Episode 40.12

If you follow other blogs of mine, you’ll know that from 2015 onward, there was a cheat that I put in one of the blogs that could give it an update without anything special having to happen. That blog was my TV blog. The cheat would be with unused tithes from the previous year causing the blog to be updated on that date the next year. At one point, I had to move those updates to my Madam Secretary blog before I put them back in the TV blog before returning yet again to the Madam Secretary blog where they are right now. I also started putting the month of the check that I was giving away on the envelopes most of the time, although there are times when I can’t use the month and have to leave it blank. There have also been times when I couldn’t use a cheat as it conflicted with this blog that you are reading now.

Things are getting quite confusing since there is no church that I can go to and a lot of unused envelopes as a result. There might be times when I’ll have to give away all that is in one envelope or at least part of it. You might wonder how this will affect blogs including possibly this one in the end. Well, all I can say is that I might go with back-up times to publish blogs more in the future and that’s if there’s even a show to blog about in the present. I have my doubts that they will air a new season this fall like they always have and it might not just be delayed like the third season was. Basically, we’ll see what all this blog and others might do because of these changes and I hope that it won’t be a problem.

Fire token count: Sarah- 2, Kim- 3, Denise- 3, Tony- 2, Nick- 2, Jeremy- 1, Ben- 0, Michele- 0; Natalie- 6, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 4, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0, Adam- 0, Tyson- 0, Sophie- 0; Sarah- coin flip safety advantage, Tony- regular idol.

In the first segment of the show, Sarah is outraged over Tony’s move. Jeremy thinks that Ben is acting too childish over the vote. Tony reveals that he has an idol. Ben isn’t sure that he can trust Tony and wants to make sure that Jeremy is voted out. Tony was pooped on by a bird. Well, get off twitter and then you can avoid the angry fans. Tony is going on another undercover operation. He is doing a spy nest by hiding in a tree. Sarah knows that he is doing this. She thinks that he could get himself voted out due to what is going on. Kim wants to get rid of Tony and tries to rally the other players against him. She wants to leave a light on. Isn’t that a song? Michele thinks that she should take out Tony.

In the second segment of the show, we return to the edge of extinction. The new task will give six of them two fire tokens each. They have to take 20 coconuts from the back of the island to their camp, one at a time. And they have to do it before sundown. Some do better than others. Rob cracks his elbow. Natalie does this first. Sophie gets a close second. Yul comes in third. Tyson and Parvati come in fourth and fifth. Danni suffers a set back and Wendell gets sixth place. Rob keeps going even after he is out of getting any fire tokens. Back with the main game, there is more fighting with the other players.

Nick wants to join a new group of people so he joins Denise and Michele in an alliance. He wants to get rid of Jeremy, Tony, and Sarah. The players are convinced that Sophie’s idol is going back into play. For once, it isn’t in a hole in a tree, or, at least, it isn’t in the one that they check. Ben finds the idol and unsuccessfully tries to hide it from Tony who is right next to him. Ben wonders what route to go on or who to side with.

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. Both a woman and man will win the immunity challenge. Come on, really? Is that something that they can randomly do? Jeremy is out of the challenge first and Ben disqualifies himself. Sarah drops out next. Is this really the toughest version of this that they’ve done? Wasn’t there a variant of this with both hands above them? Nick wants to give a fire token to Tony in exchange for winning the challenge, but Tony refuses. When Jeff offers food, Kim, Michele, and Nick (for one of Tony’s fire tokens) drops out of the challenge, leaving Tony and Denise with the wins of the challenge. Tony brags about his win.

