Survivor 43 Premiere

While season 42 has yet to end as of the writing of this paragraph, I figured that I might as well get started on the next season’s first post and hopefully things will go well with it. I won’t mention too much else right now until more is learned. But I am going to write some of this post in advance and then get to the rest of this later.

 

Let’s get to one time challenges from the twenty-seventh season. This is the most recent season thus far to make use of Redemption Island. I feel that Redemption Island might be the best of the twists where they bring back players who were voted out (not counting returning players). But I’ll cover any of the challenges from this season that only appeared once.

 

Buoy Oh Buoy (tribal challenge from One-Man Wrecking Ball): In this challenge, contestants would have to swim out to where floating gates are. Once there, they would release a fish trap with puzzle pieces inside. These traps would be taken back to the main platform. Once all four traps are gathered, the puzzle would then have to be solved. I think that if this were done individually instead of in pairs, this could be done while social distancing.

 

Build a Fire (Redemption Island duel from Swoop in for the Kill): In this challenge, contestants must simply cut a rope to release puzzle pieces and solve a puzzle to win. It could easily be done while social distancing. There have been challenges like this in the past.

 

While I stopped sharing Russian status updates on facebook a long time ago, I may repost here all of what I did at some point. In the meantime, there were some Russian paragraphs that I was wanting to do and take care of at some point in time. I’m going to put some of them here, if not the rest of them, in this season’s posts. Then at some point, potentially during a season, I’m going to consider Russia to be cancelled and use the language Persian instead. Enjoy the one meant for multiple blogs first.

 

Вы видите этот абзац на русском языке, и есть причины, по которым я бы взял информацию из Time, чтобы вставить эти абзацы. Они будут связаны с российским расследованием вмешательства в избирательную кампанию, Трампом, Джошем Хоули, Митчем Макконнеллом и, конечно же, новостями из России. Я также буду публиковать материалы на китайском языке, будь то Бретт Кавано, судебная система США, любые вопросы, связанные с сексом, в которых кто-то может быть обвинен, и истории, связанные с Китаем.

 

Я также планирую добавить корейский как язык, чтобы публиковать информацию обо всем, что связано с корейским языком. Я также добавляю испанский язык для материала, связанного с целенаправленной стеной, самым длительным закрытием правительства, любыми мексиканскими проблемами и любой страной, связанной с Испанией. Я также добавляю латынь для любых разных целей, для любого и всего, о чем я хочу поделиться из «Времени», которое не соответствует другим категориям.

 

Let’s get to the tier two of football teams that I root for and their official ranking. There were some disasters in 2017 that affected where the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Houston Texans, and Miami Dolphins play. I call these four teams the hurricane teams. Now when it comes to how they rank against each other, let’s get to the match ups of the teams against each other.

 

Starting the with Buccaneers, they would beat the Jaguars, beat the Dolphins, and lost to the Texans giving them 2 wins and 1 loss. The Jaguars lost to the Buccaneers, beat the Texans, and beat the Dolphins, also giving them 2 wins and 1 loss. The Dolphins lost to the Buccaneers, lost to the Jaguars, and lost to the Texans, giving them 0 wins and 3 losses. As for the Texans, they beat the Buccaneers, lost to the Jaguars, and beat the Dolphins, also giving them 2 wins and 1 loss. That’s a lot of ties that will need broken going into the next post. I just hope that I don’t run out of time for it and a lot of things. I am going to try better to have everything before the recap written before the episode airs and I write it meaning that I won’t have to worry about writing much before it is over.

 

If you remember the post that I did in the past on the Survivor 42 finale, it mentioned a challenge that linked into the AC/DC song, It’s a Long Way to the Top (if you Want to Rock and Roll). I feel that I might as well share that song right now.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj_rvLVpqg8

 

There was still some work that I was wanting to cover regarding missionaries. I might want to share one in every single season that I write about now, be it a new season or an old one. I’m sharing this rather long missionary video that I have described as an interview with the Burches. Enjoy it and support their work if you can.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ubp2U8y138

 

I recently started watching the videos of Dr. Mike on YouTube. He is awesome. He recently did a video on Survivor and some of the medical emergencies that appeared on the show. It only seems appropriate to share that video now in this post.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVEwzD9IhSo

 

Now I was going to do a post about Survivor 42 Ponderosa which seemed not to air because of what seemed to be a bullying incident. But the one source that seemed to back this up didn’t mention any of what was said to be there. Omar made it sound like he needed therapy because of false accusations made against him at Ponderosa. I listened to his interview on Rob Has a Podcast which was said to have included this claim by him, but it didn’t. It is still the best explanation for why it was never released. But I don’t understand what might have happened for sure since there is no link that talks about it that I can find. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, we are introduced to some of the contestants, such as paraolympian athlete Noelle. Elie says that as a psychologist, she gets people to do things that they don’t want to do. How does that make you feel? Anyways, the players gather. Noelle talks about applying for Survivor, losing her leg, and still wanting to do Survivor. If she lost her leg when she was 19, how old is she now and just how long has she been applying? The answer: potentially coming next post. Anyways, I missed a lot of the challenge as I was getting supper ready, but I was able to learn that the red tribe won. I know that tribes have names, but I’m just going to call them by their colors in new seasons since I just don’t care enough. If you want me to change, send a tweet to @IamAdamDecker and hopefully I’ll see it.

 

In the second segment of the show, the red tribe is taken by a random boatman to their camp. They don’t have to row themselves there? And what’s the point of the map? Dwight wants to do the shelter and over Survivor things. At least he isn’t looking for an idol yet. Dwight is already worried about how he will look back at home. Anyways, is it the pandemic that forces them to have boatmen or what? It seems kind of unfair for all the old players who had to row themselves to camp.

