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.