Important Survivor Events that went Unaired

Sometimes, editing can make or break a season of Survivor. In fact, editing can severely affect anything in television or movies. Bad editing can ruin a lot of things. I mean, Turbo: a Power Rangers movie and Thomas and the Magic Railroad would probably have much better reception if they weren’t so poorly edited. But since better edits of those films don’t exist (as of this blog post at least), then we are just left with the version we have and hope that it isn’t inferior by as much as it could be, considering how we could know more of what should have been there. Now I have heard from various sources things I will tell you in this post. I will cite sources whenever possible. But, sometimes, events that are important to a Survivor season will not make the final edit. This blog post is to inform you of those events. Some important Survivor events went unaired. This will not be a top ten, just a list of different noteworthy events in my mind that I figure my readers should know about, if they don’t already.

Amazon- cause of fire: Okay, I’m not even sure about this one being true. I could be remembering it wrong, but maybe not. The way I heard about it is sketchy enough that I probably don’t think it’s true. But I’ve mentioned this before. My brother heard this from one of his friends (or a friend of a friend) that apparently worked in this Survivor season. You may remember at the final five, there was a fire at the camp that destroyed most of the remaining player’s belongings. One of the contestants still in the game was blamed for this fire. But that’s not the case. What was the real cause of the fire? We don’t know. The person in question knows the real cause. Here’s the strange part: he can’t reveal what the cause was until six months after the series finale of Survivor. How weird is that? This could just be an elaborate hoax that few people know about besides me. But, if Survivor ends, I’ll wait six months to see if any news breaks about this.

Pearl Islands- more on the outcasts: Lots of people hated the outcasts twist in Pearl Islands. I don’t know why so many people say that the twist was bad, but it helped make the season better. Just seems very weird to me. But, as a fan of the outcasts, I think that one part where it failed is that the audience never saw anything that happened while the outcasts were out of the game. From the moment Nicole was voted out to the moment that they arrived for a twist challenge, we saw none of what happened to them. The outcast tribal council didn’t reveal as much as it could have about this tribe’s dynamics. Why did the votes fall the way they did? When could they have even aired what happened? Redemption Island, while not always edited well, at least gives more insight into the game than this ever did.

Pearl Islands- why Osten quit: Sometimes on Survivor, what’s in the final edit deliberately changes what actually happened in the season. Like when Osten became the first quitter. There was a lot about it that they didn’t show, some of which would have made Osten look better than he did. Did we know of Osten’s staph infections? No, we didn’t. He had to tell people about it after the season had finished airing. The quit might have been more orchestrated by production than they would have you believe. With him having all these problems that they didn’t show you about, it made him even more likely to quit. And he did quit, but we saw a much different version of it than we should have. But we have a contestant who knows more about what happened that episode which he quit. And he told Survivor Oz about it. Link: https://survivoroz.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/ryan-opray-interview/

Palau- immunity vote: Actually, we may know things about this thanks to Survivor Wiki. But, there still remains an unexplained mystery about the double tribal council episode that season. Before Ulong was to vote out a member, the members of Koror voted to give one of them immunity. We have no idea why people voted the way they did. Wikia has who voted for who. It’s unknown where they got their information from or if it is accurate. However, they are the only ones who have it (the voting record) so I trust them more than I would anyone else. But we still don’t know that much about the vote itself or why it happened. Link: http://survivor.wikia.com/wiki/The_Best_and_Worst_Reward_Ever

China- idol question: Some people may have wondered why Jamie couldn’t have stolen one of James’s idols in this season. Well, there is clearly a rule that prohibits stealing idols. While the edit makes her look a bit clueless, not realizing that she could have grabbed an idol and used it to save herself at the next tribal council, there is a rule that prevents hidden immunity idols from being stolen. But nowhere onscreen is this rule ever addressed. I don’t know how they could have addressed it, but it explains why she didn’t steal it, even if she didn’t know it was real.

