Survivor: Gabon episode 10: Nothing Tastes Better than Five Hundred Dollars

According to the current schedule for the 2020-2021 TV season, this show might come back in the fall and I’ll try to keep you updated on potential filming if and when I know it is happening. It can just be a bit bad to look up stuff on future seasons as you may find out things you don’t want to know, such as who wins season 26 while season 25 is still airing. A fall season might be hopeful on their part as they think that they can film it when the usual spring season can be filmed and still have enough time for it to air later. It is possible that we won’t see it until midseason or next season.

Let’s get to the idols from Island of the Idols part 1, the regular idols. I wasn’t much able to make sense of what fandom had it on at first, but used it to help me sort out what happened with my own blog. With these idols, Chelsea finds one, lucking her way into it, and is voted out in possession of her idol. Jamal finds one as well. He gave his idol to Noura and it was wasted. Kellee then found a second one (see future posts) and a third one at the merged camp. She was voted out with both of them in her possession. Janet found an idol, but then wastes it only negating minority votes. Karishma found an idol and successfully played it on herself. Elaine found an idol and wasted it on herself, negating no votes. Janet found another idol and got cocky enough with it that she told people to vote her out. She could have had a successful play of it, but it was nullified by Dean’s idol nullifier.

It seems like now might be the time when a lot of shows that I watch on DVD will change. I finished with the Popeye cartoons that I have and replaced it with Flashpoint season 1. I will also have to switch back from Community season 1 to watching Charmed season 5.

In the next Madam Secretary blog post to talk about, I mention how I finished watching VeggieTales on tape outside of an Easter episode. This wound up being lent to sister at some point and I still haven’t gotten it back yet, even if she doesn’t really need it right now. I talk about having two lists of shows to watch on DVD or VHS, something I’m set to do again if my Amazon order arrives soon or I get something for my birthday or just decide to start watching Survivor: Australia on DVD, something that I can’t do in this format without watching the special before it. I also talk about death by suicide since it is a part of this episode which caused it to be a different episode. I also wind up seeming to combine segments three and four in the write up. I also mention wanting to do a redacted joke so enjoy those in the future starting in this piece.

http://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/2016/07/episode-from-1-31-2016.html

Knock, knock!

Who’s there?

Redacted.

Redacted who?

Exactly.

There might be a change to blogger coming soon before the month of June is over. I shouldn’t say that there might be, but there will be. I like the format the way it is now and am not sure that I want it to change. But they say that the current format should still be an option in the future. I might not be able to tell some of the OCD format in the new way, even if it might be for the better. I’m just thinking that I would want the legacy format in case I lose the current laptop for one reason or another and stop doing a bunch of other blogs of mine, even if only for a moment. I do believe that there is no reason to think that this would be one of the blogs that would stop updating, as long as my other laptop remains an option to use instead.

Since I had mentioned in the Madam Secretary blog about VeggieTales: An Easter Carol, I might as well share a random song from it. Today’s song is called Boids. It is about mechanical chickens made of plastic that can help create Easter eggs until the factory blows up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5rJatXixKQ

I have no idea if I should be talking about what has already aired and happened on this season, even if it hasn’t been covered in this blog post yet. You see, I was confused in some places if I had been counting the confessionals correctly as Bob was really low for a while and wasn’t seen as much as he could be. But I guess that was what happened in the game, even though I find this strange.

Movie update: On Wednesday, I watched Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. I replaced that with Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. I will be watching Attack of the Clones again with commentary. I did not have time on the weekend to watch movies this time around. If I did, I would have watched the movie Courageous on Father’s Day instead of something from the list then. Since I couldn’t watch that then, it will be added to one of my movie lists and watched later this year.

It was on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 that I rolled the next episode and will watch it. I like having all of this time to watch this show and can only hope that it will keep working out for me to see an episode and have it posted by the next Sunday. Here is the planned schedule for posts of my blogs for the next month in question. Hopefully, this is easy to understand. I cannot yet factor in potential changes, but at least know what the current plan is as a result. Freebies could be any blog or none of them.

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
Not July	Not July	Not July	July 1- freebie	July 2- TV	July 3- The Good Wife	July 4- CSI: Cyber
July 5- Survivor (potentially)	July 6- Elementary (if not on Sunday)	July 7- Madam Secretary	July 8- Survivor (if not on Sunday)	July 9- TV	July 10- The Good Wife (potentially)	July 11- freebie
July 12- Survivor (potentially)	July 13- Elementary	July 14- freebie	July 15- Survivor (if not on Sunday)	July 16- TV	July 17- Madam Secretary	July 18- Madam Secretary
July 19- Survivor (potentially)	July 20- CSI: Cyber (if not on Sunday)	July 21- freebie	July 22- Survivor (if not on Sunday)	July 23- TV	July 24- The Good Fight (if not on the 10th)	July 25- freebie
July 26- Survivor (potentially)	July 27- freebie	July 28- freebie	July 29- Survivor (if not on Sunday)	July 30- TV	July 31- freebie	Not July

We begin with Randy talking about the vote and how they were smart to take out Charlie since he had all these friends. Randy thinks that he is safe for now without having friends. Corrine thinks that they will all go home, but is not sure which order they will do that in.

Bob and Sugar talk about the fact that he doesn’t have an idol. He reveals his fake idol to her. He hopes that it can fool someone. She isn’t sure why his strategy involves this. Randy and Corrine talk to each other about what to do. They want Matty to flip flop on the people.

Treemail gives everyone individual envelopes with money. Corrine wants to get an advantage. Randy buys the first item, peanuts and beer for $180. Everyone has $500 to potential spend. Ken buys an item for $300 and sends Bob to Exile Island with that money, taking all of Bob’s money. After Randy bids all of his money on an item, Sugar outbids him and spends $340 on what turns out to be chocolate and peanut butter. Susie spends $340 on a bath. Matty spends $400 on cheeseburger, fries, and soda. Randy spends $280 on spaghetti and garlic bread. Corrine spends all her $500 on an advantage that has to be sealed until the next challenge. Randy quickly spends $20 on cookies and shares them with the tribe, but doesn’t get one when Sugar gives it away.

Randy doesn’t like the cookie issue. Sugar thinks that he was being rude and didn’t offer her one, but he did and she refused at first. She still didn’t take one. Randy talks about potential alliances. Bob is at Exile Island and looks for a clue, only to get what he has already seen earlier. He decides to go on his own personal safari instead of looking for an idol again. I’ve been on a safari to Kruger National Park. I highly recommend it. You might not have to go that far. And that’s provided that you can go anywhere at all. Back at camp, they think that the next boot order should be Bob then Randy then Corrine.

