Episode 30.5

Remember when I told you that I would tell you more trivia about the first season when I had the chance to? Well, Richard was the winner and he went to the first tribal council that season. He’s not the only winner to attend the first tribal council in the season that he won. Ethan in the third season, Vecepia in the fourth season, Brian in the fifth season, Chris from the ninth season, Danni from the eleventh season, Earl from the fourteenth season, Parvati from the sixteenth season, JT from the eighteenth season, Natalie from the nineteenth season, Rob from the twenty-second season, Kim from the twenty-fourth season, Denise from the twenty-fifth season, and John from the twenty-sixth season all did this. If anyone from the current season does it, they will have to come from the Masaya tribe. Will that happen? I’m not sure, but it could. It seems to be an even 50% split of whether or not you went to the first tribal council if you’ll end up winning.

Movie update: I now have the problem of getting rid of a list by moving its choices to other lists. This will mean reordering choices when I have to. I’ll let you know what I do as I do it. Just keep in mind the different lists in alphabetical order before I change it. Saturday’s list is the Chronicles of Narnia (1), Enchanted (2), Fireproof (3), Ice Age (4), Our Lips are Sealed (5), and The Parent Trap (6). Sunday’s list is Celtic Woman (1), the Emperor’s New Groove (2), Mr. and Mrs. Smith (3), Night at the Museum sequel (4), Rat Race (5), and Seventeen Again (6). Tuesday’s list is Aladdin (1), Lilo and Stitch (2), Made of Honor (3), The Sound of Music play version recording (4), Toy Story series (5), and a Wrinkle in Time (6). With the Monday list being void at the moment, I’ll do the Sunday list on Mondays. I’ll also only tell you of the Monday list when a choice from it is now on another list. The first movie that I could see this week was Our Lips are Sealed, the number 5 choice. With that gone from the list, Ice Age is now number 5, Fireproof is now number 4, Enchanted in now number 3, and the dancing videos, which were on the Monday list the longest, is now number 2. Any Monday movie choice I mention as being on the list the longest will be movies that have not already found a new list.

Movie update part 2: I was finally able to roll that elusive number six for the Sunday movies. That means that I’ll watch Seventeen Again and replace it with Survivor: Borneo- the Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments. I decided that it would be best to replace it now rather than wait until all the Monday choices are moved. We’ll see how soon I’m able to watch it. I promise to stop reporting about movies in this blog when I watch it again. Well, maybe I’ll do a bit more and then stop. Plus all my hard work could be ruined if there’s another unfortunate death in the Survivor community. If I’m updating my TV blog every Sunday, that will mean that I am watching Survivor: Borneo again, starting with that special in question. The next movie that I rolled was Celtic Woman, so I watched their Believe concert. The last movie of the week was a Wrinkle in Time. That was the number 6 choice. With that gone from the list, the Toy Story series is now number 6, The Sound of Music is now number 5, Made of Honor is now number 4, Lilo and Stitch is now number 3, and Bible Video Stories, from the Monday list, is now number 2. The old Monday list now has only three choices, so I could reinstate it. We’ll see.

I am going to add my thoughts about Jenn at the moment. A lot of fans like her. I really don’t. Every time she gets a confessional, she seems to be excessively bitchy. And I don’t want to use that word (bitchy), but I’m not sure how else to describe it. Sometimes contestants get more love than I understand. And I don’t even hate the contestants sometimes (or at least, I don’t think that I hate them), but I just don’t understand why they get the love that they do. Jenn is someone that I feel is getting a bad edit, despite her high amount of airtime. Is she a female Russell Hantz? I hope not. I don’t want there to be more people like him. But if she’s supposed to represent Jenna, the winner of Amazon, then I might finally understand why people don’t like her as a winner. And while I don’t hate Stephen Fishbach, for instance, I don’t know why people like him as much as they do. Meanwhile, the most recent winner that I wasn’t fond of was Sophie and that may have been due to someone else’s influence. I really hope that I like the winner of this season. And I really hope that it’s not Jenn. If they want her to look good, why is she always portrayed as being so mean in every episode?

