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knowing what to talk about that won’t just become outdated in the end.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.
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 20th 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.
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