Episode 34.11

I can’t tell yet if I want Sarah to win or if I want her to get blindsided. I think that the second choice would be the better one. With Brad, I don’t know if he actually could wind up winning this or not. I’m not sure if I’d want him to. But he seems to have control of the game so we’ll see if this leads to him getting dethroned a la Sandra or if he’ll win based on that. While I may have some doubts about Cirie winning, I would like to see that. One would question why they should show someone struggling the way they show Cirie struggling, but they did show Jenna struggling in Amazon so it could happen again. I just can’t think of a winner besides Jenna who they showed not surviving the way someone like Richard was shown surviving a whole lot.

While there were multiple people from the same season at the start of the game, now the only two people that are left who played in the same season are Tai and Aubry. Of course, this is if you don’t count Brad and Troyzan as being part of the not playing a season club because they weren’t voted into it. I wonder if the next returning player season will have women who didn’t make the cut of Cambodia. Not being in a season isn’t that notable. Carolyn from Worlds Apart was a candidate for this season that didn’t make it. I’m surprised that, last I checked, it seems that we didn’t know that many alternates for this season.

I still wonder who might win this season. I could wait until the next post to speculate, but that won’t be published before the episode in question airs anyways. It is possible that Brad wins as there is enough in his edit to support that. But I don’t know if I can see that as happening. Sarah could win or have a major blindside waiting for her. I would like Cirie to finally win. I just hope that she isn’t eliminated in a third finale episode, which is possible. Andrea’s edit seems too negative to support a win. Michaela’s is all over the place which doesn’t support a win to me. The rest seem too invisible, especially Troyzan. It can be hard to remember that he’s even on this season. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Sarah gets the legacy advantage, but maybe not right away. The tribe talks about why Sierra was voted out. Sarah talks about how she was able to play Sierra and got the advantage from her. Sarah wants to get rid of Andrea. Please do it!

In the second segment of the show, we go straight to the first immunity challenge of the episode. It is the balance and make a house of cards challenge that we’ve seen before. I don’t know if this is a real classic the way he claims it is. It is fun to see it with more people. Aubry ends up winning the challenge in a record fast time. Andrea wants to get rid of Sarah.

In the third segment of the show, Aubry is glad that she won immunity. People want to vote out Brad since he is vulnerable. Michaela visits him. Brad thinks this might be blackmail. Clearly, it is black female. The idols continue to be irrelevant to the game. Why are they even there? There is so much confusion over what to do. Either Brad or Andrea is a good option. We haven’t seen Brad dominate that much in challenges, but I feel he is more of a threat to win. At tribal council, people discuss what to do regarding the impending vote out. The votes are cast and commercial break. Oh, come on!

In the fourth segment of the show, Andrea gets voted out. Move, bitch! Get out the way! Well, maybe she’s not that mean, but I do kind of feel like that right now. I wonder if she lasted longer than she did in Caramoan. She might not have. Redemption Island and Caramoan have now been eliminated from this season. Aubry is upset that Andrea is voted out. Tai consoles Aubry which concerns Cirie who thinks that they are a pair.

We then get to the next immunity challenge and Cirie is concerned. She didn’t win this in Panama, but it didn’t matter then. Cirie seems to fail at the challenge. Is Jeff allowed to just tell her to jump like he sort of did? Michaela almost wins the challenge, but messes up. Brad ends up winning the challenge in the end. Cirie wants to get rid of a threat to her. Who could that be?

In the fifth segment of the show, we get back to the tribe after the immunity challenge. Troyzan thinks that he might have to play his idol. Tai thinks that he needs to make a big move. Now, Tai: don’t do something too risky like you did last time. Aubry wants to get rid of Tai. Sarah gives her vote stealing advantage to Cirie. Isn’t that against the rules? I guess not. Cirie thinks correctly that Tai has an idol. She wants to do some of her crazy ways to get Tai to not play an idol. Tai doesn’t know what to think about this and actually considers playing his idol because of it. I have no idea what will happen next.

Next comes tribal council. Sarah thinks that people have been sneaking around.  Cirie thinks that a lot of lies have been going around the camp. This might be an attempt to cover up her own. There is more discussion between players before Cirie tries to play hers Sarah’s vote stealing advantage. Sarah points out that it can’t be transferred to someone else. Sarah then takes it back and drama unfolds with a whole bunch of secret whispers come out. What’s going on now? Sarah then plays the advantage going for Tai’s vote. Did Cirie still make a good move? This could come back and bite her in the ass. In the end, no idols are played. Was that a good idea? It doesn’t look like it. Somehow, Cirie gets no votes against her yet again and Michaela gets voted out for some odd reason. #what? This means that Millennials versus Gen X is eliminated from the game. I just realized that Michaela was voted out with the advantage she was supposed to have.

On the next Survivor, Tai does a potential crazy move that may end up costing him the game. I don’t know what else to think besides that. I guess we will see what happens when it happens, if you know what is happening. It seems confusing to me still.

Total confessional count: Michaela- 19, Brad- 23, Cirie- 28, Sarah- 26, Troyzan- 9, Tai- 18, Andrea- 18, Aubry- 16. New confessionals this episode: Tai- 2, Andrea- 3, Aubry- 4, Michaela- 1, Brad- 2, Cirie- 6, Sarah- 2, Troyzan- 1.

Andrea had three new confessionals in this episode. Aubry and Cirie are higher with Cirie as the highest with six. Michaela had just one new confessional this episode, tied for the lowest with Troyzan. In terms of total confessionals, Michaela had nineteen. Andrea had eighteen, tied with Tai. Aubry was lower but Troyzan remains the lowest with just nine. The highest is Cirie with twenty-eight. I have no idea how this season will end, but I just hope that it ends well. As long as an idol is finally played, I’m not sure that I’ll care too much about the end result. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.