Episode 34.6

It seems like this show is running pretty late in the schedule. It started late, so it only seems natural that it will continue late until the end of the season in May. I do wonder if Hunted will continue for future seasons or not. It might, in order to fill the gap between Survivor seasons. Honestly, you could potentially put The Amazing Race between Survivor seasons if you aren’t going to do them the same way they have been doing them. I have no idea if Hunted did well in the ratings or not so I won’t know until the next season is announced whether or not it is staying around.

Good Friday is coming up and that means missing all of the Friday shows that I typically watch. This might be good as a lot of those shows that I watch have already left the schedule. But it potentially means missing a bunch of different shows that I like that are still on the air. The Friday shows that I currently watch are MacGyver, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods, and Reign. There are times that I watch 20/20, but I don’t always watch it and usually ignore it if it is a murder mystery episode. I might be getting into various new Friday shows like The Toy Box, You the Jury, and First Dates. Other Friday shows that I watched this season before they left the schedule were Grimm, Emerald City, and Sleepy Hollow. There are a lot of good things. I even watch Shark Tank and Dateline sometimes.

I couldn’t help but noticing that Exile Island this season isn’t really Exile Island. I had thought of a twist that I never mentioned before where instead of an Exile Island, it is a Luxury Island that a lucky, random person would get that also comes with a round of immunity. (This would be in a season that starts with one tribe, to offset when there are an odd number of players.) This is pretty much turning Exile Island into something good. I don’t like this. It shouldn’t be some sort of party like the people in the video I’m mentioning are having. Plus, why is it on a pirate ship instead of, I don’t know, AN ACTUAL ISLAND? It’s bad enough that Redemption Island has never been a real island.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avaSdC0QOUM (Warning: contains foul language)

Since all of the former winners are out of the game, it makes me wonder if the runner ups will be targeted or not. I doubt it, since they don’t really have the same sort of stigma attached to them that winners would be. In case you aren’t keeping track, the former finalists still in the game are Tai, Ozzy, and Aubry. If more alpha males go home, then Ozzy would be a potential next victim. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Debbie incorrectly thinks that she is the first person to observe a tribal council and not vote. Tai thinks that he’s in danger based on what’s going on. I forget who all has possessed multiple idols before. Didn’t Tai the last time he played? Jeff and Zeke talk which might be a bad decision on Zeke’s part. I think that all the others who have had two idols at once are James in China, Parvati in Heroes versus Villains, Malcolm in Caramoan, and that’s all that I can remember. If there are more, I’m not sure if I know them offhand.

In the second segment of the show, we get to a similar, yet different type of challenge. The winner gets pizza and soft drinks. (Why is soda called soft drinks sometimes? Is that to appease the morons who don’t call it soda?) Nuku wins the challenge due to Ozzy the challenge beast. I wonder if we should be worried that he’ll do this again. We don’t know if this whole Ozzy and Cirie rivalry will still come to mean that one will cause the elimination of the other. I’m not sure yet who I’d rather come out on top.

In the third segment of the show, we get back to the red tribe after their loss as I realize that Exile Island was probably a one-time twist this season. This is the part from the promos where everyone is getting emotional. I don’t entirely understand why this is happening, but that seems to be the point. Aubry and Brad seem to bond over this. Ozzy talks about the win that he helped bring his tribe. It seems almost like day and night the difference between the two tribes right now. Jeff wants to get rid of Ozzy. Plus don’t backfire on Jeff. I notice that a lot of people we haven’t seen in a while are getting airtime again. That’s pretty nice, actually.

In the fourth segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge already. I don’t think that production rigs things, but it is interesting how they have a water challenge now and they know how good Ozzy is with these types of challenges. Of course, they only have a limited number of challenges that would work as a tribal challenge. Brad fails partly at the challenge. Anyone would be dead in the water, so to speak, against Ozzy in the water, so you have to wonder if this is important to the future. Despite the lead, Ozzy’s tribe loses the challenge after failing at the puzzle.

We then get back to the losing tribe. Jeff offers a public swan song, but I don’t that he’s out yet. Zeke wants to keep Jeff in the game. Zeke doesn’t want Ozzy out of the game. Jeff stirs the pot and tries to get the women on his side. Why do gay men seem to align with women? I can’t tell if is making up crap or not. Is Zeke in danger at all?

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council next. Jeff Varner talks about how he feels that he is on the bottom.  Jeff airs the tribe’s dirty laundry to everyone. Remember when Coby did that in Palau? It didn’t work out that well for him. Who is transgender? Things are exploding quite easily. When was this ever revealed? Now I’m wanting Jeff Varner to be voted out. Jeff Probst talks about the logic gap. Zeke feels betrayed. Don’t ever tell someone that you are voting them out. It doesn’t work out most of the time.

I don’t like this tribal council. Should they even be airing this? I guess that they might have to in order to explain the vote that happens. This might somehow being one of the most shocking tribal councils ever and we probably know who is getting voted out the whole time. I guess that the best way to called this episode is #survivorbombshell. Are we getting to the vote ever? They forgo the actual vote and Jeff Varner gets eliminated. Wow. I wonder who his vote would have been against. Poor Jeff just doesn’t seem to understand how to play the game.

On the next Survivor, we get to the merge as expected. There’s not much else revealed about the next episode. Jeff Varner is emotional in his exit confessional and upset over what he did. I hope that he doesn’t lose a lot of friends over this. I’ll stay friends with him on facebook. I know that I’ve said a lot of dumb and terrible things before. If you haven’t, that’s good. It’s sad that such a terrible fight is now on TV forever. Honestly, though, it is still better than a lot of what we saw during the election. Ugh. His elimination means that Australia and Cambodia are eliminated from this season. What’s interesting is that the two people who didn’t make the cast of Cambodia are still in this game.

Total confessional count: Michaela- 8, Brad- 11, Cirie- 7, Hali- 6, Sarah- 6, Ozzy- 6, Troyzan- 7, Zeke- 8, Sierra- 4, Tai- 12, Jeff Varner- 14, Debbie- 14, Andrea- 4, Aubry- 7.

New confessionals this episode: Brad- 2, Cirie- 1, Hali- 0, Sarah- 2, Ozzy- 1, Troyzan- 0, Zeke- 1, Sierra- 1, Tai- 1, Jeff Varner- 3, Debbie- 1, Andrea- 0, Aubry- 2, Michaela- 0.

Now let’s get to the confessional count. Jeff Varner tied with Debbie for the most total confessionals with fourteen each. The second highest is Tai with twelve. If my count is right, Sierra and Andrea tie for lowest with four a piece. Jeff had three new confessionals this episode, which was higher than anyone else. Those with two are Brad, Sarah, and Aubry. With no new confessionals are Andrea, Hali, Michaela, and Troyzan. I might have confused Andrea and Sierra with the confessional count.

Wow. That episode was pretty heavy. I would recommend to those on the west coast or later time zones to watch the CW after this episode is over because you might need a laugh to take your mind off of what happened. Poor Zeke. I hope that Jeff doesn’t get a lot of hate the way Dawn did after Brenda’s boot in Caramoan. I also hope that he learned his lesson. I thought that after Cambodia that Jeff couldn’t get a worse edit and was destined to bounce back. Instead, he went even lower. Maybe he should take a vacation. It sure helped Jeff Probst overcome the controversy regarding the Caramoan reunion show to instantly be out filming Blood versus Water until the whole thing blew over. This makes me seriously doubt that they will do anything bad at a fall season’s reunion show. I don’t even know exactly what I’m saying anymore. I guess that I will be back in the future with the next episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.