Episode 32.6

I’m not sure when the merge will be yet this season. It could be soon, but might not be. I know that it will probably not be in this episode. I also don’t yet know when the jury will start forming, but it can be nice not being able to easily predict when stuff will happen. And as much as I love the tribe swap, they need to do a season without it in the future. It can be a bit overused.

I’ll probably complain about this every year since it happens every year, but they need to stop airing new episodes of shows on Maundy Thursday. There are a lot of shows that I watch on Thursdays. I can watch at least three at once since I record shows to watch later. I could record shows that air that day this year, but I’m not yet sure if I will. Since there is March Madness on CBS, I don’t have to worry about missing any of their Thursday shows. I watch The Big Bang Theory and Elementary, although Elementary is now going to be on Sundays.

As for the other networks, I watch The 100 and Legends of Tomorrow on the CW, although it looks like both shows are on reruns for now. On NBC I watch The Blacklist and Shades of Blue. The first one isn’t coming back until April for some odd reason. I watch Grey’s Anatomy on ABC and am planning on watching The Catch in the future, although I’m not sure yet if I will. I am not interested in anything FOX is airing on Thursdays at the moment. Meanwhile, there are other shows that I plan on watching when they either return or start on Thursdays. The penultimate season of Bones is coming back. Besides The Catch, the new shows that I’m interested in watching on Thursdays will be Rush Hour, Game of Silence, and American Grit. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Gondol arrives to their camp after tribal council. Tai talks about his strategy in the tribal council which wasn’t much of a strategy at all. While I find the floater game play to be underrated, it was sad to see Tai’s lack of a move last episode. Meanwhile, Peter considers flipping on his old tribe.

In the second segment of the show, we return to Chan Loh. He decides to form an alliance with Debbie. Might there be a showmance on the rise? I’m still not sure what to make of Debbie. This tribe is worried about the upcoming reward challenge as it involves basketball. Julia then joins Gondol. The challenge goes back and forth at the end, but it is Gondol that is able to win it.

In the third segment of the show, Julia starts to fit in with her new tribe, which was the same color that she was on earlier. You know, if the merge is in the next episode, then there will be people who didn’t attend tribal council before the merge for the third time. Aubry considers getting rid of Peter since he is bonding with Julia. People are convinced that Michele will be voted out next. Has someone who has blown a reward challenge ever been voted out? I know that people who have blown immunity challenges have. If it has happened to a reward challenge failure, then I can’t remember it. Maybe this will be bad for her since she’s getting an unusually high amount of airtime.

In the fourth segment of the show, people talk about getting rid of Aubry. Now both tribes aren’t going to vote someone out in this episode. Joseph thinks people want to vote him out, but Peter doesn’t know how to reply to this. I have no idea what to make of that at the moment. I think that the blue tribe (Chan Loh) will lose the challenge. But will they? We’ll see. The immunity challenge happens. The blue tribe actually wins the close challenge. Will things turn against Joseph? He might have been given the kiss of death confessional.

In the fifth segment of the show, the tribe (Gondol) gets back from losing the challenge. Aubry thinks that they shouldn’t vote out Peter since she wants her side, whatever that is and ends up being, to stay strong in numbers. Will Peter get voted out or will someone else face the vote. I have no idea what might happen as there are so many names being tossed around. Plus, some of the edits, in this episode at least, seem to be pointing for a blindside. The drama unfolds at tribal council and I’m not sure if the people in the middle are the most vulnerable as usual or not. There’s a subtle moment that the subtitles catch but it seems like the rest of the tribe doesn’t know that. Scot says to do the original plan, but I’m not entirely sure what that is. Due to Aubry’s last minute vote change (sort of pulling a Hayden Moss), she causes Peter’s elimination. She must be a Republican.

On the next Survivor, the merge happens. This leads to power changes as usual. Looks like a lot of beauties are able to make it far without attending tribal council. But will it turn out well for them in the end? I’m still not sure who has the best edit so far.

Total confessional count: Scot- 14, Julia- 5, Tai- 17, Debbie- 15, Peter- 15, Aubry- 7, Joseph- 7, Michele- 9, Cydney- 8, Neal- 7, Jason- 12, Nick- 8. New confessionals this episode: Nick- 3, Scot- 1, Julia- 2, Tai- 2, Debbie- 2, Peter- 3, Aubry- 3, Joseph- 3, Michele- 4, Cydney- 0, Neal- 0, Jason- 0.

Peter had three confessionals this episode, the same as Aubry, Joseph, and Nick. Only Michele had more than them and everyone else had less. Cydney, Neal, and Jason had no confessionals this episode. In total confessionals, Peter had fifteen, the same number as Debbie. Only one person had higher than them and everyone else was lower. Tai has the highest count with seventeen confessionals. Julia has the lowest still, this time with five. I’m not sure if I’ll keep track of the single digit versus double digit this time around. I’ll be back next time with the next episode. Hopefully it won’t be affected by my brother-in-law’s birthday. I’ll probably be normally scheduled as planned as I’m not sure that I’ll be with him for it as he’s busy. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.