Randy wants to get people to vote against him with the idea that Bob has an idol that would result in Susie being voted out of the game. Randy wants to get rid of Susie due to her betrayal. Matty is then convinced that Randy needs to go and so is Crystal.

The tribe then gathers for the immunity challenge. It is a two part challenge and Corrine learns that she gets to skip the first part and automatically go to the final round. Ken and Matty win their way to the next round of the game. While all three have their dominoes going at some point, Ken is the one who wins the challenge in the end. Corrine doesn’t like her loss.

Back at camp, Randy thinks that everyone is voting for him. Sugar wants to get rid of Randy and talks to Bob about the fake idol. She thinks that it would be hilarious. Bob thinks that he has nothing to lose from giving Randy the fake idol. It is possible that this could have cost Bob the game, but it doesn’t. Bob talks to Corrine about it and gives it to Randy after all. Randy makes a deal that if Bob is in the finals and he is not, Randy would vote for Bob to win. But the idol isn’t real.

Still, the tribe heads off to tribal council where the next person will be voted out of the game. Jeff talks about how the cookie was given away and Randy is still upset about it. Susie feels sorry for him, but Randy thinks that others think that it is pathetic. Jeff thinks that it is possible that Randy is playing some sort of game by doing this. Jeff then asks Bob about the hidden immunity idol. Randy admits that he is worried about being voted out, but wants to stay in the game. The votes are then cast. Randy, Bob, and Corrine vote for Susie. The rest of the tribe, namely Susie, Crystal, Ken, Matty, and Sugar, all vote for Randy. After the votes are cast, Randy tries to play the idol. But the idol isn’t real. Thus, Randy is voted out of the game.

On the next Survivor, Bob suggests that the idol that was thrown into the sea wasn’t really thrown into the sea when he is talking to Corrine. Marcus kept the idol and showed him where it was. But then why didn’t Marcus play it? I guess we’ll have to see what happens next, if we don’t already know.

Total confessional count: Bob- 11, Sugar- 20, Randy- 39, Matty- 21, Susie- 7, Ken- 19, Crystal- 23, Corrine- 20. New confessionals this episode: Corrine- 3, Bob- 2, Sugar- 3, Randy- 9, Matty- 1, Susie- 0, Ken- 1, Crystal- 1.

Randy would later return to the game for the 20^th season where he was put on the villains tribe. There was an incident off camera where he lost his buff and had to get a replacement. Being told not to lose it, he was mad in some way and burned it in the tribal council fire upon being the first one out of the tribe coming in 18^th place. He might have inspired the buff burning that would be put in Redemption Island seasons in the future. One would have thought that he was rejecting the villain label as a result, but that was not the case in the end. Ultimately, Randy is rather old and probably not thought of as one of the greatest contestants.

I don’t know of any major health issues that he’s having that would prevent him from playing the game again. Still, I don’t know if that would happen or not. I give him about a 40% chance of playing the game a third time. In the meantime, I hope to be back next week with the next post. Pay attention to the TV blog posts and hope for an extra one when a freebie shows up. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Survivor: Gabon episode 9: The Brains Behind Everything

Something that I wonder a bit about now is the loved ones event on Winners at War and how they would have split Amber and Rob’s loved ones if one was in the game and the other was on the edge of extinction. It might not have been too hard to split them up randomly or however people would have wanted them to be split up. But it doesn’t matter much anyways.

While idols have always caused craziness and have had some issues with fans, they were never as bad as they could have been until Edge of Extinction. Contrary to rumors you might have heard or beliefs from fans, production never outright handed someone an idol until this season.

Let’s start at the beginning, a pretty good place to start. In it, Lauren gave an idol to Chris, but it was wasted with only one vote negated. Aubry found an idol, but was voted out with it in her possession with it becoming void on the edge of extinction. Kelley found an idol, but made the same mistake Aubry did. Rick was given an idol that he gave half of to David which he had to as he had to give his idol to someone. David gave his half back to Rick who then wasted it on David.

Rick then found an idol on his own and successfully played it on himself. He then found another idol and played it on himself successfully again. Chris was also given an idol by winning reentry, gave half of the idol to Rick, got it back, and saved himself from elimination at the last vote idols were good for. Rick also found one last idol and played it for Gavin who wasted it with no votes against him.

In the next episode of The Good Wife that I had blogged about a while ago, I talked about the football doubleheaders and seeing the episodes of various shows in wrong orders. I mention that I would record a lot at once such as three things at once and now can even do four things at once. I also mention the judge being evil and the defendant not being all that they say they are.

http://adamdeckergoodwifetvshow.blogspot.com/2016/01/october-eighteenth-2015s-episode.html

It only seems appropriate that I should tell you about the podcast that I was on again since it relates to what happened in the last episode. Marcus was voted out of the game and some feel that he was unfairly treated because of that second swap. Having just seen that episode again, I have to note that he made some dumb mistakes as well and it might not have just been the twist. His old tribe even tried to throw the challenge, only for Matty alone to pull out a win. If you want to watch that podcast, here it is again. I’ll mention where in the podcast this was in case you just want to skip to that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1P6L5Wab18 (most screwed by a twist starts at around 36:30)

Movie update: On the Sunday after watching a small part of the previous episode but before seeing the rest of it, I watched Back to the Future part 2 and replaced that with Back to the Future part 3. I could have watched another movie then, but decided not to and saw a speedrun race instead. On Wednesday, I watched Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. I replaced that with Toy Story.

On Saturday, I watched Celtic Woman: Destiny. I replaced that with the original concert. On Sunday, I watched The Omega Code. I replaced that with The Omega Code 2. On Wednesday, I watched The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and replaced that with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. On Saturday, I watched Mr. Bean’s Holiday and replaced that with The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. On Sunday, I watched The Omega Code 2. I replaced that with Raising Arizona.

I wound up rolling this episode on Monday, June 15, 2020. I have a lot of TV blog posts to write and can only hope that I get them all written in time. I don’t think that I failed yet. With me having to do a post of that other blog every time I write a post for this blog, it can be quite bothersome coming up with something new each and every time in addition to when else I normally publish that blog every week when I write posts for it already. I do plan to show the schedule of when all my blogs are posted in a month at some point in the future towards the end of the month. I plan to start this next post if it happens at all.

