Episode 28.4

So a tribe swap is going to happen in this upcoming episode. And I do have the feeling that my episode number count is off, although I don’t really care enough to fix it or rename it. As usual, the switch happened at a predictable part of the game, to the viewer at least. Will they remain three tribes or go down to two tribes? What will be the tribe that gets dissolved? Will it be chosen at random? Will it be one that loses a challenge like Saboga did? Will it be one that is doing poorly thus far in the game like Matsing did? Will it be pretty much random like when Bayoneta and Viveros were dissolved in Panama or when Puka Puka and Manihiki were dissolved in Cook Islands? There are rumors that before Matsing went on its horrible losing streak and perfectly had just two members left for one of each of the remaining tribes to get a new member and switch to two tribes that Kalabaw would have been the tribe dissolved in Philippines since the challenges were supposedly set up and painted for the other two tribes with their yellow and blue colors. This has not actually been confirmed by anyone, so it might not actually be true, but we have no other alternative guess as to what might have happened besides that. Like I said before, Survivor Wikia is a great site full of great Survivor information that you can’t find elsewhere. And other Wikia sites are good too if you have more interests than just this show.

Do you hate to when you have a Survivor dream and can’t remember what it is later? Well, I’ve had that problem sometimes. Just recently, I had a dream about supposedly Survivor that was supposedly Survivor in a supposedly Survivor based world. But, obviously, it wasn’t since it was a dream, it seemed to get it messed up with something else. It seemed like it was combining Big Brother and Survivor. As a Pirate Master fan, I know quite well what that looks like. I’m even watching it online sometimes since somebody posted it to youtube. This makes me quite happy and I’m sure that other people feel that way too, as long as the videos stay up for a while. I’ve even added it to my random die roll list which I’ve believe that I’ve mentioned before. It replaces Big Brother on the list since I’m done watching Hayden Moss’s season of that show. I’ve revised that part of the list as I see fit. I was able to remember most of the dream, to my knowledge, and it had a tribe of new players dominating against a tribe of old players. This happened, in the dream, before a tribe swap, by the way. I would love to see a season like that and don’t know why we haven’t seen that yet. It just seems odd that the sixteenth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh seasons were all pretty much returning players versus new players with the returning player tribe mostly dominating before the swap, the other tribe doing well after the swap (although most of the new players are still the ones getting voted out) and a whole bunch of crazy shit happening after the merge with the only regrettable part being that the returning players are in the finals and the last of the new players, or at least the threats to win, are the last ones voted out of the game in the finale episode of the season.

I have a lot of ideas for reality shows somewhere in my head. I probably wouldn’t make a lot of them since they could be rip-offs of something else, too high concept to work, or merely wouldn’t be made like I want them to be. But it doesn’t matter as I’d actually like to do something that I could legally write and reality TV isn’t one of them. Well, the respectable reality shows that people want to watch without losing a piece of their soul isn’t one of them. (I know that I am exaggerating there, but that’s how most people, or at least me, feel about some reality shows that aren’t competitions such as any show that begins with the words The Real Housewives makes me and others like me ashamed that this has to be associated with what is otherwise associated with the same type of reality that a good show like Survivor is. There’s a reason that the less respectable reality shows have such low ratings on the internet movie database.) This paragraph may not make much sense any more since I took out something that would inspire a new reality show of mine. But I decided not to tell you any part about it, like the original dream that I was going to post. I’ll leave you in the dark about what this dream might have been and even though you could have gotten a completely different show from the one part of the dream that actually inspired it, I’ll still leave it a mystery unless it is actually made.

You know, one of these days, I should tell you about my history of being a Survivor fan. As usual, there are many things I want to talk about but haven’t talk about yet. And I shouldn’t promise to do anything in the future, but you might see it, I just can’t say for sure if you will. Like what are the ten worst challenges in Survivor history? What are the ten best? And what other things could I come up with in the future? Also, there’s a potential location spoiler that you might want to know regarding the 29^th and 30^th seasons. But I will not talk about that until a later blog post.

It turns out that the tribe swap has been revealed more of in later promos for the episode. Some people wonder if the green tribe was really green or if it was teal. I am a bit bummed out that the three tribe seasons so far have been pretty boring color choices of the starting tribes. In All-Stars, they went with the colors of traffic lights. In Philippines, they went with the primary colors that also happened to be the three colors of the Philippine flag. This season, they went with secondary colors, provided that they did use green for the brains tribe instead of teal. But I need to start learning what the tribes’ actual names are.  Luzon is the green tribe, former brains tribe, and tribe that will be dissolved in this episode. Solana is the former beauty tribe and a purple tribe. Aparri is the former brawn tribe and an orange tribe. But enough of my ramblings.