In the fourth segment of the show, Kim talks about how they can’t get rid of Tony now. But they are going with the other plan of trying to get rid of Jeremy. Michele isn’t sure what to do. Ben reveals that he was the target at some point. Tony isn’t sure that he can trust Nick anymore. Kim is dangerous and she might be the target for some people now. Tony tries to tell Ben that Nick can’t be trusted and he wants to make sure that Kim is voted out next. Michele talks about her 50/50 coin advantage. I thought that Sarah had it. How long have I been wrong about it? Michele talks to Jeremy about maybe giving the advantage away to potentially help him. There is more scrambling than with eggs right now. Jeremy takes the advantage knowing that it might be worthless in the end. Friendly fire could happen.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Denise talks about the bad family therapy that she witnessed after the vote. Would she know about it? She’s a sex therapist, right? I wonder how being a therapist makes her feel.

Michele talks about the decision while Tony and others have a secret conversation to the side. All of this whispering is quite common now. Nick admits that he got a fire token for this. There is a tribe of crazy, paranoid players this season. Jeff offers a sports like commentary while this is going on. What is with all of this going on? Will this always be part of the show now? And is it a good thing? Jeff thinks that there is nothing that can be said tonight.

Denise is sure that she is ready to vote. Did Jeremy flip the coin? I think that he did, but I couldn’t tell if he did and the results are unknown right now. When would he have done that exactly? Tony wants to play his idol for Sarah, but she refuses this offer. I could tell what happened with Jeremy, but I think that he didn’t get the results he wanted. Or maybe he didn’t play his advantage at all. Kim is voted out. She gives each of her three fire tokens to the three women left in the game.

On the next Survivor, we get a two hour episode all at once, Natalie is doing something, Sarah and Tony might both be in danger, and there are more confusing things going on as well. It is hard to make sense of the promos as much anymore, but at least they are still there.

Total confessional count: Denise- 11, Tony- 30, Nick- 12, Jeremy- 22, Ben- 22, Michele- 16, Sarah- 18, Kim- 13; Natalie- 13, Amber- 15, Danni- 12, Ethan- 12, Rob- 23, Parvati- 16, Yul- 13, Wendell- 10, Adam- 26, Tyson- 18, Sophie- 17. New confessionals this episode: Tony- 6, Nick- 1, Jeremy- 2, Ben- 4, Michele- 2, Sarah- 2, Kim- 2, Denise- 1; Natalie- 1, Amber- 1, Danni- 3, Ethan- 2, Rob- 4, Parvati- 1, Yul- 1, Wendell- 1, Adam- 1, Tyson- 2, Sophie- 1.

Fire token count: Jeremy- 1, Ben- 0, Michele- 1, Sarah- 3, Denise- 6, Tony- 3, Nick- 3; Natalie- 8, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 6, Yul- 2, Wendell- 2, Adam- 0, Tyson- 2, Sophie- 2, Kim- 0; Tony- regular idol, Jeremy- maybe still the coin flip advantage?

I can’t keep track of some of these advantages and think that some of the confessional count is bloated since they kept switching between more than one person’s confessional at once, giving them a higher count than they might have otherwise. Tony now has the highest count with thirty confessionals. Denise is the lowest with eleven. Everyone in this episode had a new confessional, even those on the edge of extinction. I might have the number wrong for some of them, at least on the edge. It is hard to tell if there are any misleading numbers in terms of confessionals, but it might become clearer later or all be misleading on purpose. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 40.11

I am currently unsure yet where to rank this season. It will probably be among the good seasons if it has a good ending in the end. That means it would need a good winner and an otherwise satisfying ending that I like in the end. I wouldn’t rank this as the best. But to rank it as bad or even average just does not seem like it works for this season yet. I would hope that it doesn’t go down in the rankings later.

Fire token count: Jeremy- 2, Ben- 1, Michele- 0, Sarah- 1, Kim- 2, Denise- 3, Tony- 3, Nick- 3, Sophie- 2; Natalie- 0, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 4, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0, Adam- 0, Tyson- 0; Sarah- coin flip safety advantage, Sophie- maybe a regular idol.

In the first segment of the show, Jeremy talks about how he used the advantage as he is at tribal council by himself, wondering what happened at tribal council. He wants to know what happened. Ben talks about how his target was able to leave before the vote and will target Jeremy the next time around. While Jeremy had Tyson as a shield, it might have worked too well.

