Survivor: Kaoh Rong Premiere

They are redoing brains versus brawn versus beauty. How will it be different the second time around? Will the brains tribe actually have smart people for a change? Will the beauty tribe fail this time around? Is brawn still the tribe you want to be on? We’ll see as the season progresses. I also hope that all these medical problems don’t result in a strange season. Although, when you think about it, strange seasons aren’t all that bad depending on the season.

I’m really confused by all the potential medical problems. SPOILER. It looks like it could be a record three players pulled from the same season. But, it might just be two. It is hard to tell based off of the promos. Will one happen during this premiere? I might not know until the season is finished airing. But it seems like even more will happen than before. It could even be more than three pulled from the game. END SPOILER. Keep in mind that I will talk about potential groups of threesomes (or twosomes if threesomes can’t work out) of players that have been medically evacuated and how they should return, in my mind, to a future season. I really hope that they use the opening twist from Philippines again so they can do this a second time.

It is weird that this season was switched with the airing of the season filmed after it. I don’t know if they planned to do that or not when this season was originally filmed. I guess we’ll see whether or not they ever refer to it by a number or not. I guess they didn’t want to waste the hype of Cambodia by making us wait longer to see if, even if that means airing the two seasons out of order. It makes me wonder if this will ever happen again or if it was a onetime occurrence.

I forget if I’ve talked about Survivor’s time slot during the hiatus between this season and the last one. In the past, it has been filled with reruns. This year, it is being replaced by two comedies. Now there used to be two comedies on Wednesdays before the move of Survivor from Thursdays to the day it is now. The comedy hour then moved to Thursdays before it was expanded on. CBS then slowly trimmed their Monday comedy time until none was left. Although, it is possible that we see it return briefly whenever there is Thursday night football. I’m going to return (briefly) to watching the Middle as it airs (although, I now just wait until the syndicated repeats of a recent season to air happens). I was planning on watching Mike and Molly, but after watching the premiere of the final season, I remembered why I gave up watching the show in the first place. Meanwhile, I’ll probably also watch Arrow live before switching back to watching it online. I just got back into that show.

Now there is something important that I want to say: even if it is wrong, I’m going to call this season Kaoh Rong instead of the correct Kaôh Rōng. This is mostly for simplicity’s sake. Well, there’s a bit of laziness in there too. I will always refer to the thirty-second season as Kaoh Rong, even if that is incorrect. It just seems simpler that way, right?

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Now that it’s official that Caleb Reynolds from Big Brother 16 is in the cast of Survivor, it makes you wonder how he would fair on Survivor versus how he faired on Big Brother. To date, Hayden Moss is the only other person to play both Big Brother and Survivor. The games are quite different and one can fair quite differently on two different reality shows. While people hated the Anderson twins, for instance, on The Amazing Race, on Survivor, one of them ended up winning. And, sadly, Hayden was not as much a success on Survivor as he was on the show that he won. Will the Caleb who needed a clue on Big Brother actually be a good Survivor player? We’ll see.

As the new season starts, we can look forward to the fact that it won’t be the last Survivor season. It is officially announced that there will be seasons 33 and 34. Now I still don’t know if they’ve already been filmed and have just now been announced or if they have yet to film the seasons. I’m normally on top of when they are filming seasons, but this isn’t always the case. I had no idea, for example, that they were filming this season until the filming was finished. But they will be returning to Fiji for those two seasons. I’m secretly wondering if Candice will be in season 34. Think about it: she was in seasons 13, 20, and 27. Mathematically speaking, she should be disappearing to Fiji sometime. But, that’s only if the pattern continues, which it might not.

Sometimes we learn of perspective contestants who aren’t on Survivor when they were at one point supposed to be. We typically don’t know of perspective new contestants who didn’t make the cast until later seasons when they are eventually cast. I’m talking about this because So Kim’s sister is not on this season. We know that she (So) was supposed to be on San Juan del Sur, but was moved to Worlds Apart. In fact, I wonder if someone meant for Worlds Apart was not on that season in favor of So. But her sister also missed out on San Juan del Sur and she isn’t on this season. I wonder if we’ll ever see her in the future on the show. I also wonder the same thing about RC’s dad, or possibly any new player who could have been on the first blood versus water season.

