Episode 1.2b

There was once a time where I put reviews from the Survivor seasons of Borneo and Palau at tv.com. Only there is no more tv.com. The site is gone along with anything on it. Thus, I plan to write new review posts on imbd where I do reviews of Survivor episodes, which will come during the off season. It is sad and not at all shocking to me that I haven’t gotten any done yet thus far. I hope that I can do that either this month or the next. Otherwise, I’ll have to wait until January.

 

Let’s get to the challenges that start with n, currently the only other thing that I can think of relating to the a or an article link that I had from a while back starting in Gabon, I think, or potentially China. I do not yet know what challenge links would logically come next in this season’s blog posts so don’t be surprised if I skip it for a bit until it can work out again.

 

https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/New_School

 

In this challenge, contestants must swim out to get a net of 14 fish puzzle pieces, untie the pieces, hang them on hooks, carry the log with the hooks to the puzzle station, and then solve the puzzle. In one season, the puzzle was in two layers, one stacked on top of each other. In other seasons, the two parts of the puzzle were on two different trays. If this could be done as an individual challenge, it could be done while social distancing.

 

https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/New_Tribe_Member

 

This is also known as Gulliver’s Travels. In it, contestants have to take a dummy of theirs, the new tribe member, and take it across an obstacle course. The dummy was made the first time this appeared. If this were an individual challenge, then this could be done while social distancing, although I’m not sure how or if it could work that way.

 

https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Nut_Bucket

 

This is also known as sack attack. In this challenge, one tribe has to hold up a large net while the other tribe puts coconuts into the nets. If everyone drops the net, their tribe loses the challenge. It could probably not be done while social distancing.

 

Certus sum primo qua lingua scriberem de scandalo Cantabrigiensi Analytica, sed decrevi linguam Latinam fore, cum alia res scriberet in Russia ex eodem tempore exitus. Una quae data est 10-1-2018 fabulam narravit de Christophoro Wylie. Dum nescias quis sit, praecipua est causa quod facebook multum negotii de electione praesidentis 2016 obtinuit. Hic homo ab utroque electronico et instagram interdictum est, sed tamen in twitter permissus est. Loquitur de quaestionibus cum situ, de quo agitur.

 

Page 12 meminit quomodo "cum dextro cornu politici laborare voluerint." Articulus affirmat se "Cambridge Analytica datam accepisse ab 30 miliones ad 87 decies centena millia perfiles… ad aedificandam incredibilem imaginem segmentorum electoratus US". Nescio si ratio mea affectus est vel non, et adhuc facebook utimur, recentissime (sicut de scriptione huius paragraphi) sicut 1-25-2020. Christopherus putat constitutum esse internationaliter inter regulas quomodo facebook agere debeat. Finit etiam articulum dicendo "Populus vere turpia facere volunt, si etiam alii homines multa faciunt". Pervulgatum est hoc exemplum Nazis. Fautores tubae numquam tam malae esse possunt, sed in idem genus hominum terribilium, qui odio excitantur, incidere possunt.

 

I should post more about the third list of watching things first before I get to anything else. Invader Zim moved up to the second list. I was replaced by 8 Simple Rules. Like 8 Simple Rules, I’m thinking that I will do a YouTube video series of each of them. But unlike Invader Zim, I’m unsure of how much I can see of it unless the third season of 8 Simple Rules is on DVD on blu-ray by now. I will not watch it on steaming under any circumstances, even if the streaming is free.

 

Movie update: I’m posting the movie update in this season’s blog posts now. I plan to go back to some of the old way of doing it, meaning that it might be ignored a whole lot until I have more time on my hands to watch movies. Anyways, let’s start where I left off in Survivor 42.

 

Here’s how the list of movies currently stands: Tuesday’s list is Back to the Future part 2, Celtic Woman: Believe, Elf, Invictus, Pot O’ Gold, and Recess: School’s Out. Friday’s list is Air Force One, Baby Geniuses, The Great Race, John Q, Popeye, and Toy Story. Saturday’s list is Downton Abbey, Flight of the Phoenix, Grumpier Old Men, The Little Mermaid, The Pelican Brief, and A River Runs Through it. Sunday afternoon’s list is Bend it Like Beckham, Ghost Town, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Runaway Bride, Space Jam, and A Wrinkle in Time. Sunday night’s list is Bean: the Movie, Despicable Me, The Little Rascals, Rain Man, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, and True to the Game. Monday’s list is The Bourne Supremacy, crossover tape, The Fugitive, Nature Documentaries, The Omega Code 2, and The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood.