Michele thinks that no one trusts her since she was left out of the vote. Tony talks about how he hasn’t been looking for an idol since he does not want to repeat the mistakes of his second time in the game. He looks for one now as everyone else is exhausted and asleep. Nick joins him at some point, but Tony redirects him to where he already looked. Tony does find an idol. We then switch to Sarah helping make clothes. She’s doing a clothing line that I have to guess that Survivor might want part of the profits of or they wouldn’t promote it for free like this. A fashion show is put on for the others with these clothes. Tony wants to play the game and lies to Jeremy about what happened since he wants to get rid of Jeremy. Tony never went undercover in the real world. Kim thinks that Tony is now her biggest enemy out here.

In the second segment of the show, we go to the edge of extinction. People don’t want to lose the game that they are playing. Tyson thinks that Adam is going to have a hard time. What did I do? Wait, not me. Parvati and Natalie find a note there. They don’t want to tell anyone about what’s going on. They look up there for something, but realize they have to find something under the bed of the shelter. Parvati distracts people while Natalie looks for it. She grabs it and it is an extortion advantage. They can’t play in the challenge or participate in a vote unless they surrender all their fire tokens. They have to figure out who the best person to do this to is as it would cause a lot of chaos.

In the third segment of the show, Nick talks about how he was called a vampire in his season. Tony reads his new advantage which he is very excited about up until reading the last line where it was used against him. He has to give six fire tokens. He confronts his fake alliance about it. Michele reveals that she gave hers away, but lies about why that would be. Jeremy gives one of his away. He also gets one from Nick and Ben as well. We get to the immunity challenge next. The winner of the challenge gets two fire tokens.

If the players know their way around a pole, they will win the challenge. Will they go low or high on the pole? Maybe they will have fun going all over the pole in various places. Kim is out of the challenge first. Denise and Michele both lose control of their poles as does Sarah. These women do not know how to do poles in the end. Nick is the first man out of the challenge. Sophie is the last woman. Who would have thought that all these men knew how to handle poles so well? Ben is out of the challenge and Jeremy drops out next right afterwards leaving Tony with the win. He knows his poles well. He is glad that Jeremy did not win the challenge. He might give the tokens he just won away.

In the fourth segment of the show, Kim knows that Jeremy is the target and many people think that the vote should be split between Jeremy and Michele. Ben is also brought up as a potential target. Tony wonders if Sophie should be the target in the end. But he has to know that Jeremy could win immunity more likely than Sophie could. Still, he wants to change the target and even tells Jeremy that some other people were targeting Jeremy, without revealing that he was the one who was doing this. Jeremy does not know what is going on anymore. Tony has to know how this will sound if it comes to light. But it does seem like now Tony wants to save Jeremy. What is going on?

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Sophie talks about the advantages and idol that were played at the last tribal council. Jeremy thinks that everyone is telling half truths. This makes me wonder if Thanos is there since he likes halves. Nick hopes that big moves don’t backfire as you have to make moves that add to your résumé while also not getting rid of the jury votes you want. I should look up how many winners voted out every member of the jury. Michele didn’t scramble and most of them thought that things were too quiet after tribal council. The game level is high.

Psychological warfare is going on with all the players. Not much can be gathered from tribal this time and it doesn’t seem like we know what might have happened with the votes just yet. No idols are played this time around. Sophie is voted out and even mentions to everyone that she had an idol in her pocket. She gives one fire token to Sarah and the other to Kim.

On the next Survivor, Sarah is upset at Tony and he is now the target for many people as he now has a spy nest by climbing a tree. Kim wants to make a risky move and we will see what all happens later in this show, maybe. They set up a lot for later.

