Episode 31.12

We are nearing the end of this season. This means that you can expect the usual stuff that you’ll see in the last blog post. I will post the three dumbest moves of the season (although I hope that I can figure out what the three are). I will post the ranking of this season among the rest of the 31 seasons. I will also rank the tribe swaps from this season among the other tribe swaps of other seasons. Don’t forget that I will do random blog posts until the next season starts.

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 Andrew Savage Pearl Islands Jeff Varner The Australian Outback Kelley Wentworth San Juan del Sur Kelly Wiglesworth Borneo

There are things that I either know or think that I know about the upcoming season. Meanwhile, I will forever find it weird that it wasn’t the one that aired during the fall of 2015. It was filmed before this season was. Why the random flip? There are good enough reasons for it when you think about it though. Meanwhile, I still don’t know if there’s a guaranteed future for Survivor or not. There’s a probable and very likely future of more Survivor seasons. I don’t see it ending anytime soon, although it’s possible. The main TV ratings website that I check (www.tvgrimreaper.com) doesn’t track reality shows. Meanwhile, since I’m pretty sure that it does better in the ratings than 60 Minutes, it should be around for a while.

I’m still wondering if I’m the only one who thinks that there will be four finalists on day 39. There are different reasons to think this. Among them, unless more than one person is eliminated in some way in this episode, there will be six people in the finale, which has never happened before. SPOILER. Andrew talked about a Survivor first in an exit interview. While he could have been talking about the vote stealer, a final four seems more and more likely. END SPOILER. Let’s face it, they would probably know from the very beginning of a second chance season that they would want to help these contestants in different ways such as planning a merge at 13 players. If a final four doesn’t happen, then we’ll at least have no worries about another stupid finale reward challenge since they would just do three eliminations in the finale.

Now I have an interesting problem that relates in no way to Survivor. It relates to the TV show The Big Bang Theory. I have the first five seasons on DVD. Now when I was watching through the fifth season last year, I noticed that there was a problem with one of the discs. I was able to watch it, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch it well in the future. Now that show is in syndication and I can record it on VHS tape. I found a good tape after a while, one I would want to use for recording since it has me at the very beginning from an earlier college project. Now I won’t be able to record all of the episodes from this disc in this time, but if all goes well, I’ll get the first three episodes off of this disc starting Friday. It is the third disc if you care to know. I should dedicate part of a document to keeping track of this.

There are a lot of things that I do while I’m online. As such, it seems like I never get as much done online as I’d like to. We’ll see if I can visit all the places that I want to go. I can run out of time doing things around this time of year. I’m just glad that there aren’t as many new shows as there normally are during this time of year. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, people talk about who they can win challenges now that Joe is out of the game. Tasha is upset about Keith’s vote against her. I still don’t know how she would know who the person who voted against her was. Spencer is looking for a group of four to stick together.

In the second segment of the show, we get to the reward challenge. It is an interesting challenge. In the end, it is Keith who wins the challenge. He picks Kelley and Spencer to go on the trip, even though he does a bad job explaining why he does this.

In the third segment of the show, the people back at camp talk about how they went to get rid of Keith. Jeremy thinks that Abi would have been a better vote off. We then see the reward. Geez, they are painting a Spencer win a bit too obviously in this scene. Well, he might win at least. We don’t know for sure yet. Keith continues to be strange. The three people there get to enjoy a nice meal. Spencer talks about his ideal final three scenario. The value of Abi is discussed.

In the fourth segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. The main theme of it is the puzzle at the end that nobody picked from the opening challenge of Worlds Apart. They sure to whatever crazy thing works with the second chance theme. Tasha has medical problems at the challenge. She’s okay. Spencer is the one who wins despite being behind at times.

In the fifth segment of the show, people discuss the vote off. Spencer talks about the possibility of which vote off he would choose. He makes it seem like targeting either a big gun or a weak person. We then get to tribal council. Which voting bloc will have their way? When it comes to whether or not an idol will be played, nobody decides to use one. Then the votes are read. The person voted out is Abi. This makes Philippines the next season eliminated from the game.

On the next Survivor, we get to the season finale. Jeff talks about a Survivor first. But what is the first? Is it a final four like I think that it is? We’ll see. I just know that I will have to record it to watch later because the finale is on a Wednesday.

Total confessional count: Abi- 23, Kelley- 32, Kimmi- 10, Spencer- 43, Jeremy- 27, Keith- 10, Tasha- 21. New confessionals this episode: Spencer- 4, Jeremy- 3, Keith- 2, Tasha- 5, Abi- 3, Kelley- 4, Kimmi- 0.

As usual this season, Kimmi and Keith are scrapping the bottom of the confessional count. They each have just then a piece. Spencer is the highest right now. Kelley is the second highest. Jeremy is the third highest. Abi’s elimination puts Tasha at the fourth highest. We’ll see if high confessional count means good things this season. Meanwhile, I’ll be back with the last blog post of the season sometime on Thursday next week. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.