Notable Confusing Survivor Events

There are plenty of confusing things that happen on Survivor many times. Some make little sense. There are a lot of things that are just plan confusing. What are all of them? Well, I might as well do a list of the various confusing events that have happened in Survivor history.

The first merge tribal council had the most confusing vote in the history of Survivor. There were six contestants who each got a vote. I have seen that episode at least twice. I’ll probably watch it again and again over time. And yet I’ll probably never understand the vote. The members of Pagong had even said that they would target the members of Tagi and eliminate them one by one. What went wrong? I don’t understand to this day why the vote was so confusing and doubt that I ever will.

The purple rock’s first appearance was the ultimate act of confusion that we might ever see on this show. The contestants are tied. They probably think that they will go to the previous votes against them method to resolving the tie. (They don’t know that the method wouldn’t work since they have the same number of previous votes against them.) What people don’t realize is that the method of resolving ties has been changed and they are suddenly thrust into having to draw for rocks which will eliminate them. This becomes the most confusing thing to happen in terms of ties.

Jerri getting booed at the All-Stars reunion show was a pretty weird thing that I don’t understand. Maybe I’d have to rewatch it to know for sure why this went on. Maybe people just took their hatred of her too far. Maybe I missed what might have happened that lead to this. But I just know that I’m still confused by this now and I don't know why the audience was so mean.

Palau’s beginning was one of the weirdest ways of starting a season. The contestants learn that there is an immunity necklace for the first man and first woman who make it to shore. Then, after the weird challenge, everyone is living together without any tribes being formed. Such a weird thing had never happened before in the show’s history.

In Cook Islands, I think that we were all confused by the moment that Billy fell in love with Candice. Maybe he just misheard her or somehow thought for a while that she had fallen in love with him. I think that he takes it in stride now and understands the weirdness of the moment. But we didn’t really know for sure what had happened until Candice confirmed that she did not fall in love with him.

In China, I know that I was confused by Jamie and her confusion over the hidden immunity idol. The particular thing that I found strange was when she looked through a bag that had James’s real idol in it. Now what we don’t quite get is that a hidden immunity idol is a personal item and cannot be stolen from another player. I wondered why she couldn’t just take his idol as a result, but that isn’t allowed. I guess that I just found it unusual, even though most people might not care or notice.

Bill’s elimination in One World seemed pretty strange given the unprecedented way it occurred. His tribe gave up immunity and I’m shocked that it was allowed to happen at all. Why would the tribe be allowed to give up immunity? Why doesn’t Jeff put a stop to this nonsense and tell them to go back and tell the other tribe to attend tribal council like they rightfully should be doing? It was confusing to me and probably to everyone else who watched.

Those are all the events that I felt were worth posting in this blog. I doubt that I covered all of them. But I hope that you liked this blog post even if it was a bit random. That’s what I do when Survivor is on hiatus. I do random posts for this blog instead. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.