Episode 28.6

So the last episode of Survivor brought us a strange event: Lindsey quitting. I don’t fully understand why she quit, although I’m hoping that I can find out in some way. I guess that she just simply had enough of the game. But there are strange events in both Survivor and real life that one is not sure if they will ever truly know what happened. This leads into a dream of mine. This dream was pretty much me wondering about an unexplained event in Survivor history. I’m not entirely sure that the rumor I heard about it is true or not. So be warned that this might be another example of something that never really happened that I might be bringing up as if it did. And I can’t tell you the source of this information because I myself don’t know where it came from. I just know that my brother either heard it from someone or heard it from a friend who heard it from someone. It has to do with something on the show. It happened during Survivor: Amazon. There was a fire that burned down the camp near the end of the game. It is widely believed that one of the five contestants who was still in the game at the time had accidently caused the fire. I forget who was blamed. But, apparently, this person who worked for Survivor at some point knew the real cause of the fire. It wasn’t that person who it was blamed for. But he said that he couldn’t reveal the true cause of the fire until six months after the series finale of Survivor aired. This seems very weird in my mind. What could have happened that caused a fire at camp that they can’t reveal to the general public about? And how was this person even able to tell that the contestant in question didn’t actually do this, even though he couldn’t say what else might have happened?

This weird event is very hard to explain. I’m not even sure if the information about it is right or not. It could have merely been the contestant’s fault as it seems to be. But then we get into questions from real life. Perhaps you’ve seen on the news about a missing airplane: flight 370. We still don’t know what exactly has happened to the plane and the people on board, although it is widely believed by some people that everyone on board it was dead. The thousands of people looking for the plane that had less than three hundred people in it remind me of the parable of the lost sheep as reported in the bible. If you have one two, you can look it up at Matthew 18:12-14 or Luke 15:3-7. It basically says that even if many people are found as part of the faith, there is still joy when a sinner turns from their ways by repenting and turning to faith in the Lord. The Gospel of Luke continues with another parable of a coin in Luke 15:8-10. I’m still trying to accomplish a life goal by reading the entire bible. But if you haven’t read any of the bible, one of those two Gospels (Matthew or Luke) would be a good place to start (although Mark and John, the other Gospels, are good ones to read as well). I won’t elaborate anymore about the bible at the moment since this is not a religious blog, although as usual, I will mention that I’d be perfectly okay with doing one if someone wanted me to. If not, then I’ll just bring it randomly as I usually do.

You might be wondering why I’m bringing up the missing Malaysian flight. This all has to do with something that I brought up at an early blog post. SPOILER ALERT! The location that I heard as a possible one for seasons 29 and 30 was in Malaysia. I’m not entirely sure that this will wind up happening. For one, I read this location on Survivor sucks forum and it’s hard to find much accurate information there about future Survivor seasons unless they are final three and winner spoilers. In fact, I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of an accurate location spoiler except for at Wikia, which is, strangely enough, a non-spoiler site. Another doubt I have about this being the location is that you wouldn’t think that they’d return there until the very end of Survivor. They still could return there and do other seasons of Survivor afterwards. Or, quite possibly, they have plans to end Survivor in the near future. I don’t think that it’s doing bad in the ratings, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t end for whatever reason. Another reason why they might not return to Malaysia at the moment is, of course, the missing flight. While I don’t remember something like this happening before, where an airplane goes missing with no trace as to what happened to it, that doesn’t mean that it has never happened before. But I’d completely understand if CBS decided to go to a different location that didn’t have problems with an airplane disappearing from the sky. So they might appear in Malaysia next season and they might not. I’ll let you know if I hear information about other potential locations for the next season. END SPOILER.