We begin with Kota returning from tribal council. Ken is glad that he wasn’t voted out of the game as it easily could have been him instead of Marcus. Ken is convinced that Bob will go next. Bob still makes a joke about it as he says that he would be history even though he teaches science.

On the Fang tribe, Matty is hoping for a merge as he feels that he’s in danger every day he’s on this tribe instead of a merged on. Corrine is wanting a merge as well. They do a bit of practicing for the challenge and they gather for it. Fang members cannot believe that Marcus is voted out. Some feel that he did not deserve to get voted out. Fang wins the reward despite some bickering at the end. Bob is then sent to Exile Island since people feel that he can find the idol. Only Sugar already has the idol. Randy doesn’t like how the tribe was working. The Fang tribe then goes on their reward to a Gabon village. While they are not that happy a tribe at first, they still enjoy dancing with the villagers. Matty says that this is the only reward that he was on thus far, forgetting that he was on one earlier.

Back on Kota, Ken talk about being the provider in the game right now. He wants to take someone out before they take him out and he feels that he can win the game. Bob is on Exile Island and he looks for the idol. He finds where it would be if it should be there at all. He then uses material to make a fake idol that he will use in the game. It is like how one could use a fake gun at a bank robbery.

The Fang tribe gets treemail about the upcoming challenge. Randy doesn’t want to reunite with Crystal or Sasquatch as he calls her. The tribes merge at the challenge. Bob feels lucky since there is now a new hope for him in this game. Perhaps it can defeat the empire.

All a contestant has to do to win this challenge is make a fire. Susie gets the fire going and it grows really quickly. Sugar makes fire as well. After making the fire, all Susie has to do is let it burn and she winds up winning immunity as a result. Jeff tells them that they are all going to the old Fang camp. Randy hated Fang from the beginning and wants to vote out Crystal tonight.

Matty talks about people not staying as a good, cohesive tribe at the start as after a quick exchange of niceties, they immediately talk about who to vote out of the game. Charlie and Corrine both think that Sugar is the swing vote and they want to work with her. Corrine is even convinced that Sugar is sold even though Corrine was always mean to Sugar. Ken wants to vote out Charlie since it was Charlie who pointed out the idol clue that lead to it being thrown into the sea. Sugar likes being the woman of the hour. Meanwhile, the merged tribe will be called Nobag which is Gabon backwards. Sugar doesn’t trust any of these guys and doesn’t know which of the two tribes to vote for.

We then get to tribal council. Jeff talks about the tension at the reward challenge and Randy thinks that he could improve their already good chances at winning. Crystal butts herself into the conversation as she asks why Randy hates her. He explains that he felt that she was the reason that they were losing so much in the end. Charlie thinks that people need to process more of what was going on in the game. Jeff talks to Sugar about how she might have done better without being with the tribes most of the time. We then get to the votes. Charlie, Randy, Corrine, and Bob vote for Crystal. Meanwhile, Sugar, Matty, Susie, Ken, and Crystal vote for Charlie and he is voted out as a result. Jeff is confused by C. C. being written down by Randy, causing confusion.

On the next Survivor, Randy is causing problems in the game and many people want to get the vote right in some way, but Ken still wants to control the game and could shake things up in many ways. What will happen in the end? I guess that we’ll see in the future. Well, we already know as this aired quite a long time ago in the end.

Total confessional count: Sugar- 17, Randy- 30, Charlie- 15, Matty- 20, Susie- 7, Ken- 18, Crystal- 22, Corrine- 17, Bob- 9.

New confessionals this episode: Randy- 5, Charlie- 2, Matty- 5, Susie- 0, Ken- 3, Crystal- 0, Corrine- 3, Bob- 3, Sugar- 2.

Charlie played a great game and it just must have sucked for him to wind up on the wrong side of the numbers in the end. While he might seem like one of the more obscure players from this season, he was also one of the better ones. I don’t know if he wants to do Survivor again and also have no idea if he has been asked back. Still, I’d give him about a 59% chance of returning to play the game again. I should be back next Sunday with the next Survivor episode. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Survivor: Gabon episode 8: The Apple in the Garden of Eden

It should be noted that I’m working on this post and the previous post at the same time. I plan to do that a whole lot this season until there’s no season left to blog about. I will also be switching between telling you about an old post from my Madam Secretary blog and telling you about an old post from my Good Wife blog. I used to alternate like this between old posts from blogs in my Madam Secretary blog and was working on two posts most of the time. I actually find this fun and not too confusing.

Let’s get to the idols from David versus Goliath. Dan was the first person to find an idol. He then found another one. He wasted one on Angelina. He played the other one on himself. It would have been a successful play, had it not be nullified. If he still had two idols, he could have played the second one to save himself in the end. Davie also found an idol. He gave that idol to Christian. Christian played the idol on himself successfully. Or did Davie play the idol on Christian? I forget.

Christian later found another idol and played it on himself. It was successful again. Nick found an idol and wasted it out of paranoia. Davie found an idol that was only good for one tribal council. While he could have possibly made it last longer, he ultimately did not risk it and played it at the tribal, negating only minority votes. Angelina then found an idol and played it the last time it could be played, a waste as it turned out, but still good to play.

When I was writing the old Madam Secretary blog post that you’ll see here, I was wondering which of the football teams I should root for since the Rams were leaving St. Louis. I still stayed loyal to them, but there were other football teams that I root for now as well. I realize now that since I now do a group on facebook called Still a Rams fan, I could do an account of Rams versus the Cardinals since both are teams that once played in St. Louis and then left. I never posted in my Madam Secretary blog after the show had ended last year since there was still a lot of football season left to be played what my new ranking of the teams I have are. Note that I don’t root for the Cardinals and root against them unless they play either the Bears or the Patriots. I did meet a random man who is a Phoenix Cardinals loyalist.

Despite the episode being out in January, I do talk some about March Madness in the blog and might mention it here in this blog now since there’s no other place to put it for now. I will have to see who is in it in order to know who to root for based on who I have in the past. I also talk about being behind on tapes in the blog, something that often happens in the present as well. I also mention the play-off game of Steelers and Broncos which helped inspire me to root for both teams. I also don’t post the usual sign off for some reason. Read the post here.

http://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/episode-from-1-17-2016.html

I will not be talking about the March Madness tournament in this blog this time around since there will not be one this year for the first time ever. Maybe it will happen next year if this show is still on and they do a tournament like you think that they would. We’ll see what happens or if they reschedule the whole thing entirely like they might, but probably won’t.

