I do wonder know that we are
reaching the end just how much of this versus season actually remained in the
end of it. I can’t even remember now who all started on what tribe. I think
that Mike is the only healer still in the game. And I think that the heroes
still might have a player in it. I know that the hustlers are still in this so
it is kind of nice that they are all in the finale.
You might wonder what I will
do with the time that I spend watching Survivor until it returns. I don’t know
for sure what all I’ll do. I don’t think that this show will return until after
the Olympics. The date that I have is February 28th on next year.
But you might wonder what is happening with the slot during the winter hiatus.
The Amazing Race will start out in the slot before moving back an hour to air
the rest of its season. I think that Celebrity Big Brother or Undercover Boss
will be in its slot the rest of the time. I may be recording other stuff during
Lent while I wait for this to start airing.
Something that I’ve randomly
wondered some about is the tie-breaker method for the win that Jeff revealed in
the last season’s finale. I don’t know if he should have told everyone that.
Plus, it only works if there is a two way tie with a finalist either not
getting votes or getting minority votes where they wouldn’t win a tie. Due to
how they can make a jury, a three-way tie wouldn’t be possible unless it is a
final three with nine people on the jury. But since the finalist who won’t win
would know he is casting a tie-breaker vote, you’d have to wonder if that is
right since they would know the winner as a result. But who knows? A tie might
never happen anyways. It has been over ten seasons since the final vote was any
close. Plus the final two never did anything to fix that problem.
I do hope that we go back to
the normal way of doing the final tribal council. The open forum twist that
they did last season just didn’t really seem like it did what it should have.
They changed a lot of the show last season given its theme so that is why
things are probably more back to normal now. I won’t know for sure until I see
the whole episode. But enough of my ramblings.
In the first segment of the
show, Jeff introduces the show and the finale. I still don’t know if I like
these pre reunion show segments since it seems to serve Jeff to give himself
more airtime. The final five each get what can best be described as a courtesy
confessional at this point, but I’m not going to count it this time. They all
talk about how they need to get rid of Ben.
He looks for an idol throughout the night. He is surprised that people
aren’t looking with him, but it could go either way with whether or not there
is an idol in the game again. Sure enough, he finds an idol.
In the second segment of the
show, Chrissy wants to make up with Ben, which she is doing just for the game
instead of because she means it. She then offers an idol to take him to the
final three, but he sees right through it. But was her request sincere? We get
to a challenge and the reward with immunity is food. That seems kind of dumb to
offer that AFTER the challenge. It’s interesting the ball part of the challenge
that appears at the end. But I guess the producers just wanted to see these
contestants handle balls. Chrissy wins the challenge. She gets to pick people
for the food reward and she picks Mike and Devon to join her with it and it seems that Ryan doesn't like this.
In the third segment of the
show, the people look through the food for an idol clue. They find nothing,
although I have the feeling that they would have if Ben didn’t find an idol. Chrissy
wants to use her old superidol that has been dead since day four onward. Everyone
talks about how brilliant this is or would be if he didn’t already have an
idol. “You should waste your energy, I mean, save your energy.” That’s a bit of
a fun Freudian slip.
He makes it seem like he
bought it and now won’t spend time looking for an idol which he would be doing
even though he found it. Ben wonders who to vote out, not thinking that Ryan
would be a good person to vote out. He thinks either Devon or Mike should be
voted out next. Jeff then talks some to the audience and talks to random
people.
In the fourth segment of the
show, we get to the tribal council at hand. Ryan thinks that no one has played
an idol before the votes were cast. In Guatemala, that is when you had to and
when Gary did. Under the current rules, that hasn’t happened. Chrissy reveals
her “idol” to the jury and they actually look like they believe it can still be
used. Ben goes along with the idea that he’s going home.
The votes are then cast. Ben
plays his real idol while Chrissy tried to do something with her old idol.
Devon would have gotten voted out if he hadn’t voted for Mike instead. Devon
made a risky move, but it was a good thing to follow his gut this time. Mike
gets voted out at the revote. I love how this season has been like a roller coaster
with all its twists and turns. There is a twist coming up. Mike thinks that he
could have won in the final three. I think that he only could have beaten
Devon, which means that he would have lost against whoever the third person
was.
Jeff then takes Mike out at
the reunion show and talks about his vote out. Mike was going to vote for Devon
and if he did, Mike would have stayed. Survivor is knowing when to do the right
move and what it is. He knew it, but he didn’t make it because he played it
safe and wound up sorry.
