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.