Episode 31.10

Remember that there will be some upcoming changes to this blog of mine. Now, they shouldn’t be anything outside the usual. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, Advent will be starting soon. During Advent, you will see my blog posts on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays. This will include the finale, but only if it airs on Wednesday instead of on a Sunday. Meanwhile, I have been working on other posts to post during the winter hiatus between this season and the next one. There could be potential changes as to when I post them, but we’ll see what ends up happening over time. Just remember to keep reading my blog even though Survivor’s not on the air at that time.

Joe Anglim Worlds Apart Vytas Baskauskas Blood vs. Water Spencer Bledsoe Cagayan Jeremy Collins San Juan del Sur Teresa "T-Bird" Cooper Africa Terry Deitz Panama Ciera Eastin Blood vs. Water Stephen Fishbach Tocantins Latasha "Tasha" Fox Cagayan Abi-Maria Gomes Philippines Yung "Woo" Hwang Cagayan Kimmi Kappenberg The Australian Outback Peih-Gee Law China Kassandra "Kass" McQuillen Cagayan Keith Nale San Juan del Sur Shirin Oskooi Worlds Apart Monica Padilla Samoa Troy "Troyzan" Robertson One World Andrew Savage Pearl Islands Jeff Varner The Australian Outback Kelley Wentworth San Juan del Sur Kelly Wiglesworth Borneo Mikayla Wingle South Pacific

I hope that you don’t mind me keeping track of the cast like this. This might be the only season I do something like this for. That is, unless we get to choose a cast again. Would they do that with all new players? We’ll see. And I do promise that if it hasn’t happened by then, I will get rid of those names that didn’t make the cast by the time the finale has happened. Speaking of which, I need to figure out the three dumbest moves of the season, the most memorable moment of the season, and the ranking of this season among all 31 of them. I plan on ranking it pretty high. Not number one, but probably top ten at the moment. We’ll see. I’ll also rank the combined tribe swaps of this season as one against the tribe swaps of the other seasons.

I’m still wondering how they are going to quicken up the eliminations of this season. I mean, with the finale fast approaching and so many contestants left in the game, there might have to be double episodes or double eliminations just to get in who will be voted out before the finale happens. Plus, there will either be a record number of jurors or finalists this season. We don’t know which one yet. And I might be in the minority by thinking that four finalists will face the jury. I just hope that it isn’t considered a spoiler for me to speculate about it.

Today’s episode is a two hour one. I don’t know why they have been doing this with recent seasons. It can be kind of annoying the way it cuts into regular shows. I mean, on Wednesdays, I typically watch Law and Order: SVU at 8. But, I’m not sure that’s on today anyways. I will miss Modern Family, which I typically record for later. This won’t affect Code Black at all. I should probably rename this blog post, but I won’t. I won’t care either if the rest of the episodes are off in my titles. I think that I’ve run out of things to talk about for now. But don’t worry. I’m sure that I’ll talk about other things later. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, people talk about the tribal council. Tasha doesn’t like the change in numbers. Joe wants to win immunity as usual. I’m wondering if he has gone a record long time being immune in the game. I mean, he never had to attend tribal council before the merge, right? And now he has won every immunity challenge so far. But like Marcus from Gabon, things could turn sour for him the first time he doesn’t have immunity.

In the second segment of the show, there is terrible rain as seen in the preview. Most people just talk about how terrible the weather is at first. It’s possible that Jeff considers not doing the challenge at first. But it happens at the purple team wins reward.

In the third segment of the show, we get to the reward that was won by Ciera, Spencer, Abi, Tasha, and Joe. People talk about voting out Stephen. If he gets voted out, this would make this season just the second one overall were everyone in it was voted out at some point since any finalists for this season would have been voted out in previous season. The people at camp think that they should all vote out Joe. I wonder if there’ll be a potential tie between them. Stephen is down in some way and this could cause potential problems in the future.

In the fourth segment of the show, Stephen is still depressed about the weather. He might be having medical problems. What if he gets medically evacuated? Could that happen? It might explain his kind of scattered edit if he leaves like that. Jeff hands out two rocks for each contestant before the immunity challenge happens. Jeff offers people a chance to improve the shelter at camp. And they make a choice beforehand. At least half of the tribe has to not compete in the challenge. Only two people, Keith and Joe, compete in the challenge. What would they have done if nobody had chosen to compete in the challenge? Would they had just had tribal without an immunity winner? That would have been interesting to see a tribal after the merge where no one is immune. That happened once before, due to a terrible twist. But I do wonder if it would happen again. Joe wins yet another immunity challenge. In a way, it seems like an unfair twist, but I’m not convinced that it’s actually helping Joe for him to stand out as a threat all this time.