Here’s an interesting thing that I noticed. It regards injuries people have received in recent seasons. I mentioned a bit of this in my last blog post. Tyson got injured in the season that he became a finalist in. So did Woo. So did Missy. Now, we have Kelly who has a head injury but we don’t know if she’ll become a finalist or not. I think that her game would have to pick up a lot in the edit. And this injury could lead to her getting voted out or medically evacuated. But to all you people who notice things like this (or if you don’t, but are still interested), I thought that I would point this out. Of course, since the order has been first place, second place, third place, maybe Kelly is destined to be fourth place this season. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Shirin is upset that Max got voted out of the game. Not much happened besides that. Dan tells his new tribe the story of how he lost his underwear. Rodney forms a bond with Joaquin. The reward challenge looks pretty cool. I always love a new challenge, unless it is a bad, untested challenge used as a Redemption Island duel. But other than that, it normally is very good to see a cool new challenge. In the end, it is Nagorate that wins the challenge. They do some kind of weird chant after doing so.

In the next segment of the show, Nagorate enjoys their reward. Sierra schemes to get new allies as she doesn’t like her old tribe. Not much seemed to happen in that segment. Escameca talks about throwing the next challenge so that they get rid of Joe. Why Joe? That doesn’t make much sense. They might be doing this to keep Kelly safe. But they shouldn’t have to worry about Joe flipping because Sierra is on their tribe. The immunity challenge is about memorizing items. The final round was Mike versus Kelly and Mike throws it in a hopefully clever way that might have been a bit too obvious. Did other people notice? I hope not, but this could prove bad to Mike. Or will it?

In the next segment of the show, Mike had mixed feelings about throwing the challenge. Nobody thinks that they should get rid of Sierra at the moment. Is Joe going home or is that just a misleading thing that they like to do before challenge? Loyalties seem to be what people are talking about before tribal council. We then get to the tribal council itself. What side will Sierra join with? She might actually be making herself a target instead of a swing vote. As usual, it is hard to tell what will happen. Joaquin gets voted out. Thus, the person who blacked him out early on the Addicted to Survivor facebook group (blacking out is typically only done when a contestant is voted out) was right about him not having much chance in the game.

On the next Survivor, Rodney is betrayed and rightfully so. Then the merge happens next causing a bunch of new drama, of course.

Total confessional count: Will- 9, Joaquin- 9, Sierra- 9, Joe- 8, Jenn- 12, Dan- 8, Hali- 12, Tyler- 7, Mike- 13, Rodney- 12, Shirin- 10, Kelly- 7, Carolyn- 11.

New confessionals this episode: Sierra- 3, Joe- 1, Jenn- 1, Dan- 1, Hali- 1, Tyler- 0, Mike- 2, Rodney- 4, Shirin- 3, Kelly- 1, Carolyn- 1, Will- 0, Joaquin- 2.

It looks like Kelly and Tyler are at the bottom of the confessional count. Mike is the highest at the moment. Will, Sierra, Joe, and Dan are not the lowest, but join Kelly and Tyler as being below ten confessionals. I really don’t think that this is a great cast this season. It might be one of the craziest casts, but it doesn’t seem to qualify as good. Who am I supposed to root for? I may support Kelly at the moment, but I’m not sure she has much of a chance at the game. I hope that I’m wrong about that, but we’ll see. Also, if not this coming Wednesday, pretty soon you should see my posts return to Wednesdays instead of Thursdays. Lent is nearing the end and we don’t have Lenten services during holy week. So I should be back to a regularly scheduled time of the week for this blog of mine to be updated at. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 30.4

Once again, we have a two hour episode of Survivor for some odd reason instead of a more usual one hour episode. So every blog post that I do of this season after this one could be a misnomer as it is an episode off. Next week’s episode I’ll call 30.5 even if it is really 30.6 as 30.5 will be part of this episode. I’m not sure why they are doing that, but it might make some sense somehow. Could this episode feature the return of the medical evacuation? I doubt it. The last two times they tried tricking us with that, we saw the players in question make it all the way to day 39 to only receive a single jury vote. But this might not be the same trick as before. We’ll see if future promos have more insight into it. Just remember that this is how I want players to currently return: Erik, Joe, and Bruce in one group, Dana, Gary, and Kourtney in another group, and Shamar with Mike Borrassi in the only group left. At the moment, all other medically evacuated players have already returned to the game after they were pulled from it, so they won’t be considered for my list.