 

On Thursday, two days after starting it, I returned to see more of Recess: School’s Out and finished it. I replaced it with Taken. I was not able to see another movie from any of my lists for exactly one week due to family visits when the next Friday rolled around.

 

On Friday, I watched Toy Story. I replaced it with Toy Story 2. I should tell you that in anticipation of the movie Lightyear which is somehow unrelated to the already existing Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, the YouTube channel CinemaWins started doing any Everything Great about Toy Story series. Here is their video on Toy Story.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFfoBJlQ0bw

 

On Saturday, I watched The Little Mermaid. I replaced that with Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. I am skipping over other movies in that series this year and only covering that one. On Sunday, I did not watch a movie from either list, but was able to return to theaters finally to see a movie for a blog of mine as that is often the only reason why I see movies in theaters or used to. On Monday, I chose not to watch a movie and may do this a lot even with extra time on my hand so I can get caught up on other things that I have to do even if I do have time for movies. On Tuesday, I watched Elf. I replaced that with Fireproof. Now that I’ve seen that, I won’t try much or hardly for seeing things from that list unless it winds up as the first in line.

 

On Friday, I watched John Q. I replaced that with Lilo and Stitch. Now the next day, I had a bit of an issue that I’ll get to. But I have a work around that makes everything okay in the end. I can only hope that the issue gets resolved.

 

On Saturday, I wanted to and planned to watch Madagascar 3. But I couldn’t find where it was. I had moved it somewhere in preparation for the family visits. Or someone else did. I don’t know where it is now as a result. So I watched the first Madagascar and will replace it with the 2^nd one. On Sunday afternoon, I watched Ghost Town, one of only two choices so old, it was added to my list of things to watch back in 2020. I replaced it with A Few Good Men. On Sunday night, I watched The Tonys instead of any movie. I am hoping that I can see movies from this list pretty soon. Of course, half of the options on the Sunday afternoon list were added in 2021 and only have to be seen once in order to be taken off the list and replaced. Neither Sunday list is watched much. That should change soon for one of them. I did not watch a movie either Monday or Tuesday.

 

On Friday, I watched Lilo and Stitch. I replaced that with Minions. I will probably be missing a lot of time and chances to watch movies soon depending on what is going on in life. I could be watching some from the scab lists that I have, but if I did have that free time, I’d probably want to spend it getting caught up on shows on my laptop first before I did anything else.

 

On Saturday, I watched The Pelican Brief. I replaced that with Oliver and Company. On Sunday afternoon which was Father’s Day, I watched Courageous instead of anything from the list of things to watch on that day. On Sunday night, I watched Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. I replaced that with Attack of the Clones. I hadn’t finished that movie by Monday so I was still finishing that on Monday. I didn’t have time for a movie on Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday afternoon due to family visits.

 

On Sunday night, I had the chance to at least start a movie, although I was bogged down in a lot of other things to do potentially. Plus, I’m watching both the Star Wars and Despicable Me series in a foreign language with English subtitles. Thus, I started Attack of the Clones that day. I did not return to it until Tuesday, with no movies from either Monday or Tuesday lists being watched. I finished the movie on Wednesday. On Friday, I watched Baby Geniuses. I replaced that with Déjà Vu. On Saturday, I watched Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. I replaced it with the hopefully will be found 3^rd Madagascar film. It turns out that I watched the wrong thing by mistake so this will affect other choices for a bit. On Sunday afternoon, I watched The Temple of Doom. I replaced that with Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

On Sunday night, I watched Despicable Me. I replaced that with Despicable Me 2. On Monday, I watched The Omega Code 2. I replaced that with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. On Tuesday, I didn’t watch a movie. On Friday, I watched Toy Story 2. I replaced that with the third Toy Story. As I did earlier in this blog post, I am sharing the video called Everything Great about Toy Story 2.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQlF5W986_c

 

On Saturday, I watched Oliver and Company. I replaced it with Pleasantville. It was Oliver and Company that I was supposed to watch last week. On Sunday afternoon, I watched Raiders of the Lost Ark. I replaced it with The Last Crusade.

 

On Sunday night, I watched part of Revenge of the Sith. I replaced it with Rogue One despite the fact that there is an r choice on the list right now. This will be straightened out soon enough. I finished that movie on Monday. I wasn’t able to see much of it on Sunday so that I could watch a live stream of the mass event of the LCMS National Youth Gathering. I messed up potentially seeing any of the stream on Monday, so I didn’t watch it then. On Tuesday, I chose not to watch a movie. On Friday, I watched a movie that I borrowed from the library instead of one from the list of things to watch on Friday.

