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.