Now I need to get to more talking about this season. I’m starting to wonder why it seems that tribe swaps never seem to last that long before the merge comes. Then I decided to look back at how long tribe swaps have lasted in the past. The first tribe swap in Africa, actually only lasted for two episodes. The Marquesas tribe swap lasted for three episodes. The Amazon tribe swap lasted for two episodes. The All-Stars tribe swap only lasted for exactly one episode. If you count the tribe dissolve from earlier that season, that lasted for four episodes before the real tribe swap took place. There were three episodes after the tribe swap in Vanuatu. There were four episodes after the tribe swap in Guatemala. If you count Panama as having a tribe swap, it lasted for five episodes. There were also five episodes after the tribe swap in Cook Islands. The mutiny from the season gave us two more episodes before the merge came along. There were three episodes after the tribe swap in Fiji. There were two episodes after the tribe swap in China. There were four episodes after the tribe swap in Micronesia. There were four episodes after the tribe swap in Gabon. That was followed by another tribe swap that lasted for just one episode. In Nicaragua, there were three episodes after the tribe swap. In One World, there were two episodes after the tribe swap. While Philippines didn’t have a real tribe swap, only two episodes passed after Matsing was dissolved. There were two episodes after the tribe swap in Caramoan. While not considered a real tribe swap, when Rupert switched with his wife lasted season, it lasted a total of five episodes before a real one did happen. Then, the standard two episodes passed before the merge happened. And this season had just two episodes before the merge. So I shouldn’t be bummed out that tribe swaps don’t last that long a time when they never really do in the first place.

You know what I’m not bummed out about? There are many limitations I have of things to watch when I put it on a list and can only watch certain things depending on which number on a die is rolled. I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this before or not. I probably have in a different blog post in the past or, quite possibly, future. Anyways, some of the things that had annoyed me about the random rolling has now been fixed. It has taken a long time, but I finally finished watching all the Christmas specials and movies that I like to watch during that time of the year. I took a vacation out of the country during that time (you may have noticed a lack of blog posts at that time, which is understandable as the busiest time of the year is typically that time). And, as you might have guessed, a lot of Christmas specials and movies that I like to watch weren’t able to be watched. So using an overrun rule I established, I put it in the list of other movies that I watch until I have finished with Christmas. This messes up the list since certain movies have to be excluded from the list, normally the most recently added to the list. And it is especially hard with the specials since they can only be added to the list should a TV show on DVD be taken off of the list. But I was finally able to finish watching everything on the list and shouldn’t have the problem again unless I am overrun again at the end of this year. We’ll have to wait and see. So the moment that a TV show on DVD is taken off of the list, I will be able to start watching Survivor: Borneo on a regular basis. You should have seen me post some information about that already.

They have advertised a great tribal council in this episode. My mother, who already saw the episode before I did, also says that it’s a great tribal council. I don’t know if it really is or if just the advertisers being themselves and saying that everything is great. I hope that it is. I’ll let you know if there is a first in there or not. And while I was watching things on my laptop I found out more information about Lindsey’s quit on the Survivor Live after Show. I learned the information from Lindsey herself. Although she seemed very nice and well-minded when she fighting with Trish, she thought that she was about to physically fight her. This would have probably gotten Lindsey expelled, ejected, disqualified, or whatever term they would use for forcibly removing a contestant from the game for breaking the rules. This hasn’t happened yet in the US version of the show (although it has in some international versions, quite possibly even the Swedish version, which existed before the US or any other one did) and I hope it never does. I think that if it did, then they wouldn’t be able to stop themselves from doing something that they would regret beforehand. Or, like it is rumored with Willie from Big Brother, they may want to get expelled to avoid whatever potential doom they feel lurks in their future. So she might have made the best move by quitting the game instead so she wouldn’t get herself in a bad situation by staying in the game and fighting Trish with more than just words.

Lindsey may have done weird things in the game, but this wasn’t the first time that a person’s reason for quitting wasn’t really aired in the game. Did they show Osten Taylor’s staph infections in Survivor: Pearl Islands? No, they didn’t. For some odd reason, they don’t show everything that they should all the time. And Lindsey was what I consider to be the happiest quitter that we’ve seen. So I figure that I might as well get into the emotions of every quitter thus far in the show’s history. Osten seemed like a frustrated quitter. Jenna Moresca was a sad quitter. Sue was an angry quitter. Janu was a smart, but mostly irritated, quitter. Melissa was a relieved quitter, although I’m still upset that she agreed to play the game when she knew that her panic attacks might be a problem. Kathy was another sad quitter who didn’t really want to quit, but knew it was best if she did. I’m not sure why they couldn’t let her take the medication that she needed to survive or why she played if being without it would cause problems. Did she not know that well? Trust me, I would not do Survivor if I couldn’t take the medication that I do. But I probably would never end up playing there in the first place. And I have heard of some medications being allowed to be brought to the island and taken by the contestants so I’m not sure what exactly happened there with Kathy. NaOnka was just a bitchy quitter. Kelly Shinn was an unknown quitter. Dana, if you consider her a quitter at all, was more of a relieved quitter. Colton was a whiny quitter. And, as I’ve stated before, Lindsey was a happy quitter. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, we see Aparri get back from tribal council. Spencer thinks that this tribe might be in a good place if they merge soon. Kass and Sarah are butting heads for some odd reason. Who might the potential flipper be?

