Episode 28.8

What a season this has been so far. I still don’t know where I’d rank it in terms of seasons. Number 1 is the best and the total number of seasons is the worst. Now, a lot can still fall apart post merge. Typically, in both good and bad seasons, the post merge can change a lot of the game. It can finally bring real game play in a bad season. It can be real predictable what would happen in a good season. And suddenly, the season is neither good if it was good nor bad if it was bad. But I haven’t done a check through of all the seasons to know for sure. I did have a dream that I was watching Survivor: Samoa again. Apparently, it had been released to DVD and I bought it. (This makes me wonder if one of the contestants from the season had died. If any of them did, the dream didn’t say. I might have had it for other reasons because I’ve never dreamed that a contestant from that particular season died. This wasn’t my first dream regarding that particular Survivor season.) Now, since it was just a dream, various details about the season that I can’t remember were wrong. While I don’t downright hate the season (it does have interesting moments in it), I can understand why many people don’t like it. But I’ll reveal my rating of it later. Or, I might never real where it is on my list of best to worst seasons.

So this is Holy Week remembering the week when Jesus was in Jerusalem before he died. And while I don’t mind new shows on Mondays through Wednesdays during Holy Week, because there are nighttime church services on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, I’m unable to watch new shows that air during that time. For some odd reason, there always seems to be new shows on both of those days. I also wonder why other networks air new shows when the Golden Globes are on, but that’s beside the point. There are even three shows airing their season finales on Thursday and they aren’t guaranteed to even have future season since the networks like to trick us by airing the series finale of a show as a simple season finale of a show. I don’t know why every network does this since it seems to trick people. But, unless I record different shows, I will miss the great Thursday shows of The Big Bang Theory, Community, The Millers, Parks and Recreation, Grey’s Anatomy, Hollywood Game Night, The Crazy Ones, Parenthood, and Elementary. I’m thinking that I will record some of them. Here’s what I’d do: three hours of NBC on VHS and one hour of CBS on my laptop. Sometimes, I watch Two and a Half Men, but I typically don’t tune into that. Parenthood, The Crazy Ones, and Community are the three shows potentially airing their last episode on that day. None of them have been renewed (to my knowledge) and most of them don’t have that good ratings. Look up information on www.tvbythenumbers.com if you don’t believe me. While they could cheat death (again, if one is not the Crazy Ones which hasn’t been able to cheat death before), don’t be surprised if you never see them again after these episodes. I’m having problems with the number of VHSs to watch because there is a lot for me to get caught up on. In fact, I have to ignore the other TV shows on my random die roll list just so I can get caught up on these old shows. This is bad because there are rare times when what it on the tape isn’t something for me. And, without me able to watch other TV shows on DVD, I can’t finishing watching one, remove it from the list, and replace it with Survivor: Borneo. So, maybe I’ll get my wish of not being able to watch that season until the summer happens.

It should be a good thing to finally start watching Survivor when it originally airs instead of when I can watch the tape of it later. This is very good for me and readers of this blog to not be delayed at all. And I can probably figure out the VHS problem by using the smart mind that I have. Of course, there are a lot of great shows on Friday that I like to watch and could miss if any of them are new this week. There’s Last Man Standing, Unforgettable, Whose Line is it Anyways?, Grimm, Hawaii Five-O, Hart of Dixie, Shark Tank (normally I ignore this one since I can’t see four things at once and it isn’t something that you’d have to watch all the time), and Blue Bloods. There are also times I watch 20/20, although I don’t do it that much. Of course, that is more likely to happen then me turning into Dateline, which is also a good show, but also not always worth watching. I’d probably record three hours worth of CBS on VHS while recording an hour of the CW on my laptop. I record stuff on my laptop using a TV tuner.

You know, watching all of these old VHS tapes can give you a piece of the past that you normally don’t have. I got to see an old episode of Survivor: Amazon. It can be really strange watching just a random episode of an old season that doesn’t make a lot of sense. But I always watch through old Survivor episodes on VHS tapes because I’m such a big fan of them. I don’t even have to know what’s happening that season anyways. Besides, I’ll probably get caught up with a lot of old seasons in the future when my grim reason for getting them on DVD is met. I do have to wonder who would be the next contestant to die. And I do wonder who supposedly died in this Survivor: Samoa dream of mine which I told you about earlier. So, if this isn’t too upsetting to people, I will try to guess which contestant from Samoa could be the next one to die.

Of all the contestants from Samoa who might pass next, I wonder if I can figure out which one would be the most likely of the twenty players from that season. I’ll start with members of the Foa Foa tribe. Ashley isn’t someone I remember so I’ll say that she isn’t likely to be next. Ben was the only man voted out premerge that season due to his probable racist tendencies. I don’t know if that would make him more likely to die or not, so I’ll say that he’s more of a toss-up. Betsy was voted out after her tribe lost an immunity challenge, even though they just lost a different member to a medical evacuation. I’d say that she’d probably not likely to die next. Elizabeth is another person that I’m not sure if I remember so I’ll say that it’s unlikely for her to pass any time soon. Jaison was the only member of this tribe to make the merge and be on the jury. I’m not really sure why he would die, so I’d say that he won’t.

