Survivor: Island of the Idols Premiere

I will include updates on watching Survivor: Gabon here in the main posts and explain more of what is now different with this blog since I have two seasons to blog about. Survivor: Gabon may not have as much priority as the current season does. As long as there is currently a show on air, I won’t care about missing random Sundays when I’m not caught up on that show.

Also note that if I miss a Wednesday, then I plan to post about this current season on a Sunday and the other season will go on hiatus until this season is done being posted about. A hiatus of all other posts of past seasons are certain to happen around Thanksgiving time.

Well, I guess that this will have to start right away, sooner than you’d think that it should be. I had to work on Wednesday and wanted to make sure that I was there at a good time. With the premiere being 90 minutes long, I couldn’t trust me to do the work of this in time and get things done with good enough time to do all of work. So I guess you’ll be seeing this post on Sundays and none of Survivor: Gabon until this season is done airing. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, we start with voiceovers of people talking about Survivor. Rob and Sandra will be on a Survivor boot camp. Lario tribe arrives at their camp. It is weird to Chelsea that they are starting the game without Jeff or a proper marooning. There is a sexy wood gathering. Isn’t that what the Chippendales are? There are various introductions among people, but not the whole group as a whole. Elizabeth talks about being in the Olympics. On the other tribe, Lauren-Ashley, who I guess can just be called Lauren, wonders about the theme of the season. Janet helps her tribe get fire. Vince talks about how he is the first person of his ethnicity to be cast on Survivor. On the orange tribe, Aaron and six other players form an alliance of seven players.

Jason goes out to look for an idol and the rest of the players notice this. Dan is largely the one who says that Jason is missing in order to find a good first vote. But is Dan cocky? I guess we will see later as time goes on what type of player Dan will be.

In the second segment of the show, Jack gets food for his tribe and does some pranks with spitting water from a clam. Oh, Shelly! Why did you leave me? Tommy Sheehan believes that he is forming good alliances with people. Molly wants to get rid of the drama and shadiness of everyone. Noura thinks that Jason might have had an idol. He worries that he might be the first one out now. Elaine uses humor to make her way through life. She seems like Lauren Reemer from not too long ago. Missy thinks that she should form an all female alliance. Wasn’t Micronesia the only season where an all one gender alliance actually worked? It could happen again, but hasn’t.

In the third segment of the show, Kellee talks about being a germaphobe. Why would you play this show if you felt that way? She is upset at Dan. Molly is also upset at Dan since he doesn’t know personal space and Molly doesn’t want to ruffle feathers. I thought that it was rustle feathers.

Dan is talked to some and maybe straightened out about his touchy feely ways. Ronnie likes Elaine, but is worried that she might win. Now is this foreshadowing or red herring? Elaine no longer trusts Ronnie after he talks to her some about what’s going on.

In the fourth segment of the show, we get to the challenge at hand. Jeff gets his first look at the two tribes in the game. The tribes are neck in neck for a bit as the orange tribe fails at the puzzle. Thus, the purple tribe wins and sends the orange tribe to tribal council. Jeff then reveals that someone from the orange tribe will be randomly sent to the Island of the Idols. Elizabeth’s name is drawn. She will return in time for her next tribal council.

In the fifth segment of the show, Elizabeth arrives at the Island of the Idols. She sees two statues when she arrives there of Rob and Sandra before seeing the players in the flesh. They are Survivor idols. Oh, I see the name and meaning there. Rob explains some of what’s going on. Rob wants to teach Elizabeth how to make fire. Rob explains how the best teachers he has had had shown him how to do things. After he shows the fire, she tries to make one herself. With Sandra’s help, Elizabeth makes a fire.

Elizabeth is given a choice. She can make fire to get an idol good for two tribal councils. But if she loses, she will lose her next vote. If she doesn’t go for the competition, she risks nothing. We then go back to the tribe after their loss, with Elizabeth’s decision yet unknown. Elaine is betting on good connections in the game. But can she dictate the vote? People want to vote out Ronnie, but Vince feels like he is in danger of being voted out as well. Some people want to target Elaine. But Vince doesn’t want to vote her out of the game. Elaine doesn’t know what’s God’s plan is. Do any of us know?

Back at the Island of the Idols, Elizabeth still doesn’t know if she can beat Rob, but decides to go against him anyways. He was preparing to up the ante in some unknown way, but she took the first offer and did not know there was a second one. What is this: Let’s Make a Deal? Rob wins the challenge. She will not have a vote going into tribal council. There was a chance that she could have won. She gets to choose the next person who will go from the other tribe to this island. But none of us know who she chose just yet as it was randomly drawn.

Back at camp, people try to explain to Elaine why people are targeting her. They want her to vote out Vince now. Only the plan is still up in the air. This is when Elizabeth gets back and decides whether or not to tell the truth about what happened on the island. She lies and says it was an urn smashed that she lost and got now game as a result. Elizabeth doesn’t know what to say about the upcoming vote that she will not be able to take part in anyways.

In the sixth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Apparently Rob and Sandra are secretly watching the proceedings. There was no information about the season in advance as they just went to the beach. “Likability is a liability” according Karishma. That’s why Elaine might be a target. She gets emotional about her journey to Survivor and how she doesn’t want to be the first one voted out. She wants a show that can build her up. Aaron talks about being a jack of all trades like Debbie Warner. I think it was Aaron who was talking, at least.

Vince also gets emotional talking about his place in the game. Voting out people is hard, but not for someone like sassy Sandra. There are some players that they like. The votes seem to be between Ronnie and Vince. Elaine isn’t a target at all. Ronnie is the first person voted out of the game.

On the next Survivor, a blindside and heartache lead to insanity in the game. A lot of people much have been out of the loop on this vote. Why didn’t Elaine get any votes? I guess I’m not sure and they had only brought it up as a potential red herring. But is her high confessional count now a good thing or is it a sign that they want to show her greatness before she’s gone early?

Confessional count: Ronnie- 1, Lauren-Ashley- 1, Elizabeth- 5, Molly- 2, Missy- 2, Janet- 1, Kellee- 1, Dean- 0, Tom Laidlaw- 1, Jason- 2, Aaron- 2, Vince- 3, Jack- 1, Noura- 1, Karishma- 2, Tommy Sheehan- 1, Jamal- 1, Dan- 1, Elaine- 5, Chelsea- 1; Sandra- 3, Rob- 2.

Sadly, only two people have higher confessional counts than the two mentors who aren’t even playing the game. Elizabeth and Elaine both have 5 confessionals thus far. They tie for the highest. Elizabeth might have only had a high due to being sent to the Island of the Idols. Dean is currently the only person without a confessional right now. Ronnie, Lauren-Ashley, Jamal, Tom Laidlaw, Dan, Chelsea, Jack, Noura, Janet, Kellee, and Tommy Sheehan all only have one confessional, less than the two mentors.

Hopefully I can be posting this blog on Wednesdays like I normally do and like doing and this Sunday post is just a onetime exception to the rule due to the long premiere and me wanting to get to my job as early as I could, but still not getting there as soon as I could have. Still, I might not be continuing with this job for long as they told me it was temporary for now and they would tell me if something changed with that. We’ll see what happens with it and hopefully I won’t have to abandon this blog like the writer of Survivor Shade did. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.