In the second segment of the show, Solana gets news about the merge. L J feels that his idol is important and Tony feels the same way. That’s a pretty obvious way to feel. I notice that the Aparri tribe gets the new members and Solana is the tribe that has to merge. But, they are merging, right? They are. For the first time in a while, the merged tribe is named after a combination of both of the tribes’ names with poor Luzon not even being included. I haven’t caught the color of the new tribe yet.

In the third segment of the show, Tony tries to work on ways to swing Sarah to their tribe. This is the part of the game where you hope that it doesn’t get predictable. Pagonging would be boring and you could see the next six episodes be very predictable. Will Sarah flip? Which side will she join? When will I get to start eating my pancakes? I’m missing who’s giving a confessional here. It is hard to tell what is going on. But, I should inform you that voting against the swing vote is normally a bad idea. There should be rules against it that a good Survivor player would know.

In the fourth segment of show, Sarah and Kass were butting heads a lot. I’m missing a lot of the show because my mother feels that she must talk about various problems while she can tell that I’m trying to watch this. That, and a dryer nearby makes it hard to hear. So we then get to the first individual immunity challenge of the season. The challenge is fairly simple and has appeared many times before in the show’s history. It looks like everyone is doing well in the challenge. They then move to the final part of the challenge. It’s a bit boring to not have the food transitions. Many people fall out of the challenge all at once. You do have to wonder if someone from the brawn tribe will win. Since it is between Tony and Woo, then it will be someone from the original brawn tribe that wins. Woo wins the first individual immunity challenge. My mother has since left for work, but I have laundry to do now that she couldn’t get done before she left. You do have to wonder if some challenges will only benefit members of certain starting tribes.

In the fifth segment of the show, Sarah is deciding what she should do and which side she should join. All the scrambling starts at once. I would have to guess that Woo, Morgan, and Tasha won’t get voted out tonight. Sarah might want to vote out Tony since she must be on the side that Kass is on at the moment. I can see where all the drama at tribal council is going to unfold. As usual, the same three people (Kass, Tony, and Sarah) are getting the bulk of the confessional counts. I don’t think that voting against Sarah is a good idea, but it might happen. Now, everyone is saying that they should vote out the swing vote, which they could do, if they knew that they had the majority. I know that in Panama, Shane was a swing vote who was successfully voted out of the game. But could that really happen again? Is Kass the true swing vote instead? Tony revealed his idol to everyone and played it on L J, who ironically already has an idol. L J then plays his idol on Tony. This is very weird. Jefra got the first vote in the game and Sarah got the second one. It looks like both idols have been wasted. Will the swing vote get voted out or is Jefra the true target? The person voted out was Sarah. I wonder how that happened. They applauded someone getting voted out, which I think is the first time that’s ever happened. Now everyone wants to get Kass out of the game.

On the next episode of Survivor, Kass gets into another fight and everyone wants to find the ultra powerful new hidden immunity idol. Will there be old ones back in the game?

Total confessional counts: L J- 11, Morgan- 8, Kass- 15, Tony- 20, Jeremiah- 8, Jefra- 6, Spencer- 14, Tasha- 9, Trish- 11, Woo- 6, Sarah- 19.

New confessionals this episode: Trish-1, Woo- 0, Sarah- 6, L J- 1, Morgan- 0, Kass- 5, Tony- 5, Jeremiah- 1, Jefra- 1, Spencer- 3, Tasha- 0.

So, getting the bulk of the confessionals wasn’t that good a thing for Sarah. She was voted out when Kass magically became the swing vote instead of her. It looks like Spencer is the next highest person still left in the game, but we have yet to see if that turns into a good thing or not.