Survivor: Heroes versus Healers versus Hustlers Premiere

Hopefully this season can be good. I should tell you right now that if I am blogging about an old season and haven’t finished those updates yet, they should still be continuing in the future. I don’t know yet what will happen in the future with this blog as I don’t know what could change in the future. I will mention it in previous blog posts if I haven’t already.

I’m going to make a prediction about something ironic that might happen this season. I’m going to predict that someone in the healers tribe will wind up medically evacuated. I also do feel that this season seems like a redux of heroes versus villains, only the hustlers tribe replaces the villains. They must have added the healers as another good tribe in order to offset the power that villains typically have. Plus, it will be interesting to see how this works with all new players and if they were correctly cast or not. The villains, I mean hustlers, will probably be the tribe to look out for this season. I am interested in seeing what all they can do with a healers tribe. And hopefully these heroes can be better than the terribly miscast heroes of the twentieth season.

I had a dream that I had missed most of a Survivor finale or somehow wasn’t blogging about it for some odd reason. It makes me wonder what would happen if I wasn’t able to continue the blog for any reason. Well, if you stop seeing updates, then I would suggest reading this blog.

http://www.survivortalkwithdandd.com/category/blogs/kaiserisland

Honestly, I’m going to include in future wills that I write a list of potential people who I would like to have as potential replacements for me in terms of someone who could write a Survivor blog. That’s not to say that it would need to happen or even have to happen. But there are plenty of people that I know that like Survivor that I feel could create a blog in their spare time. Even my sister used to have one for a while, but she has a baby now so I doubt she could focus her time and energy into that.

It appears that me potentially blogging about Survivor: Gabon will have to come later as I do not yet have a copy of it. Maybe I’ll get one in the future and I could always buy myself a copy in the future if I wanted to. We’ll see what happens, but it wasn’t a birthday present for me in the summer of 2017. I’ll let you know if I ever get it as a gift for myself.

On Candy Crush the TV show, they had Survivor contestants on at least the first episode. This reminds me of the time that I blogged about the special Price is Right episode that related to Survivor. But, after watching the first episode, I wondered if I could even blog about it as I like to blog in terms of summarizing, and it didn’t seem like I could summarize it.  Besides, the show is strange and I don’t know if I’ll watch all of it anyways. That is why you didn’t see this at all. But you probably didn’t care.

While I didn’t wind up needing to do a break with this blog, I was all ready to stop posting for a bit if I had to. It turns out that I didn’t have to. But a grandmother of mine died this month. If I had missed a post as a result, this would have been the first post that I would have done after it. I don’t know what I would do if a death occurred during the middle of a season and it caused me to miss any episodes. Of course, I’d be at the funeral or wherever I need to be instead of blogging. But I shouldn’t have any problems with this blog unless there are more problems with Thanksgiving related travels, another death, or some other problem.

I won’t know until I watch the show who all is worthy of being on the tribe that they were assigned. Some of the job choices that I originally saw seemed strange on first look but made more sense the second time I looked. I guess I’ll have to wait and see. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, we don’t get that much of an intro which is actually a nice change. The extremely long introductions can be bothersome. It is weird that Jeff calls all the tribes good traits. How is being a hustler a good thing? Plus, I already don’t think that all of these people would be good since there would probably be a villain on any one of the tribes. Jeff thinks that hustlers are respected for their strong work ethic. Hold on while I look up synonyms for the word hustler. Sadly, Word does not offer any. Maybe I’ll look it up on Wiktionary. The opening challenge will get all but the losers some form of fire. It seems really early to give two of the tribes fire. Ryan gets a secret advantage. I think that I know the twist already, but I’ll wait for it to be described later. The hustlers fail at the challenge that just might have been the easiest one in the history of the show. I forget who was first.

The healers are shown getting to their camp first. Jessica seems to develop a crush on someone. I once had a crush on a Jessica. We knew each other in second grade before she moved away. If you are that person and are single, then let me know. I don’t know what happened to her and if she has the same last name. I tried finding her on facebook but don’t know how to spell her last name. Also, I don’t know what she would look like today. There are day one alliances forming already. The Tagi alliance might have done that if only Kelly stayed loyal. I can’t think of any others. Ryan is dying to get into his pants. Coby from Palau once asked producers where he would go if he wanted to masturbate. He didn’t get an answer and was embarrassed that he asked the question. Ryan learns of the super idol that is good at only the first tribal council and whether he is cocky or not, he feels that he has all the power.

