Survivor: Gabon episode 6- He’s a Snake, but He’s My Snake

While this post won’t be published until after the Survivor: Island of the Idols season finale, in my time, it is before Halloween has happened and I’m hoping to watch the Community Halloween episode before the holiday has happened. What I know is that recording a lot more on tape due to missing shows due to work means that I’ll have to be more caught up on that than usual in order to make sure that I am not too far behind on them. Maybe I’ll be able to see it in time or I might have to take it off the list at some point. I’m honestly not sure what will happen just yet.

Let’s get to the idol from Ghost Island part 5. JT had made dumb moves with idols. In the first one, he gave his idol away and it arguably caused his own elimination. The second time, he found an idol, but did not play it and was voted out with it in his possession. Somehow, the idol would wind up with an even worse owner.

Chris was able to find it upon learning that a secret visit to Ghost Island was in his grasp. He knew he was a target and learned that the idol was only good for the next tribal council. It was logical for him to just use the idol. But he took a random game of chance to extend the life of the idol. He extended it once, then failed the second time. Thus, he lost this vote. He was voted out at that tribal council upon not playing the idol, making JT no longer the worst player to hold the idol.

I was, through somewhat cheating through my own methods, able to see the Community Halloween episode both regularly then again with commentary before October ended. There was a bit of a change with the choices that I have of stuff to watch. Now mystery choice #1 is mystery choice #2. This will not affect where Survivor: Gabon is placed on the list.

Here are all the known instances of when the Survivor rules were broken from Wikia as I promised to put in this blog in a previous post. In the first season, Pagong voted out Jeff Probst and had to redo their vote. Later, Richard would be jailed for not paying taxes on his winnings. In the second season, Colby removed coral from the Great Barrier Reef and CBS was fined for it. In the fourth season, Paschal was not able to attend a tribal council as a jury member. In the fifth season, contestants broke rules during a challenge, leading them to lose the challenge “by a bunch of rules.” Also in the fifth season, the player Helen wrote a column for her paper with behind the scenes information about the show that she was not allowed to share with it being within three years of her being on the show.

In the sixth season, Jenna brought a hat with metal wires that she used for fishing. In the seventh season of the show, Jon tried to provoke Rupert into hitting him with the hopes that Rupert would be ejected from the game. In the eighth season, Richard brought matches up his butt. In the tenth season, there was a tribal council at the challenge site without the jury being present. In the thirteenth season, some of the tribe members went to the other tribe’s camp by accident. Later that season, a contestant was voted out without another jury member who was just voted out being present. In the fourteenth season of the show, a twist gave a tribe allowed a tribe to forfeit a challenge.

In the nineteenth season, Russell Hantz burned socks that another player had, even though one is not allowed to destroy another player’s belongings. Ben was also forced out of a challenge later that season. There was also a case later that same season when Russell Swan’s evacuation lead to neither tribe being declared the winner of a challenge. In the twentieth season, Sandra destroyed Russell’s hat. In the twenty-first season, Jane claimed that Sash tried to bribe her into getting jury votes. Also that season, Jane buried another player’s shoes. In the twenty-second season, Julie hid Phillip’s shorts.

In the twenty-third season, Sophie tried to get another player to help her win a challenge, but Jeff put a stop to this before it happened. In the twenty-fourth season, Bill threw Colton’s immunity idol into the sea. Also the same season, Manono gave up immunity after winning it in a unanimous decision that I am sure Bill regrets making. In the twenty-fifth season, a tribe made a deal that was allowed and ended the challenge without a winner it would have had otherwise.

In the twenty-sixth season, Brandon’s tribe voted him out at the challenge with the other tribe present that they were allowed to quit before they even competed in the challenge. Later that season, Phillip sat out an individual challenge and just so happened to be voted out that same night.

In the twenty-ninth season, Missy created an usual situation where she had an injury that didn’t need her pulled from the game but left her unable to compete in many challenges. This rightfully angered a lot of fans of the show, but I’m not sure there was a better way around this. In the thirty-fourth season, Jeff Varner was voted out in a verbal vote and was the only player thus far who didn’t vote at a tribal council who hadn’t lost the right due to a twist. In the thirty-seventh season, Alec ended up breaking the non-disclosure agreement intentionally, spoiling himself and another contestant as players. He did not get paid for being on the show or was able to attend the reunion show. In the next post of this season’s posts, I will get into the lawsuits and legal action, a separate page.

While I’m not sure that I’ll be able to see this episode and thus post about it when I was wanting too originally, I might as well share with you a link from an old Madam Secretary episode that I had blogged about in the past. I was sharing some of these in my Elementary blog before that show ended. Now, I think that I shall continue at the exact episode I left off with there since it is set around after Christmas and it would thus seem like a good time to share it here now. I hope this episode isn’t too late.

http://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/episode-from-1-10-2016.html

Movie updates: It has been a while since I’ve told people in this blog about the movies that I watch. I have only one list right now as the other list is slowly being dissolved. I will let you know if I go with the oldest six choices which are another list. There are some overlap between the two. For now, I’m using my time on Saturdays to watch Christmas stuff I haven’t seen when it was available. The list that I have right now for Sundays are the choices of Copacabana (a play recording), The Lion King 1 ½, Madagascar with commentary, The Pelican Brief, Survivor: Borneo- The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments, and Titanic. I started the year by watching The Lion King 1 ½ and replacing it with Nature Documentaries from Saturday’s old list.

