Episode 30.7

Lent is over, as of the posting of this blog post, which means that I can finally watch CinemaSins again and return to both Wikia and Wikipedia. How soon I’ll do all of that could be a bit of a mystery to me. There are a lot of mysteries in my life. I have a lot of shows that I watch. If there are three good things on at once, I record one on my laptop, record one on VHS, and watch the other one. This has lead to a backlog of things on VHS that I have to get caught up on. I’m ignoring any TV show at the moment that I have on DVD to watch, which is a shame. There’s a lot I want to see. Meanwhile, there’s a lot to be added to the list in terms of TV shows on DVD to watch. At least I’ll have the upcoming summer break to look forward to.

Movie update: This being Easter weekend, I knew that I probably wouldn’t get much watched. I ended up seeing Rat Race, the number 5 choice on the Sunday list (a list that can be watched from on Mondays now as well). I couldn’t put the oldest choice from Monday’s old list on the Sunday list, so I moved the Survivor Borneo special to number 5 and put Titanic from the old Monday list as number 6. The other movie that I watched this week was a nature documentary. That being part of a series, I couldn’t move the last Monday choice to a new list yet.

Since it looks like hidden immunity idols will be important as we go into this episode, there is a reminder I want to tell you about. If somebody finds the idol, you should pay attention to the music in the background when they find it. Is it triumphant? Does it seem like good music is in the background when they found it? Or does the music not have much good connotation to it? The music can be an indicator as to if the idol will be put to good use or not. The better the music, the more likely it is to successfully save someone. No twitter for me tonight. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, we get to Merica coming back from tribal council. Storms are in my area which makes me glad that I have two different affiliates that have Survivor. But the storms being in both viewing areas are a bad sign. I am getting more and more convinced that Jenn is a terrible person who will either make a terrible winner or a bitter jury member. Why so mean, Jenn? Considering how Jenn Lyon also played the game, she seems to be a disgrace to people with that name.

In the second segment of the show, we get to food arguments, it seems. You do have to wonder if the reason that Survivor isn’t as good anymore is because it has been on too long. Food arguments are a sign that nothing more interesting is happening. We then get to a reward challenge. No teams in this challenge, which is cool. I like real individual challenges postmerge. Long story short: Joe wins the reward challenge. He picks Tyler, Will, Carolyn, and Shirin to go on the reward with him. Why did he pick them? I don’t really know.

In the third segment of the show, we get to the reward in question. While Jenn wins the award for meanest contestant this season, Shirin probably wins most annoying. That’s saying something since Dan is also a contestant this season. Joe finds a clue to the hidden immunity idol and Tyler notices this. Mike notices them when they come back and sneaks after them. I think that I want Mike to win at the moment. I know that no Mike has ever won Survivor, but that could change in the future. I admit that his decision to get everyone to chase after Joe isn’t that good a one. I question everyone’s game play this season. Who’s playing the best game? Is anyone playing a good game? Would anyone notice that Carolyn isn’t looking for an idol? Dan is very bad at the game. Very bad. What good is telling someone that they are going home going to do? You can’t call yourself a fan of this show and be doing crap like that. You’re so freaking dumb sometimes. I haven’t even starting doing different nominees for the awards I will give at the end of the season yet, but Dan should probably get one for being dumb. I’ll figure all that out by the end of the season at least. Also, is anyone annoyed that Kelly isn’t on the jury? Why not put her there?

In the fourth segment of the show, Mike still can’t find an idol. Will they get to his rivalry with Rodney at all? But he does find a hidden immunity idol and the music and hashtag seem to be a good sign for his future. We then get to the immunity challenge. It’s basically a sliding puzzle which sounds like a good idea for a challenge. I would like it just because I know how to solve it. I can’t promise that I would be able to solve it first to win the challenge, but I’d probably be better than some other people would be. Joe wins immunity again after Dan incorrectly thinks that he won twice. Jeff feels the need to point out that Joe’s a treat in the game. I think that everyone knows that and why Jeff has to tell everyone that seems strange to me.

In the fifth segment of the show, Shirin feels that she is safe even though she lost the challenge. Cocky much? Also, what is an idiot savant? Don’t those words contradict each other? People don’t know who has an idol or who to vote for. Meanwhile, if Joe is a major contender in the game, why is his confessional count so low? Does that mean that he’ll get voted out the first time he loses a challenge? We get to the tribal council with me having no clue as to what might happen. Hali has a strange and unusual history lesson about the country of America. Maybe she has a point, but it doesn’t sound like she knows what she’s talking about. No idols are played. In the end, the person voted out was Hali. She is the first person to join the jury.

On the next Survivor, the challenge that happens seems to be very weird in some way. Also, Jenn might actually be quitting the game. Really? I hoped that we were done with quitters for a while. They say that bad things come in threes and since the last three seasons each had a quitter, than that means that this should be the first one since Caramoan to not have an (official) one. It could be that Jenn is getting a NaOnka edit, which would make sense.

Total confessional count: Joe- 11, Jenn- 16, Dan- 13, Hali- 15, Tyler- 13, Mike- 21, Rodney- 19, Shirin- 15, Carolyn- 15, Will- 10, Sierra- 10. New confessionals this episode: Jenn- 1, Dan- 2, Hali- 1, Tyler- 3, Mike- 4, Rodney- 3, Shirin- 3, Carolyn- 1, Will- 0, Sierra- 1, Joe- 2.

Will and Sierra are largely irrelevant to the season if you are going on their low confessional count alone. They both share the lowest with only 10 confessionals each. Mike has the highest with 21 confessionals. Rodney is the next highest with 19. I wonder how quickly people will get above 20 confessionals. Mike started the thread this season. Can others get that high as well? We’ll see what happens and whether or not Mike is going to win this season. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.