In the fifth segment of the show, people talk about the great new shelter that they have. People talk about getting Ciera out of the game. Stephen’s advantage is brought up and they try to get him out of the game. Everyone is scrambling and it seems that it is either between Ciera or Stephen. Jeremy doesn’t want Stephen voted out. But I honestly can’t tell who it will be between the two. We then get to tribal council where people talk about the weather and the decision between competing in the challenge or potentially helping with the shelter. It’s hard to gather info as to what will happen. Jeremy considers playing his idol before a commercial break.

In the sixth segment of the show, we return to tribal council. Jeremy plays one of his idols on Stephen. Was the idol play worth it? By the looks of it, it was. Who voted for Kimmi and why?  They could have messed things up. Despite these votes, Ciera is the one voted out, making Blood versus Water the next season to be eliminated from the game. It turns out it was the minority women who voted against Kimmi. So now Jeremy has only one idol. And I think that he’s the only one with an idol now. I miss some of the camp life due to my mother coming home from work. Anyways, I will continue blogging about the second hour of the episode as one with the first hour. You will only see one list of confessionals.

In the seventh segment of the show, Stephen talks about how he didn’t know that he could have gotten voted out last night were it not for Jeremy saving him. We then get to the return of a classic Survivor challenge. They are making it more complicated than they have before. I also don’t remember this being run at night before, although it could have been. Kelley Wentworth (who until the finale, I will be simply calling Kelley) manages to get a clue to an idol with her thing. Stephen messes up Abi intentionally. He barely beats out Spencer for reward. Stephen picks Tasha before picking Jeremy to go on the reward. Spencer almost won. Did Stephen consider taking him at all?

In the eighth segment of the show, the whole tribe gets back after the challenge. The new idol is at the shelter. We then show the reward. He wants to repair his alliance with Tasha. Stephen tells of his power to steal the vote to both Tasha and Jeremy. Abi wants to win the challenge as a loyalty test. Kelley is trying to figure out how to get people out of camp to look for the idol. Abi doesn’t leave the shelter for a while. Kelley then sees her opportunity and gets the idol while people are coming back to the shelter. She stress out about it.

In the ninth segment of the show, we finally get to an immunity challenge that isn’t an endurance challenge. Is Joe finally doomed? We’ll see. They need more classic challenges in this season. Stephen’s foot problems prevents him from doing well. Spencer ends up winning the challenge ending Joe’s long immunity streak. What would this mean for the future?

In the tenth segment of the show, Stephen wants to get Joe out of the game now that they have their chance to do that. Kelley wants to get rid of Stephen now that they have the chance to do it. Will Kelley use her new idol on Joe? We’ll see. Stephen is trying to make it seem like Abi is getting voted out. Of course, this makes her go crazy. Meanwhile, there’s a problem with Spencer not getting airtime about his immunity win. People are trying to stick to the plan. Boy, that has been a major theme of the game ever since Keith said it. It makes me wonder if we’ll see that next season. The choice is between Stephen and Joe. Who will get voted out? Will Joe have an idol played on him and thus get even farther in the game with some form of immunity?

Not much can be gained from the conversation at tribal council. Stephen decides to use his advantage. He steals Joe’s vote. But will there be idol plays? There could be a null vote. It’s hard to make sense of things as usual. He casts an extra vote for Abi and another vote for Joe. Could Abi be eliminated with just one vote that counts? In the end, no idols are played. The person voted out is Stephen. I wonder why Jeremy didn’t use his extra idol on him. Anyways, Stephen is voted out and every contestant on this season has been voted out, even those that will become finalists this time around. Interesting how it came around full circle so quickly from first to last.

On the next Survivor, we get to a loved ones challenge. There is also some sort of medical situation that might result in an evacuation. I wonder who it might be and why. Which challenge will it be? Will normal loved one challenges finally be a part of the show again? Also, before I forget, Tocantins has been eliminated from the game.

Total confessional count: Kimmi- 8, Joe- 20, Spencer- 34, Jeremy- 20, Keith- 7, Ciera- 16, Stephen- 30, Tasha- 13, Abi- 19, Kelley Wentworth- 25. New confessionals this episode: Kelley Wentworth- 6, Kimmi- 2, Joe- 5, Spencer- 9, Jeremy- 5, Keith- 2, Ciera- 5, Stephen- 11, Tasha- 2, Abi- 4.

Remember that for the rest of the season (since there will be a finale on Wednesday) you will see new blog posts from me on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays. I will be back to Wednesday when the hiatus starts, although things could change with that posting. I’ll be sure to point out why it might change at the beginning of new posts. I’ll remind you that I’m still posting later. As to the confessional counts, Spencer is the highest at the moment. But, will he get voted out like previous contestants with the highest confessional count? Meanwhile Keith has the lowest confessional count. We don’t know who the potential medically evacuated player is. SPOILER. (Well, we know that it isn’t Jeremy or Tasha as it was a white person. I know that Abi isn’t technically white, but we obviously didn’t get a clear shot of this person for a reason.) END SPOILER. I don’t know what the edit so far will mean to a person who is pulled this fair in the game. I didn’t keep track of confessionals during Caramoan so I don’t know what Erik’s count was. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.