Episode 39.6

Some of you might know about the current California wild fire that is going on. Some of the Survivor contestants from seasons past have been in this affected area. I can only hope that they are okay and doing well. Not all of them have originally responded to the safety check that facebook did.

I wonder how long Karishma will last this season. You wouldn’t think that she would last long, but she might actually surprise us. I don’t think that she’s our winner, but don’t know why we’ve seen so much of her thus far. Why do people keep picking others to vote out instead of her? I hope that she’s not the winner because she would make a terrible one if she is. There is some purpose to her still being here in the game so you’d think that they get rid of her at some point. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Noura thinks that they could go with an easy vote against the old members of the other tribe, but wants to target her rivals from her old tribe first. Dean just dismisses her as crazy and tells Jamal about what she said. Now she is the target. On the other tribe, there is a tarantula at the shelter. The tribe doesn’t know if they want to draw for rocks or not. Jason thinks that things are good in the hood.

We then get to the reward challenge. Elaine is picked to sit out of the challenge and is sent right away to the Island of the Idols. Whoever is put on the sled has to be a target shooter as well. The tribes each have different ways of getting the bags where they need to go. Vokai wins the chickens. They went into beast mode for sure. Dan thinks that all they do is win, win, win no matter what. He is also worried that Elaine might get an idol.

In the second segment of the show, we get to Elaine arriving at the Island of the Idols. Rob is using his free time to build a mansion shelter. Elaine was annoyed that she was the sit out. She has the heart of a lion and strength of an ox, if I got that right. Well I’ve got the heart of a lion and the wings of a bat. Rob starts a timer and Elaine has to decide whether or not to accept the challenge before the timer runs out. She doesn’t hesitate to accept the challenge before much time runs out.

Rob thinks that she was cocky as he usually does. Does this mean that she will fail? She know has to grab a block a vote advantage during the next challenge in front of all her tribe mates. Sandra likes Elaine now and thinks that she might do well. Back at the main camp, there is a do rag comment that Jack says and Jamal is upset by. There are things that I don’t understand, but guess that know I do. I just thought that do rag was a random phrase that meant little to nothing important. Is do rag even the right way of spelling it? I guess I have to go to Wikitonary or something like that.

In the third segment of the show, Elaine reveals to Elizabeth about what happened. Either she will get to block a vote or lose her own vote. We then get to the immunity challenge. Elaine is able to grab the advantage and might have lost it for a moment, but I think that she was able to keep it. Vokai is doing well in the challenge. Tommy Sheehan, henceforth to be referred to as Tommy, is the shooter for his tribe. Lairo wins the challenge, which makes sense as we only saw stuff from this tribe. Elaine talks about her huge advantage in the game.

In the fourth segment of the show, it is loser, loser chicken dinner on the Vokai tribe. Elaine thinks that they should tell Missy and Aaron about the advantage. Things are often never simple in Survivor. Aaron still isn’t sure that he wants to work with Elaine. Lauren thinks that she might know what is going on. Dan is accused of being sketchy. So many people are certain that they are in control. But everyone can’t be in control at once. Who is really in control?

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to the tribal council. Why would people eat doughnuts when Survivor is on? You eat that with breakfast. So you wouldn’t eat doughnuts at night, probably. Rob is hoping that Elaine got the vote blocker. Can one tribe convince the other to vote with them? Most of them admit to being willing to draw rocks.

Elaine reads her advantage to the tribe. She blocks Jason’s vote. Rob doesn’t think that he could be the target. Elaine still thinks that she can be friends with Jason and Sandra is convinced that they aren’t going after him. Lauren gets emotional. Everyone on the old Lairo tribe talks about what they think is going on and Elaine is probably still the target. If only she had an idol. Nobody plays an idol. Jason is the one voted out. Does that mean multiple people flipped? Or did no one flip?

On the next Survivor, an empire falls and something new rises. Meanwhile, other possibly confusing things happen in the show, possibly. I guess things are changing in the show and it is hard to tell for sure what might be going on.

Total confessional count: Elaine- 15, Lauren- 6, Elizabeth- 9, Missy- 10, Janet- 3, Kellee- 7, Dean- 6, Jason- 8, Aaron- 11, Jack- 5, Noura- 8, Karishma- 11, Tommy Sheehan- 8, Jamal- 10, Dan- 6; Sandra- 8, Rob- 9. New confessionals this episode: Jamal- 3, Dan- 1, Elaine- 8, Lauren- 1, Elizabeth- 2, Missy- 1, Janet- 0, Kellee- 0, Dean- 1, Jason- 1, Aaron- 2, Jack- 2, Noura- 1, Karishma- 0, Tommy Sheehan- 0; Rob- 2, Sandra- 2.

Elaine had more confessionals in just this episode than all the previous episodes combined. At eight, she has the highest count of all the contestants this episode. The lowest is a tie between Karishma, Janet, Tommy, and Kellee who all have zero. As for the total confessional count, Elaine has the highest count with fifteen. As for the lowest, Janet has only three. Outside of Elaine, the players of Aaron, Karishma, Jamal, and Missy are the ones higher than both Rob and Sandra in terms of confessionals. Jason had eight total confessionals with just one this episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.