Loose Lips Sink Ships

It seems like secret keeping in Survivor isn’t something that has happened for several seasons now. Since at least Heroes versus Healers versus Hustlers, we have seen contestants blab their secrets to others who then blab that to others. And this is so common that by now, people should know better. I mean, they really should.

The title of this post is from an expression out of World War II. You weren’t supposed to tell people about where family of yours was stationed or they could easily wind up dead with their location known by the enemy who could be spies in this very country.

This relates to Survivor because any secret told by one to another is certain to be known by three people in the end. You should be able to do the math and figure out that there are issues with that as you won’t even know who this third person will be or if they will be part of your alliance or a different one.

While some have complained about the beware advantage and how it was common knowledge, it would not have been if this wasn’t openly revealed at a tribal council after the merge to all of the other players still in the game. We’ll have to see if the secret can be better kept this time around to see if the idols will fall apart. Only the three people on the three different tribes should have known what was going on. But even before that tribal council where the secret was revealed to everyone who didn’t know, at least every player on one of the tribes knew and more than three people knew.

You do have to wonder if this could be its own theme for a season. Survivor: Secret Island. With the new twist in the game, you can learn secrets about other players, but then you’d risk yours being revealed if you were to do that. Is the truth bomb worth its risk of bouncing back and biting you in the butt? They might not do that since after 40 seasons of names, they gave up and just did numbers. In fact, I might have to do a post on how numbering could be affected.

That’s all that I can think of since I can apparently pull out a random post when I can want to get it done if I have to. I am working on something that isn’t too potentially long and might not get done during this hiatus because of how much research I have to put into it. You’ll have to wait and see what it is. I’m lucky that I even know where to find the info for it. Just know that I should keep coming back until the show returns. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.