Movie update: This week was very busy and I wasn’t able to see as many movies as I normally would be able to. That’s how I feel the week will start out, at least. It turns out I was right. No movie for me on Saturday or Sunday. I really hope that I can roll from the Saturday list again. On Monday, something interesting happened. I rolled the first choice: Amadeus. Now I am out of different a choices to choose from with movies so I can’t replace it. And since I want to lower the number of movie lists that I have, this could prove to be beneficial. I’ll even kill two birds with one stone by rolling from the Sunday list on both Mondays and Sundays until I can roll the number six twice. There’s an order I have based on seniority that will put the Monday movie choices on other days. The same letter (such as m) appearing on other lists could affect changing things and I won’t be able to roll from the Monday list for a while. But I’ll break my rule about not reordering the things on the other lists. I just hope that this isn’t too complicated for people to understand. What did I watch on Tuesday? I watched Toy Story. That being part of a series, I won’t have to worry about reorganizing other lists until the next update.

Remember how the first two seasons of Survivor had greatest and most outrageous moments specials? Well, I don’t think that any other seasons have specials like that but I dreamt that the third season had one and I found it at a store that I go to that isn’t technically a good will store, but is close enough to one that most people would call it that.

Future promos have revealed that there will be a tribe swap in this episode. I hope that I can remember who is on each tribe to begin with and hopefully I can catch who will be on the new tribes. I’ll be sure to point out the tribe swap in a future paragraph. Unfortunately, I do not have notes for this season. I normally print out a page with the contestants’ names on them and I use them for note. I swear that I printed out that page, but I can’t find it anywhere. I don’t know what happened to it and since I gave up Wikipedia for Lent, I won’t be able to access what I want to at all. I just hope that I can remember who is on each tribe now and who will be on each tribe in the future. I predict that the Nagarote tribe will be the one that gets dissolved.

So far, the collar twist doesn’t seem to be working out that well. The blue collar tribe has failed to live up to potential. Getting rid of the twist (sort of) will obviously shake up the game. Like all twists, it will probably continue to affect the game until the very end. I’m not sure what all I should say about that. I hope that the upcoming tribe swap is good at shaking up the game. Maybe then we’ll find out more about various players in the game. I’m honestly not sure why I added this paragraph. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Hali explains why she voted against Nina despite actually wanting Nina voted out. Will knows that he’s at the bottom of his tribe. The blue collars kill a snake. Mike seems to be the most noticeable of the blue collars so he might be the one on that tribe who will do the best. We then get to the first true reward challenge of the season. That sure took a while. But why start the challenge so soon? This is where the potential medical evacuation could occur. How long will it be until there’s a commercial break? It might be cruelly timed. Kelly is the one that gets injured.

In the second segment of the show, Kelly can keep playing despite her injury. Will it cause more problems? Probably. This is the first time that the blue collar tribe loses a challenge. The no collar tribe came in first with white collar coming in second. Once the challenge is over, we then go right back to commercial again.

In the third segment of the show, we see the no collar tribe after they won the reward. Will is celebrating his birthday today. Jennn doesn’t like what her tribe is doing to the chickens. She then looks for a hidden immunity idol. If I were ever looking for an idol, I’d have to notice where the cameras were pointing to because they always reveal that to the audience. Jenn does find the idol. I can’t tell how symbolic the music is supposed to be right now. The blue collar tribe seems to get into even more fights. Have there been that many fights on a single tribe before? I am getting more and more convinced that this tribe is going to fail miserably. Maybe they are like Tandang where they should be a good tribe, but they fail to produce a winner. We see more of the white collar tribe. They enjoy their reward. Carolyn is upset that people want to sit her out of the challenge as they are afraid that Shirin would be upset if she didn’t get to play. Carolyn doesn’t seem to fit in that well.

In the fourth segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. I predict that the no collars will lose the challenge. Why is Kelly competing in the challenge? That doesn’t seem like a good idea. Once again, Will sucks at the challenge. Shirin is the person who sits out of the challenge for the white collar tribe. Rodney does bad at a part of the challenge. The tribes seem to be evenly matched throughout the challenge. Apparently the no collars win the challenge and the white collars come in second. This makes the blue collar tribe attend tribal council.

