Episode 28.11

So, with this being very close to the end of the season, I have to wonder if there is actually going to be a final two again or if there is a final three. I don’t know if Survivor might be skipping a week before its finale. Or we could be treated to another day 37 reward challenge for the third time in the four most recent seasons. I hate those types of challenges. But something interesting could be happening or they could just be casually doing a final two for some odd reason. At least two episodes will air before the finale meaning that four people will be in the final episode instead of five. The math is weird. I just realized what might be going on in recent Survivor future. Also, I’ve finally found out information about the 30^th upcoming season of Survivor and it turns out that it’s not what I expected. SPOILER ALERT! Apparently, the 30^th season will have all new players. The 29^th will as well. Now the 29^th was already rumored to be an all newbies blood versus water. I’ve heard that the name for the 30^th season might be legends. Not sure what that might mean. I still don’t know what type of players might be in the 30^th season. I still wonder if they might do a bunch of new contestants who were are related to former contestants. But that would be speculative at best. And this information was only on two people’s twitter accounts that I saw and might not actually be true. END SPOILER. Sorry for the possible spoiler information, but I’ve warned you about it so you can skip it if you so desire. Besides, I don’t know if it’s true and just as easily might not be.

With Jefra out of the running to be a Survivor winner, you may be wondering who in the game is next in line in alphabetical order. Turns out, it’s Kass. Kass joins Tony and Woo as a possible winner of this season of Survivor based on random order. I’ve also used the supposed winners for reordering the information in the confessional count. The supposed winner is the person now leading the name count. I still don’t know if this season is a final three or final two but I’d love it if it were a final two and jury of nine. But, it could just as easily be a final three with only one person eliminated in the finale. I don’t know what will happen at the finale. But, I will know what will happen in my blog. There are certain awards this season that I will give out that I typically like to give out every season. They are the three dumbest moves, the most memorable moment, the breakout character, and the ranking of the season. I still haven’t ranked this season, but I will soon, probably at the end of this season. I think that, for the first time, I should list my candidates for each of these awards instead of just the winners of them. But I don’t know yet if I will.

I just know that I might have to do more random blog posts until I’m finally able to start watching the first season of Survivor for the first time. I think that I told you that the replacement for the first season special is now on the list to be rolled from. The replacement is Titanic. I have never seen that movie in its entirety yet. I had a dream that I was watching, not the movie, but the Cinema Sins video that made fun of the movie. That video is at www.youtube.com. I promised myself that I would never watch a video of theirs for a movie that I haven’t seen. But, because I love their videos so much, I already have a list of things to roll for and half of them are just because Cinema Sins did a video of everything wrong with that movie. Just go into that youtube channel with an open mind if you do plan on watching any of their videos. If you already like them, that’s great. If you don’t like them, then there’s nothing wrong with you, you just like different things or don’t like what they have to say. If you’ve never seen them, then type in Everything Wrong with (insert whatever movie name you want to see keeping in mind that they haven’t done every movie, you would want them to say whatever they don’t like about it, and that much of what they say isn’t meant to be taken seriously) and you’ll enjoy a nice, funny video. There’s one on the movie Frozen that isn’t actually done by them, but I haven’t seen it since I haven’t seen Frozen. (I have the feeling that I might never end up watching it because it isn’t done by the people that I know and love.) To my knowledge, they have never done an animated movie. When it comes to animated movies, I wonder if anyone knows or cares that traditional animation is a thing of the past and the last movie (American movie, if you want to get technical) made with that format (Winnie the Pooh) came out in 2011 which was three years ago. I’ll admit that they have done anime movies originally in Japanese, but in my mind, at least, that’s a completely different style of animation. I miss traditional animation. I hope that they make another one eventually.

A lot of weekends are going to be busy in the near future so I won’t be able to watch any movies on either Saturday or Sunday in the near future. But, for readers of this blog, the main problem for you right now is that I need to get caught up on old VHS tapes so I can roll for various TV shows to watch so I can finish watching one and add Survivor: Borneo to the list. In fact, there are some movies that should automatically be added to the list once summer starts since I have much more free time then and have a certain set of movies that I watch every year. Since I am no longer in school, some of them might not be watched since they relate to the school year. Well, I thought that until a dream made me want to watch certain movies again. There should only be one movie list but there were too many choices of movies to watch that I added the Sunday list. I really hope that I don’t have to add another list, although the summer is the best time to do stuff like that since there isn’t much to watch on TV during primetime when I normally watch shows. And I still don’t know if I’ll have to think up off random blog posts until I can start posting about the first season. But I promise that barring some terrible, unforeseen event, I should be able to post about it sometime. I am updating a will but I don’t know who I’d have continue this blog for me if I were to die before it could be finished. I could auction it off, but I don’t think that I can legally do that with a blog. Regardless, I will post updates on Sundays and watch the episodes whenever I can roll for them. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, the alliances were crazy this season. It reminds me of the crazy post merge of Philippines and why that season is so great. So the tribe gets back from tribal council. Kass is mad at what happened. Tony voted out Jefra under false pretenses. Spencer lied to him when he said that Jefra wanted to vote him out. But he didn’t know that at the time. The Kass and Tony rivalry is happening a lot in this episode. In a rare moment, Tony is telling the truth and Kass misunderstood what the conversation really was about.

