Episode 40.2

It is about time that I get to explaining to the readers of this blog about mistakes that were made and I have to give people an apology. I could have included this in two other blog posts, but had already done the introduction for them and didn’t want it in a random post. There were three posts in this blog that are now gone from the archives. I was talking about the links that dead contestants had with each other and I realize that these posts were mistakes and I got rid of them as a result. Lesson learned. I will not be making a post like that again in this or any other blog.

You see, it was an old post when I shared it in the Addicted to Survivor facebook group. I was hoping that the people there could give advice about what else could work in future posts like it. But they did not like the post. I do want to give these people thanks for the respectful way that they handled this by how they handled this by letting me know the error of my ways and not flaming me, giving me hate comments, or otherwise causing chaos. One of them did post a comment on the post that I was initially dismissive of before I got back on facebook and saw the shitstorm that was lurking. I got rid of that post as well in this blog.

I get defensive quite easily when people try to point out what I should do. It’s a character flaw, I know. I often get tired of criticism as that’s often the only thing that I hear from people. There aren’t that many people who praise me for anything and it can be tiring putting up with this. Now no one has to ever say that I’m doing things right. But if all I ever hear from you is what I’m doing wrong, that doesn’t do much to help me out in life.

Incidentally, regarding the posts, I was going to discontinue them anyways due to a lower viewer count on it which was effectively my only reason for sharing an old post on in that group anyways. Unless I had rushed a new post in 2020 with Rudy included with the other players, I wasn’t by my own rules going to get to write another one anyways. But it is better that one can’t find them in the archives now anyways. I don’t want to get rid of stuff that I spent a long time working on which is the reason that I copied these three posts onto a document I have on my laptop before I deleted them.

If you ever read a blog of mine and you are wondering why a certain annual post that I used to do at points during a year stopped happening, the reason why is due to a low view count. I will try to let the readers of that blog know that at some point. Also, I’ve had an issue with at least two blogs where they are not showing the view count that they used to and are showing zero across the board. This may mean two different issues as I tend to update another blog after any lowly read post is published past the last 25 posts that show up in a blog. I might have to abolish that rule for a while or you are going to see a lot of blogs constantly updated every time until the issue goes away, if it does at all. I normally have that as a rule so that I can’t update that old blog until a different one is. Since I have seven blogs, it could be quite a different blog scape for me to always do this and possibly impossible.

There was one single issue with the posts where someone in the Addicted to Survivor group felt that I should delete this whole entire blog. I find that to be a ludicrous idea. I spent a lot of time working on the nearly 400 posts of this blog. I’m not going to get rid of all of it just because of one post that people didn’t like that you can’t even find in the archives here anymore. If you don’t like this blog, don’t read it. No one is forcing you to read this blog. Well, I hope that no one is. I’m going to keep writing this blog and I am now even obsessively saving the old posts of this to different documents on my laptop. Now I don’t see a point in talking about the gone posts anymore so let’s get to the next part.

I’m going to keep track of fire tokens and other advantages here at the start of the post before I get into what happens next in the episode in question. I will post this same thing with changes at the end of this post before putting it to the next post. Hence, you may recognize this section outside of the minor change at the end of it. I hope that others keep track of this like Survivor fandom.

Fire token count: Ethan- 1, Tyson- 1, Danni- 1, Sophie- 1, Jeremy- 2, Sandra- 0, Ben- 1, Michele- 1, Wendell- 1, Adam- 1, Yul- 1, Sarah- 1, Rob- 2, Parvati- 1, Kim- 1, Denise- 1, Tony- 1, Nick- 1; Natalie- 1, Amber- 0; Sandra- idol good for two more tribal councils.

In the first segment of the show, Amber talks about how it feels weird to be on the Edge of Extinction in the game. Amber thinks about what will happen with her husband now. Rob gets a fire token and his first thought is that it could have been his wife. He tries to look on the bright side, thinking that maybe it was Sandra instead. He tells Parvati about his new fire token. Ben wants to work on his game and is here with Denise. Denise finds an idol, but has to split it in half. Ben doesn’t want the other half. She talks to Adam about the idol revealing some about it. Denise, probably not seriously, mentions giving the idol to Parvati as a possibility, but it is Adam who gets the idol half instead.

At their camp, Yul and Kim talk about their respective games. Kim goes out looking for an idol. She does find an idol, but Tony and another player find her. She does not seem to be caught. Kim gives the idol half to Sophie. Sophie thinks that Kim should be trusting Tyson. But Sophie takes the idol and now is a bit weary of Kim as a result.

In the second segment of the show, we return to the edge of extinction. Natalie and Amber read one of the messages and Natalie understands it meaning that they will have to barter for a new token. Amber talks about how this is all new to her, the advantages. After Amber gives up, Natalie finds the advantage at the watering hole. She gives the advantage to Jeremy who gives her a fire token to order to take this safety without power advantage. He is convinced that this advantage could change everything.