In the fifth segment of the show, it seems that the vote will be between either Rodney or Lindsey. This is the first time in a multi-tribe season that all the tribes went to tribal council before any were dissolved. Of course, that would have been impossible in Panama or Cook Islands due to how the tribes were switched around before all of them could have attended tribal council. Some people are convinced that a blue collar person will win the game. Will that happen? I don’t know. In the end, it is three way tie. Where did this come from? Maybe Sierra is going to get voted out of the game for some odd reason. I don’t understand what is going on. Lindsey gets voted out, but why did people even vote against Sierra? Does that make any sense? We then get back to their tribe after tribal council. They must have split the vote for some odd reason. But we still don’t know why this all happened. At least Sierra is getting more airtime for a change. At the challenge, we get to the tribe swap.

In the sixth segment of the show, the tribe swap happens. Masaya is the tribe that gets dissolved and the rewards that they’ve won are also part of the reward for the winner of the challenge. In the end, Escameca wins the challenge. How will the tribe swap affect the rest of the game? Well, we’ll see that pretty soon.

Here’s how the tribes originally stood- Escameca (originally blue collar): Dan, Kelly, Mike, Rodney, and Sierra; Masaya (originally white collar): Carolyn, Joaquin, Max, Shirin, and Tyler; and Nagarote (originally no collar): Hali, Jenn, Joe, and Will. Here are the new tribes- Escameca (the blue tribe): Dan, Sierra, Joe, Tyler, Joaquin, Mike, and Rodney with Nagarote (the red tribe): Will, Hali, Jenn, Max, Carolyn, Shirin, and Kelly.

In the seventh segment of the show, we get to the new Nagarote tribe. With three no collars and three white collars on this tribe, Kelly, the blue collar member, wonders which side she’s going to join. The new Escameca gets to know each other. They think that the four blue collars will stick together, but Sierra is planning on flipping pretty soon. Jenn still gets a terrible edit of her being very rude to everyone in her confessionals. Why do people like her? Max gets stung by a stingray and uses the tribe’s drinking water to recover his feet that were hurt. Carolyn also considers flipping on her tribe.

In the eighth segment of the show, Mike wonders how to address the possible problem of Sierra possibly flipping. Dan attempts to make things better but will probably only make things worse. I am convinced that she will flip if given the opportunity. We then get to the immunity challenge. The gender imbalance in the tribes are causing problems at this challenge. In the end, Escameca wins immunity.

In the ninth segment of the show, Nagarote gets back from losing the challenge. Max is glad that his tribe lost the challenge. That may not bode well for him. However, everyone seems to think that voting out Will is the best choice in the game. But things quickly turned to make it seem like either Max or Shirin will get voted out. A lot of things are said at tribal council. I realize that I have a hard time summarizing things. In the end, Max gets voted out of the game. While I couldn’t tell for sure, I’m pretty sure that I saw this coming. He’s like Burton in a way. He was glad his tribe lost the challenge only to be voted out that same night.

On the next Survivor, Rodney makes himself a target while trying to make himself future alliances in the game. We can’t tell what will happen next at the moment.

Total confessional count: Dan- 7, Hali- 11, Tyler- 7, Mike- 11, Rodney- 8, Shirin- 7, Kelly- 6, Carolyn- 10, Will- 9, Joaquin- 7, Sierra- 6, Joe- 7, Jenn- 11, Lindsey- 5, Max- 9.

New confessionals this episode: Mike- 6, Rodney- 3, Shirin- 3, Kelly- 4, Carolyn- 4, Will- 3, Joaquin- 2, Sierra- 5, Joe- 0, Jenn- 3, Lindsey- 1, Max- 4, Dan- 2, Hali- 4, Tyler- 1.

I may have to ignore the boost of 7 confessionals due to the influx of new confessionals in the game. Sierra and Kelly are the two lowest right now and are both just one confessional shy of the seven that Vince had when he was voted out. Carolyn now has ten. Mike, Hali, and Jenn all have the highest with eleven confessionals. Everyone else that is still in the game has seven or higher. So it’s still hard to determine who a frontrunner might be. This season will probably still prove to be interesting. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 30.3

7 confessionals is the number to beat for people still in the game. If someone who has the highest confessional count gets eliminated, then I’ll post the new number to be beaten. 7 is the confessionals that Vince had. Whoever can beat it (the sooner the better) will probably have good chances at the game. If people can’t beat it soon, then don’t have high hopes for them. I hope that you don’t think of my confessional counts as spoilers. If the last season counts for anything, it means that you can’t always relay on confessionals to be a good indicator. But like the challenge loser being revealed in the explanation of the challenge, they are more accurate of good things than not.