 

On Saturday, I watched Flight of the Phoenix. I replaced that with Enchanted. On Sunday afternoon, I had other plans for lunch so I didn’t watch a movie then. Expect this to happen again a lot as I may be working some over the weekends which would conflict with a Sunday afternoon movie.

 

On Sunday night, I watched Rogue One. I replaced that with A New Hope. On Monday, I watched nothing. I am doing this so that I’m like Ozzy in that one challenge in Micronesia where he helped get all of the coconuts or whatever it was towards the end so it would be easier for all of the contestants to finish it. I am hoping that if I’m caught up enough on tapes, I can get caught up more on other things as well. I went from being within one roll of finishing the tapes until having way too much to see of that always. And I was watching shows on my laptop anyways. On Tuesday, I watched no movies again. On Wednesday, I watched yet another movie borrowed from the library. This might be a regular thing soon. On Friday, I watched Air Force One. I replaced that with Adventures in Babysitting.

 

On Saturday, I watched Downton Abbey. I replaced that with nothing so I can effectively keep it on the list for now so that I can see it again with commentary. On Sunday afternoon, I watched nothing as I was busy at a different church than usual. Sunday night, I watched a home video instead of something that is on any of the lists.

 

On Monday, I watched The Bourne Supremacy. I replaced that with The Bourne Ultimatum. On Tuesday, I watched nothing in terms of movies. On Friday, I watched nothing in terms of movies. I have no idea how many times I will keep doing this.

 

On Saturday, I finally watched Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. My mother found where I hid it in advance of my niblings coming and I forgot where it was. But it makes sense where it was found since I was doing other things that involved putting it in this strange place. Anyways, it remains on the list for me to watch again with commentary. On Sunday afternoon, I was busy working a job that I plan to vlog about. I did the same thing that previous day when I could watch a movie. On Sunday night, while I did have the time for a movie, I decided that it wasn’t a good idea and I was better off not seeing one so I could ensure that I stick with Monday as a lead-out day for now.

 

On Monday, I watched The Bourne Ultimatum. I replaced that with The Bourne Legacy. On Tuesday, I did not watch a movie per usual reasons. On Friday, I also did not watch a movie again. There’s not too much else to say about that just yet.

 

On Saturday, I watched A River Runs Through it. I replaced it with The Sound of Music, just not the movie version that you’re thinking of, but a recording of a play that cousins of mine were in. I will not be watching A River Runs Through it again. It didn’t seem to offer that much. On Sunday afternoon, I watched Space Jam. I replaced it with Vantage Point. On Sunday night, I watched A New Hope. It was replaced with The Empire Strikes Back. While I started that move on Sunday night, I paused it at one point and did not get back to it until Wednesday, meaning no movie on Monday or Tuesday. I ended up finishing it on Thursday. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon, I was far too busy with family visits to see any movies at the time.

 

On Sunday night, I finally returned to seeing movies. I watched Rain Man and replaced it with National Treasure. On Monday, I was still finishing Rain Man so no movie on Monday. I did not watch a movie on Tuesday. On Friday, I watched nothing, although I could have potentially.

 

On Saturday, August 20^th of 2022, I finally rolled a Survivor episode legitimately. I didn’t just decide to watch one, counting it as a roll when it actually wasn’t. Now I am changing things for just a bit so that the roll might not take place on the day I say it does, but will count it on that day simply because it is easier for me to be prepared. I don’t know how long I will do that. A Saturday roll does mess me up a bit since that’s when the weekly updates of my TV blog are and this will mean having to update my blog on Madam Secretary instead. But this shouldn’t be too much of an issue as it means more opportunities for working on different blogs.

 

We begin with Stacey talking about being hungry. Rudy and others talked about eating rats. Maybe the snake will eat the rat? The people try to make fishing seem more exciting than it is. Richard said that he voted out Stacey at the last tribal council, but I think that merely voting for someone is different than voting someone out since she is still in the game for now. Rudy thinks that Stacey is going to learn a lesson pretty soon in the future.

 

Meanwhile, on Pagong, everyone talks about B. B. and his work ethic. Some like it at times while also thinking that he would be the first person voted out if they lose. Back at Tagi, Rudy talks about making food. Richard doesn’t want to talk about being gay to Rudy. Some talk about Richard’s homosexuality and even some terms about it. Rudy thinks that if people listen to Richard, they will make it far in the game. He also states that he likes Richard, but not in a homosexual way. He does some of this not homosexual stuff by rubbing Richard’s back with lotion.