Total confessional count: Ben- 18, Michele- 14, Sarah- 16, Kim- 11, Denise- 10, Tony- 24, Nick- 11, Sophie- 16, Jeremy- 20; Natalie- 12, Amber- 14, Danni- 9, Ethan- 10, Rob- 19, Parvati- 15, Yul- 12, Wendell- 9, Adam- 25, Tyson- 16. New confessionals this episode: Michele- 2, Sarah- 1, Kim- 2, Denise- 1, Tony- 7, Nick- 0, Sophie- 2, Jeremy- 5, Ben- 1; Natalie- 1, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 2, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0, Adam- 0, Tyson- 0.

Fire token count: Sarah- 2, Kim- 3, Denise- 3, Tony- 2, Nick- 2, Jeremy- 1, Ben- 0, Michele- 0; Natalie- 6, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 4, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0, Adam- 0, Tyson- 0, Sophie- 0; Sarah- coin flip safety advantage, Tony- regular idol.

I do not know if Tony gave his two new fire tokens to people that he felt he owed them to or not so I can only guess that what I have is right unless or until being told otherwise. Sophie has sixteen confessionals and is higher than Michele, Kim, Denise, and Nick with Denise as the lowest with ten. She has the same number as Sarah. The highest of those still in the game is Tony with twenty-four. As for confessionals that are new, Sophie had two or maybe just one. I think that it was two and it was the same number as Michele and Kim. The only people higher are Jeremy and Tony with Tony as the highest with seven. The lowest is Nick with just zero. I will be back next week with the next post. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 40.10

In case you were wondering about the lack of Survivor: Gabon posts, I have not been able to watch that show in quite a while. I have been busy with watching and doing other things. I can only hope that I can get back to it in good time, even though you won’t be seeing it for a while. At least you won’t have to wait as long until I do posts on Survivor: Borneo again. That will take quite some time. Note that once this season ends, I am certain to do some random posts before going back to that old season again, but only once I can blog about more of that season in question.

Fire token count: Ben- 1, Michele- 0, Sarah- 1, Kim- 2, Denise- 3, Tony- 1, Nick- 3, Sophie- 2, Tyson- 0, Jeremy- 2; Natalie- 0, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 4, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0, Adam- 0; Jeremy- safety without power, Sarah- steal a vote advantage and coin flip safety advantage, Sophie- regular idol.

In the first segment of the show, we get to the contestants gathering for a challenge. Kim’s husband and three kids come out for the challenge. Ben’s wife and kids come out for the challenge. Sophie’s husband comes out for the challenge. Sarah’s partner and son comes out for the challenge. He is just a partner? Denise’s daughter and husband are brought out. Nick’s fiancée comes out for the challenge. Tony’s wife and kids come out for the challenge. Michele’s sister comes out for the challenge. Tyson’s wife and child comes out for the challenge. We haven’t seen Rachel since Blood versus Water. Jeremy’s wife and kids come out for the challenge. This is Val from San Juan del Sur. What’s interesting is that both Rachel and Val were voted out at the second tribal councils in their seasons. After making a joke, Jeff reveals that there is no loved ones challenge and that they all get to go back to the camp.

In the second segment of the show, Ben and Sarah talk about the gathering going on. It was as if there was cease fire in the war. Tyson is glad that everyone gets to enjoy it. At that moment, it switches to the people on the edge of extinction who also get their families visiting. We don’t get the exact same way of meeting that the others get. Adam’s father talks to him. He is emotional still over the death of his mom. Wendell and Yul like seeing their loved ones. Ethan is married now and gets to spend time with her life. Natalie gets to spend time with her time and an unexplained baby. Whose baby is that? This makes Sandra the only contestant this season not to see a loved one. If only she didn’t quit.

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. This is also for two fire tokens instead of the usual one. Tony wins the challenge. Ben talks afterwards about how he thinks that there will be a huge tribal council coming ahead.

In the fourth segment of the show, the tribe gathers after the challenge where Tony talks about his win. People then come to him since he has all the power. Jeremy wants to break up Sarah and Sophie. Tony does not want to turn on his ally, Sarah. Sarah thinks that Kim should be voted out instead. Sarah thinks that talking to Tony is like talking to a rock. I thought that Francesca ate the rock.