Movie update: Once again we get to the most useless paragraph I have in this blog. Saturday’s movie didn’t come from the list, so that I’m ignoring. Sunday’s movie was my high school graduation. I replaced that with Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Monday’s movie was A Walk to Remember. I replaced that with Titanic. Tuesday’s movie was The Wizard of Oz. I replaced that with A Wrinkle in Time. As I mentioned before, I could wind up getting rid of other movie lists besides just the Sunday list. Which list and why I do that will be mentioned when/if it happens.

http://adamdeckergoodwifetvshow.blogspot.com/ That’s a link to my other new blog about the TV show called The Good Wife. Geez, Adam! You’re creating all sorts of new blogs? Why? I can’t honestly explain why I’m doing all these new blogs. I currently have four blogs now (this being one of them). Three of them are about a particular TV show and another is just about TV in general. But now you have another one of mine to look at if you are interested in it. Not sure when I’ll be able to update it. I always update this blog the day of a new episode or the day immediately afterwards. This blog is always on a set schedule. Even if there aren’t any new episodes airing at the moment, I’d still update this every week. I just wish that people would remember that when Survivor is on hiatus that this blog is still going to be updated. This blog doesn’t go on hiatus ever (which is more than I can say about my other blogs which I update whenever the mood strikes me) so it surprises me that people don’t always read it. But I’ll be here whenever I can be.

POSSIBLE SPOILER. You may know that I visit the Survivor Wiki a lot (although I’ve given up that and all other Wikia sites for Lent) so I learn a lot of information from that site. Now sometimes things can get through that site that aren’t supposed to: namely, spoilers about future seasons. I saw something that might have just been a mistake that someone put. It may not be a real spoiler. But I decided to mention this here in case something about it happened. There are five Survivor contestants who have never been to tribal council: Wanda and Jonathan from Palau, Gary from Fiji, Kourtney from One World, and Dana from Philippines. I looked at one of those pages as it had been recently edited. It mentioned that there were six contestants who never went to tribal council, implying that someone from this season will not be able to go to tribal council before they are out of the game. It could be a quit or a medical evacuation. Or, like I said, a mistake by an editor who thought that there was one more contestant than there actually was. Look out for someone on the blue collar tribe if it winds up happening. I hope that there’s not a quit as there have been far too many of them, especially recently. We’ll see if it happens or not. END POTENTIAL SPOILER.

I have high expectations for this season. A lot of people have been liking this season so far. I don’t know yet if it will live up to its potential or not. It’s hard to tell who they are trying to push as a good candidate and who we are just supposed to think of as ridiculous and having no chance at the game. I know that some people like Jenn at the moment, but I don’t like her now. I hope that I like her better if she winds up doing well in the game. But we’ll see if they want us to like her or not. I just know that the first two people voted out both had the highest confessional counts in the game. I’m sorry for those of you who don’t like me pointing out the confessional count. But I’ll keep doing that for now.

For some odd reason, I keep having dreams that imply that a Survivor contestant has died. What’s with those dreams? Do I obsess on the topic too much? I might. I really might. But if my subconscious is trying to tell me to get over this obsession of mine, then why does it keep bringing up this topic in dreams of mine? It is weird. Incredibly weird. That’s what all dreams are when you think about it. Some dreams make sense, but that rarely happens with me, at least. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, the no collar tribe talked about the recent vote. Nina talks about how she feels like she’s on the bottom and she wants to let people know that she wants to feel good in the game until she’s eliminated. Jenn thinks that Nina is using deafness as an excuse to not fit in. Why do people like Jenn when she’s saying things like that? Survivor is serious business and one has a right to get upset about what happens in it. Shirin also sees monkey sex.

In the second segment of the show, Dan might finally realize some of his mistakes in the game, mostly that he says too much. I can’t tell what he called his mother since they keep censoring it so it must have been bad. I probably don’t know all the words they censor anyways. Sometimes words are censored and sometimes they aren’t. There are more than seven dirty words, by the way. I looked up what those seven words are so I know that. Hali and Jenn are an obvious pair of alliance members, at least according to the edit. They go surfing. Also Joe connects with Nina. Some of their tribe eats lizard.

