Episode 1.12

Without the option of recorded shows on VHS tape on the list of stuff that I roll for, you’d think that I wouldn’t be able to watch anything on it. Well, I might have already told you about this, but since I have given some sort of special priority to those shows, there are a certain number of days that I can wait and after waiting those days, then I automatically get to watch the next thing on the tape. So, while the tape itself will return to the list at some point, I don’t need it on the list to continue to watch things. Meanwhile, I keep dreaming about Survivor. In one of my dreams, we learned who the cast of the 29^th season would be and I had written an assessment of the cast. My Cagayan cast assessment has gotten a lot of views, according to what google says on my blog’s site. I do wonder both how it got so many different people reading it and how I got so many of them right. I’m glad that both of that happened, even though I don’t understand how it happened. I also don’t know why the blog post on the eighth episode of the season (Cagayan) got more than nine views. What was so great about that episode? I just know that maybe posting the link to facebook and/or twitter might greatly increase the view count I would otherwise get. Now that I have facebook friends that are Survivor contestants, then I will have to post some blog posts on facebook so that they can learn about this blog. For a long time, the first season blog posts that I was doing wasn’t getting a single reader, but telling someone about this blog turned out to be a great idea since now people have read it.

I should get back to the dreams about Survivor. In one of them, a contestant from Survivor died. The dream had clearly made up a person that didn’t exist. It mentioned that an older man from the Koror tribe had died. The point of the dream was that Palau and Koror became the first tribe to lose more than one contestant. Meanwhile, there is probably a really big impending change to my movie watching, random die roll list that I will tell you more about later. The affect will solely affect Sunday and make all the movie watching choices on Saturday. I only wanted one list in the first place, but too many had to be added at once so I ended up adding the Sunday list. And now, it looks like I have a good chance to get rid of the list by moving stuff from Sunday’s list to Saturday’s list. But, I will tell you of this long and painful process in the first post for the 29^th season as well as why I’m doing this. I will also give updates of it as things go along. I might as well get started on it. But enough of my ramblings.

On 8-1-2014, I rolled a five and got to watch the next episode of Survivor. This means, that the next time I roll a Survivor related number, I will have to have three hours of free time to watch the finale. Plus, I should watch a lot of the special features on the Survivor DVDs like the commentaries because I currently don’t have something to replace anything on the list of shows on DVD to watch, which is why I was hoping to put off watching this for as long as possible. Oh well. I’m sure that I’ll think of something, just like how I somehow managed to keep updating my TV blog during this whole time. People talked about how much they were at each other’s throats at this point in the game. This would mark the beginning of the Kelly/Sue rivalry. Sue thinks that Kelly is making herself to look like the one good guys of all the Tagi people which might explain why three people from Pagong ended up voting for Kelly to win the game. Richard said that this rivalry is good for his game and it could arguably lead to the reason that he would wind up winning the game.

The contestants went to a reward challenge at the mud volcano that helped form the island. I don’t fully understand the concept of that. Aren’t all volcanos full of lava? How can there be mud in them? If a scientific person wants to help explain the concept to me, then please, let me know. Or, I can always just look up more information about it online. The challenge is a muddy challenge that I know we have seen in other seasons. Kelly wins the challenge. When they return from the challenge, really corny music plays in the background. What’s up with that? If you have the DVDs of this season, then please, by all means, get amused with me at that scene. Kelly is taken to a secretly location that’s actually the production camp which is why she had to be deceived when going here. There’s more about this reward on a behind the scenes of the season.

Kelly and Sue are now best frenemies. It’s hard to tell what will happen with them, although I already know how it will implode. The immunity challenge seems like it could be familiar, but it may not be. They are doing it at the Pagong beach which is the first time postmerge that a tribe returns to an old beach. I wish that they did that more often. This challenge is reminiscent of the Blair Witch Project, which I’ve never seen and, in case you didn’t already know, never actually happened. It is a famous fictitious movie. Rudy is terrible at this challenge and more than likely could have done somewhere close to being good if he knew a single answer to any of the questions. Kelly ended up winning the challenge and unknowingly secured her place in the game. Richard is unsure of how to handle the whole situation of Kelly staying in the game. People are unsure of who to vote for and it became lost in the edit what would end up happening in the game. Maybe tribal council will explain more about it. But the only person that’s never been in the Tagi alliance is Sean and that would not favor him well tonight. He would vote for Sue since she’s the only person that he thinks that other people would vote against. The Tagi alliance of Sue, Richard, Kelly, and Rudy would all vote against Sean since he’s the only person not in the alliance and he gets voted out unanimously casting only his third unsuccessful vote. In a weird tie-in to the immunity challenge, Sean’s torch was snuffed before the votes were read.

Sean was a pretty interesting player. He may not have been that much of a standout, but he was interesting in his own right. But, one has to wonder (if one is me) what the chances are that he plays the game again. I see no reason why he wouldn’t play again, even if he might not be as likable a contestant. I give it an 80% chance that we will see him in a future season. That may be a bold prediction considering how there’s been no record of him being asked to play again. But he’s probably more likely than any of the final four from this season.

Total confessional counts: Richard- 56, Sue- 61, Kelly- 46, Rudy- 31, Sean- 41. New confessionals this episode: Sue- 7, Kelly- 8, Rudy- 2, Sean- 8, Richard- 7.

I don’t know why Rudy is scrapping the bottom of the confessional count, but it could be because of his screw-up in the next episode. I haven’t given the rest of the awards for this season because the rest all happen in the last episode of this season. I’ve said who the breakout character is and I’ve said who wins the gold for dumbest move of the season. The silver and bronze award for dumbest move of the season will be given out next episode as will the most memorable part of the season. I’ll even throw out the award for this season’s resident asshole, which for future reference will only be given out in seasons that have already aired, but are part of this blog. I would do a funniest moment of the season, but I would need to think of a funny moment from every season that would work and my mind draws a blank on something like that. But, I should be back next week with the last blog post of this season. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.