 

Going back to Pagong, Ramona isn’t doing well on her tribe as she gets sick easily and can’t even eat some of the food that they have. She is lying around a lot. Greg is the only person who seems to like B. B. It seems that B. B. doesn’t like anyone. The next day, it seems that Greg and Colleen were sneaking off by themselves. They mention having a friendship. People don’t know where they are hiding. Maybe they are looking for a hidden immunity idol and advantages? That night, they play the stranded game or something with a similar name. Greg asks how they would describe their favorite love making position as a food. Is that even possible to describe?

 

B. B. talks to other people and get them to move something with the whole tribe having to take part in this and this hurts Jenna for a moment. He is still annoying most of them. Sean on Tagi is still obsessed with his super pole invention that Sue points out didn’t catch anything. She can’t even convince him that it was a waste of time even though he didn’t catch anything. He thinks the area is overfished. But do people typically stay there and thus fish there? B. B. still annoys people when he washes his shirt in the canteen that they were wanting to make rice in.

 

The tribes learn of the upcoming challenge and eating gross food. Ramona actually says that she will eat anything since this is for immunity. It seems that B. B. wants to leave with everyone wanting to win. The tribes gather for the challenge. The local delicacy will be served for everyone. They can’t let their living food crawl away. Everyone has to eat it or they will lose immunity for their tribe. Gervase seems to have the most trouble with it as everyone else eats it. But it seems that everyone eats it next, including Gervase. I like how better this is done in later seasons versus this one.

 

This leads to a tie-breaker round. Tagi picks Gervase. Pagong picks Stacey. Stacey then wins it for her tribe. Sean thinks that Stacey is more accepted in her tribe now as a result. Pagong, meanwhile, now has to walk to tribal council.

 

Ramona thinks that tribal council is like walking to your maker. She is one of the targets, but so is B. B. He thinks that if either he or Gretchen goes, that would be like dropping an atomic bomb. Jeff gets the tribe to grab a torch. I thought that was Jennet Isabella’s job. Hush, hush. Quietly now. He sleeps. The torch of Sonja is still there at tribal council. I wonder why this isn’t still done. Was it just one of those corny things that they didn’t want to keep doing like the gong?

 

At tribal council, there isn’t much conversation going on. Not everyone is shown talking. It is probably too much of a foregone conclusion and it seems to be one of the shortest ones that we ever see. We then get to the vote. Greg and B. B. vote for Ramona. The rest of the tribe of Ramona, Colleen, Gervase, Jenna, Gretchen, and Joel vote off B. B. and he is voted out of the game as a result. It is interesting that they don’t allow goodbyes like hugs and departures like they do now. Maybe they aren’t supposed to do that now? I still have no idea what he means by “the decision is final” 42 seasons later. How could the decision not be final after certain votes are cast?

 

On the next Survivor, Dirk seems to annoy people with his Christian beliefs and Pagong is ready to eat rats. Those people are snakes, aren’t they? We better warn the badgers so that they know to stay away. And where are the mushrooms? Or do we only care about tapioca?

 

Total confessional count: Dirk- 1, Ramona- 6, Gervase- 5, Greg- 3, Gretchen- 6, Sean- 6, Stacey- 3, Rudy- 6, B. B.- 9, Kelly- 4, Richard- 9, Sue- 2, Colleen- 3, Jenna- 1, Joel- 2.

 

New confessionals this episode: Joel- 2, Dirk- 0, Ramona- 4, Gervase- 5, Greg- 3, Gretchen- 5, Sean- 5, Stacey- 2, Rudy- 3, B. B.- 7, Kelly- 1, Richard- 4, Sue- 1, Colleen- 3, Jenna- 1.

 

As I do with all past seasons, I now mention what I feel are the old player’s chances are of returning to the game again, the old player, meaning, whoever was voted out in that episode or otherwise not in the game anymore. There’s not much of a point to this one since B. B. is dead and thus has a 0% chance of returning to the game in the future.

 

Planned September blog posts

 

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

 

A lot can change with my blogs. I didn’t even tell the readers of my Madam Secretary blog why there was a post of it on Saturday instead of my TV blog. This schedule is only accurate if I do not roll an old Survivor episode on Saturday and I might plan to watch one then which would further change a whole lot of what is going on. With Tuesdays now having the chance of weekly posts for my TV blog, then I should warn you in case you are somehow only here for my Borneo posts that if that does happen, you will not see this season’s posts again until at least part of that day of the week is open some of the month as in I can share it with other blogs again. You don’t know what all can change and neither do I. But I’ll work through the changes and hope that you keep up with the blog regardless of when it is published and if it is an old season or not. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.