Episode 35.11

Now is the point where things get confusing with me keeping track of confessional counts. I don’t know how I’ll keep changing them, but I’m sure that I’ll find a way. I have a sort of process with it, but that’s not really something people besides me care about, now is it?

I realize that whenever Elementary returns, I’ll want to put that blog on Thursdays. But I can’t do that if this blog is on Thursdays. I also don’t think that I can do that if that show returns on Thursdays, but I have no idea at the moment when it might return with new episodes. I just know that it got additional episodes ordered for this upcoming season. If I had to guess, they might put it on Sundays again when Wisdom of the Crowd probably ends its run sometime soon.

Some of the midseason schedule on CBS has been released. It includes the fact that Survivor 36 will start on February 28^th. It also has the dates of the probably short season of Celebrity Big Brother. Right now, I’m only going to watch it if it has alumni from CSI: Cyber or The Good Wife. It just seems like it would be too complicated for me to try to watch outside of the summer.

Things could be different for me if I get either Survivor: Gabon or Survivor: Blood versus Water as gifts for Christmas. I could wind up getting them both. I do want them both as gifts. I’m pretty sure that they are both out on DVD now. I know that Blood versus Water wasn’t out for a bit, but maybe it is now. Keep in mind that things would change for this blog if I get either or both on DVD. I might need to buy them for myself soon if I don’t get it as a gift. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Mike talks about what happened and how he wasn’t expecting it. Ryan thinks that things went well in some way despite all that happened. Maybe he was being sarcastic in a way and I didn’t understand it. We then get to the reward challenge. It is a loved ones challenge. Also, when they ask who they want to see, how awkward would it be if they said a person who wasn’t there? These reunions always take a long time.

Is this a challenge? What’s with the rock drawing? Of all the dumb challenges! That wasn’t even a real challenge! Chrissy wins the challenge and picks her allies of Ryan and Mike to join her, with Ashley as the third choice. She wants to punish Ben for the fight from earlier, which seemed kind of dumb.

In the second segment of the show, Chrissy wants to switch Ashley to their side. Will Ashley be easy to break? She knows that Chrissy is doing, but still considers the offer. Ben makes a fake idol. It would be funny to me if he accidently switched it with the real idol. Lauren thinks that Ben is making things too personal in the game with his vendetta against Chrissy. Lauren then finds half of an idol. They’ll never stop doing these tricks with idols, will they?

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge and they show us where the shell is that is hiding the second half of the idol. People have to hold a disk in order to win the challenge. Ben is out of the challenge first, followed by Chrissy. Ryan is then out. Lauren is out next, where she finds the shell that was right next to her station. Mike is then out of the challenge. Devon talks his way out of the challenge giving Ashley the win. Lauren thinks that she knows what will happen next.

In the fourth segment of the show, Ashley is in a great position and thinks that now might be the time to flip. Only Ben has an idol so this could cause problems. He thinks that he figures out that he’s the target. Now it seems like Ben wants to flip. He tells Mike about Lauren’s idol. But will Chrissy work with Ben? I don’t know what will happen. Ben tries to make amends with Chrissy who wants to put the target on Lauren. Did Lauren get the kiss of death confessional? Ben even told Chrissy about Lauren’s extra vote and idol. Lauren then hears from Devon that Ben is planning on blindsiding her. Lauren gives Mike part of her idol. But I think that she can reclaim it if she wants to. Can she? I guess we’ll see.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to the tribal council. Things quickly turn out against people. It seems like the “core” four are now all against each other. Lauren thinks that she can’t use the advantage right now, but I have no idea if she did that or not. Mike threw his part of the real idol in the fire. Ben revealed his fake idol. There is so much craziness happening here and I’m loving it. The jury is loving it too. What is going on? Chrissy doesn’t want to get rid of Ben. I can’t even write what is all going on here. I have no guess as to what might happen. Ben plays his real idol. He would have gotten a majority of the votes. In fact, he would have gotten all of the votes. His sole vote against Lauren gets rid of her. Does anyone know who would have gotten voted out if Lauren was immune too?

On the next Survivor, people are afraid of Ben, but Chrissy might want to work with him. It would seem that whatever beef exists between them is going away just as easily. I don’t know what to even think about this season anymore. At least it seems good in some way. But it is seeming too crazy. And here I was thinking that crazy was good.

Total confessional count: Ben- 34, Chrissy- 25, Ashley- 19, Devon- 22, Lauren- 27, Ryan- 33, Mike- 20. New confessionals this episode: Ryan- 2, Mike- 3, Ben- 2, Chrissy- 3, Ashley- 2, Devon- 2, Lauren- 3.

In terms of new confessionals, Lauren had three, tied for the highest with Mike and Chrissy. The only people lower were Ryan, Ben, Ashley, and Devon, the only other people still in the game, who all had two confessionals this episode. As for total confessionals, Lauren had twenty-seven, which is higher than Chrissy, Ashley, Devon, or Mike, with Ashley as the lowest with nineteen. Everyone else is about thirty with Ben as the highest with thirty-four. Now can Ben still win this or are people going to get rid of him? Who all can even win this still? I guess we’ll see what happens as this season comes to an end. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.