How I Became a Survivor Fan

Everyone who has watched Survivor probably has a story of how they became a fan of the show. All of us would have different experiences with the show. But I don’t think that there is too much to say about this so we’ll see just how long this post becomes in the future.

At the time, my mother and brother were somehow into this show for reasons that I don’t remember. They set up a tape to record the fourth episode of the second season that is called The Killing Fields. I did not see much of it, as I had a hard time understanding the show at the time. But I did see the tribal council at the end and then had to see the next episode of the show. I think that it was the first show that I watched in primetime. My sister was a fan of it at some point during this season as well.

My fandom of the show seemed to only grow from there. I’m not sure that I had a bedtime anymore, but this became a problem more so as I slowly decided to get into other shows. But I wasn’t always into the show like I should have been. The fifth season, for instance, had me missing a lot to focus on school work and due to not liking the season that much, yet I still might want to see more of it in the future. I had missed plenty of episodes here and there throughout time. I especially hated when they moved the show to Wednesdays instead of Thursdays for two weeks during March Madness as that would always be during Lent, but I tended not to miss that many episodes then anyways.

I forget what the last episode of this show that I haven’t seen would have been. If I had to guess, it might have been back in Nicaragua or around that time frame. It was in the twenty-fourth season that I felt that something happened that was so big that I had to start blogging about Survivor in the future. While many hated that season, especially the episode where the male tribe gave up immunity, that was the episode that inspired me to create this blog.

Now that I have this blog, there are other old seasons of this show that I can watch and put in this blog. I wound up doing one on Palau pretty soon after One World after I got it on DVD. There have now been other seasons of this show that I have written about that wasn’t covered before and even more that I will keep covering since I might as well keep writing about the seasons I have on DVD to include more and more in this blog for future posts. 

I’ve decided that this is it for this post. Hopefully this makes sense to others and you like it even if there was some of the usual jumping back and forth that I do from time to time, too often, perhaps. I think that this show is pretty good or I wouldn’t keep watching it or updating this blog even now not knowing when or even possibly if it will return. But I plan to be back throughout the years even long after this show is no longer on the air. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.