In the second segment of the show, Mike was told by his ten year old son to look for the idol. It is a risky strategy, but it can pay off. It can also backfire and get you targeted like what people are doing now. I did watch Survivor at the age of ten and am still watching it sixteen years later. I don’t understand the whole idol conversation. Joe might not be trusted but I don’t know why. Ryan tells Devon about his advantage because he doesn’t know Survivor 101: keep any advantage or idols to yourself. Alan thinks that JP can’t be trusted. What all is even going on right now? This seems hard to follow. Alan tells people about an idol that doesn’t exist as this is a good idea?

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge already. There is still a whole half of show left so this makes me wonder if things will be crazy as usual at tribal council and camp life. Or they might not have a fifth segment on this show this time. I predict that the hustlers will lose the challenge. Jeff confirms that ties are back in, but I don’t know if he fully explained it in a better way that we cut due to time constraints. Basically, a revote will happen if there is a tie. Healers win the immunity challenge and they were forced with the unpicked option. A ball needs to drop. I hate it when balls don’t drop like they are supposed to. The heroes tribe which picked first their puzzle loses. Chrissy has problems after the challenge happens but seems to be okay later. Ryan wonders who will get his idol. It seems kind of dumb that he can’t just keep it until his first tribal council. But I guess this way is more interesting and would have taken the sting of losing off. Also, a contestant on this season is local so I might have to tell you more about her that I learn on the news tonight in the next post.

In the fourth segment of the show, Ashley wants to vote out Alan as he isn’t trustworthy. Alan doesn’t trust anyone. Geez, this may be a worst heroes tribe than the first one. At least the other one sucked in a different way. A question that I wonder is who will get the idol and how? When will they get it too? Chrissy gets the idol to little surprise after her weird issue after the challenge. The tribe marches off to tribal council as a lead-in to the commercial break.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to the tribal council at hand. Why is it worthy of its own whole segment? I guess that we will see, but I already sense tons of dysfunction on this tribe. Chrissy thinks that she is at the bottom of her tribe. Alan thinks that denying something that isn’t true is a sign that you can’t be trusted. He seems crazy, but hopefully one that wouldn’t get more crazy if you called him that. *cough* Phillip *cough* I don’t know what to think going into the vote, but it seems that the idol would not need to be used unless someone other than Alan gets the majority. Katrina gets the most votes and the idol isn’t used because Chrissy voted against Katrina as well. The heck just happened?

On the next Survivor, there’s a new power couple, but I can’t tell who it is since I don’t know who all is who yet. One of the hustlers is getting crazy and I can’t really gather much from what is going on only that each of the tribes gets a story.

Confessional count: Alan- 3, Patrick- 1, Ben- 2, Ali- 2, JP- 1, Chrissy- 1, Jessica- 2, Roark- 1, Cole- 0, Joe- 2, Simone- 0, Ashley- 3, Devon- 1, Katrina- 1, Lauren- 1, Ryan- 5, Desi- 1, Mike- 2.

Katrina had only one confessional, the same as Devon, Patrick, Lauren, JP, Desi, Chrissy, and Roark. The people lower are Simone and Cole who don’t have any yet. Everyone else is higher with Ryan as the highest currently. Why was Katrina voted out? That didn’t make any sense. Did they think that she would cause problems because a hurricane would later be named that? Stupid hurricanes have been ruining everything this year for just the past few months. Have we ever had this many at once? This world is far too sad and crazy nowadays so I can hope that things aren’t too bad in the future. I hope that I can be more positive in the future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Top Ten Blindsides

Who doesn’t love a good blindside on Survivor? Well, maybe you don’t like it if a person you like was voted out because of it. But there were tons of great blindsides throughout the course of Survivor history, so I might as well mention what I think the ten best ones are.

Rules: 1- Only one blindside per season. 2- Only contestants getting voted out counts as a blindside. 3- The same person can’t be on the list more than once, should they have been blindsided more than once either during the same season or during multiple seasons.

Honorable mentions: Silas’s elimination in Africa was pretty fun, even if it was expected. Richard in All-Stars had a totally unexpected elimination to me and I enjoyed it. But it wasn’t good enough in my mind to make the main list. The eliminations of Leann in Vanuatu and Erik in Samoa started making the rest of the game as good and interesting as it was. There are other random blindsides that I had here and now in my ideas list, but I don’t think that they are even good enough to mention here.

