Episode 28.7

You know, since I like to talk about Survivor dreams, I might as well tell you about another one that I had. You see, it had the supposed cast of an upcoming season that had returning players. I was annoyed because original players from Guatemala still haven’t returned to play the game again since this list didn’t have players from it (although it might have). But the dream not only mentioned various players that never existed on a particular season, it also made up whole seasons in which returning players were coming from. Now I still don’t know why none of the sixteen original players from Guatemala have never played the game again. Why hate on that season? Sure, Caramoan has no returning players, yet, but you do think that since it was recent enough that it wouldn’t matter since they obviously would want some of these players at some point. That’s also why we can’t count this season or the last season as not having returning players since they were too recent to have one. But I don’t understand how someone from the original season can play again for the first time after a long absence and Guatemala is treated like crap. Why is Guatemala considered the black sheep of the Survivor community and lacks a single returning player originally from that season? I know it wasn’t the only season considered to be bad, but tons of worse seasons actually have returning players or, at least, one returning player. But poor Guatemala doesn’t have any for whatever dumb reason it might be.

I have some good news. This will probably be my last blog post on delay for a while. During Holy Week, my church doesn’t have a Wednesday Lenten service. I don’t know if other churches do or not. So I will be able to watch it live and blog about it at the same time. I’m still giving up twitter for Lent (it’s weird that I’m getting new followers and other sorts of tweets from people when I’m not really doing anything right now) and the other things I’ve given up are going well too (is it cheating if I’ve given up Wikipedia for Lent and I visited www.wikiquote.org? I don’t think that it is) so you won’t see me on twitter for a Survivor episode again until after Easter (next week at the very soonest). I think that I will complain in my blog post next week about the shows that always seem to air when good Christians are at church. I’m tired of missing new episodes and yet they still keep airing them at times that I can’t watch it. But I will like being able to post this on Wednesdays where it belongs.

So it can be hard at this point in the game to predict who will win. Based on alphabetical order, it is Woo, Jeremiah, or Jefra. Based on high confessional counts, it is Tony, Kass, or Spencer. I would love to see a final three this season of people who started on the three different tribes where each tribe has a finalist. This normally can’t happen because there are normally only two starting tribes. This could have happened in Cook Islands if Sundra had won the final four tie-breaker instead of Becky. I don’t think that it could have happened in Philippines, although it is nice wondering what Kalabaw member would have been a finalist if they made it. You can’t count Denise as a Kalabaw member since she was originally part of Matsing. So it would be nice to see if, but understandable if it doesn’t happen. I mean, who would we even want to represent each tribe in the final three? Will there be a surprise final two? Will there be an even bigger surprise because we’ll see four finalists at one final tribal council? Will there be a tie for the win? How would they resolve it? Why do I keep asking so many questions in my blog? I like asking questions, that’s why. Like I said, it would be hard to guess who wins yet, but I hope that it’s a good person. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Spencer was mad that Jefra didn’t go home. Kass and Morgan then had a bit of a fight. Is it just me or are this season’s contestants the happiest fighters ever? I’ve never liked people who are smiling and happy when they fight with me. Well, it could be a fight, argument, or just a heated discussion. But I’ve always found that to be condescending. I don’t know if that’s what they think they’re doing, but I don’t like it.

In the second segment of the show, the reward challenge happened. While not the same Survivor challenge as always, it is typically the same sort of challenge that we always see on the show. The challenge was mostly neck in neck until the end. L J, Spencer, Jeremiah, Morgan, and Jefra were the winning team. I wonder if typical these alliances might happen to the winning team and the losing team but probably won’t because stuff like this typically never happens on the show even though they always fake themselves out by saying that sort of thing when we all know that it probably won’t happen, but they feel the need to show us for some odd reason. Did I just turn into Nathanial Hawthorne? I probably did since I just wrote a random, meaningless sentence that rambled on and on without a point and only succeeded in being very long and such a bore. If you’ve read the Scarlet Letter (my condolences if you did), then you know exactly what I’m talking about.