Tony convinces his tribe to take a ladder from the tribe to a tree where he wants to use it to climb up a tree in order to get fruit from it. People are worried about him in different ways. This is like when I do my typical antics with the owner of the gym in town. Tony and Sarah reinstate their old alliance and it might actually last this time around.

In the third segment of the show, the tribes arrive for the next challenge and Rob confirms that his wife was voted out of the game. His tribe loses the challenge, not making up time at the puzzle part of the challenge. Parvati wants to make sure that there is no older players versus newer players faction. But who is old and who is new? And is there a middle?

In the fourth segment of the show, Rob talks about his failure at the challenge. But he isn’t too worried about being voted out. He wants to eliminate a newer school player. He thinks that either Ben or Jeremy are the targets at the vote. Danni realizes that no one is strategizing with her. She talks with Ben and Ethan, spilling the fact that there is, or at least could be, an old school and new school alliance. Danni tells Rob and she wants to vote out Parvati. This leads Rob wanting to vote out Danni instead. Adam wants to vote out Rob, but thinks that going after The Godfather is dangerous. Jeremy might want to try to turn the tables. Parvati seems to be the main target in the game as Adam wants to win the game by taking risks in it.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council as Adam somehow can’t put his torch in the slot or find where the hole is so Ben has to help him out. Rob talks about how the game is now more complex this season than it has ever been in previous seasons. Ethan hasn’t been playing this game for quite a while so he doesn’t know how things have changed. Michele admits to being left out of the vote the last time they were there. Parvati doesn’t know if others have adapted to the new game or not. Danni talks about how she doesn’t feel like she was included. Parvati thinks that Danni might not be explaining herself well.

Ben talks about how there could be an alliance between the groups and things blow out from there. There is secret whispering after this that he talks about. Rob wants everyone to openly look through their bags in front of everyone to show their idols. Denise and Adam are sneaky with their two halves and no one seems to notice that they have them. Thus, Rob is convinced that no one has an idol. Parvati hopes that they know what to do before the vote. Jeremy does not use his advantage. No one plays an idol and the votes are read. Danni is voted out of the game. I guess she sealed her own fate here. She gives her fire token to Denise.

On the next Survivor, people want to get rid of the big dogs or bigger animals from the game, while it seems that Sandra is out for anyone who is against her. What might be going on? I guess that we’ll see what craziness exists with the shark or bigger fish in the game.

Total confessional count: Wendell- 2, Adam- 6, Yul- 4, Sarah- 2, Rob- 7, Parvati- 5, Kim- 2, Denise- 2, Tony- 5, Nick- 1, Ethan- 3, Tyson- 4, Danni- 4, Sophie- 5, Jeremy- 4, Sandra- 4, Ben- 5, Michele- 2; Natalie- 5, Amber- 5.

New confessionals this episode: Michele-1, Wendell- 1, Adam- 3, Yul- 1, Sarah- 1, Rob- 3, Parvati- 1, Kim- 1, Denise- 1, Tony- 2, Nick- 0, Ethan- 1, Tyson- 2, Danni- 2, Sophie- 3, Jeremy- 2, Sandra- 0, Ben- 2; Natalie- 2, Amber- 2.

Fire token count: Wendell- 1, Adam- 1, Yul- 1, Sarah- 1, Rob- 2, Parvati- 1, Kim- 1, Denise- 2, Tony- 1, Nick- 1, Ethan- 1, Tyson- 1, Sophie- 1, Jeremy- 1, Sandra- 0, Ben- 1, Michele- 1; Natalie- 2, Amber- 0, Danni- 0; Sandra- idol good for two more tribal councils, Jeremy- safety without power.

Remember that I’m only going to talk about the confessional count here and not anything else. I am also not at the moment going to cover the “normal” idols not related to the fire tokens. I might later. Now Rob has the most confessionals total right now with seven. Nick is the lowest with just one. He and Sandra tie for the lowest this episode with zero a piece. As for the highest this episode, that is a tie between Adam, Sophie, and Rob with three.

As I close this post, I might as well tell you that the posts of this blog aren’t going to be on Wednesdays for a while as they will be moving to Thursdays. This is since next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday and thus, the start of Lent. I will be at church when the show is on so I won’t be able to see it or blog about it until later, as in, the next day. I don’t know if I’ll try to put the final season of Modern Family on tape instead of Survivor so I can put this show on my laptop while using a different one that I have to write about the post and publish it. I’ll probably just go without the final season since I’m likely to see the last episode which is all I care about for now. I’ll explain more about Wednesday shows in the next post of this blog. Note that any potential posts on Survivor: Gabon will remain on Sundays as long as I don't miss a planned date. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.