#10 Stacey in Borneo: This was probably not the most notable blindside of the first season, but am I including it for being the very first blindside of the show. Poor Stacey had no idea what was coming that she was convinced that production got the contestants to vote her out instead of realizing like those who came after her that maybe she didn’t know coming into tribal council what would happen.

#9 Rupert in Pearl Islands: While it was telegraphed on the wall due to the scene where the snack spent a long time eating its prey, it was still a notable blindside. I like Rupert and hated to see him go, but this is what one can expect from a great show like Survivor.

#8 Jeff Varner in Australia: It was a strategic vote that the poor Kucha tribe just didn’t know was coming. They all picked the wrong target and due to the deadlock vote because no one switched from either tribe, poor Jeff was voted out, blindsided by the other tribe.

#7 James in China: How do you have not one, but two hidden immunity idols and get voted out? Poor James will probably never live down the humiliation that he suffered by being blindsided. He was just too overconfident and was voted out as a result.

#6 John in Marquesas: This is here do to it being a power shift that happened as a result of the vote. Maybe others like it should have made the top ten, but I feel that the first true change of power was worthy of being on the list.

#5 Erik in Micronesia: He will forever get grief at the fact that he gave up immunity. That is why his vote out wasn’t a surprise to anyone. But he was still blindsided after making one of the dumbest moves of all time. He might have actually won otherwise.

#4 Katie in Blood versus Water: Maybe this doesn’t belong on the list due to the tie-breaker method and the fact that she didn’t really get voted out or even was the target by either side. But I still think that it is worth mentioning her because we had no idea what would happen or who would get eliminated that night as a result of what went on.

#3 Bill in One World: He didn’t see his elimination coming. Otherwise, he would have had the sense to not agree to his tribe’s plan to give up immunity. I don’t even know if other people would agree to this choice being on their lists, but it would be on mine and that’s all that matters now anyways.

#2 Phillip in Caramoan: You can talk all the smack about Survivor that you want to over how strange it was that a second idol just randomly entered the game. But I really just loved to watch the tribal council where all this drama was going down and Phillip became the victim of an insane vote out.

#1 JT in Heroes versus Villains: Maybe the scales were accidently tipped to the villains in the lead up to what had happened. But JT became the victim of a double idol play by the villains and it was his own idol that helped do it to. It was a fun blindside to watch.

Well, that is all for this post. I’ll be back next week when Survivor starts with my thoughts on the season premiere of Heroes versus Healers versus Hustlers. I’ll also need to start working on more of these random posts for the future so that I’m not getting them done the day before I am doing them. I just have not been on top of things like I should be, but you don’t even know as I haven’t missed a post. I had warned you at the end that I could so I will explain more about that in the next post or should, if I care enough. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Potential New Players Related to Former Players

When they first came up with the idea for Blood versus Water, it made me wonder what new players we could see that are in some way related to a former player of the game. Well, I might as well get to listing all of those that I can think of or otherwise remember.

One of the most notable people to think of is So Kim’s sister. They were both going to be on San Juan del Sur, but then her sister couldn’t play for medical reasons. While So appeared on the next season, her sister hasn’t been on another season yet and I think that she should.

This makes you think about the original Blood versus Water season. RC and her father were supposed to be on it. They were even there on site, but he couldn’t pass the medical tests and they were flown out and replaced by Candice and John. Why hasn’t her father actually appeared on the show? I don’t know. It could be any number of reasons. But I think that he should play at some point.

I’m going to mention other people that I know of were alternates to Blood versus Water and would thus have family members wanting to play at one point. Bobby Jon from Palau and Guatemala had a female cousin who wanted to play with him. Chelsea from One World was wanting to play with her father. Cindy from Guatemala could have played with her twin. Edna from South Pacific could have played with her sister. Eliza from Vanuatu and Micronesia could have played with her mother. Greg from Borneo might have been offered to play with his sister. Holly from Nicaragua could have played with her daughter. I have not seen any reason why these people couldn’t play on their own. It hasn’t happened yet for some odd reason.

Jamie from Guatemala could have played with his twin, but that didn’t happen. Jane from Nicaragua could have played with her daughter. Jerri from Australia, All-Stars, and Heroes versus Villains had two known, potential partners: her sister and her father. Jonathan from Cook Islands, Micronesia, and Philippines had a then underage son he could have played with. Marty from Nicaragua could have played with his wife or son. Sandra from Pearl Islands, Heroes versus Villains, and Game Changers could have played with her daughter. Shane from Panama might have been on with his son if he filled out paperwork on time. Gretchen from Borneo could have played with her daughter. Troyzan from One World and Game Changers could have played with his brother. Terry from Panama and Cambodia could have played if his daughter was older at the time.

