Episode 32.4

You can skip this opening paragraph as I’m using it to speculate as to who I think might get medically evacuated from this season of Survivor. SPOILER. While it is probably not this episode, I don’t think that Cydney will avoid medical issues. The nighttime one could be hers. Meanwhile, someone who hasn’t been seen much in the edit thus far could be someone that goes. I don’t think that this episode will contain the only medical evacuation of the season. Julia doesn’t have much of an edit so I’m picking her as the person who gets pulled this episode. END SPOILER. It’s always sad to see someone leave the game over medical issues. It’s also strange that I would speculate something but still use spoiler warnings for it when I have no idea who is going. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, we have the brains tribe returning from tribal council. Debbie talks about how her plans worked perfectly. Suddenly, we are at the reward challenge. That was soon. Guess that the medical problems will create a need for a longer episode. Once again, it takes balls to win this challenge. Maybe the medical stuff will happen here at the reward challenge. It appears that they buried the items too well. The brains tribe finally finds the last of the balls and has a head start on the other tribes at that part of the challenge. They win the reward. I’m wondering if there’ll even be a second place person, but then the beauty tribe finds their bag. Debbie is exhausted and they bring in medical while beauty continues the challenge. And cue commercial break.

In the second segment of the show, it seems that Jeff is distracted by the medical problem so he doesn’t continue with moderating the challenge. Debbie looks like she is okay. But will she stay okay? This could be a problem later down the line. Suddenly, the brawn tribe is suddenly back in the challenge and starts battling it out for second. Will the beauty tribe blow it and get their first loss? No. They are able to come in second handing brawn another loss. The medics tend to Debbie while there are players on other tribes that need medical themselves. Never has there been more than one medical problem at once before. It’s a good thing that they have so many medics available. But how long will these medical things last? Caleb and Cydney are the ones with problems now, although Debbie seems to be better. Caleb appears to have passed out before yet another commercial break.

In the third segment of the show, Caleb continues to struggle. Will he be okay? I have a feeling that he might be medically evacuated. Who are they evacuating? Cydney will be okay, but it looks like Caleb will be pulled from the game. Caleb has to be pulled from the game which upsets the other players. Typically, these things don’t happen in front of all the other players all at once. I wonder if there will still be an immunity challenge in this episode. It appears to be the strangest episode I’ve ever seen. Caleb is gone from the game, not able to recover from his condition. Do the tribes still win their respective rewards? I doubt that’s on anyone’s mind. But it’s hard to believe that there was a problem with a member from all three tribes. What will the rest of the episode hold? The tribes head back to camp now. They have an update about Caleb just so we know what’s going on.

Before I continue any further, this medical situation could affect twists in the future. Typically they do a switch from three tribes to two after four people are eliminated from a three tribe season. But it makes you wonder if there will not be another elimination in this episode and the switch occurs next time or if they will vote someone out in this episode, vote someone out in the next episode, and then do either a switch to two tribes or just a regular merge. It doesn’t seem like there’s enough airtime in this episode for an immunity challenge and tribal council so I’m guessing that we’ll just see the aftermath of different things in the rest of this episode.

In the fourth segment of the show, we return to the brains tribe after the challenge. Debbie talks about her situation at the challenge. At the brawn tribe, Alecia talks about a perceived slight at the challenge. She fights with Scot over what she believed was him insulting her. This affects Cydney. Jason seems to take Scot’s side in this fight.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to an immunity challenge. Are they really still doing one? Plus, why haven’t we seen what the beauty tribe has been up to? You’d think that we’d see their reaction to Caleb leaving, but we didn’t. I wonder why. We haven’t seen a jungle course in quite some time. The brain tribe makes a bit of a dumb mistake in the challenge. I like the puzzle. Although, I don’t know if I’d still like it if I had to do it like they do in Survivor. The brains tribe wins the challenge first. Beauty wins the challenge second. Guess that the brawn tribe is heading back to tribal council. Once again, Alecia gets into arguments with her tribe after the challenge. We see no camp life and they skip straight to tribal council. This is the weirdest Survivor episode ever. Is this really going to be as simple as Alecia getting voted out? Turns out that it is. I liked her. And I don’t like most of the brawn tribe. Boy was this a pretty weird episode.

On the next Survivor, it appears that a tribe swap will be happening after all. We then get an exit confessional from Caleb. Also, since when did Metro Goldwyn Mayer start producing Survivor? Is this because they lost Mark Burnett? Did they lose Mark Burnett? Also, how would they do a tribe swap with only thirteen people in the game? That’s such an odd number.

Total confessional count: Jason- 11, Anna- 5, Nick- 4, Scot- 9, Caleb- 6, Julia- 2, Tai- 11, Debbie- 11, Peter- 9, Aubry- 4, Joseph- 4, Michele- 3, Cydney- 7, Neal- 6, Alecia- 12.

New confessionals this episode: Alecia- 1, Jason- 2, Anna- 0, Nick- 0, Scot- 0, Caleb- 0, Julia- 0, Tai- 1, Debbie- 3, Peter- 1, Aubry- 0, Joseph- 0, Michele- 0, Cydney- 1, Neal- 0.

There’s a general lack of new confessionals this episode. Debbie has the most with three. Jason has two. Alecia, Peter, Cydney, and Tai got one a piece. Everyone else got no confessionals including Caleb (unless you count his exit confessional, which maybe you should). As for the total confessional count, we are at an interesting point as Alecia had the most with twelve and she got voted out. The next highest, with eleven each, is Jason, Tai, and Debbie. Julia has the lowest still with two. Caleb had six confessionals, the same number as Neal. Including Julia, those that have less confessionals than he did are Aubry, Joseph, Michele, Anna, and Nick, putting the others not already mentioned as the new highest (Peter, Cydney, and Scot) between Caleb and Alecia’s total confessional count. That’s all there is to say about the confessional count for now. This is Adam Decker, signing off.