Something that is worth mentioning again, but also worth randomly burying to this part of the update is the whole idea as to whether or not Sandra quit the game. Sure, Denise voted her out. But then we saw her quit practically immediately afterwards. Jeff may have said that she didn’t quit, but he has been soft on quitters since at least San Juan del Sur. If you want proof that she quit, look at this page:

https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Quitters

While I was smart to stay out of one of the quitter discussions in the addicted to Survivor group, I did talk in another one where it mentioned that the queen stays queen. She could have stayed in the game and tried to get back in. Sure, she might have lost the challenge. But she could have won. And the man who started this thread seemed to mock others by constantly saying haha so often to people. I turned off the notifications for the post at some point. A lot of people who had the side of Sandra quitting either left the group or were removed from it for some reason. I wasn’t looking to become one of them and will snooze the group if something like that comes up again.

Ultimately, the way people feel about Sandra’s quit may be similar to the term second cousin. It is not the correct term for your cousin’s kid. The kid of yours is second cousins with your cousin’s kid. But there are many people who get annoyed with it to the point of becoming belligerent in some ways. The point of the whole thing is that you can’t really talk about it at all like you want to and know that you should just stay clear whether they ever accept the right way of saying it or not. While having this discussion once with one of my uncles, he declared that I was once removed, which was probably meant by him to be an insult but instead was just him stating a fact. I know and believe that Sandra quit. If others don’t want to believe the correct terms, that’s on them. And if people post again that the queen is still queen, instead of arguing that Sandra abdicated her throne, I’d switch tactics and go on to explain how I felt that Denise dethroned her since that fact seems to be agreed upon.

I think that the last post of this blog that I shared to that facebook group wound up being deleted. I haven’t shared it since to even my own page, much less the group that I’m more likely to put it on now since I don’t share as much to my own page anymore. The main issue was that just one person (as far as I could tell) wanted me to delete the whole entire blog and now I’m copying and pasting posts that were already put in this blog to different documents on my laptop. Maybe I will still get blow back for this blog or maybe I won’t. I am willing to delete other posts or edit out offensive parts of posts I won’t delete. What I do know is that I might put parts of other blogs on my laptop as back-ups and I do plan to share this blog on facebook again just to see what the response is. I just hope that I remember not to share this post in particular to the group that I mentioned in the previous paragraph.

I realize that I forgot to tell you about some of the changes that I’ve had with watching shows on DVD and other formats. I finished watching the select episodes DVD of Power Rangers: Megaforce. This froze the original Charmed off of the list and replaced it with Community again. I’m hoping that I can finish Community before I finish anything else. While I won’t know for sure when or maybe even if I’ll get it like I ordered, there should be another old season of Survivor that I’ll be getting on DVD. I’ll have to check the status of it on Amazon at some point.

If you read my TV blog, you would have noticed at one point that I had a link to five videos in a series that I had made reviewing episodes of the remake of Charmed. I should share every playlist to videos in my YouTube channel as a result. Until I make enough of them to share in the future, enjoy a private playlist of all the videos that I have liked in the reverse order that I liked them in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYP0hnDviRg&list=LL8WEhGcx8KoUbQy97bJiw0A

Movie update: Let’s start with the Saturday where I would be watching the next movie. On that day, I saw Celtic Woman: Songs from the Heart. I replaced that with Celtic Woman: Believe. The next day, I saw Rain Man. I replaced that with The Omega Code. On Monday, I watched Back to the Future from the six oldest choices. I replaced that with Back to the Future Part 2. Since it was Memorial Day and I was not working, I had the chance to watch a movie then. Don’t expect movies on Mondays or Thursdays when I work so I’ll have more time to work. Also don’t expect them on Fridays when I’ll want to turn into the repeats of CSI: Miami on My Network TV.

On Wednesday, I watched Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. I replaced that with Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. I will be watching The Phantom Menace again to hear the commentary that comes with it. On Saturday, I watched Celtic Woman: Believe. I replaced that with Celtic Woman: Destiny. This is more or less where I stop for now. I’ll get to the next part later.

It was on Sunday, May 31^st that I rolled the next episode and will get to watch that. I hope that I can stay ahead of this pretty good like I was the first time that I watched Survivor: Borneo and was able to give it an update every week until I was done with it. Note that since I hadn’t started the Sunday updates of Gabon back again, that I updated my TV blog that day instead. These updates will start soon, as you will now be able to tell. There might be more changes with blogs that I’ll get to soon.

We begin with Randy feeling insulted as usual. He explains why he voted for Susie, even though he wanted Dan out. Corrine gets upset that it seems that people are against her. Susie feels that she has the power in the end. Meanwhile, the other tribe also returns from their tribal council and talk about how they voted out Ace. Matty wanted to be loyal to Ace so he voted for Crystal. Both tribes are convinced that there will be a merge coming soon.

During the daytime, the Kota tribe gets a spool in their treemail. Corrine is plotting her revenge. They think that a merge is coming up soon and Randy is convinced that it will be the Kota six to the end. Matty seems to like this place. There is a box with a warning not to open until after the feast is over. There is a secret note that Ken notices. But too many other people notice it and it becomes common knowledge, thanks to Charlie ruining the secret.

They have to find the idol before the beach leaves. They think that they should just throw this idol away and Marcus actually wants to go through this. Randy finds the idol itself. No one wants the idol as it would be common knowledge who has it. They all say that it is the apple in the garden of Eden. They decide to throw it into the ocean, despite the fact that this is littering. Sugar is the only one who doesn’t care that much as she already has an idol. Marcus thinks that this mission is a success. After drawing for new rocks, they learn that there will now be two new tribes as an unprecedented second swap takes place in the game.

Here are the new tribes: Fang is now Charlie, Corrine, Matty, Randy, and Sugar while the new Kota is now Bob, Crystal, Ken, Marcus, and Susie. Marcus is convinced that he doesn’t need immunity to get to the finals in the end. But did he make one of the dumbest moves ever? I would say yes. In fact, I would say that the entire final ten earns the gold award for dumbest move of the season.

The new Kota arrives at their old camp and gets used to their new life. They agree that they have to stay together and not go to tribal council. Ken thinks that his only ally is Crystal. Marcus and Crystal have a connection since her cousin is one of his friends. Marcus is convinced that he can trust Crystal to the point of throwing out the playbook. Crystal admits that this gesture is just for show as she did the same thing to Ace before blindsiding him.