Tony thinks that he should turn the tide against Jeremy since Jeremy is going against the grain. Kim wants to play an idol. I didn’t remember that. Sarah is confused by what’s going on. Jeremy has an advantage, but isn’t sure that he can use it since he’d be turning his back on his alliance. Sophie wonders if the smoke will clear or not since someone could be dead in the trenches.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Nick thinks that the game has gotten better than it was, even if his allies were voted out. A lot of people do random whispering that has become a common part of Survivor nowadays. Kim thinks that this is Survivor insanity. Tony is glad that he is safe since he has the immunity necklace. Jeremy and Sarah both want to play an advantage. Jeremy gives Jeff his note that uses his safety without power and he leaves tribal council.

There is more scrambling than when good eggs are made for breakfast. Two groups gather. Sarah then decides to steal a vote from Denise and after at least two times of Jeff saying it is time to vote, they actually do vote. Third time’s the charm. Jeff gathers the votes and Kim plays her idol for Denise. Tyson is voted out again. He doesn’t have any fire tokens to give away.

On the next Survivor, everyone is lying according to Jeremy, Tony wants to do damage and might damage himself in the process as everyone wonders what will happen next. The jurors also then talk to Jeff, giving him thanks for the family visit.

Total confessional count: Sarah- 15, Kim- 9, Denise- 9, Tony- 17, Nick- 11, Sophie- 14, Jeremy- 15, Ben- 17, Michele- 12, Tyson- 16; Natalie- 11, Amber- 14, Danni- 9, Ethan- 10, Rob- 19, Parvati- 13, Yul- 12, Wendell- 9, Adam- 25. New confessionals this episode: Kim- 1, Denise- 0, Tony- 2, Nick- 0, Sophie- 1, Jeremy- 1, Ben- 2, Michele- 0, Tyson- 1, Sarah- 3; Natalie- 1, Amber- 1, Danni- 0, Ethan- 1, Rob- 1, Parvati- 1, Yul- 1, Wendell- 1, Adam- 1.

Fire token count: Jeremy- 2, Ben- 1, Michele- 0, Sarah- 1, Kim- 2, Denise- 3, Tony- 3, Nick- 3, Sophie- 2; Natalie- 0, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 4, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0, Adam- 0, Tyson- 0; Sarah- coin flip safety advantage, Sophie- maybe a regular idol.

Tyson had just one new confessional this episode. The only people lower are Michele, Denise, Nick, and Danni with zero. The people who are higher are Ben, Tony, and Sarah with Sarah as the highest with three. In terms of total confessionals, Tyson has sixteen. Tony and Ben are both higher with seventeen. Both Rob and Adam are also higher with nineteen and twenty-five respectively. The lowest is a tie with Wendell, Kim, Danni, and Denise all having nine confessionals. I don’t know if Sophie has an idol like I think that she does. We’ll see what happens in the next episode. I look forward to it as always. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 40.9

It will be Easter this Sunday, be it today when this post is published or this coming Sunday if this was posted on a Wednesday. I’ll get to the plan and weirdness in the next paragraph. But I might as well get to sharing all the Sunday shows that I watch right now. There might be some changes soon as not all of what I watch is on at the moment. Know that I watch 60 Minutes, God Friended Me, NCIS: Los Angeles, and NCIS: New Orleans on CBS, Supergirl and Batwoman on the CW, The Simpsons, Bob’s Burgers, and Family Guy on FOX, and The Rookie on ABC. I might check out Good Girls at some point, but probably won’t even if the network it airs on (NBC) does come in for a change.