 

The yellow tribe chooses savvy as their punishment and learns that they have to form that largest whole number by moving two bones, but can only do this once. The blue tribe chooses sweat and they get their supplies rather quickly. The yellow tribe figures out the trick of the challenge and they get the answer correct. Like the UK show Taskmaster, you have to now wonder when Survivor is tricking you.

 

In the third segment of the show, Cody, Nneka, and Jesse form an alliance with Cody not being honest about his profession. How many contestants have lied about their profession on the show? And why don’t they promote people’s names better, especially in the season premiere? As usual, I miss a lot of who did what confessionals. Cody is a salesman. He says that he works for an elevator company. Jesse also wants to form an alliance with other members as well. Has that happened before? You’d think that it would have, but I’m just not sure it has in 43 seasons of Survivor.

 

On the yellow tribe, Elie leads the women in forming an alliance. Lindsay leads the same thing on the blue tribe while also adding a needed fourth member: James. He thinks that this might mean he is being played. Did they really all come to him separately? That’s dumb.

 

In the fourth segment of the show, Sami wants to show people that he can make fire and he does. He cremates pets for a living. You will not believe how big a business that is. Geo and Karla bond and form a Latinx LGBT alliance of two according to him. But Karla has an alliance already. If I had to guess, this is bad news for the remaining man on the tribe. I don’t remember his name yet. Jesse talks about how he used to be in a gang, but removed his tattoo from the gang. Which one is three dots? I have no idea and might be better off not knowing. The red tribe makes fire right before a boat shows up. Boats. Boats. Boats boats boats. Wait. What was this commercial about again?

 

In the fifth segment of the show, a player from each tribe gets on a boat and is taken to a summit, perhaps? Gabler, Dwight, and Karla are the players. I think that all of them are picked by random draw. They have to go to a big rock. It wasn’t a rock. It was a- ROCK LOBSTER! This summit has people picking whether to risk their vote. Karla doesn’t risk it. The men do. One will lose their vote and the other will get an advantage. But who gets what?

 

In the sixth segment of the show, the red tribe does get fire for real this time. Dwight tells the truth of what happened to his tribe. Gabler does the same thing. Gabler got the advantage, which is an idol. He tells his tribe about it. It is only good for his first two tribal councils. He could give a dead idol to Dwight in order to “garner trust” in the future. Or, he might use it.

 

In the seventh segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. I’m still eating supper since there is a lot of food to eat this time which takes away a lot of time for other things. I take this chance to focus on eating and hopefully finish it or get further into it than I have otherwise. This challenge does have a twist that the first tribe to get to The Equalizer: Sundays at 8/7 Central on CBS unless delayed due to football, I mean, the table games, gets their pick of which of the three games they get with the second tribe getting the next pick and the last tribe being stuck with what is left.

 

Let’s skip to that part of the challenge. The blue tribe picks the maze as they think that it will be the easiest. That was number 3. The red tribe picks number 2, the straight shot. The yellow tribe is forced to go with the obstacle. The blue tribe picked correctly and comes in first. The red tribe comes in second with the yellow tribe struggling. Could they not switch out players? Sami thinks that the game starts now. It is no longer Kumbya.

 

In the eighth segment of the show, Gabler thinks that since he was part of the loss, he would be a target. He openly says that he is playing the shot in the dark instead of playing his idol. But people don’t want to vote him out. Morriah is a target. So is Owen. Can someone play a shot in the dark and then play an idol instead? I don’t think that we know for sure. Can the woman alliance stick together? Do they ever? I mean, outside of the Black Widow Brigade?

 

In the ninth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. The life at camp was a joy. They thought that they were the final six. No six before marriage. Jeff thinks that they were waiting too late in order to make strategy. They did try their best. Are they dolls? Dolls try to do their best. Gabler and Sami both lost their tribe the challenge. Is this why they make only certain people do the task at the end? So there will always be an escape goat? Morriah thinks that she has made what she has needed to in this game. Jeff thinks that he can feel the tension. Maybe he needs a massage? In the end, it turns out that no one played any advantage or idol. Morriah is voted out.

 

On the next Survivor, there is a storm that is bad, there is still a girl’s alliance on one tribe at least, maybe, we’ll see, more things are happening at the summit, and other things that I didn’t quite catch or know how to summarize.

 

Total confessional count: Cody- 5, Justine- 1, Geo- 2, Lindsay- 3, Cassidy- 1, Karla- 4, Nneka- 2, Gabler- 5, James- 3, Owen- 5, Noelle- 1, Sami- 3, Jesse- 2, Ryan- 1, Dwight- 4, Elie- 5, Morriah- 2, Jeanine- 0.

 

After this episode was done airing, I still had a long time finishing supper. A storm happened which did not affect too much at first, but did mean that I wasn’t going to finish the movie I was watching that night. But then the power went out even later and didn’t come back on. While I do have battery powered wifi for a while after a power outage and I have a laptop with some battery life, I can’t rely on either of them during a power outage and decided it was best to just turn off the laptop.

 

Planned October blog posts (2^nd revision)

 

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

 

Now that you know why the blog post is late, I’m going to have to do a set up to the new schedule of the planned blog posts for October. I swear that I will get to November’s planned blog posts in the next update. Know that this also means that any posts on China and Blood versus Water are now certain not to happen until after I’m done blogging about this season. The only old season that you will see any possible updates on now as long as Survivor 43 is still on is Borneo. Also note that it might be awhile until the next post only because I don’t know if there will be a new episode of this show on Wednesday and if there is not, I’ll have to wait until the next episode airs to blog about it. Regardless of when it airs, I’ll be back then (hopefully) with a new blog post. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.