In the fifth segment of the
show, Devon talks about how he wasn’t expecting tribal council. But he did know
and that’s why he didn’t vote for Ben. Everyone else wants to get rid of Ben by
winning immunity. But what is this twist? We then get to the final immunity
challenge. The challenge is a big bunch of wibbly wobbly, letters spelling
stuff. The stuff is the word heroes, healers, and hustlers. I don’t really like
the challenges where people can lose their progress easily. It seems really
dumb for a final immunity challenge. What happened to the endurance challenge?
Chrissy ends up winning due to mistakes by Ben that happen twice in a way. Will
Ben get voted out? I know some spoilers, although I won’t tell them to you
until they happen.
In the sixth segment of the
show, Ben is bummed that he didn’t win immunity. He is probably more bummed
that he can’t just find another idol to use. Chrissy says that she’s
considering keeping him in the game, but she doesn’t know for sure if she
really will. She learns that she is casting the only vote by choosing who to
keep and the other two will face off and make fire.
This seems like possible
production manipulation to ensure that the vote off isn’t obvious like it would
have been otherwise. You shouldn’t be able to force a fire making tie. But at
least it would happen even if Ben won. Devon practices some, but not too much
due to the flint breaking. Bob won Gabon through practicing a challenge like
this. I don’t think that saving your energy would work.
In the seventh segment of the
show, we get to the tribal council. Not much is talked about before it gets to
the reveal of the twist that only Ben and the jury didn’t know. She picks her
buddy Ryan to go to the final three via a voice vote. How many people have cast
a voice vote? It sure doesn’t happen much. The people that I know that did that
were Tom in Palau, the favorites in Caramoan, the people who voted out Jeff
Varner last season, and now Chrissy.
In the eighth segment of the
show, we get to the fire making challenge. Devon struggles the whole time while
Ben ends up winning. Why did people think that Devon would be good in a
challenge? I just know that Chrissy sticking with Ryan makes the most sense. Jeff
says that the twist will appear again next season. Quit changing the game all
the time!
In the ninth segment of the
show, Ryan is glad that he made it this far and thinks that he can convince the
jury that he was in control of the game even though he really wasn’t. We get
thoughts on the final three and I do believe that it is one of the best we’ve
had in the game. They are all deserving in some way of the win. All can be
villainous and yet seem likable. It looks like they are doing the twist that
they did at the last tribal council. Why must good things change?
Total confessional count:
Devon- 29, Ryan- 37, Mike- 24, Ben- 48, Chrissy- 37. New confessionals this episode:
Ben- 7, Chrissy- 8, Devon- 4, Ryan- 2, Mike- 2.
In the tenth segment of the
show, the go with the outwit portion of the game. Desi feels that Ryan does not
really belong there because he didn’t do much to get there. That’s the problem
with a quiet game like the one he has is that no one really knew what he was
doing. Ryan thinks that Devon was a person that he used to his advantage. Joe
talks about Ben’s horrible social game. Ben might be too much like Russell
Hantz for his own good. Only I’d actually be okay with Ben winning. Chrissy
feels that she stayed loyal to her alliances and not just make one huge move
after another.
Cole talks about the whole
peanut butter thing that I don’t even remember. When did this happen? Ryan
thinks that he was nicer to Cole then Ben was. I can’t keep track of everything
that is going on here in this which is why the format is bad.
Next is the outplay part of
the game. He likes the fact that Chrissy won challenges and that Ben played idols,
but can’t see what Ryan did. The show gets a bit like The McLaughlin Group in a
way. People like that Chrissy won challenges, but that’s not all Survivor is.
Ryan has to talk about his moves and that he made stuff with the idol. Why do
people think that Ben’s idols are so good? People do think that it is a dumb
decision to keep him in the game for so long. That’s a recurring theme
throughout this season so it makes me wonder since I don’t know for sure who
won just yet.
Last is the outlast portion of
the game. Ryan doesn’t think that anyone dragged him here, although he did technically
get an assist from Chrissy. Ben thinks that everyone on the jury was a hurtle
to the win. He is told to tell us why he should win. Chrissy gives a speech on
all she did to get to where she is now. Like I said before, I just cannot keep
track of everything. Jeff gets a person in the audience to cast a random and
probably meaningless vote for one of the three finalists. I guess the lesson
that someone should learn here is that if you are in the audience at the
finale, wear a buff.
