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.
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:
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.
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 31st
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.
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