Episode 39.10

I feel like there’s a part of every tribal council this season that is always being cut. While the contestants are gathered around the tribal council fire, they should be singing the song Kumbaya based on the unity that they seemingly have right before every vote. Here’s a link to a version of that song that isn’t as well known as other versions of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jjcxFGEysE

You might not know much about where I am with watching Gabon. I am up to the first tribe swap of that season and have posts written and completed of it up until episode 5. That will mean that you should see the next three episodes of that show at some point after this season is done airing. I wish that I could promise that more would be done after that, but I will make no such promise this time around. I can only hope that I’ll be able to watch more of that soon.

It is getting close to when Christmas will happen and there are some past seasons of Survivor that I’d like on DVD at some point. Consider all of them that I mention a good Christmas present. I currently want the seasons of All-Stars, China, and Blood versus Water. I have all the other seasons that I would currently want on DVD already. I might want others in the future, but not now.

It turns out that I was busy on the Wednesday that this aired and I didn’t even try to see the episode then. The day after Thanksgiving, I watched the episode in question. I am posting the update on Sunday as that best makes sense for me for what I should do regarding that. I will include an update at the end of this post regarding when future posts of this blog will be now that Advent has started and will affect the Wednesdays as usual. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Lauren talked about how Aaron was voted out at their tribal council as he was considered the biggest threat. Karishma talked about how she is glad that she didn’t have to use her idol and her main targets are gone. Elizabeth is upset that her allies are gone. Dean worries that he might be a target in the future while thinking that Karishma is a goat. He also thinks that Noura is also a goat. Meanwhile, Tommy is worried that Elaine might be too strong. A unanimous decision about who has to be sent to Island of the Idols has to happen. Lauren wants to go and while Karishma wants to go as well, Lauren is ultimately sent.

A chicken attacks Sandra for a moment before Lauren arrives. Rob wants to give her a chance to predict who will win the next immunity challenge. She is convinced that she knows the tribe. But she doesn’t know if she can get it right. She is told about the eat or play component of the upcoming challenge. We see Lauren go through her predicting who might win. She gets to predict two potential winners. She goes with Noura and Elizabeth. The idol will be at the big rock at treemail if she gets it right.

In the second segment of the show, Dean talks about his legacy advantage that he think might be real, but is actually fake. He decides to make another fake one. Lauren reveals some about the challenge that is going on in that game. She decides to be honest with Tommy about her bet. He has to make sure that he does whatever can happen to make sure that the right people sit out and the right people play. It seems that only Elaine would be a potential wrench in the plan. I do wonder why Lauren didn’t bet on herself or her ally in the game. Maybe she knows their own limitations.

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge in the game. Jeff didn’t hear the reaction to the challenge. Jeff learns that they knew what the food option was. Karishma is the only person besides Noura and Elizabeth who is competing in the challenge. Karishma is the first person out of the challenge and is upset over her loss. Noura wins and wants to stay in so they can keep eating, but Jeff says that it wasn’t how the challenge works. Janet thinks that Elizabeth should be voted out.

In the fourth segment of the show, Lauren and Tommy quickly run out to find her idol which she claims. Everyone seems to keep claiming that Karishma is an easy vote for later. Thus, Elizabeth is the target. That is what Elaine seems to think. Noura looks through Karishma’s bag and sees nothing in it. Dan then thinks that the vote will be split. She thinks that the vote is a split between Janet and Elizabeth. Lauren sees that Karishma might be scheming in some way. Dan wants to vote out Karishma. Karishma does have an idol and wonders what to do about it. She has to play it correctly and make it count.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Jeff explains what happened before they had competed in the challenge. They talked about the decision to play versus eat. People have to decide how they feel in the game to decide if they are in a good place or not. Dean talks about how he has a legacy advantage. This makes Rob and Sandra chuckle as they know it is fake. They talk about how they have to decide who to trust in the game. They have to find the right person. Are some tribal councils easy and others hard? Dean plays his legacy advantage. He learns that his advantage isn’t real.

We then get to Karishma playing her idol. Lauren decides to play her idol on herself. Rob and Sandra love that all of these votes cast for Karishma don’t count. The vote is a tie between Janet and Elizabeth after all the votes are cast. With seven people voting, a revote is going to ensure that the tie is broken for one of them. Elizabeth is voted out. Rob thinks that it was all good and well until someone plays an idol.

On the next Survivor, there is no one to trust in an unpredictable game and a family visit will happen next. We’ll see what else might happen in the future. I don’t yet know when this season might be ending in the near future, but it has to be soon as we are winding down towards the end.

Total confessional count: Elaine- 19, Lauren- 16, Elizabeth- 16, Janet- 15, Dean- 14, Noura- 13, Karishma- 21, Tommy- 17, Dan- 13; Sandra- 9, Rob- 11. New confessionals this episode: Elizabeth- 2, Janet- 2, Dean- 3, Noura- 1, Karishma- 4, Tommy- 4, Dan- 2, Elaine- 2, Lauren- 5; Rob- 1, Sandra- 0.

I won’t talk about the confessional count this time around. Just know that I will be posting this blog on Thursdays for probably the rest of this season. I will be at church when the show is airing and then will be heading straight to work right afterwards. So it would make more sense to me in order to just blog about the show then like I normally do during Advent anyways. I will see you this Thursday. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.