out after the merge in the history of the game. There was a
voting strategy that got her voted out although none of them really explained
why they were voting her out. I guess that the age of the great voting
confessionals happened later. After she was voted out, the next woman to be the
first one voted out after the merge was Michelle in Fiji, some thirteen seasons
later (although in Thailand and All-Stars, if the merge occurred normally, the
lowest placing member would have been a female instead of a male). Interesting
enough, both of those contestants are considered great potential players for a
second chances season and yet neither of them have even received offers to
return to play the game again. We get to Greg who is one of the most liked
contestants in the game. He may have been a little nutty, but that’s why people
loved him and he was such a great fun to the game. People are disappointed that
he has never returned to play the game again, although he doesn’t really want
to. He burst into a lot of fake crying when he was voted out of the game that
might have fooled some people but mostly just amused us. He might have been the
first person voted out of the game because he’s crazy. Under those
circumstances, I wouldn’t last very far in the game myself.
We get to Jenna next. We didn’t
see her audition tape, but since she did interviews to be on the show, then she
probably did audition like everyone else. If not, then she might have been the
first recruit to play the game of Survivor. Jenna didn’t get a tape from her
loved one at a reward challenge when everyone else did. I don’t think that they’ve
had this problem in other seasons. They might have in Gabon, but the player in
question who wouldn’t have had a loved one was the one who was voted out of the
game right before it happened. If you ask me, the time that this could have
happened was in Samoa because they didn’t end up having a loved ones challenge
that season for reasons unknown (although Russell Swan’s evacuation might have
had more to do with that). Sean cast a “useless” vote against her that got her
eliminated from the game. Jenna told
people when she was voting against them which is not the best strategy. Sue and
Kelly were the best of friends but that quickly changed for the worst at the
final four. We get to Gervase who I only know from the 27th season
and not the first one that he did. Nobody knew how to spell his name when he
was voted out the first time. Apparently, the torch was either mistakenly
referred to as a staff when he was voted out or torches originally had a
different name entirely the first season. I’m going with the first one.
They show a sort of reward
that may not have been a real challenge, which marks the only time that that
might have happened. I don’t know for sure if that did happen in the final edit
yet or not. But like many things in this blog, I’m sure that I’ll find out more
information about that once I actually watched the season. So I don’t really
know why this is in the game for that one moment. Richard thinks that he lost a
lot of weight before he first appeared on the show which makes something that
doesn’t usually happen anymore, although it’s rumored that Malcolm, originally
from Philippines, lost ten pounds before doing Survivor. Colleen won the sort
of challenge and shared her reward, a piece of chocolate, with the rest of the
tribe. We get to Colleen next. She had a showmance with Greg, possibly the
first in reality TV history. It’s probably safe to guess that they did not have
sex there since they’ve only joked about doing it. We get to see some of the
reasons why she didn’t like the game and why it’s safe it assume that she won’t
be coming back. She might have been the first person voted out of the game
since someone else had immunity. They wanted to get rid of Kelly who had flipped
on the alliance. She does talk about the possibility of returning when she
originally played, but even though ten years have passed by now, I still don’t
see it as happening, although I’d love to be proven wrong. Meanwhile, I think
that I use too many commas all the time. We get to Sean who is notable for his
alphabet strategy of voting people out that many people wrongly think was a
poor way of voting. But he’s not dumb since he didn’t do that the whole game
and only three of his votes were in minority. Plus, the opposing tribe just
happened to come alphabetically before the members of his tribe did meaning
that he’s guaranteed at least five (potentially successful) votes before he has
to turn on members of his own tribe. In what seems anticlimactic, his torch was
already out before it was snuffed. But he still cast ten votes in the game
(nine if you don’t count his jury vote) where seven of them were successful in
what they did.
We get to Sue who butted heads
with almost everyone. She did the famous rats and snakes speech at the jury
even though she said in her exit confessional that she didn’t like snakes. We
get to Rudy who might have been a homophobe under some circumstances but ended
up bonding (not in THAT way) with Richard who is gay. This shows that sometimes
people can get over the prejudices they have and be friends with people that
they wouldn’t normally be. Of course, since this is Survivor, after all, most
people just fight with each other over things like this which is why they
typically why they put people like that on a tribe with each other. Rudy messed
up at the final immunity challenge, the first to do this, like many others have
since, and was voted out as a result. I even read online that some people who
worked for Survivor thought that once his hand was accidently removed from the
idol, that there was no way that this show would live to see a second season.
They ended up being wrong, which was a great thing to be in the end.
That’s when we get to the
final two of this season. Kelly and Richard were the final two. Richard had the
idea to form an alliance in the first place so without seeing the season, he
seemed more deserving to win then the person who flipped. Nobody really seems
to give most flippers crap, but if Kelly hadn’t flipped, she might have
actually won the game. Sue says that she hopes that her vote costs Kelly the
game, which it did. Many people think that Greg was the real swing vote, but he
wasn’t. If Kelly and Sue were able to maintain their friendship, then Kelly
would have won, simple as that. Well, that’s my opinion at least. It might
change once I watch this season, but I don’t think that it will. The jury has
interesting things to say about all the players and why they voted the way that
they did. In what seems strange now, they didn’t reveal the winner live. Kelly
would become the only runner-up to have an exit confessional (in the season
they were a runner-up, at least), although I don’t know exactly yet if it airs.
But, as usual, I’ll know more when I watch the episodes themselves. Kelly
stated that she would never want to play a game like this again.
So the special is now over,
although I’m sure that I’ll watch this again. I can get rid of my old VHS copy
of the special since I don’t need it anymore since I have the DVD box set. If
you want it, let me know, although I plan to give it away at the end of May to
some unknown person at my church’s rummage sale (whoever buys it once I give it
away). Besides, I don’t know how you could tell me if you want the VHS copy
without giving up too much personal information about yourself, which I’d
rather you not do. Of course, nobody reads this blog anyways so I shouldn’t
really mention it in the first place.
I’m watching certain special
features that come with this DVD. It’s amusing that you never see the top of
the tribal council area so they don’t show you the studio lights and other fake
aspects of the area. There are, of course, some ways that they have to trick
the people that are on the show with what they do there. There are always great
behind the scenes stuff going on that we might never know a thing about. And
Survivor is a TV show in the end where something like it wouldn’t happen in
normal life. At least, I hope that it doesn’t happen because some of that stuff
is just crazy.
So, I apologize for the last
time about this blog post of mine. There came a point in it when I just
mentioned so many different things that I had to go back and add the first
paragraph to better explain myself. I know that I could have edited it some,
although I spent too much time on it already for me to think that cutting stuff
out would have been a disappointment. Well, kudos to you if you actually read
this whole long blog post of mine. Stay tuned for more information about this
season and hopefully everything will get to be “normal” in the future. So you
should be seeing season 1 posts mixed with season 28 posts. I just hope to see
a lot of season 1 posts in the near future. Hopefully, things will be more
normal in the future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.