There are other things to mention in this blog, but I won’t do it in this post. There’s only one last thing to mention for now. I know of a new twist regarding the hidden immunity idols this season. You can put two together and form a super powered idol that can be played after the votes are read. Now idols that can be played after the votes are cast never turn out well. At least great players tend to get it. But I just don’t see how this could be a good idea. If things end badly with that, at least we will know why. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, we get to the introductions of people on each tribe. A lot of the cast seems kind of arrogant. We see the brawn tribe arrive at camp first. Jason’s kid has autism so hopefully this won’t be a bad portrayal of autism. Peter looks like Obama. You know, if I were on Survivor, people would probably call me Sheldon Cooper. I don’t know if I seem that way in this blog, but people that I know have told me that. Anyways, I’m wondering how this season will be different than the other brain versus brawn versus beauty season. It appears that I have two names wrong based on my information. It appears the beauty tribe is being separated by gender.

In the second segment of the show, Jason doesn’t like the person that he calls blondie. Who is blondie? He seems to be doing a Zane or quite possibly a Russell by forming multiple alliances. The beauty tribe looses their chickens for a while. Am I the only one who thinks that has happened in every tribe with chickens? Two of the women realize that Caleb is from Big Brother and he mentions it to them. Contestants talk smack about each other and a lot of them don’t like each other. It appears that the blue tribe (brains) is split by age. Tai looks for an idol and his tribe knows this and start going after him. He is looking in the ground, but it is probably in a hole is a tree. When is it normally not there?

In the third segment of the show, Anna finds Tai looking for the idol and he is open about it to others. But, he still isn’t trusted by his tribe. Aubry looks to be the first contestant appearing to have medical problems. I just hope that there isn’t a Kourtney Moon situation again. Who wants to leave before the first person is voted out? Jennifer believes that there’s a bug in her ear that’s getting bad.

In the fourth segment of the show, Jennifer’s ear problem seems to be getting worse before the challenge. But it seems like people can and do get it out. She feels better once it happens. I don’t know if they’ll be a lot of red herrings with medical problems. This is a cart making puzzle challenge with new variations to it. Nobody chooses one of the three choices. The challenge is neck and neck throughout the challenge. It is the brain tribe that just barely loses the challenge.

In the fifth segment of the show, there are different names being brought up to be voted out. It could be Alecia or Darnell. I think that Alecia is the person they called blondie earlier. Hey, cool tribal council area! We don’t see that great a tribal council area that much, sadly enough. Did Alecia really try writing a vote without taking the cap off? In the end, there is a tie between Alecia and Darnell which leads to a commercial break. What all is going to happen next?

In the sixth segment of the show, Darnell is the person that gets voted out after the revote. So that vote didn’t make a lot of sense in the end to me. Did it make sense to you? Anyways, that’s pretty much the gist of the last short segment.

On the next Survivor, Debbie and Tai will be focused on a bit. I guess they are the weirdos of this season. Will they last or will one of them be voted out in the next episode? I guess that we’ll see for sure what happens next time. And we’ll also see who might fall victims to medical problems.

Total confessional count: Peter- 3, Aubry- 3, Joseph- 2, Michele- 2, Cydney- 3, Neal- 4, Darnell- 2, Alecia- 3, Jason- 3, Anna- 4, Jennifer- 2, Nick- 3, Liz- 3, Scot- 4, Caleb- 3, Julia- 1, Tai- 5, Debbie- 4.

So Darnell has 2 confessionals. Julia has the lowest confessional count with just one. Jennifer, Joseph, and Michele have the same confessional count as Darnell while everyone else is higher. Tai currently has the highest confessional count with five confessionals. Are they showing him while they can because he won’t last long or is he actually going far? We’ll see. I’m not sure that I have that high hopes for him, actually. Bursts of high confessionals now are actually a bad sign. Look no further than B. B. Andersen for proof of that. I do hope that I’m wrong about that, actually. I’d like him to make it far. Remember that until holy week, I will be posting my blog updates on Thursdays. I’ll be back to Wednesdays at some other point in the future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.