My mother saw the episode before I did and said that I’m in for a good episode. Let’s see if she’s right. In the first segment of the show, the brains tribe came back from tribal council. Spencer is glad that he is still there in the game and Kass is glad that they voted out J’Tia at last. The brains tribe gets treemail for a reward challenge. I have the feeling that a commercial will happen pretty soon at the moment he announces the tribe swap at the challenge. Call it. Now I get to eat breakfast while the commercials are airing.

In the second segment of the show, each of the remaining contestants chose a new tribe buff. By random chance, a lot of the new tribes are formed by the old tribes. I hope that I don’t have to rewind the tape a lot to see who wound up on each tribe. I didn’t have to do it that much, although I did have to keep track of what the new tribes are. I did have the one tribe down so I didn’t really need to write down the other tribe, but I did. The challenge has appeared a lot in seasons past. The reward is a bunch of sweets. Knowing what might happen, I’d have to say that Aparri will lose the challenge simply because whatever tribe the brains tribe has been on, they have not won any food. Turns out, I was right. Solana won the challenge.

The new Solana tribe: Woo, Cliff, Trish, Jefra, Lindsey, L J, and Tony. The new Aparri tribe: Sarah, Spencer, Morgan, Kass, Tasha, Jeremiah, and Alexis.

In the third segment of the show, Solana came back to their new camp after winning the reward challenge. L J thinks that he and Jefra might be at the lower end of the tribe based on an alliance that I don’t think that most people would know that they have. But L J seems to get with Trish at the moment. Cliff is worried about the same relationship. We then see Aparri get back from the reward challenge with their new tribe members. Sarah feels on the outs because she’s the only person from her old tribe to remain on her tribe. Spencer is amazed at the beauty tribe’s lack of social skills. I missed a lot of information here because I couldn’t catch who was doing what. I might have missed some confessionals here at this point.

In the fourth segment of the show, the immunity challenge happened. “We’ll keep momma, or daddy, I’m not really sure,” Jeff said of the idol they were keeping. The challenge is fairly simple in theory. The tribe has to smash through different walls with a log and then taking the log through a maze of some sort. Here’s a fun fact: did you know that despite popular belief, that a labyrinth isn’t actually a maze? There are no dead ends or alternate paths in a labyrinth; hence it is not really a maze. But people believe it is wrong and they will for quite some time. There is guaranteed to be a person attending tribal council for the first time in this episode. Aparri won the immunity challenge that was pretty close throughout it.

In the fifth segment of the show, Solana prepared for tribal council. As usual, a lot of drama started to unfold. A lot of people will be attending their first tribal council in this episode. It’s hard to tell what exactly would happen next. Many names come up and this makes me think that this could be a repeat of what happened at Solana’s first tribal council where you don’t know who will be voted out until their torch is snuffed. Many potential flipping was proposed and it looks like we will be in for a great tribal council as usual. The targeting of the vote seems to be going towards L J who has a hidden immunity idol. Hopefully, he’s smart enough to bring it to tribal council and play it. So the voting happened next and I still don’t think that it’s clear who will be voted out. I’m really hoping that L J plays his hidden immunity idol at tribal council tonight. Does he? He does not. Does he get voted out? He does not. Somehow, the people voting against Cliff had the majority. They got to vote him out since they were unable to last episode.

On the next episode of Survivor, a bit feud is about to happen and it looks like I can finally find a rivalry from this season. There might have been others already. In case you didn’t already know, I like to keep track of the memorable rivalries of each Survivor season. When I finally blog about Borneo, you might see me post about the different rivalries there which I’d like to know about.

Total confessional counts: Yung (Woo)- 5, Sarah- 12, Alexis- 7, L J- 9, Morgan- 8, Kass- 9, Lindsey- 4, Cliff- 6, Tony- 12, Jeremiah- 5, Jefra- 4, Spencer- 7, Tasha- 8, Trish- 8.

New confessionals this episode: Tasha- 2, Trish- 3, Yung (Woo)- 1, Sarah- 2, Alexis- 1, L J- 4, Morgan- 1, Kass- 1, Lindsey- 1, Cliff- 2, Tony- 2, Jeremiah- 0, Jefra- 1, Spencer- 3.

So I might have messed up the confessional count again. Still not sure if it should be Woo or Yung since he is still not seen that much through the episodes. I should call him Woo since that’s what everyone else is calling him. Kass and Tasha were easy to chance to their nicknames since that is what they were called after being featured a lot in these episodes. I might change it to Woo soon and I hope that I can figure this out before he is voted out of the game. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.