What I’m kind of annoyed by is that Modern Family is airing a two hour series finale starting at 7 that will more than likely delay when I see and thus blog about this episode. This creates different options for what I could do with this show and this blog. I could record Modern Family on my laptop, in which case I would use the alternate one I have to write a post and blog about as it airs live. More than likely, I will instead put this show on tape as usual while I delay the post until sometime on Sunday. This would ensure the already likely fact that my posts on Gabon would be delayed until after the season is done airing. I will explain more about that in the next post of this blog.

Note that there was a storm that was going on during this episode and can only hope that I didn’t lose any of the show due to storm coverage as a result. I could see some of this online, hopefully, if such a thing were to happen on the tape.

Fire token count: Adam- 1, Sarah- 1, Kim- 1, Denise- 1, Tony- 1, Nick- 3, Sophie- 2, Tyson- 0, Jeremy- 1, Ben- 1, Michele- 4; Natalie- 0, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 0, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0; Jeremy- safety without power, Sarah- steal a vote advantage, Sophie- regular idol.

In the first segment of the show, the tribe returns from tribal council and Michele feels blindsided from the vote over Wendell getting voted out. Nick wants to take everyone out. But how could he? Adam was nervous about surviving the vote. Adam thinks that there is an idol hidden at tribal council. We then get to the people on the edge of extinction and they all have to be there for the message. It says that history will repeat itself. Some try to leave others out. Parvati and Danni find the advantage where Aubry did in the previous season with it. They tell others about it.

The advantage is a safe/not safe coin that they can sell for any number of fire tokens. They want to sell it to Michele for four since she has the most fire tokens. Meanwhile, we get to a reward challenge all by itself. They split into two teams of five with Denise sitting out by not being picked. Sarah is on the team that wins the challenge, but she gives her reward of Chinese takeout to Nick since it is his birthday. Adam questions a move like this.

In the second segment of the show, Nick wants to pay her back, but she doesn’t want paid back. Sarah explains her move in a confessional. Tony doesn’t like this move and talks to her about it. Jeremy also is weary of a decision like this. Nick thinks that he doesn’t owe Sarah anything. Those on the reward open their fortune cookies and see different things. Michele decides to accept the advantage and get rid of all her fire tokens partly based on the advice of the cookies she got. Can she only use it once? That is my impression from the advantage.

In the third segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. What’s with the random singing in the background of some of these episodes? What’s going on and why has it been added? Kim wins the challenge and gets a fire token. Did I remember to add the fire token from the last win? Tony isn’t sure that he is safe as he thinks that his kind is being targeted.

In the fourth segment of the show, Kim thinks that the vote should be split. Nick is who the people think should be voted out of the game. Nick wants to take control of the game. He wants to vote out Sarah. Some people are completely fine with this. Meanwhile, Tyson wants to target Adam. What did I do? Oh, wait… Tyson thinks that Adam is too dangerous as a player. It seems that everyone want to vote out Adam. Sarah is convinced that people shouldn’t throw her name out. Ben doesn’t want the target to end up on him tonight. Ben and Adam have a bit of a fight. It doesn’t seem like anyone knows who to vote for as different names are brought up as a target. Adam is hoping that tribal council has an idol.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Jeff thinks that the game is cagey and it seems that no one knows who will get blindsided. Jeremy thinks that he hasn’t seen the game this crazy at any time before. Nick is tired of his game coming up. He thinks the war is a sad war. Adam tries to pay attention to what is going on as people whisper and come up with plans for what to do. Ben tries to defend some of what he did and is going on.

People are moving around and chaos is being caused. Ben is too sensitive in some way. Adam and Ben largely have this loud conversation and other people talk to the side while this is going on. Adam is sure that he wants to figure out what is going on in the game and at one point, it leads to silence. Adam tries to take the thing out after the votes are cast, but it won’t come off. Jeff says that it isn’t an idol. He looks kind of dumb as a result, but not too much. Adam is voted out. He gives his fire token to Denise.

On the next Survivor, the war is happening and someone will be left in the trenches. I can’t see much else of what was going on. It is possible that someone wants to go to the edge. Adam arrives at the edge and they think that he is trying to do good, even if he didn’t.

