Episode 28.12

If there is a loved ones challenge this season, it will happen in this episode. But, I’m pretty sure that they always promote when one is going to happen. What gives? Why is there not a loved ones challenge this season? It seems like Samoa when they didn’t have the loved ones challenge for unknown reasons. There were loved ones in the game with the players last season so it makes that it didn’t have a loved ones challenge. And there were political problems in Fiji that prevented that type of challenge from happening that season. So why isn’t there one this season? I don’t know. And I don’t really care either. I mean, the loved ones challenge isn’t that good. I know that tons of people love it, but it can be kind of unnecessary. Do we really need to see people get all emotional and take away from the true aspect of the game just to see people do what they can always do when the game of Survivor isn’t happening? I don’t get it. Maybe this has something to do with what happened in Caramoan. But that’s just me potentially looking at something that actually isn’t there. They don’t have to make an offer to the winner of the challenge like they did with Brenda. So the loved ones challenge isn’t happening and I don’t know why that is. And, honestly, I don’t care. Maybe they just can’t afford them anymore. Maybe we’ll never know what happened to them. (there was a blog glitch. sorry for the format of this first paragraph.)

You know, sometimes random comments online by random people can influence my mind for a very long time. I had a dream relating to one of those comments. This person was ranking the various Survivor theme songs. Now I’ve rated a lot of Survivor stuff besides the seasons as a whole. But I’m not sure that I’ll share with you what these ratings are. I know that I’ve rated the tribe swaps as part of a previous blog post relating to the Blood versus Water season. I have since added this season’s tribe swap to the list and will tell you of its ranking in the next blog post. But this dream had me ranking the various theme songs of Survivor. I don’t think that I could ever do that because the different theme songs sound so similar and are hard to tell apart from each other. But this person could tell a difference and listed the theme songs from best to worst. But, like I said, I probably will never do that. I could wind up owning every Survivor season eventually, so I might be able to tell the differences. But I don’t care, just like I didn’t before in the previous paragraph. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, we get to the usual tribe coming home from tribal council. Spencer was upset that his final three deal didn’t work at the moment. Tony is considering getting rid of Woo because he thinks that Woo can get a lot of jury votes if he makes it to the end. Is Tony too good a player whose game play wouldn’t be rewarded if he makes the final tribal council?

In the second segment of the show, the reward challenge happened already. It’s a very muddy one. They need as much mud as possible to win a reward of food. Looks like that there is no loved ones challenge, just as I suspected. Maybe CBS can’t afford that anymore. Maybe loved ones typically know too much about what’s happened in the game and wind up revealing spoilers. The contestants look like mud monsters. Maybe a loved one couldn’t make it so nobody got any. Tony won the challenge of pizza. He chose Trish to go on the reward with him. The reward is at camp while those who don’t win the reward will have to watch the other two and not be able to eat the food.

In the third segment of the show, people talked about Tony and Trish making one wonder if there really will be a final three of Spencer, Woo, and Kass. Tony is wondering who to take to the end. Can he coast all the way to the end of the game? Will his hard playing ways catch up with him? Tony just might have ended up doing a Matt Elrond. But, he still has hidden immunity idols that can help him. Chaos Kass, whoever that is, continues to be a part of the game. Tony thinks that Kass is troublesome. Is she a goat or can he get rid of her?

In the fourth segment of the show, things continued to unravel for everyone as things tend to do at the end of the game. Spencer wonders if he can fight the cracks in the alliance, regardless of whether or not he wins immunity today. Once again, this isn’t the normal postmerge immunity challenge since they aren’t just standing around during the challenge. A lot of puzzles are involved in this challenge. Tony gets done with part one of the three part challenge first. Soon, everyone is working on their ladders. If Tony is doing well in this challenge, does that mean that the editors are faking us out as usual with the whole “we got to get rid of Tony” thing? Tony continues to dominate the challenge while Spencer is second, fighting him for first. Suddenly, Woo and Kass make it up to the second level. Tony might end up losing it at the sliding puzzle. I know how to solve them. And so does Spencer. Spencer pulled a come from behind win. Tony is now wondering who he has to get rid of on his alliance. And might someone want to get one of his idols to use?

In the fifth segment of the show, they got back from the challenge and Spencer felt pretty good. Trish got mad at Kass because Kass was gunning for her earlier. Woo, as usual, talks game, but can he actually make a move? Tony uses his spy shack to hear Woo talk about getting rid of Trish. So, tribal council happened next. It is very hard to understand what to tell you about tribal council. I find it very hard to paraphrase anything. “Isn’t this awesome?” said a player about the great tribal council. Tony revealed both of his hidden immunity idols. We then got to the voting. Apparently Jeremy did know of Tony’s special idol. Tony played his idol on himself. So Trish ended up getting voted out of the game. Tony should have played his idol on her.

On the next Survivor, things boil at the end as usual. The finale is a week from now meaning that I’ll have to miss the SVU finale. But I’ve already given up Revolution which is now cancelled that I probably won’t get back into. There are a lot of TV shows I have to watch online now. Thanks a lot, ABC and your lack of good reception in this area. Why, of all times, must you do that during May sweeps? Now I’m missing a lot of your great show’s season finales!

Total confessional counts: Woo- 17, Kass- 34, Tony- 50, Spencer- 37, Trish- 20. New confessionals this episode: Trish- 3, Woo- 3, Kass- 4, Tony- 4, Spencer- 4.

So, it looks like I can finally stop my sort of rooting for Trish to win. She followed me on twitter; I rooted for her to win. Well, not really, but I felt that I might have owed her something. But it turns out that she didn’t make it to the final tribal council. Kass might have followed me as well, but I have the feeling that I want Spencer to win. I’m really hoping that he pulls a Fabio. Some of us still haven’t figured out if it will be a final three and day 37 reward challenge or if it will be a final two. If it’s a final two, then Kass and Woo could be the two finalists. If it’s a final three, then we are guaranteed to have at least one wonderful person in there. Will Tony win? Will Spencer win? Will someone less likable and likely to win pull out a come from behind win? Stay tuned for the finale, a week from now. All your questions will be answered then. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.