Episode 37.8

I don’t yet know if I will include more than one other VeggieTales song in the future. I don’t know how many of them could be relevant to this show in question. I need to be more familiar with some of the works of it. There’s a lot of it I haven’t seen. But that might be a good thing. The series itself had a point to how one shouldn’t have to have everything. That was in the episode Madam Blueberry, among a lot of others with similar points. Besides, I wouldn't like the newer episodes with the changed animation style.

There is someone to do prayers for this time around as I wait for responses for my church’s two other missionaries as to whether I should put it in this blog. But after seeing the results of a safety check on facebook, I think that a Survivor contestant we should pray for is Phillip Sheppard from Redemption Island and Caramoan due to him being in the area affected by the Woolsey Fire. While we are at it, we should pray for everyone affected by the fire in question that is affecting areas in California.

Going now to the idols from Gabon, Sugar is the next contestant who found one. She gave her idol to Ace only to get it back from him. She was so certain to find the idol from constant visits to Exile Island (of which she went a record five consecutive times). I’m not sure if the rules of idol possession are the same each season. What I do know is that Ace might not have been able to hang on to the idol since it was Sugar who found it. He might have just been holding it as long as she let it happen.

Whatever the rules, she gave it to Matty and he played it by default at the last chance it could be played. It was a play that was wasted in the end. Another idol was found that was technically Randy’s, although he never used it as it was the one that was infamously throw into the ocean and hopefully taken out of it by production as it has enough litter in it. Do you know what NASA does to certain satellites? It sends them to die in the oceans and become junk there. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Angelina is upset over her name being dragged through the mud, in her words, at least. She lies about why she revealed the name. Dan sees through this. People besides him also sort through her lies. Christian then talks about the strike force alliance and how they should vote against Angelina. People are worried about Gabby and how she was during the tribal. If she didn’t want to risk a David getting voted out, then why did she vote against Elizabeth? People search for an idol and find some sort of weird clue. A vote steal is found. Nick finds it. Only Carl and Davie know about all of the advantages that they have, I think.

We then get to the reward challenge. The winning six will get a dozen pizzas. Is that two pizzas for each of the winners? That doesn’t make sense. Why would they need that much pizza? Are these smaller sizes? This challenge seems like the around the circle one that we see with people having to drop out of it at some point. Angelina doesn’t understand what the dream team is. They test the challenges. The only contestant who has been part of the dream team was Hunter from the fourth season. Dan loses his challenge for the purple team, given orange the win. Mike tells Jeff that they have nothing for him, which is something Jeff has been waiting to hear for years.

In the second segment of the show, the tribe arrives back at their camp and the reward happens. Mike wants to talk about how he should stay focused on the game. Mike doesn’t want to be screwed over in the end. He wants to target Christian.

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. It comes down to a showdown between Angelina and Dan. The flies come out for both of them. It has been a while since we have seen the flies on Survivor. Dan wins the challenge. Mike wants to vote out Christian.

In the fourth segment of the show, John wants to vote out Christian. What is the hashtag? Why can’t it just be a regular blindside hashtag? Angelina is worried that she might be voted out next. Some other players want to vote her out. Christian figures out that he might be the target. Davie doesn’t know if he should use his idol to save Christian. Nick wants to use his steal a vote, but thinks that it might not be a good move in the end. What’s this surprise ending that promos were talking about?

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to the tribal council at hand. Jeff wonders if the last tribal would put Angelina in trouble. I am distracted some with this part, which is one of the most important parts, so I miss some of what goes on. Christian thinks that he should be better at threat management and might have made himself one at the very beginning. Angelina thinks that there will be issues after the vote. There are not advantages used at this part of the game.

Davie plays his idol for Christian. Will it be the right move? Dan then plays one of his idols for Angelina. Sadly, I don’t think that Davie can do his idol nullifier at this point. Christian got the most votes, but none of them count. Who randomly voted against John? Was there a split vote that we didn’t know about? Or did Davie and someone else know when to flip? I don’t think that they read all the votes. I think that they faked out the promo in a way when they did surprise ending on a parchment.

On the next Survivor, there’s a bad break-up between people and Dan might be voted out. I have been waiting to post another video until it was relevant. But it is likely that if the relationship that is in danger is the one between Alec and Kara, that it is more for the cameras as they are or were together after the show was done filming, based on information that I have.

Total confessional count: Angelina- 15, Alec- 10, Gabby- 14, Alison- 4, Dan- 13, Davie- 10, Mike- 18, Nick- 14, Carl- 7, John- 7, Christian- 19, Kara- 10. New confessionals this episode: Carl- 0, John- 1, Christian- 2, Kara- 0, Angelina- 2, Alec- 1, Gabby- 0, Alison- 0, Dan- 1, Davie- 1, Mike- 1, Nick- 3.

I know that I missed some people’s confessionals, which is likely to happen when they only show who the person is, but not their name. I still don’t know the difference between everyone yet, especially when we get similar looking people to each other. I still have a hard time telling the male Friends apart when I watch that show. Anyways, John had just one confessional this episode, the same number as Alec, Dan, Davie, and Mike. The people lower with zero were Kara, Gabby, Alison, and Carl. Everyone else was higher with Nick as the highest with three. As for the total confessional count, John had seven, the same number as Carl. The only person lower is Alison with four. Everyone else is higher than the rest of them with Christian as the highest with nineteen.

It is hard to believe that next week’s episode will air the day before Thanksgiving. That sure snuck up on all of us, didn’t it? I don’t think that I’ll be able to live watch next week’s episode and while I should be more than likely to record it for later, I don’t think that I’ll be able to watch it on Wednesday like I want to meaning that this blog won’t be updated on Wednesday next week like it normally is. I will be at work as soon as I can be and doubt that I will have much time to myself later that day to watch it, nor do I need to see it that quickly. We’ll see what happens or when this blog will be updated in the future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.