Episode 29.9

For a while now, I’ve been contemplating whether or not to start a blog about the show Madam Secretary. This idea for that blog all started with a dream. There are a lot of times when I’ve done something because I dreamt about it. I’m not even sure the dream had a Madam Secretary blog in it. It might have been a different show and I’m remembering the dream wrong. But, I seriously might start a blog about it. This may only be revenge for the lack of readers on this other blog of mine. And I’m serious enough about it to have a poll about it on my fan fiction account. There are many good things about having another blog. And there are many bad things as well. So I might as well weigh in my OCD about it and mention it on this blog because maybe one of my readers here will comment as to whether or not a blog about that show is a good idea. The dream had some supposed link between it and Survivor. That obviously hasn’t happened, but I might still start a blog about it regardless.

If I do start a blog about Madam Secretary, this might make me end up doing other blogs as well. I might end up doing one about The Good Wife. And I’ll probably wind up doing one about CSI as well. And if I do one about CSI, that might mean that I wind up doing one about CSI: Cyber, Without a Trace, CSI: New York, and CSI: Miami. It would also unsure that I have to get all these shows on DVD as time goes by. Typically, I only get shows when they are no longer in production. At least CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, and CSI: New York are all on my wish list. (Hint, hint, readers of this blog who ever buy me presents for Christmas, birthdays, or any other occasion.) Plus, I’d have to keep track of the creators of all these shows and all the actors of all these shows even when the show ends. This could lead to more blogs about their new shows if I like these shows as well. Geez, it could become an endless cycle of some sort. And I’m pretty sure that I will start this blog regardless of the fact that I’m not sure that it is such a good idea. When my OCD takes over, it can get really complicated.

You know, just because it happens in a dream, that doesn’t mean that I have to do it. And yet, that’s my main problem with a lot of things sometimes. Sometimes I ignore various dreams of mine. For instance, I have a facebook group called Firefly: Where are they now? It keeps track of the careers of the former actors and creator of Firefly. I had a dream that I did that with the show That 70’s Show as well. I will probably not create that facebook group as there is not enough interest for me to do it. There are tons are dreams that I ignore. Most of them, however, I wind up doing again. There’s a list of different Playstation 2 games that I want to play again because I dreamt about them. And, watching different movies comes from dreams as well. But you see, I will probably start this blog on Madam Secretary. I don’t think that the dream has anything to do with it. My TV blog has a lack of readers and I plan to create a new blog and start to ignore the TV blog. Of course, I’d be updating my TV blog if I ever figured out a good schedule to update it on. Since I have yet to rewatch any of Survivor: Borneo yet, it could be a long while before I have the schedule again. Plus, I don’t want to get another Survivor season on DVD because that would mean that either the twenty-seventh season is on DVD or that someone from the first twenty-one seasons died. But, whenever the bottom of the post list is zero readers, then we have a problem. And that’s when I’ll do the next blog.

When it comes to this Survivor blog, it can be a bit easy to watch it and know when to update it. If I can’t watch it live, then I record it to watch it later (and soon) after it airs. I’ve had to stop watching a lot of good shows that air at the same time (Revolution, The Middle, The Goldbergs, Arrow), but I think that the benefit is pretty good. I would live tweet more, but since there are now more than one show that I stay into right afterwards, I am almost never on twitter anymore. I could not live tweet Madam Secretary. And I could also not give up the other shows that I watch on Sunday. I typically record the episodes of Madam Secretary on my laptop since I live watch Once Upon a Time and record The Simpsons and Brooklyn Nine-Nine on VHS. All those shows are on at the same time. Of course, since CBS Sundays are known for shows being on tape delay due to sports like football. In those events, I might wind up recording the CBS shows on VHS as a way to punish them. Of course, me punishing them will probably have little to no affect on the viewership of the show. If you are not a Nielson family, then any viewership you give a show doesn’t actually matter. I couldn’t tell you if I was a Neilson family, which I’m not. I don’t know if I could do any TV related blog if I was with them. Maybe I could, but I don’t know any of the rules. Maybe I should ask someone I know who used to be in a Nielson family. They can tell you that they were with them after they are done.

If you think about it, a lot of this blog is just random meaninglessness. But, when you think about it, aren’t all blogs? I should really stop the rambling that I do before the actual point of the blog that people read. But I haven’t done that yet. I’m not sure that I ever will. I’m not sure if I want to. If I ever try, I could wind up failing miserably. Sometimes I just need meaningless filler. Speaking of which, I should give you an update on the movie watching that I’m doing. I could not watch a movie on Saturday so that list remains unchanged. On Sunday I watched One Night with the King which was replaced by Pocahotas, which should have been on Monday list when it was created but I had to wait to add it since there was a different p movie to add: Pooh’s Grand Adventure, the Search for Christopher Robin. Guess what I rolled to watch on Mondays? That’s right! It was Pooh’s Grand Adventure and I got to watch it. That got replaced by the DVD of Power Rangers: the Ultimate Rangers which has various noteworthy episodes that can be watched all at once by clicking play all. That way, you see a good portion of good Power Rangers episodes. I know that I’ll have to get more episodes on DVD. I still have unused jump aheads for Power Rangers that I couldn’t use before since I ran out of episodes to watch. But we’ll see how potential Christmas gifts changes my list of things to watch.