Total confessional count: Tony- 15, Nick- 11, Sophie- 13, Jeremy- 14, Ben- 15, Michele- 12, Tyson- 15, Adam- 24, Sarah- 12, Kim- 8, Denise- 9; Natalie- 10, Amber- 13, Danni- 9, Ethan- 9, Rob- 18, Parvati- 12, Yul- 11, Wendell- 8.

New confessionals this episode: Nick- 3, Sophie- 0, Jeremy- 1, Ben- 1, Michele- 2, Tyson- 1, Adam- 4, Sarah- 2, Kim- 1, Denise- 0, Tony- 2; Natalie- 1, Amber- 1, Danni- 1, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 1, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0.

Fire token count: Ben- 1, Michele- 0, Sarah- 1, Kim- 2, Denise- 3, Tony- 1, Nick- 3, Sophie- 2, Tyson- 0, Jeremy- 2; Natalie- 0, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 4, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0, Adam- 0; Jeremy- safety without power, Sarah- steal a vote advantage and coin flip safety advantage, Sophie- regular idol.

I think that I did mess up with the fire token count so I should hopefully have the right number later in the next post. I also don’t know if Parvati got all of Michele’s old fire tokens or not. Danni might have gotten them all or maybe the two of them split it. We’ll see what happens. I should have it fixed now with this count as of this post. Sorry for the wrong information previously.

As for the total confessional count, Adam has twenty-four, the highest of any in the game whether it is on the edge or still in the main game. Tony, Ben, and Tyson tie for the next highest with fifteen. Rob still has eighteen. In terms of next confessionals, Adam has the highest with four. Nick is the next highest with three. Of those still in the game, Denise and Sophie tie for the lowest with zero. I hope to be back on Wednesday as I should be with the next post. Hopefully there won’t be any more delays. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 40.8

I had done a post earlier on the winners that weren’t picked to be on this season of Survivor and I now have a link about it that explains a bit more. There could be more info beyond this, but this is all that I care about sharing for now. Enjoy the link as it explains where people were and why they weren’t back for the show’s landmark season.

https://www.eonline.com/ca/news/1122442/checking-in-on-the-18-survivor-winners-who-aren-t-back-for-season-40#photo-1029718

Since I was still recording this show while listening to my church on the radio, I often found out who was voted out (at least in the last part of the show) when I got to the end of the recording. This is something that I’m okay with in a way since it is expected for me to see something of some sort or another when I get into a show towards the end. I will do one last update regarding that later in this post, although there is a lot more to share about church in this blog later.

Fire token count: Jeremy- 1, Ben- 1, Michele- 3, Wendell- 2, Adam- 1, Sarah- 1, Kim- 1, Denise- 1, Tony- 1, Nick- 2, Sophie- 2; Natalie- 4, Amber- 1, Danni- 1, Ethan- 1, Tyson- 1, Rob- 3, Parvati- 0, Yul- 0; Jeremy- safety without power, Sarah- steal a vote advantage, Sophie- regular idol.

In the first segment of the show, the players that are out of the game get a scroll regarding what they can get and some of them get an advantage in the challenge and an idol for later. Amber gives her fire token to her husband. The tribes gather and merge. The players from the edge gather for the challenge in the game that can get them back in it. I think that all of the players that could get an advantage in the challenge bought one and thus used it. Tyson narrowly beats out Rob for the win. The players that lost the challenge are now on the jury and will await a second and final chance to get back in the game. Tyson feels proud of himself for winning the challenge.

In the second segment of the show, there is a new menu of which to use the fire tokens and there is a merge feast that the players get. The prices of things went up. Denise explains her move that got rid of Sandra. Tyson and the rest of them realize that the old school players were gone, but it might not have been intentional. Wendell thinks that he can trust his place in the game.