Back on the Fang tribe, Charlie is certain that the Kota tribe members will stick together on the new tribes as they each have an advantage on the new tribes. Corrine is certain that Charlie will go home next. Matty is sure that Randy already flipped to Kota from his original tribe of Fang. Matty leads Sugar to believe that she was manipulated by Ken into voting out Ace since Ace might not have actually been gunning for her after all. Marcus isn’t sure of Susie since they think that she is a wildcard. What’s a bit surprising to me is that SORT OF SPOILER she comes within one vote of winning END OF SPOILER and that people haven’t gotten rid of her sooner. Also, Matty wants Sugar’s idol if he thinks that he is in danger of being voted out.

What people are forgetting is that Susie was originally part of the Fang tribe. People know that about Randy. They are also forgetting that Sugar might have more Kota connections that they realize. The main question on many people’s minds now were what would have happened if they had stuck with Dan in the previous vote and got rid of Susie then instead. We have no way of knowing if the tribe swap would have gone the same way or not. But Dan would have been unlikely to switch.

As the Fang tribe gets treemail awaiting tribal council, Randy suggests throwing the challenge so that he, Corrine, and Charlie can get rid of Matty. They consider doing this as it still might remain too risky to take out Sugar. The tribes gather to a challenge and many criticize it for being an individual challenge that was set up as a pretend tribal one. But I still don’t know who this fake swap and merge was going to help or not help in the end.

Crystal is out of the challenge almost instantly. Sugar is right behind her. Randy and Corrine get out of the challenge at the same time. Marcus drops out at some point. Bob and Matty are the last people there for both of their tribes. Matty mocks others and laughs. It seems like it could be either one of them out of the game next. Bob is out first giving Fang the immunity challenge. I’m sure that this leaves Bob with a good chance of wanting a rematch in the future. Randy thinks that this win is good. Everything seems to be up in the air. Susie will do whatever it takes to get in the top three.

Marcus talks about the less than ideal result after the challenge loss. He thinks that either Ken or Crystal should be voted out next. He even talks to Crystal about voting out Ken. He wants to promise that he will get rid of Susie at some point in the future. Crystal doesn’t like this idea. Marcus talks to Susie about getting rid of Crystal instead of Ken. She will do whatever it takes to get to the end. She is becoming quite a ruthless person. Crystal talks to Ken about the fact that his name was a target. The both of them want to bring in Susie to vote out their planned target. Susie isn’t sure yet how she will vote and it is scary that she doesn’t know what she will do.

At tribal council, Crystal talks about the difference between the Fang tribe and Kota tribe. Bob regrets his last vote as he was expecting a merge. Jeff implies that there isn’t one yet. Marcus thinks that Ken is frustrated in some ways. Others feel that the vote is clear cut. Susie has already made her decision. The tribal council seemed pretty quick. While Marcus and Bob stick together to vote against Ken, the other tribe members of Ken, Crystal, and Susie vote out Marcus. Since no one has an idol, no idols are played. Thus, Marcus is voted out of the game.

On the next Survivor, the Fang or Fong tribe still has lots of problems while they continue in the game and Ken believes that he is in control. Marcus isn’t ready to forgive the people that voted him out and likes Bob, but isn’t sure that Bob will last in the game.

I feel that Marcus was a great player who just made a bad mistake, mainly throwing the idol into the sea. He showed too much of his hand and was voted out of the game because of trusting the wrong person with valuable information. I think that the twist, while influential in his exit, mattered less than people seem to think that it did. But I’ll get to more of that later.

Meanwhile, given the type of player that Marcus was and how he was as liked as he was and how strong he was, winning immunity in an individual way twice before the merge, something only possible in Micronesia and this season, that he might be back to play again, even if I don’t know of any offers he might have had. I will give him about a 65% chance that he will return to play the game again.

Total confessional count: Marcus- 19, Matty- 15, Susie- 7, Ken- 15, Crystal- 22, Corrine- 14, Bob- 6, Sugar- 15, Randy- 25, Charlie- 13.

New confessionals this episode: Charlie- 2, Marcus- 7, Matty- 5, Susie- 4, Ken- 2, Crystal- 4, Corrine- 4, Bob- 0, Sugar- 4, Randy- 8.

There’s not too much else to say here as I end this post for today. I’m hoping that I can have enough of this season written soon that you won’t have to worry about many posts not coming until later. I think that it shouldn’t be too hard. I was really lucky that things worked out the way they did when I saw Survivor: Borneo the first time. I do plan to do posts on that season again a second time. I have even written the first one of it, but don’t expect to see it for quite a while. Besides, you can always read what I wrote the first time again in the meantime. I should hopefully be back as usual with the next episode next week. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Survivor: Gabon episode 7: It All Depends on the Pin-up Girl

It is hard to know what all to talk about in the introduction for an old season like this outside of me not knowing what to talk about that won’t just become outdated in the end. All I know is I won’t know if I will have to delay posting what I’ve written of this like I had before. I’m hoping that before the end of Lent, I will be able to get another old season of Survivor for myself on DVD.  But I need to get more money at my job or more jobs before I want to spend more money on myself since I have to pay a lot of other people back for various things mostly for stuff relating to last year even. All I know is that I hope to at least get more hours at my job like I had in the past and might spend some money anyways.

Let’s get to the idols from Ghost Island part 6. This is the last idol of the season that I will be covering before I finally get to the next season because there were no other idols this season. Donathan found part of the idol and then found another part that put it together into one idol that worked. He wasted the idol at a tribal council that only took away one vote from him.

Now as I promised in the last post on this season, I’m going to talk about the lawsuits and legal actions that took place on or because of the show. I don’t know if this is updated as far as it could be, but here goes anyways. Stacy from Borneo claimed she was voted out over others. Colby in Australia removed coral from the Great Barrier Reef causing a fine. In Africa, an immunity question was fumbled which lead to a payout to the affected players. The dead grandmother lie in Pearl Islands was an issue. Richard sexually harassing Sue in All-Stars was quite a problem even though I think and hope that he didn’t mean to do it.

America’s tribal council also in All-Stars made people think that one could just win by being liked and getting the votes that way. Richard’s legal problems got him imprisoned as he didn’t pay taxes. I think that he was mislead in some way because he shouldn’t be that stupid. In Cook Islands, there was quite a controversy by separating tribes by race, even though tons of people have loved the twist who played the show according to what they’ve said on podcasts. Fiji ignored applicants and recruited nearly everyone on that season. Denise had possibly mislead people at the China reunion show. Marcus had his penis uncensored in Gabon and Brenda’s nipple was also uncensored in Caramoan. They did not seem to add any other ones that Wikipedia has mentioned currently.