Nicaragua- possible expulsion: This one was pretty strange. One wonders if it even affected the season as much as it could have. But something happened with Sash that could have had serious consequences was pretty much guilty of production interference. Due to an infamous (word being used correctly for once) double quit in the season, the show didn’t want there to be even more bad things happening. That’s why there were no consequences when there otherwise could have been. But let’s get into more detail about it. Jane is the person who told production about this. Supposedly, Sash offered to help pay off Jane’s mortgage and she told production about it. I wish I had a good link for this story, but I don’t. I still don’t know if this is true, but it could be.

One World- idol incident: In the rulebook of Survivor, it says that one is not allowed to steal a hidden immunity idol from another player as an idol is considered a personal item. You can steal an idol clue, which I find strange, but that’s probably a different discussion. Now an incident happened in One World that probably happened but couldn’t be aired. It seriously affected the whole season. I still don’t know why this happened. But it is widely believed that Bill stole Colton’s hidden immunity idol and threw it into the sea. Why Bill did this in the main question about it that I want answered. But it happened and Colton learned about it. Suddenly, Colton hates Bill and we are lead to the moment when Manono gave up immunity. Without this season, Colton comes off even worse than he is by hating Bill. But this event could have revealed more about this season. It couldn’t be shown since it would raise too many questions. Link: http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2012/10/survivor-one-world-idol-stealing/

Caramoan- Shamar’s evacuation: If you don’t know about this one, you really should. That is why I’m going to tell you about it right now. Production screwed up a lot of Caramoan. That is not a secret. It was, quite possibly, the poorest edited season out of all the seasons ever done. I actually like the season in question, but there’s still a lot they did wrong with it. Medical pretty much caused Shamar to be medically evacuated. If you don’t believe me, click on the link at the end of this paragraph. There’s no reason he would lie about all of these things. In fact, the reunion show fiasco may have been to help prevent him from telling the truth about it. Of course, he would tell people about it anyways. So listen to what the link says and you may learn something you’ll be glad you heard, if you didn’t know about it already. Link: https://survivoroz.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/shamar-thomas-interview/

Caramoan- Erik’s evacuation: Well production wasn’t actually responsible for this evacuation happening, they did make it look much different than it actually was. We didn’t see his leg infection. Only in Ponderosa did we see it. As far as we know, he had low blood pressure and was pulled from the game. But that’s not what happened. That’s not serious enough and wasn’t the real cause. I don’t know why people were so messed up in Caramoan. I still like the season, but it’s not hard to understand why people hate it so much. They could have done so much better with the editing. But they screwed up too much and had to cover their asses. So we saw less of him than we should have thanks to him being pulled from the game. Link: https://survivoroz.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/erik-reichenbach-caramoan-interview/

San Juan del Sur- idol burning: This one was probably unimportant. It could have been something that we thought would be in the final edit, but wasn’t. Once they started the season, they ended the first episode with a weird comment regarding idol burning. It never actually happened on the show. It might have not been in the final edit since they would probably be breaking the rules by taking somebody’s idol and burning it. Only if a hidden immunity idol is not in possession of anyone or is willingly destroyed by its owner, would such a thing happen. So we still don’t know what this was about or what happened regarding it. The only idols that have ever been burned on the show were fakes. A real one was thrown into the sea during Gabon, which was pretty dumb. But we’ll never know what happened with the idol burning this season. Well, not unless someone talks to a contestant about it or they simply reveal what the thing was about.

That’s all the secrets of the show that I can think of for now. I know that I probably missed a lot of other important events that were edited out of the show. I mean, so freaking often we have a contestant that gets voted out and the real reason why they were eliminated was edited out. So many people talk about this in their interviews after the show is over. I could give examples, but that would take too long. The point is: sometimes important stuff gets edited out of Survivor. And we as fans may not know what it was. But I will keep an eye out for anything and everything that we should know about that wasn’t in the final edit. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.