Episode 36.9

Last post, I cut short a look back at the merge tribal councils to see if the theory that they are always crazy holds up. Well, I’m going to continue that look back from previous seasons. Now like Tocantins, the merge tribal council in San Juan del Sur was delayed an episode due to a contestant departing for reasons other than a vote. The vote might not have been crazy if it weren’t delayed. Well, it wasn’t that crazy a vote, but it was different than it would have been had there not been a quit.

Next is Worlds Apart. That season’s merge had a first tribal council bring us an idol play and a blindside. So things would have been crazy at that point at least, if not sooner. As for Cambodia, I don’t think that the first merge tribal council was crazy in any way.

With Kaoh Rong, there was a medical evacuation that delayed what would have been the first tribal council of the merge. When we did get to the vote in the next episode, it could have caused some more interesting things going into the next vote and set up the whole season’s next moves, but I don’t know for sure as I don’t have time to read all of what happened. I still feel bad for the person who got voted out, even if I never liked him. I think my archive will explain why. With Millennials versus Gen X, I’m not sure that I understood the tribal council enough to think that it was crazy enough. I need to get caught up on the notes that I do on Survivor seasons.

Next was Game Changers. The vote was confusing, but I think that I’ve done an overall bad job doing recaps of tribal councils in the past. I wrote then that I thought it was crazy, so I guess that it was. In the latest season before this, Heroes versus Healers versus Hustlers, there was an idol play, but I think that it was a wasted idol. I don’t think that the tribal council was too crazy. And this season’s merge has a bit of a crazy tribal council, although it wasn’t as much as one could be.

Some of you might already know this, but this show has been renewed. We will be seeing it again next season. You wouldn’t expect this show to end in the future. Maybe it will end someday. But it is not going to end next season. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Domenick had a weird breakfast dream. Desiree used to be homeless. It seems that people are ready to take out Navatii. It seems to be coming from those inside. We then get to the reward challenge. One person will sit out and while they can’t win reward, they also can’t be sent to Ghost Island. I honestly would have been okay with a random draw for sides where the odd person out gets sent to Ghost Island right away. Donathan is the poor sit out. The orange team wins the reward. The purple team draws rocks and Angela gets sent to Ghost Island. Michael wants to do better in the game and hopes that winning the reward will help him do that.

In the second segment of the show, we get to the winners of the reward challenge. Michael wants to work with people. Kellyn thinks that she is in control of the game. She seems possibly full of herself with the alliance she has. Angela gets to Ghost Island next. She gets to play a game. Two of them have power. She doesn’t think that risking her vote is a big deal. She doesn’t get to vote now. She seems to have only thought things through after making her decision. But she’d feel good if she got an advantage.

Laurel thinks that she wants to change her place in the game. She tells Domenick that the other women were wanting to turn on people. He then goes to confront people about it. What good does confronting people with secrets do? I would never do that. Well, I don’t think that I would. But it seems to be a bad idea under most circumstances.

In the third segment of the show, Michael looks for another immunity idol and Donathan does as well. It is Donathan that finds one. He has Scot’s old idol from Kaoh Rong. He needs the other part of it as well that is at the shelter. He tells Laurel about an idol being there. Other people learn about it as well. He does find the other part. We then get to the immunity challenge. People have to know how to handle their balls and if they hit puberty, they are out of the challenge. Chelsea wins the challenge. Domenick wonders about this potential woman’s alliance.

In the fourth segment of the show, Desiree wants Kellyn to be voted out. That could happen, but I’m just not sure that it will. But word gets out about this and turmoil ensues. What is even going on? We then see Domenick and Michael talking with each other. Was that a spy bat from Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue? I remember it from Trakeena’s Revenge. Domenick doesn’t seem to know what to do going into the vote. And I need to work on my recaps of tribal councils so hopefully better ones can start now with this blog post.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Donathan talks about the fireworks that had happened at camp between the secrets coming out in front of each other. This leads to more of Desiree and Laurel talking about each other for some back and forth. The jury members, who never seem to obey the whole no talking rule anymore (but never interact with the people still in the game), think that this tribal council is crazy.

People are trying to get to the bottom of the whole situation at hand. Desiree thinks that she is not on the bottom of the alliance. Jeff thinks that someone who was loyal could be voted out of the game by those who aren’t loyal. We get to the vote next. No idols are played. Desiree is voted out with the only known other person getting votes being Michael.

On the next Survivor, two people will be voted out of the game in the future. In just one night, it will happen. I don’t know what else will or could happen as the promo seemed to be too confusing. Will there be more confusion with the vote other than two people being voted out?

Total confessional count: Donathan- 13, Laurel- 11, Sebastian- 6, Angela- 7, Chelsea- 3, Michael- 22, Domenick- 22, Desiree- 11, Kellyn- 16, Jenna- 6, Wendell- 11.

New confessionals this episode: Jenna- 0, Wendell- 0, Donathan- 1, Laurel- 4, Sebastian- 1, Angela- 1, Chelsea- 0, Michael- 4, Domenick- 3, Desiree- 2, Kellyn- 4.

Desiree had two new confessionals this episode. The people higher than her are Domenick with three and Michael, Kellyn, and Laurel are the highest with four. The lowest, who all had none, are Chelsea, Jenna, and Wendell. As for total confessionals, Desiree had eleven, the same number as Laurel and Wendell. The people who are higher are Domenick, Kellyn, Donathan, and Michael, with Domenick and Michael tying for the highest with twenty-two. Everyone else is lower than them with Chelsea as the lowest with three. There’s not much else to say so I’m going to wrap up this post. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.