Continuing the list, Marisa was the first boot of the season and another person I don’t remember that much. So I say that she’s safe from dying at the moment. Mick was the poor leader of the tribe who didn’t do that well in any part of the game. So him dying is more of a toss-up. Mike was pretty old and was medically evacuated from this season. So he might be more likely to die than others. Natalie was the winner of the season and although people didn’t like her win, I’d say it’s a toss-up between what happens in the terms of who could be the next to die. Russell Hantz is the only member of that tribe left. I feel that I do not have to talk about him as most people already know who he is. Since he rubs some people the wrong way, it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that he could be next. That would mean that I would get to watch the great seasons of Redemption Island and Heroes versus Villains as well, if he was next. Like many a great villain, he failed doing great at the game when he returned the last time.

This leads into the members of Galu. Brett would be very unlikely to die in my mind, but that’s mostly because I want to see him play the game again. He went on an immunity streak at the end and almost made the end of the game, but fell one challenge short of doing so. Dave was a pretty strange contestant, so it might be more of a toss-up with what will happen. Erik had a hidden immunity idol, didn’t play it, and got voted out with it in his possession. He then gave a memorable jury speech that might have helped Natalie win the game. I don’t see why he would die next. John was one of two people who flipped on his old tribe. I see him as a toss-up. Kelly lost the game because of a hidden immunity idol being played by someone else. I see it as unlikely for her to die any time soon.

Continuing the list, Laura lost the game to a tie vote and played with her lovable villainy daughter in Blood versus Water. (At the moment, Ciera is my choice for Survivor’s best villain. She’s a lovable villain too, unlike most of the others.) Her time as a Redemption Island queen was awesome, although she lost to a stupid challenge that shouldn’t even be in the game in the first place. I don’t see her as dying any time soon. Monica was another random player that I don’t remember from this season. I don’t think that anything as bad as death would happen to her in the near future. Russell Swan was the first leader of the Galu tribe until he was medically evacuated from the game. He also played Philippines where he was the first returning player voted out. Since he did get depression after he played again, I’d have to put him as more likely to pass away next. I hope that he doesn’t die, like every contestant of Survivor, not just from this season. Shambo was the second leader of the Galu tribe and was poorly treated by them. That’s why she flipped on them and became a more annoying contestant this season than Russell Hantz was (that season, at least). I’d say that it’s a toss-up with when she dies. Yasmin is the last contestant left. She was the only contestant of Galu voted out before the merge. I don’t think that she will die any time soon. Sorry for the rather strange topic to bring up in this blog of mine. I’m done with it for now.

So I’ll keep you updated on my list of quirks. Although, I really should just start a new blog about my OCD tendencies and various habits that I do regarding it. I’ll let you know when Survivor: Borneo is finally added to the random die roll list and I start watching it on a regular basis. Well, it will be regular if I roll the right number. And you will see me blog about each episode in a different post each episode to be posted on Sundays. But it’s good to be back live, even though I won’t be on twitter for a while. Plus, I’m into a new show call the 100 (although I haven’t seen a full episode or know if I’d like to watch on a regular basis) on Wednesdays and it would be best to not be online at all when the show starts so I can record it since I’m watching SVU. So it would be best for twitter not to interfere with when I could record that show, meaning I might not be on for the rest of the season. I heard that the Survivor finale is on a Wednesday, which is strange since it is normally on a Sunday. When was the last time they didn’t air a finale of Survivor on a Sunday? I know that Thailand’s was aired on a Thursday, but I can’t think of any other season finales that aired on a day that wasn’t Sunday (although I don’t know when the Borneo finale aired). And I won’t want to be online if the SVU finale is at the same time. Why must so many great shows be on at the same time? But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Solarrion got back from tribal council. Tony explained why Morgan got voted out and was upset that people voted against him. He does realize that someone else always has to get a second vote at tribal council, right? I’m getting vibes of crazy Lex from Africa whose paranoia ran rampart when just two people voted against him (and they were both throwaway votes too). Tony’s alliance now has enough numbers to split the vote. It’s a great idea, actually, even though it can get boring from overuse. Tony is either trying to get L J or Woo out of the game (I can’t tell which). Meanwhile, I need to figure out what great thing I should have for supper that I can make without missing any of the show. So I may have to record commercials or I may have to wait a long time before I can eat. I probably won’t wait that long. Who knows? We’ll see what happens and if I can finish these thoughts before it comes back from commercial. Guess what? I can’t.

