Episode 42.3

Since I hadn’t talked about it much yet, I’m going to mention the Wednesday shows that were on before this show’s return that I was watching. While I did check out Good Sam once, I didn’t really like it that much, even there have been so many worse shows just this season. (It has been unusually high and will probably get a post in my TV blog at some point.) The main thing that I was watching at 7 was Legends of Tomorrow. The other shows that I was watching then, nearly none of them either being on now still at the moment for the rest of this season or one of them being something I tend to not keep up with that much outside of when Survivor isn’t on, are the shows of Next Level Chef, The Goldbergs, Home Economics, Batwoman, and The Chase.

 

Note that Good Sam is not yet cancelled like I thought that it was because I saw a promo for it. It had been gone for two weeks with no promos for no episodes, airing new episodes, or even being seen in reruns. I’m not yet currently into any show at 9. I might check out either Chicago PD or A Million Little Things, but won’t check out either until after Lent is over. If Good Sam does wind up getting cancelled like it probably will, whatever CBS airs to replace it would probably get priority. I like to get into a show from the very beginning and not join an existing show already through part of its run.

 

Let’s talk about the one time challenges from the sixteenth season. One of them was rather infamous. It resulted in Jonathan’s medical evacuation and another injury of a person who wanted to be voted out as a result in addition to some other injuries here and there.

 

Reinventing the Wheel (tribal immunity challenge from You Guys are Dumber than You Look): In this challenge, the contestants would have to solve a puzzle wheel which would then be put on a cart that others would ride. After taking the cart through obstacles, the wheels are then turned into a turnstile that will raise a fire wok and ignite their tribe cauldron. I don’t see how this could be done while social distancing as it involves often being too close to each other.

 

Cat & Mouse (reward challenge from He’s a Ball of Goo!): In this challenge, pairs are harnessed together and are being chased by members of the other tribe. There is just one minute to chase them down. If they succeed in catching them, they will get a point. Otherwise, the other tribe will win. This challenge is the infamous one known for many injuries that resulted in Jonathan’s evacuation from the game. It was deemed too dangerous to ever be used again. It is physical and couldn’t be done while social distancing. It just may be the only challenge which is certain to never appear a second time.

 

A Stone’s Throw (immunity challenge from He’s a Ball of Goo!): In this challenge, contestants would have to throw rocks at hanging titles to drop bundles of puzzle pieces. These would then have to be used to solve a puzzle. It seems to mix existing elements of more well known challenges. I think that an individual version of this could potentially be done while social distancing.

 

Pool Party (immunity challenge from I’m Ruthless… and Have a Smile on My Face): In this challenge, there would be different heats with half of the players in each round moving on to the next one. The first round had contestants throwing rocks at titles to unleash puzzle pieces. The second round has players digging a key to get more puzzle pieces that would be used to crank a pulley and get planks. The third round has the planks being used to cross a rope bridge then race across a series of disks. All of this could be done while social distancing. What’s up with the name? Where are they getting pool from any of this? I have no idea where that would be from.

 

Сторінка 24 випуску Time від 14.10.2019 опублікувала статтю під назвою «Копси з змови Трампа». У ньому йшлося про початок скандалу в Україні, який призвів до першого імпічменту Трампа. У статті на сторінці 26 вказується, що використовувати «повноваження президента, щоб спробувати залишитися на посаді, неможливо». У статті побіжно згадується чоловік на ім’я Лев Парнас, який є важливою фігурою в цьому скандалі з Трампом. Теорія змови, яка існувала тоді, була однією з перших, яка стала козлом відпущення Хантера Байдена.

 

У ньому згадується брехня людини, яка неправдиво стверджувала, що він «був змушений залишити посаду [через] Джо Байдена... щоб зупинити розслідування компанії, де працював Хантер Байден», а наступне речення на сторінці 28 зазначає, що « Цей обліковий запис не витримав пильної перевірки, [оскільки] найвищі посадовці в США та Україні… підтвердили, що [цю людину] звільнили за його ймовірну корупцію, а розслідування щодо компанії Хантера Байдена на той час було бездіяльним».

 

In this blog post from my Madam Secretary blog, I talked about my hatred of the fucking Masters. I talked about the missing girls re Boko Haram. I will include a link about that as it is sadly not resolved still all these years later despite it having a somewhat happy resolution in the show. I also talked about not liking who had won that year’s March Madness. Since it was in 2016, this makes me wonder when the switch occurred of me liking every other winner since I didn’t like them in 2019 or 2021.