Wendell and Jeremy want to work together, but only if Wendell gets rid of Nick. Tyson talks to Ben about how the big targets have already been outnumbered and taken out. But there are still alliances forming and changing. Tony wants to get rid of all of them.

In the third segment of the show, it starts raining on the tribe. Adam doesn’t think that this is too much of an issue as his season had a cyclone. But he didn’t have to weather the storm as he got to leave when the worst of it struck. Sophie is really cold as they gather for the challenge. The first man and woman who win the challenge get immunity and a fire token. Michele takes a big fall as she is the first out of the challenge. Adam is out next. Sarah falls out. Tyson loses a challenge he had won before next. Wendell is out as is Tony. Sophie is out next. Kim is out giving Denise the win for the women. Ben is out of the challenge next leaving just Nick and Jeremy to battle it out. Jeremy wins after a bit longer. He wants to get rid of Nick while not letting others know that he is in control.

In the fourth segment of the show, we return to the tribe after the challenge. People think that they should get rid of either Nick or Wendell. Ben wants to get rid of Nick, but Nick is making sure that he can be everywhere at once, talking to people and intruding himself into conversations.

Sophie wants to get rid of Jeremy. Nick is told that the target is Adam. Why do you want to get rid of me? Oh, wait. He wants to get rid of a different Adam. Jeremy wants to change the target to Adam, but it seems like the vote could still be up in the air. Adam isn’t sure that he’s safe and wants to make sure that either Nick or Wendell is voted out instead.

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to the tribal council at hand. Tyson relights his torch. Jeff starts the tribal council by talking to Tyson. He thinks that he is more cautious this time around. Jeff asks if he would be an easy target to the other players and Sophie admits that his name was not brought up. The players fought for their lives on the poll. You have to do well at polls, even if they can be unreliable at times. They decide who gets in debates. Wait, those are different polls.

Nick doesn’t want to look like he is paranoid at the game. Sophie doesn’t want to be part of every group. Adam isn’t sure how things will come together since no one was talking with him. Tony admits that everyone is going with the current, but not everyone knows which way it is going. No one plays an idol and the votes are cast. Wendell is the person voted out of the game. Both Michele and Nick were left out of the vote. Wendell gives one fire token to Nick and the other to Michele.

On the next Survivor, Nick wants to take out everyone who double crossed him as things are becoming quite madness in the game and tons of crazy things can happen. Wendell doesn’t even know how to explain what happened at tribal outside of the fact that he was voted out and that’s what happened. Is there much else that can be gathered from this?

Total confessional count: Michele- 10, Wendell- 8, Adam- 20, Sarah- 10, Kim- 7, Denise- 9, Tony- 13, Nick- 8, Sophie- 13, Jeremy- 13, Ben- 14; Natalie- 9, Amber- 12, Danni- 8, Ethan- 9, Tyson- 14, Rob- 18, Parvati- 11, Yul- 11.

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

Fire token count: Adam- 1, Sarah- 1, Kim- 1, Denise- 1, Tony- 1, Nick- 3, Sophie- 2, Tyson- 0, Jeremy- 1, Ben- 1, Michele- 4; Natalie- 0, Amber- 0, Danni- 0, Ethan- 0, Rob- 0, Parvati- 0, Yul- 0, Wendell- 0; Jeremy- safety without power, Sarah- steal a vote advantage, Sophie- regular idol.

I hope that I have the fire token count right as I might have gotten a bit confused by some of it near the end since some changed hands. As for the total confessional count, Adam is winning in the total count with twenty with Kim losing with seven, having less than all those on the edge of extinction. Michele was the lowest with this episode with zero; everyone else not on the edge has higher counts. The highest is a tie between Ben and Tony with three a piece.

Before I finish this post, I should tell you that the posts are moving back to Wednesdays for the rest of this season. In case they are not posted on time like they should be and are planned to be, you will see the post on Sundays instead. I still don’t know when the next Survivor: Gabon post will be and know that it might not be until late as in this season could be over before it returns. We’ll see what happens next. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.