In the second segment of the show, the reward challenge happened. They will be put into three teams of three which makes perfect sense and is what they normally do at the final nine. Jefra, Trish, and L J are the orange team. Jeremiah, Spencer, and Tony are the green team. Tasha, Woo, and Kass are the purple team. The challenge is new (I think), but I have no idea what really is and isn’t considering the sheer number of challenges that have happened on the game thus far. The green team won the challenge so Tony gets his wish of spending time with the winning team and form deals with them. So, you’ll have to wonder if this is one of the many faux alliances formed after winning the reward challenge or if Tony will get people to help vote out L J. I’m getting tired of Tony and hope that he doesn’t win, even though it’s looking very likely that he will. But, I don’t know any spoilers about this season and I’m glad about that too. So now I need to roll for what I’ll have for supper. I’ll be having chicken nuggets for supper. The show started again before I could make that.

In the third segment of the show, the two losing teams get back from the challenge. As usual (or maybe even always), the strategizing begins immediately. I’m not sure what the gather from what happened. We get to see more of Spencer and what he thinks. We continue to see Tony be full of himself and really egotistical. For better or worse, we may have found the next Russell Hantz. It would be interesting to see Tony win, since you’d think the other players would know better than to let him do that. Who would he bring to the final three with him to ensure that would happen? Plus, would his win remind people of when Richard won the first season? I don’t know since I still haven’t seen that. But I will.

In the fourth segment of the show, I missed something since I was hastily trying to make supper for myself. But the nuggets are in the microwave, ready to be heated up. I might have missed some confessionals. Tasha wanted to talk strategy with L J, but L J was rightfully worried about setting Tony off. This challenge, which could easily be a Redemption Island duel, seems very similar to another challenge that they’ve done. It’s a memory challenge. The first part is yellow, blue, red, and green. Trish was the first out of the challenge. Maybe this wouldn’t be a good duel. The second part is red, green, purple, black, blue, green, and blue. Woo is also out of the challenge before the second part. “Something you could do in grade school,” is what this challenge basically is. A lot of people got the question wrong at once. Tasha won the challenge by getting the last color right. Now I have to get supper ready so I can eat it. L J thinks that the split vote will be between Spencer and Jeremiah. Will there even be a split vote?

In the fifth segment of the show, Tasha was glad that she won the challenge and I’m wondering why the commercial is so brief. I need to eat food! I guess that I’ll eat things in a different order and miss part of the show, maybe. An apple is messy food anyways so I probably shouldn’t eat that. But a lot of drama is unfolding at camp and lots more could wind up happening at tribal council. Spencer wants to vote out L J since there isn’t a better plan for him. Tony continues to make waves in the game. He hasn’t even won an immunity challenge, but probably could and will before too long. Trish likes to point out that she’s gullible, but not stupid. Did you know that gullible isn’t in the dictionary? So we get to the tribal council and everyone has a confessional so anyone could get voted out. Tony says that he has a bag of tricks. Unless they didn’t show us him finding the special idol, he probably has nothing up his shelve but trying to get people to believe he has an idol so they don’t vote for him. Woo, one of the people talked about being vote out tonight, is one of the people who thinks that he’s safe. I sense a blindside tonight, but not necessarily of him. There was a vote for Spencer, but he was wise not to play his idol. L J was voted out tonight.

On the next Survivor, Tony is still doing whatever he can to stay ahead of the game and Woo might do something stupid that gets him injured. Please, Woo, don’t get medically evacuated over something this stupid. I don’t know if he will or not, but I hope that he doesn’t. I never want to see someone get medically evacuated, although it could help with the groups I do of people that are.

Total confessional counts: Tony- 31, Jeremiah- 9, Jefra- 7, Spencer- 21, Tasha- 11, Trish- 14, Woo- 9, L J- 14, Kass- 20. New confessionals this episode: Kass- 1, Tony- 7, Jeremiah- 1, Jefra- 1, Spencer- 2, Tasha- 2, Trish- 3, Woo- 2, L J- 3.

So I’m still not sure what to make of the confessional count. Since we keep losing members every episode, I’m going to have to merge the names at some point by putting both confessionals in the same paragraph. Since L J was the one voted out, I don’t have to worry about crazy rules that I have regarding how the names are rearranged in the same order, but with a different one leading it. The line split is typically how I know where to start the next order of names. Now I’m not sure if you can tell what I’m talking about or not. It probably doesn’t matter if you do or don’t. Plus, I can always change the way I do things should need be. I’ve already messed with the rules once. Jefra continues to be the bottom of the barrel and Woo and Jeremiah are the only ones left with her to have less than ten. Woo getting medically evacuated might explain his edit of why we’ve been seeing him so little. That doesn’t explain the others that much. Oh, and from now on, the confessional counts will come in one group instead of two. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.