Outside of the people that we know had alternates on Blood versus Water, we do have to wonder about various other people. Would the kids of Rob and Amber ever appear on the show? Richard Hatch has over a hundred kids because he donated sperm. They could do a whole season based off of his seed alone if all of them could be rounded up and wanted to play. Of course, I’d rather not do that as it might exploit the situation to some extent.

Well, that’s all that I can think about for this post. I might share something about my personal life that happened when I do the post of the season premiere later. I don’t know if this blog will wind up going on hiatus or not, although it might not have to after all. I don’t know what else to say so I will end this blog post. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

The Ten Most Bitter Jury Members

I have a lot of planned top tens for this blog in the future that relate to some sort of jury aspect of the game. One of the things that the jury can be is bitter. There can be some really bitter people who are on the jury and that affects the game. Who were the ten most bitter jury members? Well, as usual, I might as well mention my thoughts on them.

#10 Sue from Borneo- The original bitter jury member, she seems rather tame now compared to what all would come later. She hated Kelly so much that she singlehandedly prevented her from winning with one single vote. That doesn’t always happen, especially nowadays.

#9 RC from Philippines- She was so upset at everyone at the end that it didn’t matter that they didn’t vote her out. Maybe she just doesn’t understand how the game works. But she clearly didn’t like anyone at the end even though they didn't vote her out.

#8 Aras from Blood versus Water- Some people can let go of their rivalries at the end, but Aras clearly couldn’t. He openly told Tyson that he wasn’t voting for him. He seem far too upset at everything at the final tribal council that he just openly voted for who he thought was second best and not give Tyson unanimous victory. It seemed just kind of weird that he didn't accept that Tyson was a good player.

#7 Eliza from Vanuatu- She was so upset at Chris and Twila that she demanded an apology from both of them. Twila didn’t understand how to please a jury member in this case. But you can tell that someone is being bitter if they want the finalists to apologize for playing the game.

#6 Erik from Samoa- He probably had the most reason to be upset and bitter at the game. What he didn’t realize was that the person he spoke out in support of was actually the reason that he was voted out. But I love the way that he destroyed Russell Hantz and Mick at the final tribal council. It was one of the greatest things seen in a finale of Survivor.

#5 Ken from Gabon- I just don’t get why he just can’t admit that his dumb plan failed. He tried to get Bob to give him the immunity necklace so he could vote Bob out. Only Bob wasn’t that dumb and Ken got voted out instead. Ken just gets insanely bitter and refuses to see any problem with what he tried to do. It is clear at the end that I didn’t really like him.

#4 Brandon from South Pacific- He’s so dumb he gives up immunity, gets voted out, and still blames a finalist for what happened regarding his elimination. He badgers Albert relentlessly at the final tribal council and walks away mad. Granted, Albert did terribly at the final tribal council, but no one can tame the wildness of Brandon and the show is far better off without him.

#3 Ozzy from Micronesia- Maybe his anger was misdirected at Parvati when it should have been against Cirie. Only Cirie didn’t make the final tribal council and Parvati was partly responsible for his elimination. He was clearly upset by all of what happened this season and may be a sore loser. But he tried to make a case for the runner-up that proved unsuccessful in the end.

#2 Reed from San Juan del Sur- I still don’t know why exactly he was so mad at this wicked stepmother (his words) that he was talking against. But he was clearly not happy at her and was the reason that she got third when she could have tied for second. I just wish I knew why he didn’t like her.

#1 Lex from All-Stars- This is why you should never underestimate someone’s bitterness. Lex did what Rob wanted and Rob still voted him out. Why? Rob must have wanted to lose because that is what ended up happening. Lex would never vote for Rob to win and Rob lost by only one vote. I still don’t see why Lex is the dumb one in the situation.

Well, that’s all for this blog post. I hope that I can blog about the upcoming season, but I’m not sure if I will be able to. I don’t know what the future will hold. If I do have to stop posting this blog, I’ll let you know why in a special post. Don't be surprised if I take a break until the next season starts as there are at least two problems in my life that could affect my ability to update this and other blogs of mine. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.