In the third segment of the show, Carolyn notices the other tribe members are looking for the idol that she has. Joaquin seems to be alienating himself from Shirin. He also shows Tyler a hidden immunity idol clue. This is the point where I wonder why Carolyn doesn’t make a fake idol to hide where the old one was. I really do miss them. Mike is also upset about everybody’s lack of work ethic on the blue collar tribe. To me it seems like I’m not going to expect the winner from this tribe after all. It looks like it could easily self-distrust. So many people don’t like Mike and if he isn’t the bottom of his tribe, then I don’t really know what to think.

In the fourth segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. I predict that the no collar tribe will lose the challenge. Now I need to eat a banana so I won’t talk much about the challenge. The no collar’s terrible strategy where they get rid of Nina leads to their loss. People talk about that failed plan after the challenge. I have a suspicion that Will is actually going to be the one voted out. The rest of the tribe talks about doing that. We don’t get much about who they might vote for before tribal council as they are probably trying to keep us in suspense. Joe talked about his failure in the challenge and people think that Nina brings up being deaf too much. Nina talks about how they should get rid of Will. Unfortunately, it is Nina that gets voted out of the game.

On the next Survivor, there might be a need for medical to check out some female in the game and there are more fights on the blue collar tribe. Also, it is a two hour episode for some odd reason. I wonder why? Does that make sense to anyone else? To me it doesn’t, for now at least.

Total confessional count: Carolyn- 6, Will- 6, Joaquin- 5, Sierra- 1, Joe- 7, Jenn- 8, Lindsey- 4, Max- 5, Dan- 5, Hali- 7, Tyler- 6, Mike- 5, Rodney- 5, Shirin- 4, Nina- 6, Kelly- 2.

New confessionals this episode: Sierra- 0, Joe- 3, Jenn- 3, Lindsey- 1, Max- 0, Dan- 1, Hali- 2, Tyler- 2, Mike- 1, Rodney- 2, Shirin- 1, Nina- 3, Kelly- 1, Carolyn- 2, Will- 3, Joaquin- 1.

It looks like Jenn has the highest confessional count with eight confessionals. Sierra has the lowest with just one. Joe and Hali are at seven confessionals so we’ll see who else can make it that high. They should really give Jenn a better edit if they really want us to root for her. Right now, she just seems like a mean person who doesn’t like deaf people. I guess that’s all I want to talk about. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 30.2

I don’t know why my random blog posts about Survivor aren’t read that well, or at all, by people. I always say that I’ll be posting them ahead of time. But I shouldn’t really worry about this. I already have some written for the future that aren’t posted now. But I will post them later. I might add a new section of my blog post regarding anyone who was voted out or otherwise eliminated in the previous episode. I might not, but we’ll see if that happens or not. Basically, there are some thoughts they want us to think after the scenes from next episode and we sometimes wonder something about whoever was eliminated in the previous episode.

Movie update: For the future (the rest of this Survivor season at least) I hope to have movie updates limited to just one paragraph so that you’ll know which one to skip automatically. In less, of course, you want to read it. You might be wondering what the most recent version of the movie lists are. Well, let me tell you. Well, before I watched movies this week, there were six movies on each list. I will mention the lists in alphabetical order. Saturday list: The Chronicles of Narnia series, Enchanted, Fireproof, Ice Age, Our Lips are Sealed, and The Parent Trap (remake). Sunday list: Celtic Woman concerts, Finding Nemo, Graduations, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Rat Race, and Seventeen Again. Monday list: Amadeus, Bible Video Stories, dancing videos, Monster’s University, Paulie, and A Walk to Remember. Tuesday list: Dumbo, Lilo and Stitch, Made of Honor, The Sound of Music (recording of a play version), The Toy Story series, and The Wizard of Oz (recording of a play version).  I was unable to watch a movie from my list on Saturday (although I did watch a movie that day), but I was able to watch one on Sunday. I watched Finding Nemo and replaced it with The Emperor’s New Groove. On Monday, I was finally able to see one of those Bible Video Stories. Since there are two more of those still to watch, that choice remains on my list. On Tuesday, I watched Dumbo and replaced it with Aladdin.

What other ramblings can I do? I know that I don’t have to do any ramblings whatsoever, but I do for whatever strange reason I have. I’m autistic! That probably explains everything. Of course, you might have already known that. It depends on how much one reads this blog of mine. I’ll be posting about the most recent Survivor every Thursday until I can go back to posting on Wednesdays. Until then, I’ll be here every week.