After a while of not being able to see any movies, I was able to watch Madagascar with commentary and will replace it with Madagascar 2 with commentary. I still have more stuff to move from Saturday’s list, but have finished watching all of the Christmas stuff that I want to until December or late November. I might go with the oldest list of choices when I can to see more choices. When I have just one list of six choices, I will let you know.

I rolled the episode on 2-4-2020, which was a Tuesday. This means that I’ll have to update my TV blogs on Tuesdays now since they were vacant of posts since I moved my Madam Secretary blog updates to Saturdays. I plan to get rid of the Monday updates of the TV blog in the future. I only hope that this does not mess up too much the other blogs’ updates since I only do one blog on one day.

We begin with people talking about tribal council. Ace wonders what to do and thinks that he needs to get someone to betray the others. Matty thinks about his girlfriend, Jamie. He makes a ring for her. He then talks to Ace who make a pact to work together.

At Kota, Bob and Corrine complain about Dan eating too much food. Ken points out that his tribe is also running low on rice. They are at rock bottom or, perhaps, rice bottom. Ace and Sugar talk to each other which leads to Sugar giving her idol to Ace for safe keeping since people know she has the idol. He thinks that things are going well for him.

We then get to the reward challenge. The tribes have to chase each other while a snake is attached to all of them and some of them can drop out so it might help others on the tribe. Fang does terrible as it is Kota who once again wins the challenge. Crystal is upset over the loss. Randy gloats over their loss to the point of openly mocking her hurt.

After the challenge, Kota decides that they have to ration their food reward since Dan eats too much. Corrine wants to make it as fair as possible. Randy is even getting annoyed by Dan. Randy thinks that he should turn on Dan, his old member. On Exile Island, Sugar is said that her tribe doesn’t get food, even though she does at the Sugar shack. Kelly thinks that Crystal is too emotional. Crystal confronts Kelly about this in general and tries to explain that it is not a sign of weakness. Back at Kota, they find and catch a giant turtle. They are feeling high thus far in the game.

We then get to the immunity challenge. This challenge was more back and forth at certain parts with the Fang ahead at certain points. At the final part, Ace tries to do things by himself and helps fail as a result. Crystal wants to get rid of Ace since they haven’t won anything with him on the tribe. Back at camp after their loss, Ace wants to get rid of Kelly. Matty wants to flush the idol and others want to get rid of Sugar as well. Ace doesn’t want to reveal the fact that he has the idol.

Crystal tries to dictate the vote against Ace while worried about what Matty will do. Meanwhile, there are others that still talk about trying to get rid of Kelly. Ken learns from Sugar that she gave the idol of hers to Ace. Ken convinces Sugar to take her idol back from Ace. Ace is worried about if he will last since he doesn’t have the idol.

We get to tribal council next. Jeff thinks that they don’t have the teamwork aspect nailed down. You do not want someone to drown because you aren’t helping each other when the group room is filled with water. Kelly thinks that Crystal is unstable. Crystal gets defensive. Kelly earns Ace’s ire as well. It could be any one of them getting voted out tonight.

When the votes are cast, Kelly votes for Crystal. Everyone else on the tribe, Crystal, Sugar, Matty, Ken, and Ace all vote against Kelly. Did she end her fate here at tribal council? It is hard to tell for sure what went wrong as the edit isn’t that clear. Kelly is voted out of the game as a result.

On the next Survivor, both tribes will vote someone out and various people are brought up as the target on each tribe with Susie even admitting to Corrine that Corrine is Susie’s target. Why would someone do that? I guess I’ll have to see the episode again sometime at some point.

Total confessional count: Crystal- 15, Kelly- 4, Dan- 4, Corrine- 8, Bob- 5, Sugar- 8, Randy- 16, Charlie- 10, Marcus- 8, Matty- 8, Susie- 2, Ken- 10, Ace- 13.

New confessionals this episode: Ace- 4, Crystal- 4, Kelly- 2, Dan- 0, Corrine- 2, Bob- 1, Sugar- 1, Randy- 2, Charlie- 0, Marcus- 2, Matty- 1, Susie- 0, Ken- 2.

Kelly didn’t really seem to leave that much of a mark on the season. Even her exit from the game does not make as much sense as it otherwise could since she didn’t get much of an edit going into it. But I think that might have been the point as she didn’t do much in the season in the end. Could she come back for a future season? I’d give her about a 37% chance of that happening. There’s not much else to say in this post so I will let you go. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.