In the second segment of the show, the drama from the morning continued. The people from this season are always so civil with their fights it seems. I have the feeling that this could be Kass’s end this episode. Maybe it’s not, but who knows? Tony tells everyone that he has a special idol but Kass doesn’t believe him. We then get to the reward challenge. This challenge seems very similar to build it up, break it down, which you can find out more about at www.survivor.wikia.com. One team is supposed to break down the other one’s wall. They then have to rebuild it. The first to rebuild it wins the challenge. Maybe a more accurate name for this challenge is break it down, build it up. The orange team’s wall broke first. The brains from both tribes are rebuilding the puzzle wall. Once again, there seems to be a stupid rule of only one person being able to do the challenge. What up with that? That’s a very stupid rule. That rule should only apply at a Redemption Island duel. The purple team of Spencer, Kass, and Woo win the reward. The reward is a meal and mission trip. It’s common for Survivor to do things like this and the reward isn’t usually that great in the end. But we’ll see if it actually is great.

In the third segment of the show, the winning team gets to the reward. I’m missed some of this while I prepared a supper of leftovers in the microwave. Even something as simple as that can make me miss some of the show. Woo gets some airtime this season for a change. I used a gift card to have lunch at Subway so I would ideally not have any problems with supper. A spilt the votes plan is coming up again. Will it be a success? Regarding supper, the leftovers are ready and I need to start eating them. Spencer does a good impression of Woo and his indecisiveness. Does anyone remember what got Christy voted out of the Amazon? Woo lies to his (former?) allies about the two brains trying to get rid of Tasha. Unfortunately for Woo, Tony is able to see right through it. Now, I will grab my supper from the microwave and start eating it.

In the fourth segment of the show, we get to what was promoted as a crazy immunity challenge. The challenge involves counting things in various stations and putting them together in a combination lock. This doesn’t seem like an immunity challenge since they are just standing there. Some people are not pulling the thing to check it before they go back to count which seems dumb. The challenge is taken a long time as evidenced by the fact that they are doing a time lapse thing in this challenge. 25 minutes have passed. I wonder who is doing estimating of the items. Spencer finally pulls a win again after the long challenge. I wonder what would happen if a challenge couldn’t be won by anyone. But I doubt that would ever happen.

In the fifth segment of the show, people devise a plan to get either Tony or Trish voted out of the game. Trish doesn’t have a confessional which is unusual if she is the person voted out. Will the spilt vote be successful? I don’t think that Trish will be voted out yet. But who will Trish and Tony vote for? Finally, people inside the game realize that he’s the next Russell Hantz. Kass is considering not voted against the Tony alliance as she feels that he would not win at the final tribal council. At tribal council, Tasha tries putting the target on Tony. Tony talks about his bag of tricks. A blindside might happen tonight and probably will. I have no idea what will happen. Tony does not play his regular hidden immunity idol. He didn’t need it. Tasha was voted out of the game. I have the feeling that only her and Spencer stuck to the plan since they would have shown another vote for either Trish or Tony.

On the next Survivor, Kass continues to be chaotic and Trish starts to confront her. I have the feeling that for some odd reason, there isn’t going to be a loved ones challenge this season. That’s weird. And I was right. Only Spencer and Tasha stuck to the plan of splitting the votes.

Total confessional counts: Kass- 30, Tony- 46, Spencer- 33, Tasha- 18, Trish- 17, Woo- 14. New confessionals this episode: Tony- 4, Spencer- 4, Tasha- 2, Trish- 0, Woo- 2, Kass- 6.

Wow. Half of the contestants have less than half of the total confessionals that Tony has. And that half includes the one who was voted out. How are people in the main alliance not having the highest confessionals? Does Spencer pull off a Fabio and find a way to win every remaining immunity challenge to win the game? Is the winner clearly Tony? What is going to happen? And, more importantly, what awards will this season win? Who gets the three dumbest moves of the season? Who is the breakout character? What is the most memorable moment? What is the ranking of this season among the 28 season? Where do I rank the tribe swap this season? And just why is the finale airing on a Wednesday for the first time in Survivor history? Well, I will answer some of these questions soon. I will also come up with random blog posts topics should I not be able to blog about the first season for a while. (Let’s face it, only my OCD is preventing me from watching it at the moment. But I have no reason to confuse it with another season that is currently airing right now.) I will come up with some solution to what to do on this blog, even though I don’t have to do anything when the show is not on. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.