Mysteries so far this season: In Jeremy in control? Was he only in control for a moment? Will his game come crashing down? Or is he still the biggest contender to win? Will Reed take control of the game? Is he going to accomplish something important? Is he still mostly irrelevant? What will happen regarding Keith’s idol? Is Keith a villain? Is he going to accomplish things in the game? Who is getting blindsided tonight? Will someone from the majority alliance be voted out? What is the majority alliance? Does this mean that Jeremy’s time in the game is about to run out? Who is the frontrunner? Why do I even have this section of the blog? I might have to get rid of this. Maybe I should replace it with a better section like “trivia of the week.” In a section like that, I can mention a trivia question relating to Survivor and I’ll post the answer the next week. I don’t know if I should keep changing this blog or not. I like things that are consistent. It might be my OCD or Lutheranism. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Jon questions his decision at tribal council. Keith wonders how he could eliminate someone with his idol. He doesn’t have the worst idea to get people to vote against him so he can play his idol. But how one goes about doing that is what makes the idea worthwhile.

In the second segment of the show, we get to the reward challenge of the episode. The contestants seem to be having a lot of fun during the challenge. I take this opportunity to eat supper. The yellow team wins the close reward challenge. Jeremy and Natalie, who were on the winning team, switch places with Jon and Jaclyn, who were on the losing team. This could be their form of good payback and further helping them stay in their alliance. Risky move. Not a choice that has never happened before. Yau-Man also gave up a reward and then sent himself to Exile Island. That was quite an interesting moment in Fiji. Anyways, Jeremy is now being sent to Exile Island. Baylor, Alec, and Reed keep their rewards and go on it with Jon and Jaclyn.

In the third segment of the show, the losers and Natalie got back to camp after the reward challenge. Keith thinks that opening saying that he doesn’t want blindsided is a subtle way of telling people what he wants. Openly talking about things like that isn’t even close to subtle. We seem very little of the reward, meaning that it has no impact on the game. Reed is cynical about what happened regarding Jon and Jaclyn. Clearly, it is them (Jeremy and Natalie) who want to use the swing votes to their advantage. And Jon and Jaclyn might fall for it too.

In the fourth segment of the show, Jeremy doesn’t like Exile Island and he thinks that Jon has the hidden immunity idol. Jon realizes this and talks to Jaclyn about it. Jon thinks that he’s in trouble, even though Jeremy probably wouldn’t talk about it with that many people. Would he? We’ll see what ends up happening. We get to the immunity challenge next. The challenge can only be done with their feet. I don’t know how this would be enforced, but there might be some exceptions or ways around it. The strange challenge was won by Baylor. There are casting calls for future Survivor seasons. Since they already have the 30^th season filmed (please no quitters!), it would be the 31^st and 32^nd seasons that they are preparing for. Here’s hoping that the casting call means a future for Survivor. They were casting a second season of Pirate Master, so don’t get your hopes to high. But, you can get them high enough since this show is still a huge success.

In the fifth segment of the show, Reed and the rest of the team gets back to camp after the immunity challenge and we finally get to see the Reed drama that was promoted. Keith learns of what’s going on with his idol. All this idol drama might be very good for tribal council. Jeremy knows that Jon has the idol and Jon knows that Jeremy knows, you know? Jon tells Missy about this for some odd reason. Meanwhile, all I can think of for now is #blindsided. Who will be voted out next? I haven’t got a clue as to what might happen. They get to tribal council next. I can’t make out all the drama of what’s happening there. I don’t think that I know anything. I just think that Jaclyn and Alec are safe for the moment. I’m reminded of McLaughlin Group because of the humorous talking over each other. Of course, I haven’t watched McLaughlin Group since I realized their bias. Meanwhile, there’s far too much drama at tribal council to realize what will happen next. Nobody played an idol after the votes were cast. Since they said someone would get blindsided, I don’t know what to think. In the end Jeremy gets voted out, thus leaving the game up for grabs for any of the remaining players. How did this happen? Geez, this season gets interesting and they get rid of all the great players.

On the next Survivor, Natalie takes control of the game, Alec finally does something, and people look like they will once again take out the strongest player: Jon. Please stop getting rid of all the people who could win! There could be no deserving potential winners at the end if you keep going like that.

Total confessionals: Keith- 20, Wes- 8, Missy- 14, Jaclyn- 10, Baylor- 17, Natalie- 9, Alec- 10, Jeremy- 31, Reed- 9, Jon- 25. New confessionals this episode: Wes- 1, Missy- 1, Jaclyn- 0, Baylor- 1, Natalie- 1, Alec- 0, Jeremy- 4, Reed- 3, Jon- 4, Keith- 3.

Wes is currently scrapping the bottom of the confessional count. Jeremy was the highest and his elimination returns Baylor to the top three highest confessional count. She’s there with Keith and Jon. Nothing else to note here. To post an update about this blog in general, since the next episode airs the day before Thanksgiving, I don’t know when I’ll update this blog. If all goes well enough, it will be updated on the day the episode airs, but I can’t promise that. With Advent coming up soon, keep in mind that I will move posts to Thursdays during that time since I probably wouldn’t be able to live post on Wednesdays shortly after the episode airs because I’ll be at church and have to record the episode to watch later. I probably couldn’t go that long without watching it as I can’t risk learning any spoilers. Plus, I think that the next episode won’t be a recap of any sort since they still have a lot of game to play. The Sunday finale should be posted here as usual on Sunday at which point I will start posting here on both Sundays and Wednesdays about random Survivor stuff. Hopefully, I can keep both posts going well at the same time. You’ll be hearing my last movie update for a while. Christmas movies will replace the other movie watching that I do for December and possibly longer. And to all my facebook friends who get links to this blog on my page, keep in mind that I probably will continue posting this blog, even though I probably won’t post the link there on facebook. So keep coming back here for updates, even if they are a bit irregular. And let me know if I should or shouldn’t start a blog on Madam Secretary. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.