Episode 32.12

If I haven’t told you already, I am working on a recap of Stephenie’s game from Survivor: Palau. But I am not able to do this as much as I’d want to. I’d say that I’m moving at a snail’s pace, but I know that a snail would be way faster than the rate I’m going. I started watching from at least some point before last season started. But since TV stuff is winding down, I’m probably going to be able to watch more during the summer and hopefully I’ll have the post published sometime then. In the meantime, I need to figure out (probably by posting a poll on facebook again, on the group Addicted to Survivor) who to do a recap on from the first season when I watch that again.

I lot of people like Aubry as a player and think that she could wind up winning the game. Will she? I don’t know for sure. I wouldn’t say that I hate her, but I just don’t see what people like about her just yet. Hopefully I will if she wins or provides the roll of the foil for who wins. Maybe I just see something being off in her edit before. I wouldn’t say that there’s been enough to it just yet. But she probably has a better chance than some players do.

Don’t get me wrong about Aubry: I’d be perfectly okay with her winning. In fact, I’d probably be okay with anyone besides Jason winning. There are some that I’d rather have win over others. But we’ll see which of them does end up winning and which of them doesn’t. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, the tribe gets back from tribal council and Tai talks about how he is glad that he didn’t have to play the idol. Is he reliable if he has to be told to play an idol? Michele wants to be loyal by voting out an ally which doesn’t make sense to me. Tai tells Joe and Aubry about his extra vote because he considers them and Cydney to be the main alliance. But don’t things always go crazy at the final six?

In the second segment of the show, Tai finds a grub and mentions that it could be used in a challenge. Jason thinks that they will never eat the chicken since it entertains the tribe too much. Joe gets a confessional so he might be voted out in this episode. But Jason thinks that he is doing the worst. There is then a really cool looking reward challenge involving a floating maze. I really hope that if I ever play Survivor that I could do a maze challenge. Since they always tend to do it later in the game, that would mean that I make it pretty far. Joe struggles at the challenge. Jason leads the blue tribe to do better in the challenge by the looks of it. The yellow tribe struggles a lot, mostly thanks to Joe failing at it, by the looks of it.

In the third segment of the show, at camp, Joe annoys both Cydney and Aubry, especially Cydney, with his work ethic. The other people enjoy their reward. Tai thinks about voting out Michele. I was preparing myself supper during this segment so I missed some of it.

Meanwhile, apparently Caramoan, Blood versus Water, and Cagayan are out on DVD. It seems odd to release three at once. Maybe they wanted to be back in line with season number instead of year. I will have to get Blood versus Water on DVD so I can blog about it again. I’ll be sure to put it on my wish list. I have to get all of them for Nicole (my sister) since she missed those seasons originally. She still hasn’t watched most of what I’ve recorded for her. I just hope that these are actually being released instead of them just saying that they will be released. I seemed to have lost focus for a while.

In the fourth segment of the show, the immunity challenge reminds me of the tortoise and the hare. Cydney (which is how you spell her name, people!) uses a slow strategy that seems to be bad at first and puts her at the bottom of the pack. But the other people drop their stacks over and over again so she is able to win.

In the fifth segment of the show, Tai wants to vote against Michele. I don’t understand the rationale behind his thought. I honestly can’t tell what might be going on. Maybe things will turn against Tai or they could get rid of Jason as seems like the best move. Aubry doesn’t know who to support and seems emotional over the move to make. Tai is doing a terrible job at tribal council and seems to have it out with Michele. And yet, some people still vote for Jason. Tai uses his extra vote advantage. He seems to have wasted it, but at least he isn’t voted out. Jason gets voted out instead.

On the next Survivor, Tai feels like his plan failed, but it looks like him and Michele will be together as a pair. Will they actually be together for real after Tai almost tried to get rid of Michele? And is Tai really at the bottom of his alliance instead of Michele?

Total confessional count: Aubry- 34, Joe- 13, Michele- 27, Cydney- 23, Jason- 34, Tai- 36. New confessionals this episode: Jason- 6, Tai- 4, Aubry- 3, Joe- 2, Michele- 4, Cydney- 2.

Jason had the highest confessional count this episode with six. Everyone else was lower. Joe and Cydney had the lowest with two each. As for total confessionals, Jason had thirty-four, the same number as Aubry. Tai is the only one higher with thirty-six confessionals. Joe has the lowest with only thirteen. SPOILER. Maybe it’s possible that we are done with medical evacuations this season after all. END SPOILER. I still don’t know what exactly is happening with this season. It seems to be all over the place and quite unpredictable. I’m looking forward to the end. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.