Episode 30.8

You know, when people I know read this blog of mine, they may talk to me about it. So I have to be careful with what I say, not that I would normally say anything bad in the first place. When we think about the game right now, there are three people that are clearly at the bottom: Jenn, Shirin, and Joe. It seems unlikely based on the edit that Joe will last a long time. The moment he loses immunity, he’s out of the game. I don’t think that they can turn it around the way other underdogs have. But once they are gone, the game would then get very interesting as we watch the people left turn on each other. Of course, that’s just how it COULD go. We don’t know for certain that’s how it WILL go.

Movie update: On Saturday, I watched one of the dancing videos. There are still more of them for me to watch, so it remains on the list. On Sunday, I rolled Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Now this leads to something interesting. With it wedged between an m choice and a p choice, I would have only two letters to choose from since I can’t move the last choice from the dissolved Monday list. It turns out that I don’t have either an n choice or an o choice to replace it so I will now have to get rid of the Sunday list. This means that starting next week, I will start my Survivor: Borneo watching, starting with the greatest and most outrageous moments special and going all the way through the entire first season again. I will only watch one episode a week since I don’t like to watch a lot of a show all at once. Plus I have other things to do. I guess that I’m done with the movie watching updates for the moment. While I know that I won’t be able to watch Survivor every Sunday, you’ll be able to tell when I did it by my TV blog getting updated. This should also create two random blog posts during the off season when Survivor isn’t on the air.

I’m not sure what else there is for me to say before I get to the actual point of this blog. I’m not sure when I’ll be back on twitter again. It’s possible that I may never get on twitter again. I hope that I can in good time. If this blog suffers, then you’ll know that I’m on twitter. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Dan continues to be an arrogant ass. The decision of whether or not flippers win the game could be foreshadowing that a flipper wins this season. Shirin doesn’t want Jenn to leave the game. I’m not sure why she is thinking that. If Jenn leaves, Shirin stays in the game. But Shirin is doing what she can to control the game and has a strange way of saying it. “I’m in the driver’s seat backseat driving the driving.” Say what?

In the second segment of the show, we get to the reward challenge in the game. The reward is chocolate, which explains the Twix commercial. He does the give everyone a small amount thing that happens sometimes. An unseen schoolyard pick leads Rodney, Joe, Jenn, Caryoln, and Will on one team fighting against Mike, Shirin, Tyler, Dan, and Sierra on the other team. The second team I mentioned is the one that won the challenge.

In the third segment of the show, we get to the chocolate reward. Shirin may be more of a focus in recent episodes possibly because she’s doing something important. But, is she still a dumb player in the edit. Jenn feels that she owns the chickens. I’m not sure how she got to that conclusion. Rodney makes fun of Mike, much to the enjoyment of everyone (including me). Also, since when did McDonalds reinstate their happy meal toy commercials? It’s been gone a very long time and now we are supposed to accept that they are back. Are they staying back? Weren’t the two Sonic guys gone for a while? Why were they gone?

In the fourth segment of the show, we get a preparation for the immunity challenge. Jenn has a strange way of planning the leave the game, similar to something that Brandon Hantz might have done, intentionally or not. Also, Joe’s perfect winning streak isn’t intact after the reward challenge so that could be a huge problem for him. This does make me wonder something: if someone asks to be voted out in the jury phrase of the game, should they not be allowed on the jury? If real quitters can’t be on the jury and people who ask to be voted out are considered quitters, then it would be hard to classify that. Also, keep an eye out for flies at the challenge. I think that I saw one on Joe. I have the feeling that Jenn will win the challenge and do what she said she would. Well, I was wrong. Tyler won the immunity challenge. Can Jenn still convince the other people to vote her out? I honestly don’t know. I can’t see why people like her at the moment. Hopefully, someone can kindly explain that to me.

In the fifth segment of the show, splitting the vote comes up. While it is actually a good strategy sometimes, cases like this prove that it isn’t always the case. Joe is planning on making a fake idol. I hope that I’m not the only one who likes fake idols because I sure do miss them. He tries to play it off to Mike as real which is bad since Mike has the real idol. Jenn’s strange game play is brought up at the tribal council. Mike reveals his idol to everyone, but Jeff wisely can’t confirm if it is since he hasn’t played it yet. At least two people admit to something along the lines of not being sure what is going on at tonight’s tribal council. Mike decides to play the fake idol (the one he revealed) that Joe gave him on Will. This could be the first time that a fake idol play doesn’t result in the holder of it getting eliminated. I do wonder how the play of that on Will could affect the game. Joe is the person that gets voted out. At least this episode was pretty interesting even if the alliance on the bottom didn’t flip the game. It would have been Survivor history to have an alliance vote their own person out and still be in control of the game. And no, Ozzy getting voted out the first time in South Pacific doesn’t count for that in my mind. Also, shouldn’t the fake idol have been thrown into the fire? The fake idols of China, Micronesia, and Gabon were all thrown into the fire. I guess it wasn’t a real burn this time.

On the next Survivor, Will hates Shirin while Mike and Rodney continue their feud. I don’t know what all will happen on the next Survivor because of vague promos as usual. I still think that Mike wins the Mike versus Rodney feud. But we’ll see if that happens or not.

Total confessional count: Mike- 25, Rodney- 21, Shirin- 20, Carolyn- 15, Will- 10, Sierra- 11, Joe- 14, Jenn- 20, Dan- 13, Tyler- 13. New confessionals this episode: Rodney- 2, Shirin- 5, Carolyn- 0, Will- 0, Sierra- 1, Joe- 3, Jenn- 4, Dan- 0, Tyler- 0, Mike- 4.

This is another episode where nearly half of the players in the game don’t get a confessional. Does that mean that none of them will win? Possibly, but we’ll see about that.  Jenn, Mike, Rodney, and Shirin all have twenty or more confessionals with Mike having the highest number. Will has the lowest number of confessionals now, but that could change with the next episode. Is this still Mike’s game or will something happen to change that? We’ll see. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.