 

https://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/2016/11/episode-from-4-10-2016.html

 

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

 

Movie update: On Friday, I watched Monsters University. I replaced that with Monsters Inc. On Saturday this time, I rented a movie instead of seeing one that I had. I had no time on Sunday to see a movie from either list. On Monday, I had no time to see any movie whatsoever. On Tuesday, I watched yet another movie that was rented instead of something from my list. If you read any of my blogs in the cast update stage, you’ll know just how far behind I am at reviewing newer movies and catching up on them. I may not see a lot of them after all. But I had to take this break and chance in order to do it.

 

Going back to March Madness, I might as well go through all of the first round games. I will include a note as to whether or not something was an upset as in the lower seeded team won. In the first four games, it was Texas Southern that beat Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Indiana that beat Wyoming, Wright State that beat Bryant, and Notre Dame that beat Rutgers.

 

The West Regional had Gonzaga beat Georgia State, Memphis beat Boise State (upset), New Mexico State beat Connecticut (upset), Arkansas beat Vermont, Notre Dame beat Alabama (upset), Texas Tech beat Montana, Michigan State beat Davidson, Duke beat Cal State Fullerton, Gonzaga beat Memphis, Arkansas beat New Mexico State, Texas Tech beat Notre Dame, and Duke beat Michigan State.

 

The East Regional had Baylor beat Norfolk State, North Carolina beat Marquette, Saint Mary’s beat Indiana, UCLA beat Akron, Texas beat Virginia Tech, Purdue beat Yale, Murray State beat San Francisco, Saint Peter’s beat Kentucky (upset), North Carolina beat Baylor (upset), UCLA beat Saint Mary’s, Purdue beat Texas, and Saint Peter’s beat Murray State (upset).

 

The South Regional had Arizona beat Wright State, TCU beat Seton Hall (upset), Houston beat UAB, Illinois beat Chattanooga, Michigan beat Colorado State (upset), Tennessee beat Longwood, Ohio State beat Loyola Chicago, Villanova beat Delaware, Arizona beat TCU, Houston beat Illinois (upset), Michigan beat Tennessee (upset), and Villanova beat Ohio State.

 

The Midwest Regional had Kansas beat Texas Southern, Creighton beat San Diego State (upset), Richmond beat Iowa (upset), Providence beat South Dakota State, Iowa State beat LSU (upset), Wisconsin beat Colgate, Miami (FL) beat USC (upset), Auburn beat Jacksonville State, Kansas beat Creighton, Providence beat Richmond (Rich-what?), Iowa State beat Wisconsin (upset), and Miami (FL) beat Auburn (upset).

 

When I mentioned one time challenges from China, there was a challenge mentioned that was named after a song called Great Balls of Fire. It is one of the most well known songs that I’m familiar with even if it is an older song.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VJ1NuAbEBI

 

Speaking of songs, here is the theme song to Power Rangers: Ninja Storm which I’m mentioning now as I brought up one of the protagonists from that show. I’ll share the next season as well, but then take a break from going into future seasons like I want to for reasons that should make sense then.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D_id7KFopc

 

The one last thing to mention before I get into this possibly crazy episode is something that I heard about regarding Tori. Apparently, she is anti-vaccine. From what I understand, contestants do have to get the covid vaccine in order to play on the show now. At some point, she came out against it. I can only hope that she can come to her senses. I plan to say this elsewhere. I don’t want any anti-vaccine person to die. I want them to get vaccinated. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, Maryanne finds the idol on her tribe and, true to fashion, other people know this as well since Omar was with her and another woman that I missed as well. On the other tribe, Daniel reads the fine print and learns that the idol will get full power at the merge with Mike getting his vote back. The paper is with the idol and is almost lost, but then is found again.

 

In the second segment of the show, Maryanne says her phrase, but the other tribe doesn’t say that. Mike was only going to say his if both of the others were in. Now wouldn’t it be hilarious if the other tribe was thinking the same thing and also not saying it? Anyways, the challenge starts with water getting bad really fast. I’ve never seen waves like that in a non endurance water challenge. It seemed to have gone pretty bad pretty fast. I think that the waves could be as high as 88 miles an house and when this baby hits 88 miles an hour, you are going to see some serious shit. The orange tribe comes in first with a blowout win for them. The other two tribes struggle a whole lot.

