Survivor: Gabon episode 3- She’s Obviously Post-Op!

Now that I’m telling you what six shows I’m watching on DVD, I might as well get to the first change in the list. The Walking Dead season 1 is gone and replaced by mystery choice #1. This puts this season as number 5 on the list instead of 4. You will have to read my Good Wife blog to find out what show had replaced The Walking Dead as I will tell you there.

Let’s get to the next idol from Ghost Island. It reminds us of the history of Survivor going back to China and when James was blindsided with not one, but two idols. He was the first player ever voted out with an idol (or in this case, two) in his possession. Michael found it and gave it to Stephanie who wasted it with no votes against her. The curse remains cursed, just like Cleveland Indians.

After I had already watched the premiere of Survivor: Island of the Idols a day late on tape, I had this episode rolled and watched it on 9-27-2019. That was a Friday and I updated my TV blog then as I like to do when nothing conflicts with it. But enough of my ramblings.

We begin with the Fang tribe getting back from tribal council. Crystal is glad that the vote went the way it did. Randy thinks that his whole tribe is idiots. What, does he work for Hardees or something like that? Why insult the people you need to work with? At least he didn’t do it to their face.

The next day has Randy complaining about the lack of rice. He thinks that they are eating too much as they should not be eating three meals a day. Randy thinks that GC is the cancer of the tribe. Dan thinks that there is too much fighting on this tribe.

On the other tribe, Charlie continues to give his opinion on the tribe. Sugar notices some minor issues with this tribe. Ace thinks that they should put up their weaker members for the reward challenge so they can sit out the immunity challenge.

We then get to the reward challenge at hand. Kota has to sit out three women due to needing an equal representation of men and women for this challenge. It seems that Paloma takes bad advice from Ace. Whatever the reason, Kota is given their first lost. Sugar is sent to Exile Island.

Paloma talks to the camera about the challenge which makes her seem weak to other players. Ace thinks that she will be the next to go. Crystal is glad about her tribe’s win on her tribe. Meanwhile, we see Sugar at Exile Island. She is looking for a sandy crater as she chooses to look for the idol. She gets quite emotional over the death of her father which happened seven months prior to her filming this season. Sugar finds the sandy trailer and is then looking for One Tree Hill. Isn’t that a TV show? She finds more clues to the idol as one clue leads to another. Is the treasure a myth? She does find the idol.

Bob is worried about Ace staying too loyal to Sugar. They might want to target him. Corinne wants to work with Bob, but doesn’t think that anyone wants to take him to the end. Fang wins the immunity challenge in a close match. Back at camp, Sugar tries to sell to the others that she didn’t get the idol, but she says to Ace that she did get it. Paloma talks about being an animal ready to pounce. Like the vice-president? Mike Pounce? I think that’s his name. Paloma tries to avoid her fate of being voted out. Corinne doesn’t trust Ace either and wonders if his accent is real. Charlie thinks that Ace has been playing Sugar like a pawn. Corinne dislikes a lot of people on her tribe, making her unsure who to target.

At tribal council, Jeff tries to learn what he can from the Kota tribe since they haven’t been to tribal council before. He tries to learn some of the dynamics about it. Ace is worried that he might be a target, but isn’t really worried as much as he could be about getting voted out. Marcus hangs out to immunity and the voting takes place. After the votes are cast, Paloma and Kelly vote against Ace. Everyone else votes against Paloma and she is voted out as a result. Why did Kelly vote against Ace and not anyone else? We don’t see that much from Kelly.

On the next Survivor, a tribe is divided again as tribes are ranked from top to bottom. We will see more of what goes on when the next episode happens. There isn’t much else to say as problems continue on the Fang tribe and the season progresses later on the show.

Total confessional count: Matty- 2, Susie- 0, Ken- 4, Ace- 4, Crystal- 5, GC- 5, Jacquie- 0, Paloma- 3, Kelly- 0, Dan- 3, Corrine- 6, Bob- 4, Sugar- 4, Randy- 10, Charlie- 8, Marcus- 3.

New confessionals this episode: GC- 0, Jacquie- 0, Paloma- 3, Kelly- 0, Dan- 1, Corrine- 3, Bob- 1, Sugar- 3, Randy- 2, Charlie- 2, Marcus- 0, Matty- 0, Susie- 0, Ken- 0, Ace- 2, Crystal- 2.

Paloma may not have had much of a role on the season, but it might be likely that we’ll see her at some point in the future. I would have to guess that people found her to be too annoying for some reason and thought of her as an easy vote out, which she was. Still, she came off as likable enough to me and I would give her a 67% chance of returning for a future season.

That’s about it for this post outside of this largely unneeded paragraph. I hope that I get old Survivor seasons for Christmas so I can blog about China and Blood versus Water (even though I’ve blogged about the twenty-seventh season before already). This post won’t be published until after Island of the Idols will be done airing so it will be weird for me for it to have this gap in time. We’ll see when I’m able to see the next episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.