I realize that a long section that is largely unimportant will start here and cover a lot more than was planned at one point. I’m adding this paragraph so that you will know that ramblings have started and I will be going for quite a while without talking about something that’s important. I will thus mark in all caps when the important part of this post begins and explain more of what went on and what will be different a bit later as at one point I thought that I could still publish this post before Winners at War ended and this post wouldn’t be as long as it is now. Sorry that this is long and mostly about what movies I watched.

Movie update: The way it currently stands, the movie list choices are a bit strange. I should be at a point in the future when I will have only one list to watch anytime. Regardless of when I watched something, I will tell you what I watched and what list, if any, it was on or from. I plan to tell you about the list until it is just one list again and then move the updates to my posts on Winners at War. I may myself wait until after this is published unless I wind up delaying publishing posts of this season again before I move the updates to the current season’s posts until that season is over.

I ended up watching Titanic and I replaced that with Adventures in Babysitting from Saturday’s old list. I then had time to watch a choice on Saturday, finally done with the extra Christmas stuff that I watched this time at the end of the year. I watched Copacabana from my oldest list of choices. That was also one of Sunday’s choices. I replaced that with The Return of Jafar from Saturday’s old list. Before I go on, I should explain that the Copacabana I watched was a recording of a play instead of the movie version. I should explain the differences between the two as it is important. For one, the movie starts with an introduction that will probably make you immediately regret having watched the movie. You could stop right away and spare yourself any potential trouble with it or continue anyways and hate it.

Other changes are this: 1- The entire movie is a flashback of sorts. The play is instead a frame story that a songwriter thinks of in thirty minutes despite the play being longer. 2- The play never shows a completed version of El Bravo. The movie does the first time before the version where Tony is able to rescue Lola. 3- The movie has a lead-in to El Bravo called The Mermaid’s Song that sets up the story that you see in El Bravo. This isn’t present in the play. 4- In the movie, Tony and Lola have a pre-existing relationship. In the play, Tony and Lola are shown meeting for the first time.

5- In the movie, Tony is able to get his place at the Copa by winning a competition. In the play, he is already working there. 6- The song Aye Karumba is sung by Lola and Copa Girls at the Copacabana when Rico arrives in the movie. In the play, this song is sung at the Tropicana by Conchita and performers there. 7- In the play, the song I Gotta Be Bad is performed by Lola when Rico arrives instead of the song mentioned previously. 8- Sam’s role was more limited in the movie and in the movie, he didn’t have his song Who am I Kidding? 9- The character of Gladys, the love interest of Sam, isn’t in the movie. Thus, her song, When You’re a Copa Girl, isn’t in the movie either.

10- The movie has a conflicting love interest for Tony who is not in the play. 11- The song Man Wanted has different words in the movie and is never heard in its official version or entirety in the movie. 12- Since Lola is already in New York in the movie, the song Just Arrived isn’t present in the movie like it is in the play. 13- Rico’s villain song, Bollaro De Amour, isn’t present in the movie like it is in the play. 14- The characters of Stephen and Samantha aren’t present in the movie and neither is the song This Can’t be Real. 15- In the play, Lola and Tony are alone by themselves at the Copa when they do Who Needs to Dream? In the movie, they are outside an apartment complex while otherwise by themselves and get surprise applause at the end of the song. 16- Also with the same song, Tony plays it on the piano in the play and on an accordion in the movie. There are other differences, but I won’t get into them and can’t remember all of them.

On that next Sunday, I watched The Return of Jafar. I replaced that with Farscape: The Peacekeepers War. I now have only one list of six choices now. Those six choices which can be watched anytime I have available for them are Adventures in Babysitting, Farscape: The Peacekeepers War, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa with commentary, Nature Documentaries, The Pelican Brief, and Survivor: Borneo- The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments. Note that the Survivor special being rolled would be that show on my list of things to watch again, but not immediately as it could be if I had just gotten the season. I might have to include updates here should it be rolled on a Sunday as I might yield other blogs to it then.

With the next bit of movie watching that I do, I watched a nature documentary on Saturday, nothing on Sunday, and Adventures in Babysitting on a Wednesday. I replaced Adventures in Babysitting with The Bourne Identity. For fun and other reasons, I’ll be watching that series in a foreign language. The next Saturday, I rolled Survivor: Borneo- The Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments. I replaced that with Scott Pilgrim versus the World. This leads to something interesting.

You see, there are a lot of Survivor seasons for me to watch in the future potentially that I don’t have and one season that I have now, have not blogged about, but am not yet planning to watch yet. Since I have already blogged about Survivor: Borneo, I will be waiting to add it to the list instead of putting it on a new list with the next five choices that I’d want to add or until I’m done watching this season.

This will mean that I won’t be adding additional choices past wherever this is on the list which could dissolve any new choices with me having to wait for them to be added to older lists and that might make sense if I am able to make it that far. If there is only one list of six choices and Survivor: Borneo is the next thing to be added, I’ll probably just start a new list for it instead provided there are five choices after that new season to add to watch which I imagine there probably will be by then.

There are at least three seasons I want to add to watch first, them being, in no particular order, China, All-Stars, and Blood versus Water. The one that could potentially be watched and possibly could be added if I have no new seasons when I’m done would be Australia. I might explain more about why I have it and am not seeing it right away in the future.

On the Sunday that week, I watched the last of the nature documentaries and replaced it with Night at the Museum. Like the Bourne series, I’ll be watching that one in a foreign language as well. On Tuesday, I watched The Bourne Identity and replaced that with The Bourne Supremacy. On Saturday, I watched Scott Pilgrim versus the World and replaced that with Tower Heist. On Sunday, I watched Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa with commentary and replaced that with Kingsman: The Secret Service. That will put an interesting part of other blogs to the test as I will be watching it to blog about in my Good Wife blog since a prequel to that movie is coming out in September.

Depending on how this post went, you will have either seen a part on an old Madam Secretary blog post in this post previously or you will be seeing an old blog post from my Good Wife blog later in this post. I will move the Madam Secretary blog part section to the next post and alternate between the two of them in the future for the rest of this season. I am hoping that I’ll see an episode of this show before I get further in the list so I can put the blog posts on Winner at War instead of this season. There will even be old posts to potentially share from my Elementary blog at some point so that will cause confusion at some point as well as to how it will get in this blog’s posts.

