Episode 1.2

Sorry that it took so long for me to finally post about this season. I’ve had the first season since Christmas, but I didn’t start watching for a long time. Maybe this is a good thing since I wouldn’t end up confusing this with the season that was currently airing. Readers of my blog may think that’s actually a very good idea. I’ve wanted to see the first season for a very long time and it was put on my wish list after B. B. Andersen’s death (since it is what could be defined as a morbid reason, I’ll only get seasons of Survivor on DVD if a dead contestant is in it. Speaking of dead things, I recently visited the graves of my father and his father. Maybe death in the family is why I think about it so much about death and getting a DVD of a Survivor season that has a now dead player on it seems, in my mind, at least, more like getting it in memory of them. But B. B. gets voted out in this episode and a long time from now, you’ll probably see a special post gathered from his time on the show. Now, as I was saying) before I got it as a Christmas gift. My birthday is during the summer and I would have originally liked to get this season then, but it seems to work out for the best to not have this blog be dead air for a while like it was in the hiatus between One World and Philippines before I got the tenth season as a birthday gift and started blogging about that until the end of the summer and the beginning of the next season.

While I hope that this season will be done being posted before the next season starts, I can’t actually promise that. Sometimes plans change. I’m just glad that I’m able to talk about this season as early as I could. I just watched Titanic for the first time (seeing the whole movie in its entirety, that is) which was actually supposed to be the special on this season. That means that my blog about this season wouldn’t have started yet and I’d be waiting to put it on my rolling list. At least, that way, you’d see many different posts about random randomness until then, but it doesn’t matter anyways. Rain Man has now replaced Titanic on the list. Today is 6-3-2014 and I rolled a four which means I get to watch the next Survivor episode. But enough of my ramblings.

When the show begins, we get to see Tagi after their tribal council. People aren’t really getting along and Stacey’s future fate in the game might have already been sealed. But we’ll get to her later. At Pagong, we get to hear a lot about B. B. You see, there might be action figures of him, but their probably aren’t. I’d like it if there was. B. B.’s work ethic is annoying people. Back at Tagi, Richard wonders what to say or do regarding him being gay. He doesn’t think he chose to be that way, although you’d think that a gay gene would have died out by now. He decides that he should go around telling people that since he figures that he doesn’t have much to lose. Rudy’s opinion about homosexuals changed. Him are Richard are really good friends, but not in a homosexual way. Back at Pagong, we get Ramona who isn’t very good at the survival aspect at the game. This may affect the chances that I give her for returning to the game. But we’ll see what happens regarding this later.

This episode has something unusual about it that no other episode that I know of has. They edited out an entire challenge. It was just a reward challenge, but no other challenge that I know of has ever been found entirely on the cutting room floor. Pagong won the challenge. Back to the game, Greg and Colleen started their legendary showmance, the first in reality TV history (to my knowledge, at least). I think that I might have missed a confessional here. B. B.’s work ethic at camp continued to annoy everyone. Joel said that he’d disagree with things that are obviously right just to disagree. It seems appropriate, based on information that I know of, that he’s a Republican. Now I don’t know if Republicans have always been like this, but they’re sure like that now. People are annoyed even more by B. B. As you might have guessed, B. B. is the one who is sealing his fate in this episode. He seems to butt heads a lot with Joel and Gervase. I might have missed another confessional.

So we get to the immunity challenge. They are doing the now famous Survivor Smorgasbord. B. B. wants an escape route from the game and he doesn’t seem to understand it. This is when he gets to doing in now infamous “quit” of the game. The rules of the challenge seem very different back then. Gervase ate the grub after almost costing his tribe the challenge. Everyone on the tribe has to eat the food instead of certain people eating certain foods. Gervase and Stacey face each other in the final round that’s a tiebreaker. Stacey easily wins the challenge for Tagi. This means that Pagong will have to go to tribal council.

Pagong gets ready for their first tribal council. Nobody is really sure who to vote for, although B. B. is certain that he’s one of the people that they might be choosing from. I don’t think that he really chose to quit, but it is hard to tell with all the unofficial quitters in the game. They have Sonja’s unlit torch at tribal council still which is something that doesn’t really happen anymore. In fact, I don’t know if it’s happened in any other season. Does everyone get their torch left at tribal council this season? I know that in some seasons with quitters, they have left the torches of them laid down at tribal council. Greg and B. B. vote for Ramona. Everyone else (Colleen, Gervase, Jenna, Gretchen, Joel, and Ramona) vote B. B. out of the game. He probably had it coming anyways. This would mark Gervase’s only time voting with the majority this whole season.

On the next Survivor, we get some people annoyed at Dirk. We also see some rat eating. I’ll tell you more about that episode later. I need to get to other things right now. I need to update the confessional count, which might be totally wrong since I might have over counted the real numbers.

Total confessional counts: Greg- 3, Gretchen- 6, Stacey- 3, Dirk- 1, Joel- 2, Sean- 3, Ramona- 8, Colleen- 2, Richard- 9, Gervase- 5, Jenna- 2, B. B.- 10, Sue- 4, Kelly- 3, Rudy- 8.

New confessionals this episode: B. B.- 8, Sue- 2, Kelly- 1, Rudy- 4, Greg- 3, Gretchen- 5, Stacey- 2, Dirk- 0, Joel- 2, Sean- 2, Ramona- 6, Colleen- 2, Richard- 5, Gervase- 5, Jenna- 2.

Well, a lot of people get more confessionals in the game and things get higher really fast. I guess that B. B. was the first contestant to get a lot of confessionals, but still not make it very far in the game. He’s the first “show ‘em while you still can” contestant. Believe it or not, a lot of players are like that. Every contestant now has a confessional in the game right now. And true to my theory that may not actually be true, the contestant eliminated in this episode got a confessional.

With B. B. out of the game, one wonders what his chances are at returning to the game. Well, like Jenn before him, he’s now dead. While it’s assumed that real quitters would never be back, the only people with absolutely no chance of returning to the game are the dead players. And he’s one of them. He has a 0% chance of returning to the game in the future. I’m not entirely sure what actually killed him, but at his age, it was likely to happen. I don’t know if we’ll ever see more of him in a special about him, but I guess that we probably wouldn’t. I’ll give my notes about him in the future.

Before he died, he did an interview with Survivor Oz. Now I can’t tell if the interview is strange because of his old age or if they somehow interviewed a person merely pretending to be B. B. Andersen. But since I’m probably the only person who thinks that it could be a fake, then it probably isn’t one. Besides, they’d be too careful to fall for stuff like that. https://survivoroz.wordpress.com/2013/01/29/bb-andersen-interview/ That link has the interview of him. I don’t know any more that he might have done. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.