Episode 38.3

Since Lent has started now, this will mean missing a lot of the shows that I care about on Wednesdays. I watch Modern Family and SEAL Team. I might want to watch Million Dollar Mile when it starts. The final season of Jane the Virgin will be on Wednesdays. I might even avoid putting Survivor on tape in favor of other shows and write posts from an alternate laptop that I still have in order to see the episode and still write good posts about it.

Let’s get to talking about the idols from Philippines. There were three idols, hidden as the lids of the rice containers that they all started out with. Jonathan found his tribe’s and was able to use it, saving himself from certain elimination while, for the first time ever, not voting for the person who was then voted out due to the idol play. Abi found the one for her tribe and was able to save herself with it. This one had the extra fireworks due to a person planting the clue for it for others to find. Malcolm found the one for his tribe, but was never able to use it as he was immune anyways the last time it could be played.

Since it is Lent now, I should post about what I’m giving up for it. For the first time since 2013, I will not be giving up all Wikia sites like I normally do. But I will continue my streak of giving up CinemaSins like I have every year since 2015. I will also be giving up CinemaWins, SinsSins, Channel Awesome, and non English status updates on facebook, as they were annoying people and I was running out of them for the moment anyways. All but one of these are YouTube channels.

There’s a lot to think about going into this episode. For one, we don’t yet know what Keith’s decision will be, although promos seem to imply that he’ll take the boat to the island. This is also the last time that Ron will be able to use any of his advantages. If his tribe wins again, they will go to waste. We still will not know what will happen to Wendy. Maybe she will be medically evacuated and I’ll have to come up with yet another way to group these people into a returning player season. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, we get to Keith arriving at Extinction Island. Reem wants to make sure that Keith is okay. Bottles arrive for them and they look at them. They are now looking for steps of some sort that they both look for. They get rice, but it is mostly just a day’s rations. They will have to work hard for more rice by doing this every day.

We then get to the tribes arriving for a reward challenge. For once, Comma struggles. Manu wins the challenge and chooses chickens. I wonder why Ron didn’t steal the reward. Wendy talks about how it seems like she was injured at the challenge.

In the second segment of the show, Wendy is brought in by her tribe. The injury seems worse than it might have been starting out. She is emotional and hurting. I guess we’ll see if medical looks at it and what will happen as a result. People want chicken prepared a certain way, but they should know that it can’t be prepared that way with their limited supplies. Wendy wants Rick to set the chickens free. But that is a terrible idea. Don’t they remember Shambo?

Victoria talks about being part of a group of six on her tribe that doesn’t include the returning players that she wants to get out of the game. Joe correctly thinks that he’s on the chopping block. Aubry wants to work with Joe since they realize that they are targets. Aubry is now looking for the idol. Footage from her past two seasons of her looking for an idol are shown. She finds the idol.

We then get back to Manu as Wendy tries to talk about keeping the chickens around. Wardog is talking about how he doesn’t like her because of the whole chicken situation. Kelley thinks that Wendy cast a vote against her at the last tribal council, making her think that it’s kill or be killed.

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge and Wendy’s injury is briefly shown with some work possibly on it. Wendy is swimming and yet, able to do well at that point. It seems that Comma is not taking a break from winning. I thought that the whole point of Comma was to take a break in the end. Manu sucks as usual. Comma then wins immunity. David talks about targeting Kelly and he thinks that now is the best time to do it.

In the fourth segment of the show, we get back to Manu after their loss. Wendy thinks that she did well despite her injury. The flint is missing somehow and people correctly think that Wendy took it. Why is she doing this? This is a terrible idea. David still wants Kelley to be voted out. Wendy blames the missing flint on Chris. But does she have a way of setting him up? Does she have plausible deniability?

David is still convincing people to vote out Kelley and they say not to tell Wardog since he could prevent the vote from happening. Wardog wants to vote out Chris. Well, David was right about him potentially ruining the planned vote. Wardog tells Kelley that Chris was targeting her. Kelley then wants to vote out Chris as a result. Rick has the idea that he might now be a villain. He tells David about what Wardog did. But David still thinks that he could go after Kelley and people wouldn’t know that it was him who helped do it.

In the fifth segment of the show, Jeff asks Devin how the tribe is doing and Jeff learns about the missing flint. Wendy didn’t want to eat the chicken. She hasn’t been a vegetarian for long. I can understand why you would want to give up smoking when you start Survivor, but giving up meat? Jeff talks about what he thinks the right vote should be. David talks about getting rid of the best social threat. The people on this tribe think that they are playing a more complicated game than the other tribe. After the votes are cast, it is Chris who gets voted out of the game. He then gets to the choice. Will this be like Pandora’s Box where no one declines the option of getting back in the game? Chris gets back in the boat.

On the next Survivor, Wendy releases the chickens and it looks like they are switching tribes. Chris then goes to Extinction Island with a whole “screw them guys” mentality. I guess that we’ll see more of what happens in the next episode.

Total confessional count: Joe- 3, Victoria- 4, Aubry- 3, Julia- 0, Ron- 1, Wardog- 6, Rick- 7, Wendy- 7, Eric- 2, Aurora- 2, Lauren- 3, Julie- 1, Chris- 3, Kelley- 5, Gavin- 2, David- 8; Reem- 7, Keith- 7. New confessionals this episode: Chris- 2, Kelley- 1, Gavin- 0, David- 3, Joe- 1, Victoria- 1, Aubry- 1, Julia- 0, Ron- 0, Wardog- 2, Rick- 3, Wendy- 3, Eric- 0, Aurora- 0, Lauren- 0, Julie- 0. Extinction Island confessional count: Reem- 3, Keith- 2.

Chris had two new confessionals this episode, the same number as Wardog. The only people higher than them were Rick, Wendy, and David, all with three. I’m going to keep them a bit separate than the people on Extinction Island. Everyone else is lower with Ron, Eric, Aurora, Gavin, and Julia as the lowest with zero a piece. As for the total confessional count, Chris had three confessionals, the same number as Joe, Lauren, and Aubry. The people who are higher are Victoria, Kelley, David, Wardog, Rick, and Wendy with the highest being David with eight. The lowest remains Julia with zero. I don’t know if I should be doing a special count of those on Extinction Island in this wrap up section or not. I’ll see what people think. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.