The next weekend when I was able to watch movies, I watched The Bourne Supremacy and replaced it with The Bourne Ultimatum. I later watched Farscape: The Peacekeepers War and replaced it with Finding Nemo which will also be watched in a foreign language, if that is a possible option. It wasn’t long until I watched The Pelican Brief and finished all the options from the previous year. That movie was then replaced by Run Fatboy Run. The next day, I watched Finding Nemo. I replaced that with Finding Dory. The next time I could watch movies, I saw The Bourne Ultimatum. I replaced that with The Bourne Legacy. I then watched Run Fatboy Run. I replaced that with Pocahontas. Later that day, I watched Tower Heist and replaced it with Shrek.

When it became holy week, back in the past, I wondered what shows, if any, I would miss on Maundy Thursday. I didn’t miss much as church was only on the radio, but I still missed the first hour of shows that day as that’s when the service was. I normally watch the ABC shows of Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, and How to Get Away with Murder. I watch the CBS shows of Broke, Young Sheldon, and Tommy. I do not watch any of the CW or FOX shows on Thursdays. I watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine and SVU on NBC when or if they come in, which is hardly ever nowadays.

There was more time to watch movies that weekend since nothing could happen in terms of family visits during the Easter weekend. I started by watching Night at the Museum on that Saturday before my mom and I watched Finding Dory on Easter Sunday. Night at the Museum was replaced by it sequel while Finding Dory was replaced by Flight of the Phoenix.

There was a delay then of when I posted the usual blog post as I decided back then that Thursday would be too late for the usual update, even without having to yield the date to another blog of mine. I thus delayed until later when this post could be published as even if I can roll this show before the end of the Winners at War season, I will still be delaying this planned post for a while even after I have the free time to post this as I still have two new posts to make up on Sunday before that day of the week can be used for posting about that season again. Normally non season premieres aren’t this long a post for any of my blogs, but this is largely to talk about movie updates which you are probably already lost to and wondering why they are in this blog at all.

Speaking of the movie updates, I was able to roll Kingsman: The Secret Service and I wrote a post of this for my blog on The Good Wife. I don’t yet know when I will publish this post, but it will be at some point after the Kingsman prequel comes out in the future.

I might as well start sharing links from my blog on The Good Wife since I was sharing them to another blog and had to stop since I ran out of episodes to blog about. Here was the last post that I shared. In it, I talk about liking Quantico, wanting to blog about CSI: Cyber (which I did and still do), and I reference CinemaSins at the very end.

http://adamdeckergoodwifetvshow.blogspot.com/2015/12/october-eleventh-2015s-episode.html

Kingsman: The Secret Service was replaced by Kingsman: The Golden Circle. I then watched Flight of the Phoenix and replaced it with Dumbo. Next, I watched Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and replaced that with National Treasure. After that, I watched The Bourne Legacy and replaced it with Back to the Future. This has a new plan that I’ve been wanting for to do a while. A new list will be made and Jason Bourne will be one of the movies on it.

Here’s how things stand: the current list that I was using will be put on Sundays alone. That list now has Back to the Future, Dumbo, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, National Treasure, Pocahontas, and Shrek. The new list is for Saturdays and will have Celtic Woman, Despicable Me, Indiana Jones, Jason Bourne, The Little Mermaid, and Rush Hour. There is a potential problem with this new list and it will now be a bit before I can roll from a combination of the lists as it could take a while for it to happen.

On the first day of using the new list, I rolled Celtic Woman’s original concert and replaced it with Celtic Woman: A New Journey. The next day, I watched Pocahontas. I replaced that with Pleasantville. I then watched Celtic Woman: A New Journey and replaced it with Celtic Woman: Songs from the Heart. I then watched Pleasantville and replaced that with Rain Man. I next watched The Little Mermaid and replaced it with Mr. Bean’s Holiday. The next day, I watched Shrek and replaced it with Shrek 2.

With the ability of me being to add another new list now, I do that and put it on Wednesdays. The list contains the following choices: Catch Me if You Can, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, I am Sam, Lilo and Stitch, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and Turbo: A Power Rangers movie. While I have some of the Star Wars films on DVD, don’t be surprised if I end up removing it from the list before I get to the original trilogy if I’m not able to borrow copies of it in time or before I’m done with what I have of it. I also do not yet have The Last Jedi or The Rise of Skywalker, both movies I want. The first Wednesday that I had this list, I watched Catch Me if You Can and replaced it with Blank Check. Good news! That is the last of the movie update for this post.

It was on 5-21-2020 that I rolled the next episode in question. That will mean updating my TV blog on that date and now every Thursday. I was going to phase out the Tuesday updates anyways to give at least the first one of the month to my Madam Secretary blog instead. THE IMPORTANT PART STARTS IN THE NEXT PARAGRAPH.

We begin with more problems on Fang. Crystal spills food by accident and then refuses to eat any. Ace thinks that she should be voted out next. Matty thinks that things are pointless to get upset by since it is too late to worry about problems. He thinks that rice is as valuable as gold is in this game.

On Kota, Charlie, Marcus, and Corrine seem tight to Dan. He wants to be part of a group. He’s not wrong in any way, but could be going about this the wrong way. Marcus doesn’t think that there is anything that Dan can do to save him from himself.

The tribes then gather for a challenge. It is a reward challenge. Kota scores the first point easily. Sugar is so inept at her part of the challenge, the other tribe gets a point easily. Kota gets the last point and then wins reward as a result. They send Sugar to Exile Island. Matty wants Sugar to go. Kota takes their chopper away to a reward.

On the reward, they see great scenery and enjoy their time. Meanwhile, back on Fang, Matty is sure that they should get rid of Sugar and is open about it. He talks to Ace about it. But Ace tries to target and get rid of Crystal instead. She and Ken talk about forming their own alliance. Back on the reward, the Kota tribe gets emotional when they get letters from home.

Sugar is then shown at the sugar shack or Exile Island since she had luxury instead of looking for an idol since she already has the idol in question. It isn’t long until we get to the next challenge. Jeff then says that both tribes are going to tribal council tonight, but individual immunity is up for grabs. There will be a twist revealed after the challenge is over. Dan wants to win the challenge since he thinks that he is in danger of being voted out. He loses to Ace in the first round. Charlie then beats Crystal. Marcus then beats Matty. Susie goes against Randy. Randy wins. Ken is against Sugar and Sugar wins. Bob then faces Corrine in the last match-up of the first round. He won a lumberjack competition in college and beats Corrine. In the next round, Charlie faces off against Ace and Ace wins. Marcus faces Randy and Marcus wins. Sugar faces Bob in the final round of the semi-finals. Sugar wins.

