Survivor 41 Ponderosa

Thankfully these episodes are on YouTube and I can get this done pretty quickly in the end.  I will not be doing a confessional count on these like I did the first time that I did this in Gabon. I just hope that I can get this all done in the end.

Let’s start with Tiffany’s Ponderosa. This seems different than what I’m used to. This could have been like this for quite a while. Besides, Island of the Idols was the last season with a normal Ponderosa with the one before it not having anything unusual happen with it in David versus Goliath. Anyways, she does not like the fact that they aren’t targeting anyone with an idol. She likes seeing a menu when she gets there and eating helps her feel better. That’s like my sister at times. She learns from a person there more about Fijian culture.

In the next video, Naseer and Evvie arrive in happy spirits, but still wondering what was going on. They think that fans will be upset that they were voted out. They like being here with Tiffany. Tiffany likes them as well. Evvie wants to live as Evvie’s true self. Their true self?  Naseer learns more about how to cook or some about cooking there. Evvie and Tiffany talk about how Evvie is queer and uses that word that was once an insult but has now been reclaimed. Naseer learned English through watching Survivor. But this doesn’t have subtitles, right? They should watch a show with subtitles.

Shan’s Ponderosa is next. She is upset and also okay with being voted out since she felt that they would have wanted her gone because she was a threat. She didn’t like leaving with an idol in her pocket. She also doesn’t like the blood on her hands as she helped put the three people there on the jury. Like the others, she is shocked by what she looks like now. She didn’t talk to others about her multiple sclerosis. I don’t know much about it other than that it exists. Guess I’ll have to read up about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sclerosis

The four of them do a sea shanty at night. Maybe they can be the next gen Dragonz. Now we get to Liana talking about things like the do or die. While there with everyone, she eats a whole lot, more than anyone else did. Liana explains more of the vote where Shan was voted out. She explains that Ricard was behind part of the vote. The women there play with coconuts. Get your filthy minds out of the gutter, you sick, twisted perverts! Liana later gives one of those free style spoken word poems that I like but can never remember. I don’t think that I could free style as I hear it, but can’t understand how others do it or say it.

Next we have Danny going to Ponderosa. He wants to see Shan to talk to her about things. He learns that Tiffany knew that he was a player. I hardly know who any of the NFL players are even as I watch more and more of football. And I still know names better than faces. Danny wants to talk out what had happened with him wanting to make sure that the jurors know what to expect. He then wants to learn more about Rugby. He talks to it with a Fijian person there and learns more about it. My extent of what I know about it is from the movie Invictus, which according to the goofs on imdb, gets some of the details of it wrong. Danny has no regerts. Sorry. I was eating a Milky Way.

Ricard is next. He was exhausted and voted out, something he knew was coming. If he can’t win, then at least he wants out knowing that he’s the biggest threat. He thinks that he’s the only non blindside of the season. But he wouldn’t know as he wasn’t at every tribal council. He talks some about what he has done and how he is in the game. Shan doesn’t want to talk to Ricard anymore. They aren’t a real thing anymore and he feels very sad. He doesn’t know who he is playing with. He wants to extend an olive branch, but only if she makes the first move.

He wants to do a Mount Rushmore idea of Survivor players. He goes through a lot of them. I’m not going to mention all of this as I don’t know how he got which names or why only them. How many people do this? One of my cousins texted me about this at one point after Winners at War aired, which is why I put it in my ranking of the winners in a 2020 post. Not all of them are winners. I forget even who Chrissy is at this point in time. What season was she? I will talk about her more in part of a Survivor 42 post. I am also trying to get all of the notes on voting done that I don’t have done to work into future posts.

In the last Ponderosa of the season (I’m pretty sure, at least, that there isn’t one with any of the finalists in this season as I don’t know which ones have that in it), we get to Heather talking about her loss. She’s old? She doesn’t look old. She looks middle aged. She thinks that Ponderosa should be its own show. Would there be enough material for it? Heather is only 52. She is welcomed at first by everyone. She gets emotional when Ricard shows up and they just want to be back to the beach again. Isn’t that the fourth season premiere? Heather wants to get through as many things as possible in her time there at Ponderosa by doing lots of random things.

And that’s it for this blog post, season, and year. As stated before, I have no posts on past seasons ready yet so you won’t see any of them yet. One thing that I will point out before I go too far is that Kaoh Rong was the most recent season before this one to have a woman win her first time playing the game. Now I would go more into some thoughts on the reunion show versus after show aspects, but I think that I will stick to working that into the next planned blog post. I’ll see you next year with most posts of this blog. For now, this is Adam Decker signing off.