Survivor: Borneo- A Look Back

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 29^th and 30^th season besides the possible twist for the 29^th 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 27^th 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.