In the third segment of the show, we saw the losing part of the tribe get back to camp. I wonder if this is the part of the tribe that will do a mad search for the new hidden immunity idol. Tony is the one who starts looking first. That’s when we got to the winning part of the tribe. Spencer found the clue to a hidden immunity idol. But which one? Did he get a regular one or the new (old) special one? Whatever he got, the mad search for the idol began. Woo realizes that Spencer is probably looking for the hidden immunity idol. I mean, it is kind of obvious what is happening. Woo managed to find the clue to the hidden immunity idol, but I think that Spencer found out about it quickly. This might be the first time that a clue was left behind and taken by another player. Is the clue stolen? I don’t think that it is. I mean, Woo wasn’t punished and it was left in the final edit. So I do wonder if hidden immunity idol clues are not considered personal items that can’t be stolen even though the idols themselves are considered things as such.

In the fourth segment of the show, Woo gives the idol clue to L J and now everyone is in the mad hunt for the idol. Meanwhile, I seem to get distracted a lot from breakfast during the commercials and am never able to finish the breakfast. Did Tasha get a sort of but not real confessional? Does such a term exist? I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a whole tribe looking for the same one idol at once. I could be wrong about that, but that’s how it seems. Spencer has found the hidden immunity idol. It is a normal idol and not the special one. Nobody knows that he has the idol at the moment. We then get to the immunity challenge and it seems like a different take on the endurance challenge. This better not become the same type of challenges that we see over and over again for the rest of the season. The players fall out of the challenge one by one. I wonder why we aren’t seeing that many players in this episode, or normally for that matter. Do Jeremiah and Morgan still have a showmance? Why have half of the players not gotten a confessional this episode? Maybe that will change shortly. It seems interesting and possibly ironic that the two last remaining members are from the brains tribe considering how bad they were doing early into the game. But I’d actually love to see a brain member win and Spencer might be who I should be rooting for. As usual, as if some unspoken rule of Survivor has happened, the person who found the hidden immunity idol is the one who won the immunity challenge. That happens a lot, doesn’t it?

In the fifth segment of the show, the people wondered who they should vote out. The choice was between Morgan and Tasha. The other people wanted to vote out Tony when they figured that Kass might be a bad option to be voted out. Kass might be flipping yet again. Contrary to popular belief, there are some people who have flipped and gone on to win the game. But, typically it doesn’t work that well. Coach’s constantly flipping in South Pacific may have cost him the game. Now I have no idea who will get voted out since half of the people don’t have confessionals, but it is always possible that someone without a confessional gets voted out instead. Will king Tony finally get dethroned? Morgan wants to be a goat who makes it to the end. I do have to wonder if that strategy would ever work. I mean, I can understand being someone who wants to take the goat to the end. But being the goat instead of the person who takes the goat there doesn’t seem like that good an idea to me. That makes you wonder how they would suddenly convince people that they are not a goat when they do make the final tribal council and how they would end up winning the game from there. It doesn’t sound like a good strategy to someone who wants to win. If you want to be runner-up, then it’s the perfect strategy. So the vote started to happen next. The choice seems to be between Morgan and Tony. Morgan got voted out of the game. It turns out that it was someone with a confessional this episode.

On the next episode of Survivor, Tony and Woo might have some sort of fight. As usual, the preview was vague. In fact, I have now given Survivor promos this song parody, “you are so vague, you probably know this song is about you, you’re so vague, you probably know this song is about you, don’t you, don’t you.” Sorry about that.

Total confessional counts: Jefra- 6, Spencer- 19, Tasha- 9, Trish- 11, Woo- 7, L J- 11, Morgan- 10, Kass- 19, Tony- 24, Jeremiah- 8.

New confessionals this episode: Jeremiah- 0, Jefra- 0, Spencer- 5, Tasha- 0, Trish- 0, Woo- 1, L J- 0, Morgan- 2, Kass- 4, Tony- 4.

So, I’m still not sure what exactly to make of the confessional count and I don’t know if I’m doing it right or not. I sure hope that I’m doing it right, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I was wrong in some way. I haven’t always kept track of who gets confessionals in previous season, but it just seems weird to me that half of the players don’t get any confessionals. I guess that we’ll see them some when they get voted out. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.