 

Jeff decides that both tribes should drag their ladders in. The keys are then retrieved by production with both of them continuing the challenge at just the beach portion. That was the right call. I understand why they did that. The blue tribe gets the second place position. Jonathan’s good performance is then singled out. He might be a player to look out for. Omar and Chanelle are then sent on a journey. She does not like being away from her tribe during the scramble before tribal council.

 

In the third segment of the show, they talk about the brutal challenge and people wonder about the journey at hand. It seems that people want to target Lydia and Mike is worried about Daniel. Daniel, Hai, and Lydia have a secret alliance. Channelle is likely the deciding vote. There is a lot of nonverbal stuff going on between the two of them. Both of them decide to risk their votes. Yikes. And that’s The Flight of the Bumblebee that played in the commercial that aired next for me.

 

In the fourth segment of the show, Chanelle says that she might not have a vote. She wants to get the vote split with the women voting for Jenny and the men voting for Mike. But Lydia is that target and Chanelle thinks that she can direct the vote without having one. If the vote goes correctly, it will be a 2-1-1 vote with Lydia getting voted out. At tribal council, Hai talks about how nervous the game makes him. Chanelle lies and says that she played it safe. Mike says that he believes her. Is he just saying that or does he feel that way? It seems that he genuinely feels that way. Maybe Mike will be the idiot of this season. Daniel is already convinced that he will lose. (I just lost the game.)

 

Lydia is unsure of what’s going on. Jenny mentions that she went on a summit and she talks some about what has gone on. The votes happen next. Nobody plays any advantage, at least publically. The vote is a tie between Lydia and Jenny. If only the great con of a 2-1-1 vote could have happened. I wonder, will there have to be a rock draw and if so, who all would draw? There is a reveal about who didn’t vote. Hai is confused about this. Only Hai and Daniel can make the consensus. And here the commercial is. I was wondering at first if that would happen at all. Maybe I shouldn’t count the segments of the show.

 

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to the two of the eligible voters talking about what to do, even if four of them have to draw rocks. Daniel doesn’t want to draw a rock. He is okay with going for Jenny instead. Hai admits his vote for Jenny. He doesn’t want to change his vote. But others still want to have Lydia out. Hai refuses to change his vote. How long is this allowed to last? I thought that this was not allowed to last that long. But maybe rules have changed. The decision is made to vote Jenny out. That was one of the craziest tribal councils that I have ever seen.

 

On the next Survivor, Jonathan is getting on people’s nerves, Rocksroy also seems to cause issues, and things are not well when the tribe gets back to camp after their tribal council. Dum-dum-DUM! We’ll have to see just how crazy things get.

 

Total confessional count: Omar- 11, Rocksroy- 1, Lindsay- 4, Romeo- 2, Hai- 4, Swati- 1, Chanelle- 8, Jenny- 2, Tori- 3, Lydia- 3, Maryanne- 6, Daniel- 6, Mike- 7, Drea- 4, Jonathan- 5.

 

New confessionals this episode: Hai- 2, Swati- 0, Chanelle- 6, Jenny- 1, Tori- 0, Lydia- 1, Maryanne- 1, Daniel- 3, Mike- 3, Drea- 0, Jonathan- 0, Omar- 4, Rocksroy- 0, Lindsay- 1, Romeo- 0.

 

I’m not even sure if Jenny did, in fact, get a confessional this episode. It is rare for someone not to get one in the episode that they are voted out of, but it does happen from time to time. I am only putting the counts of Chanelle and Omar as high as they are since they kept switching between what was the same confessional between both of them and I count it now so that any time a different person is seen doing a confessional, I count it as a new one. I’ve changed how I count them which will probably cause a lot of discrepancies between the counts that I have when doing the same season over again if there was a count it in the first time. Plus, I have no idea if my count will match up any official records or not.

 

Planned June blog posts

 

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

 

Just note that for possibly the only known and planned time during Lent, next week’s update might be on Thursday instead of Wednesday. I might not be able to go to the earlier church service since I have a doctor’s appointment after work. I’ll probably have to record Survivor on tape. While I’m not currently watching any shows between 9 and 10, I don’t know yet if I will spend that time watching Survivor. I might and probably should. We’ll see what happens. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.