Survivor 41 After Show

There are a few things that I will cover in this post that I haven’t yet covered in this season’s posts. I plan to get it done here. I also have a bit of an unusual thing to do as well that I mentioned a bit some in the last post. Anyways, let’s get to this show right where I left off.

 

In the twelfth segment of the show, we get to the champagne. This is like the reunion show. Jeff talks to Erika first. She asks how she might be afraid to not be known as the one in charge. Some people think that she’s a minor still. She let Heather do some of the moves. She had a breakdown at one point since she couldn’t claim moves on a winning tribe.

 

Xander was missing a social awareness in the game. He does appreciate the experience of Survivor. He is proud of his game despite not winning. He thinks that he will grow from this. He thought that he couldn’t be on Survivor. But Jeff is referencing something that the contestants wouldn’t know about. Deshawn thinks that his perception of himself was skewed. He wants to grow from what went on. Jeff thinks that Deshawn was likable in the game. More will happen and we’ll see a look at the next season. One of the powers backfired. That happens a lot in Survivor.

 

In the thirteenth segment of the show, nobody feels that they didn’t get a full Survivor because of the less days in it. Xander likes the advantage. Shan talks about some of what happened with her advantage and how she was able to get it. Naseer talks about how he repeated his phrase at least 50 times. Tiffany is asked about the night sneak. Xander knows about this now. The most dangerous part was when she came back. Evvie is asked about the knowledge is power advantage. A lot of people know about what had went on with this.

 

Evvie mentions that they have a fake idol. Xander was even caught with the fake idol when Liana showed up, but she thought it was real then too. Had we seen that before? I don’t think that we did. It is hard to know about the non-linear editing of Survivor this season. Liana talks about her advantage and some of what is going on. She even thinks that it’s okay for her to fail.

 

In the fourteenth segment of the show, Jeff wants to hit on a couple of things. He asks Naseer about his experience on Survivor. Naseer was proud of himself for what he did. He achieved his dream. He does not want people to give up on their dreams. Hold on tight to your dreams. Evvie has grown. Ricard is asked what his journey was and how he got voted out instead of winning. He says that he was awesome as a power couple even though he turned on Shan. Danny talks about how he had a demon of his father passing away and being upset at him. I hope to never understand this. It has been holding his back in a way. It gave him time to win the challenge. Things are going to change for him.

 

In the fifteenth segment of the show, Jeff wonders whether or not they might have missed something. We hear Evvie talk some about the youngest players being mature and the older players doing a lot. Heather talks about how she is 52. A lot is going on. What we are seeing right now is what always goes on at the end of the game, but we never see it. Many personal things are shared and known. They will keep some of what’s going on with Survivor 42.

 

In the preview for it, there are now 18 new players and a dangerous new season of Survivor. We see a bit of some of the new players. Am I a potato? There are lots of twists and we’ll see what else is going on since not much else is known.

 

Points with after show: Andrew- 0, Sara- 0, Voce- 0, Brad- 0, JD- 0, Genie- 0, Sydney- 0, Tiffany- 1, Naseer- 2, Evvie- 3, Shan- 1, Liana- 1, Danny- 1, Ricard- 1, Heather- 1, Xander- 4, Deshawn- 1, Erika- 1.

 

Obviously, there’s a huge flaw with this way of doing an after show and sort of reunion right after the final tribal council. We didn’t see anyone who was gone before the jury. They might not even know about this until the episode aired and I would be pissed off to find out that was effectively the reunion had already happened without me. That’s worse than what they did with the Caramoan players who were at least there and present, if not able to say anything. These people were forgotten about entirely as I can’t understand why they would do something like this and not have those players back.

 

Before I get to more of this, I should point out that rewatching the final tribal council, I need to mention some of what I wrote in the merge blog post (or posts) to see if Deshawn was doing the things that Ricard mentioned that he was. Here is what Ricard claimed at final tribal council:

 

“In regards to keeping everything together, why in the first day at the merge, did you pull everyone aside, say that Sydney had to go, you didn’t really have a relationship with Heather, and you basically threw everyone under the bus.” Okay, that wasn’t a direct quote.

 

I look through the posts on the merge and while I could have missed it, nothing that I could find had any mention of Deshawn throwing his tribe mates under the bus. I do know that during the second merge episode, I was finishing cutting my nails at one point and the quality of the post suffered as a result. While it could have happened, I don’t think that it was in any of the episodes. But that’s a problem since it was brought up at final tribal council and not really seen much before it. Does that mean that it did not happen? Or that we aren’t supposed to find it relevant? I guess that I might have to go to Rob Has a Podcast to find out more about that information when or if I have the time.

 

Let’s get to the three dumbest moves of the season. I will give the bronze to Xander for just not overall good choices or read of the game. The silver will go to the shot in the dark. The gold has to go to Brad and his overall terrible game play.

 

The breakout character of the season could be different people. Xander could qualify due to his way of playing the game. Ricard seems like a good choice as well. Shan also dominated a lot of the game before she was voted out. Even Brad could work despite his early exist. I’ve decided that Ricard will win that award this time around.

 

Now what is the most memorable moment of the season? It is hard to tell for sure with a lot to choose from and not much that one wouldn’t pick. I think that I will go with the code at the challenges since we will remember them all.

 

When it comes to ranking the season among the others, it isn’t that hard for me to think of something as I have the sort of secret ranking in a personal document (sort of secret as a lot of the seasons, including the number one season, aren’t published in this blog yet) and I think that out of the now 41 seasons, this season will rank as 17^th best out of them all. Now let’s get to the planned blog posts of March. I’m under the impression that I might be back to Thursday posts during Lent, but this might not actually be the case in the end. Still, I’m going to do that in the event that the only services are during Survivor.

 

Planned March blog posts

 

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

 

While I might have had some posts on past seasons ready for after this season is over, this did not wind up being the case this time around. I have very little time for things and am hoping that I’m able to do that last set of posts for some of my blogs this year. I like to schedule everything from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day in advance which is only three blog posts this year, but it is not as simple as that and I should have two of the three done already, but don’t. Still, I’m going to try to do all of them and might have to do something of some sort or another. I just wish that I hadn’t done all of the easy posts for some of them. Now, I’m pretty sure that I can get a post on Ponderosa done so I’ll do that next to end this season’s posts and this year’s post. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.