Episode 1.5

So, it looks like this blog of mine might prove to be more interesting. Well, maybe not. I find it interesting that I just posted the third episode’s blog post and I’m starting on this one. But I believe that my posts of this season can only be posted on Sundays. I also believe that I shouldn’t have multiple posts on the same day. Well, I can do that if I’m editing two different blogs on the same day, but I typically don’t do this. So, I have things written in advance for the future and this could wind up happening a lot with this season or any other old season that I’m blogging about. This means that, unless a new season is currently airing on TV, you typically won’t see Wednesday posts unless a Sunday post is missing. Although, there is a vacation I’ll be taking some time during the summer which might reinstate some Wednesday posts. Did you know that you can tell blogger to post a blog post at a future date instead of immediately? I’ve never done that yet, but I might try that out soon. I just need to write some random blog posts in the meantime. (I am aware of Caleb’s death and I will talk more about that in a later blog post.) But enough of my ramblings.

On 6-19-2014, I rolled Survivor again so I get to watch Pulling Your Own Weight. I also get to eat breakfast in the typical confusing way like on Thursdays during Lent. The Pagong tribe was feeling bad as usual. At the Tagi tribe, we see them using the parachute that they got at the last reward challenge that they ended up winning. Even though the parachute wasn’t actually a reward, they could still use it. I’m not sure that the parachute can still be used like that anymore. But that might be why that type of challenge doesn’t appear anymore. Although, you’d think that it might have been changed. Sue is looking for tapioca, although you wouldn’t think that it is important in any way. Jeff talked to Tagi about the challenge. Both tribes prepared for the reward challenge.

They call this challenge the first annual version of this challenge. I’m not sure if that’s exactly what it became, although I’d have to look up more information about the challenge. I think that the point of this is to get your weapons to hit various fruits and you would win the fruit that you can hit. The final round determined the challenge winner and ultimately, it was Pagong that won. The names of the chickens were given by Jenna or Colleen and they were named breakfast, lunch, and dinner. My aunt typically names her cows after the food she plans to turn them into. One time, their names were t-bone, sirloin, and hamburger. Tagi was still happy (for the most part) despite losing the reward challenge. The role of leader is debated at Pagong. Greg is considered the leader, although he doesn’t like the idea of doing that. Greg and Colleen typically are together when they sleep. Many people wonder if they are romantic or not. While they probably aren’t, they sure like to fool people with their behavior.

Richard talks about snakes, which is interesting because Sue would later famously compare him to a snake. Sean gives a bit TMI to the camera that they decided to put in the final edit. Am I glad that he had a bowel movement? I don’t know. I like it when people don’t talk about that sort of thing. People were concerned about health issues that Dirk might have. Richard considers his alliance and this is the first time they would all vote together in this episode. The choice is between Sean and Dirk. Unfortunately for Dirk, they would be voting out him in this episode. Tagi talks about how Gervase can’t swim. It’s widely debated if he can today or not. He seemed to do poorly in the first challenge of Blood versus Water, but he did better at a future water challenge. Greg randomly and meaninglessly burst out into song before the challenge started.

Since everyone knew that Gervase couldn’t swim, he was the one that was decided not to do the swimming part of the challenge. The challenge had a rower going out to rescue various people in the water. So it’s sort of like a water version of a previous challenge from this season. There wasn’t much talk before Tagi went to tribal council, which seems to be a common edit in this season. When we got to the vote, Sean voted for Rudy, Dirk voted for Sue, while Richard, Sue, Rudy, and Kelly all voted for Dirk. They kept the torches of all the eliminated contestants at tribal council, which I’m pretty sure isn’t done anymore. Typically, only certain quitters get their torches left at tribal nowadays. I think that Dirk might qualify as the first ever viewer blindside. This episode marks the first of only three times that Sean would vote with the minority this season. He would cast nine total votes in the game, ten if you count his jury vote, which was in the majority. The next Survivor would cause chaos at Pagong and get the wrong person voted out because of it. But, we’ll get to more of that later.

Dirk is a pretty interesting contestant. I don’t know what the odds of him returning are, but as usual, I will make something up. He was the first contestant to talk about God a lot so you have him to thank (or blame) for any other contestant to do that. He wasn’t really that stand out of a contestant outside of that. But I could see him returning to the game again. I give it a 66% chance that he will play the game again. I hope that he does, actually.

Total confessional counts: Gervase- 20, Jenna- 13, Sue- 16, Kelly- 14, Rudy- 15, Greg- 15, Gretchen- 14, Dirk- 9, Joel- 8, Sean- 14, Colleen- 10, Richard- 20.

New confessionals this episode: Richard- 3, Gervase- 3, Jenna- 4, Sue- 5, Kelly- 7, Rudy- 4, Greg- 3, Gretchen- 3, Dirk- 4, Joel- 2, Sean- 8, Colleen- 2.

It’s interesting how Kelly’s confessionals got doubled in a single episode. Now the only person left in the game without at least ten confessionals is Joel, which seems appropriate since she gets voted out in the next episode. If I’m counting right, Gervase and Richard are currently tied for the highest confessionals at the moment. But I remember that CBS tricked people into thinking that Gervase won so that might explain why they are given him this edit. Well, I’ll get started on writing the next episode’s blog post even though it will be a while before you see it. At least you can enjoy my TV blog in the meantime. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.