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.