The final three has all three of those who are left facing each other in the final round with Ace in the middle. He is concerned about his place in the game. Sugar is in the water first. Ace loses next making Marcus the winner of immunity. He gets to read the twist note. He has to give immunity to one member of the other tribe and he gives it to Sugar. Marcus, knowing that Sugar has the immunity idol, thinks that this will get a power player out of the game. Crystal is worried about the vote now.

With Fang going to tribal council first, Ken thinks that it all depends on the pin-up girl. Roll credits! He tells Sugar honestly about Ace’s plans to vote her out. But he add lies to the story by saying that Ace wanted her idol back. Sugar isn’t sure that she can trust Ken. But Ace does ask for her idol before the tribal council. But it’s not like she’s in danger.

At tribal council, Sugar explains that they are low on rice. Crystal gets into verbal spats with others. Sugar thinks that they haven’t been winning since they just don’t function well as a team. There is not much to be gained at this tribal council. When the votes are cast, Ace and Matty vote for Crystal. Sugar, Crystal, and Ken all vote for Ace and he is the first voted out this episode as a result.  We then get a glimpse of what is to come on Kota.

I think that Ace is a great and sly person even if he didn’t make the merge. He was considered for the landmark 20^th season as a villain, but he ultimately didn’t make it on the cast, if I have my information right about that. I think that there’s a 51% chance that he will return to play the game again.

Dan is worried about his spot in the game while being told that Susie is the target. Charlie thinks that Dan might stay in the game for now. Susie talks to Corrine and admits that she was going to vote for Corrine. Corrine doesn’t like this, needless to say, and tells Randy that Susie should be voted out. But there is concern that Dan has the hidden immunity idol and Marcus has to weigh risks of what to do and who to target as a result.

We get to the next tribal council of the night. Jeff asks Marcus if they look out for themselves or try to keep the tribe strong. Susie thinks that she is stronger than Corrine. They talk to each other and seem way more civil than Crystal was earlier. Randy thinks that he is himself and doesn’t hide who he is. His flaws are his strengths. Dan admits that he worries a lot about this game. Charlie wants to vote out who he thinks is the best choice in the game. When the votes are cast, Dan, Marcus, and Randy vote for Susie while Charlie, Corrine, Susie, and Bob all vote out Dan and he is voted out of the game as a result.

On the next Survivor, Randy is the new leader in Africa. He gets the ocean. Both the Fang and Kota members are together. But what all is going to happen and are things what they seem to be? I guess that we will see in the next episode. Both Dan and Ace get last words aired.

SPOILER FOR GABON SEASON. While people wouldn’t know it then, the elimination of Dan over Susie would mark a major turning point in the game. Randy is convinced that he and the rest of his tribe would lose as a result since Susie wound up turning on them. He talks about this in a special podcast that he did on Rob has a podcast after Dan’s death. If only they had the numbers and could get people to turn on Susie. END NOT REAL SPOILER.

Dan didn’t have that much seeming to go his way when he played the game. There wasn’t much else that I can say about his life. What I do know is that it sadly came to an end back in 2016. Since he is dead now, he has a 0% chance of returning to the game again.

Total confessional count: Matty- 10, Susie- 3, Ken- 13, Ace- 15, Crystal- 18, Dan- 7, Corrine- 10, Bob- 6, Sugar- 11, Randy- 17, Charlie- 11, Marcus- 12.

New confessionals this episode: Susie- 1, Ken- 3, Ace- 2, Crystal- 3, Dan- 3, Corrine- 2, Bob- 1, Sugar- 3, Randy- 1, Charlie- 1, Marcus- 4, Matty- 2.

It is nice to be back with these posts and you should hopefully see them and them alone for all of these Sundays in the future. If I can’t do them, you should hopefully see a random post on the Wednesday after a Sunday post was to appear if I can’t do one for whatever reason. I’ll get to explain more of why I have a crazy update schedule in the future. I also hope that I can blog about more old seasons in the meantime, but will explain which ones and why I’d limit it to a certain number as I go along. I should be back here next week with the next Survivor: Gabon episode and my post on it. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Survivor Reality Showdown

It wasn’t that long ago when The Amazing Race did and aired a season that pitted former Amazing Race players with teams from Survivor and Big Brother. Now I’m starting to wonder if that same thing could be applied to a Survivor season. It would start with three tribes. One is full of returning players from Survivor. One has players from The Amazing Race. And the other would have Big Brother players.

Rules: I’ve decided that a player from each of the show’s first seasons has to be represented in this list. Also, it only seems fair to me to include a winner from each to see how they would fair again. I would have to split up people from The Amazing Race so I hope that I picked someone who best represents their team. I’m not picking anyone who has already done multiple shows. None of these contestants are from the same season as each other. I’m also trying to pick at least one iconic member of each show as best as I can. Each tribe has three men and three women. Also note that I’m guessing what I think are the best choices for The Amazing Race and Big Brother based on what fandom tells me as, while I have seen both shows, I’ve missed a lot of them too.

Let’s start with the Survivor tribe of six. I would go with Richard from Borneo and All-Stars since he is the first winner and one of the most recognizable players from the game. Next, I’d pick Burton from Pearl Islands as he still has a lot to prove as a player. Coby from Palau is my next pick as I know that he has been wanting to play again for a while. Natalie from Micronesia is a great player and represents this show quite well. Ashley from Redemption Island may be a strange choice, but I feel that she would work out well here. Katie from Blood versus Water is my last pick as she would prove a nice player.

Next is The Amazing Race tribe of six. I would pick Margarita Mesa from The Amazing Race 1, Jonathan Weiss from The Amazing Race 4, Kim McAllister from The Amazing Race 5, BJ Averell from The Amazing Race 9, Kate Lewis from The Amazing Race 12, and Luke Adams from The Amazing Race 14, Unfinished Business, and All Stars 2014. I’m not going to explain why I’m picking all of them and instead will just say that I think they would work.

If you want more information as to why I’m picking people from this group, look at a previous post called Big Brother players on Survivor and most of these people are on that list as well along with an explanation as to why I feel that way about them. Anyways, the Big Brother tribe of six would be Cassandra Waldon from Big Brother 1, Michelle Maradie from Big Brother 4, Matt Hoffman from Big Brother 12, Daniele Donato from Big Brother 8 and 13, Ian Terry from Big Brother 14, and John McGuire from Big Brother 17.

That’s all that I can think of including for this post. Would you want to see a season of Survivor like this? Do you think that the players from the other shows would have a chance? Would it seem bad if they did this with The Amazing Race but at least not Survivor? Well, you can say something or nothing. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.