Keep a look out at the confessional count this week. So Kim had the highest confessional count last week with 5. Let’s see how quickly everyone else in the game can beat that number. The sooner they beat it, the better. I was actually able to see this episode live because the weather was bad enough to cancel church. I didn’t end up going anywhere that day. But I will still update this on Thursdays throughout the rest of Lent until I can change back to a normal schedule. I don’t think that it will happen again this year, although I could be wrong. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, we have a nature shot of a bunch of crabs. I do wonder what that’s supposed to represent. Dan lost his underwear. It made the rest of his tribe feel uncomfortable and made some even doubt as to why that happened.

In the second segment of the show, they figured out how to start fire on the Masaya (white collar) tribe. Max strips naked for mostly no good reason. He wants private time yet, oddly, is not looking for a hidden immunity idol. Shirin thinks that it’s convenient to be naked a lot. She must be getting a lot of tweets regarding that. Hali finds it hard to talk to Nina. I do find it annoying when I have to repeat myself a lot which is why I typically avoid repeating myself a lot. Nina feels ostracized and rightfully so. This leads her to get mad at her tribe, as revealed in the promos for this episode. Jenn is very bitchy regarding that. I don’t think that I like Jenn.

In the third segment of the show, the blue collar tribe is a bit lazy or at least too lazy for Mike. The no collar tribe goes crab chasing. Vince is really jealous of Joe for some odd reason. This probably makes Vince more of a target than he would like.

In the fourth segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. DO REWARD CHALLENGES FOR GOODNESS SAKES! This better not become a habit of theirs this season. I predict that the no collar tribe will lose the challenge since they were shown winning it in the challenge description. You know what I really hate about combined reward/immunity challenges in three tribe seasons? There’s a bigger reward for the first place tribe and a lesser reward for the second place tribe. If they must combine the two types of challenges, why not just have one reward for the first place tribe? The second place can get no reward, but still have immunity. Why not do it like that? I mean, if you don’t have individual reward challenges, then don’t give two rewards at the immunity challenge! Sorry, but if I worked for Survivor, things would probably be done differently.

Wait, you want to know about what’s happening at the challenge? Well, the challenge is mostly evenly matched. But I might be right about the no collar tribe losing the challenge since Will did badly at the challenge. Can they pull a come from behind win? White collar and blue collar start fighting for first place. The white collar tribe wins the challenge, thus making Survivor history in terms of three tribe seasons. For once, the first two tribal councils are not attended by the same tribe. That never happened in a three tribe season before. The no collar tribe loses the challenge as I predicted. Maybe they don’t know how often that edit is obvious to some big fans like me. But they don’t always do that every time they do a challenge.

In the fifth segment of the show, the usual drama unfolded that always happens before a tribal council. A spilt vote is proposed, but is probably going to be abandoned. Will is a double agent and that doesn’t seem to be a good position for him to be in. Every no collar member has a confessional so they are probably all fair game. Will is the swing vote. Nina talks about her hearing problems and how it is a liability to herself. Everyone wonders who will be voting for who. That votes seem scattered. Vince is the one who gets voted out which surprises my sister and mother who are watching it upstairs.

On the next Survivor, a bunch of stuff happens and do do dee dee. (Simpsons reference). Anyways, I won’t even attempt to summarize that really really vague promo. The blue collar tribe might visit tribal council really soon. Already this season is pretty different. They lost a great character in Vince, but it looks like there could be more where he came from Jeff promised a great cast this season, right? I know he’s lied to us before so…

Total confessional count: Max- 5, Dan- 4, Hali- 5, Tyler- 4, Mike- 4, Rodney- 3, Shirin- 3, Nina- 3, Kelly- 1, Carolyn- 4, Will- 3, Joaquin- 4, Sierra- 1, Vince- 7, Joe- 4, Jenn- 5, Lindsey- 3.

New confessionals this episode: Rodney- 1, Shirin- 1, Nina- 2, Kelly- 0, Carolyn- 0, Will- 1, Joaquin- 1, Sierra- 0, Vince- 4, Joe- 2, Jenn- 1, Lindsey- 1, Max- 2, Dan- 0, Hali- 3, Tyler- 1, Mike- 2.

For the second time in a row, the person with the highest total confessionals thus far gets eliminated from the game. This makes Hali, Max, and Jenn the highest for the moment. The lowest are Sierra and Kelly. I still don’t know which tribe has the best long term chances in the game. I also don’t know which contestant is doing the best yet either. We’ll see what happens as time goes by. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.