In the eleventh segment of the
show, we get to the votes that are cast. There’s at least one for Ben and
another for Ryan. There’s one for Chrissy as well. But how many votes besides
these ones will each person get? I honestly don’t know who could win and wonder
if it might be a tie. Surely that random person wouldn’t have cast a
tie-breaker, right? There won’t be a three way tie so it could be someone who
won’t be part of the tie, if there is one. Ben is the winner. We get to a recap
of Ben’s time on the game, which seems like a really weird thing to do, but
whatevs.
In the twelfth segment of the
show, we finally get to the real reunion show, which I think is late. Chrissy
talks about the first challenge and losing her job to play Survivor. I’d have
to not have a job to pick this show over it. Ryan talks about how he did the
game. We get more about PTSD here. Jeff has marine buddies of Ben show up at
the reunion show. They talk about what he has done.
In the thirteenth segment of
the show, Jeff wanted this to be the season of secrets but no one could keep a
secret. The fourth season of NCIS was the season of secrets. It is good to keep
secrets in this game. Lauren regrets her move with the shell. But this is a
hint about next season.
In the fourteenth segment of
the show, they will come up with something for the next season that speaks to
the past seasons. They show a montage of bad decisions made by players. It will
be called Ghost Island and have new players. How are they doing this? Why not
use returning players? I guess that I don’t understand all this. The season premiere is February 28th.
In the fifteenth segment of
the show, Jeff reminds people to go to casting. If I knew that there weren’t
people still recruited as new players, then I’d know that casting is the best
thing. There isn’t much to this segment except the end of the episode.
Points at reunion show:
Katrina- 0, Simone- 0, Patrick- 0, Alan- 0, Roark- 0, Ali- 0, Jessica- 0, Desi-
0, Cole- 0, JP- 0, Joe- 0, Lauren- 1, Ashley- 0, Mike- 0, Devon- 0, Ryan- 1,
Chrissy- 1, Ben- 1.
Ladies and gentlemen, this had
to have been the shortest reunion show ever. Why can’t they be an hour long
like they used to be? Did we really need segments after Mike and Devon’s
eliminations when they could have just been talked to at the reunion show as
normal? We got more out of the players from Caramoan’s fucking reunion show
than this one. Get rid of these stupid pre reunion show segments that always
cut into what should be the reunion show because there is no reason why random
people in the audience should get to speak instead of fourteen of the players.
Maybe I should count Mike and Devon for getting to talk, but I think that Jeff
is changing too much to give himself more airtime. I’d rather see a different
host than one who keeps wrecking the reunion show like this.
What are my thoughts on next
season? Well, it is hard to tell without seeing it for sure just how much it
would work out. Why do this sort of thing with all new players? Or are there
some returning players? SPOILER. I heard that they might be using some like
Jeremiah from Cagayan in some season filmed in Belize. I don’t know if that is
what Survivor 37 will be or what could happen regarding that. It could just be
a rumor because you wouldn’t think they’d start filming a new season until
sometime into the airing of the fall season. That’s how they typically do it
nowadays, I believe. I heard of other returning players besides him, but I can’t
remember who they are. END SPOILER. I guess that I won’t know for sure what
will happen until it happens, you know?
Now it is time for the end of
the season awards. Let’s start with the three dumbest moves of the season. The
bronze will go to Joe for his overall craziness that got him voted out. The
silver will go to Lauren for giving half of her idol to Mike. And the gold will
go to the people who kept Ben around and let him get every idol that he could.
When it comes time for the
breakout character of the season, I think that the person who should get it
will be Ryan for being pretty much a joy to watch this season. It’s a shame
that we got more out of him than the other players did.
As for the most memorable
moment of the season, it hands down has to be the tribal council at the final
seven where different crazy moves went down. If I ever do updated versions of
random posts that I’ve done in the past, you can bet that that tribal council
will be on my top ten.
You may have noticed some
confusion personally when I have ranked tribe swaps in the past. I have four
less swaps ranked now than there were. But I do plan on changing them as time
goes on by adding what I don’t have. Out of the 25 swaps that I have mentioned
right now, I’ll list this season’s as 4th best. As for the ranking
of this season versus the other 35, I’d put it as 17th best.
Well, there’s not much else to
add to this post other than when this blog will be updated. If I do random
posts, for as long as I do them, they will be on Wednesdays. That’s how things
will start with them in the first place, should something change. They will
stay there until the next season starts at which point this blog will be moved
back to Thursdays. If I wind up with a past season on DVD for Christmas, then I
will blog about it on Sundays. If I do that before the next season starts, you
will see those posts instead of random posts. I might also get a second old
season posted on Fridays. We’ll see what all happens with that. For now, this
is Adam Decker, signing off.
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