Survivor: China episode 12: Going for the Oscar ®

I’ll admit that one thing that I’m more than annoyed by so far this season is my annoyances at Todd and his edit. For the winner of this season, it seems odd that he is being portrayed in such a negative way so much. I plan to write a post about the edits of Survivor winners (maybe even an analysis on all of them, paragraph by paragraph) so I could discuss that more there.

 

Let’s get to the idols from Winners at War part 7. With this idol, Tony found it and played it, negating no votes, but making him immune from another round of voting after a null vote. It is nice that such a protection is offered so idols aren’t always a waste in the event that it wasn’t exactly used properly. It can protect people from rock draws as well.

 

Let’s get to more challenge links. This time, the choices of letters to use next were either Q or S. The choice that I rolled this time was the letter q. It did not link up with anything this time like other letters have so I will cover the letter s, the other potential choice that could have been rolled, in the next blog post on this season at hand.

 

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

 

This challenge is also known as bridging the gap, trail blazer, and outrigger fire quest. It is known for being the first challenge ever used on the show. In it, basically, the tribes have to light all of the fire that they need to while keeping their hands on a raft or whatever at all times. Since it relies on people being too close to each other, it cannot be done while social distancing. This was once combined with the already covered jail break challenge.

 

https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/Q_and_A_(challenge)

 

This challenge is also known as face off, voo doo, getting smashed q & a, body slam, Jala-Powed, and touchy subjects. Touchy subjects was the main name of this at some point. In it, contestants would fill out a questionnaire about their tribe members, the results would be tallied, and the challenge would begin with the players then trying to guess the most picked option in order to get a point. When it was played the first time, the first person to get 5 points correct was the winner. Most other versions had players taking turns trying to eliminate other players where three hits made one out. This could easily be done while social distancing)

 

In this Good Wife blog post of mine, I talk about not realizing that there would have been a hiatus due to the Olympics back in 2014 and potential hiatus of this show. I talk some about Zach on the show and he was largely written out without me realizing it somehow. I made a joke about not resolving things. I also mention how Lucca was the name of Cush Jumbo’s character on the show. A weird thing about this was delays on some affiliates, but not others. It was either 0 minutes or 7 minutes. That might affect this blog on Survivor or other blogs of mine by doing an update and then scheduling another exactly 7 minutes later. I would have explained in my Madam Secretary blog why this was.

 

https://adamdeckergoodwifetvshow.blogspot.com/2016/06/november-twenty-second-2015s-episode.html

 

克里斯汀·布莱西·福特 (Christine Blasey Ford) 的重要性在 2018 年 10 月 15 日的《时代》杂志封面“她的持久影响”中有所提及。问题的不同部分谈论它。在第 23 页的旁白中，提到“如果福特说话的语气和卡瓦诺一样轻率，她肯定会被描述为不稳定或好斗的。”一个聪明的女人，她在听证会上解释说“去甲肾上腺素和肾上腺素是如何在海马体中编码的”，结果让她想起了那个可怕的故事。

 

许多人在病毒性标签#WhyIDidntReport 中解释了为什么他们没有公开他们的帐户。也许他们害怕不被相信，并且其他人会像许多人对福特博士所做的那样试图抹黑他们。一些人很快将被告视为受害者，因为德克萨斯州共和党高级参议员约翰·科宁不屑一顾地说：“任何女人都可以毁掉男人的生活。”但我当时读到的一个故事指出，男性更有可能成为性犯罪的受害者，而不是被诬告。

 

根据第 24 页，也许最令人不安的部分是“三分之二的选民认为 [如果] 福特的指控……是真的”，这实际上并不重要。这后来在特朗普的弹劾审判中被用作可怕的辩护。如果根据第 25 页，“只有不到三分之一的 [人] 认为 [此类指控] 不合格”，那么我们在这个国家就有一个严重的问题，而不是像福特博士那样勇敢地发声的女性。

 

Confucius says: Butter must be having a great day because butter is on a roll.

 

There are two notable good songs that this one band did called V52. Well, I think that was the band name, although I’m not as sure if this song is as good as I once thought it was. This version wasn’t as good as I remember. Anyways, today’s animal song is called Rock Lobster.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4QSYx4wVQg

 

I’m also sharing a song by Led Zeppelin called Ramble On. I do have to like the number one band that is named after a dirigible. (Credit for this joke goes to The Late Show with David Letterman.) And I felt that the song was good.

 

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

 

There’s also a well known Christian children’s song called Rise and Shine that is similar to the name of a challenge that was covered in the previous post of this season. I know that post might be hard to recall offhand since it was posted all the way back in March, I believe.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olBzSdX1vF4

 

At the beginning of this post, I mentioned who will win this season. This makes me want to talk some about why I include spoilers of seasons I’m writing about. Well, the main reason is that it has already aired and the information is already out there. I would say to let me know if I shouldn’t do this, but I blocked comments in this blog since spammers ruined this for others.

 

There have been changes on the list of things that I watch. Since I cover my second list of things in this season’s posts, here is what I want you to know. I finished watching Living Edens and replaced that with Invader Zim from the third list of things that I have to watch. This does not change where Survivor: China is on this list.

 

It was on Friday, 8-26-2022 that I decided to watch this Survivor episode so I could get it done since it has been a while and I finally had the chance since even when I was finally caught up to the point of being able to watch shows and was blocked into watching others on this list at first.

 

We begin with the tribe returning back from tribal council and how they pulled off the blindside there at tribal council. Peih-Gee is trying to work on infiltrating the other alliance since them voting off James means that they could continue to turn on each other.

 

The next day, Todd talks about missing home this close to the end as it rains. He talks about his alliance of four and why he actually thinks that they should vote him out. He is cocky alright. But he is also right somehow. We then get people together for the reward challenge. It is revealed to be a loved ones challenge. Todd learns from his sister that comes that his other one suffered a miscarriage. Courtney apologizes to her loved one that they have to compete together in the challenge. In the weirdish challenge, it is Denise and her loved one who win. She brings Todd and then Amanda to join in the reward with her. The contestants and their loved ones then go on reward and then the loved ones will spend a night at camp.

 

Denise and the others go on reward. She thinks that it is nice that her husband flew here since he is afraid of flying. Denise then gets a phone call from her daughter. Back at camp, Peih-Gee is upset that she wasn’t picked on the reward as she picked Denise for the reward earlier. She wonders why Amanda was picked. Meanwhile, the three of them all think that Todd was lying with Courtney thinking that he was going for the Oscar ®. They get more upset with the people return with their loved ones. Todd learns that the miscarriage occurred shortly after he left at around just two months of pregnancy.

 

The next day, the loved ones leave. Todd isn’t sure that he can trust people. He also doesn’t yet know that people thought that he was pulling a Johnny Fairplay. Denise explains afterwards why she picked Amanda and there are sort of amends made. Peih-Gee is convinced as usual that she needs to win the challenge in order to stay in the game.

 

We get to the immunity challenge. The people have to unspool around things, answer true or false questions about China, and have to get three of them right to win the challenge. Amanda has her bottom keep falling off. Just how badly will her mother kill her? Peih-Gee wins the challenge.

 

Peih-Gee is emotional over winning the challenge later. She is exhausted in many ways. Todd thinks that people will stick with the alliance and vote out Erik. Peih-Gee tries to convince Denise to vote with them in the end so that she can get to top three. Otherwise, they think she will be fourth. Todd is even being honest to Peih-Gee about his plan. Denise isn’t sure what to do as what could happen could, in her mind, be a million dollar signature.

 

At tribal council, Amanda feels that she knows Denise is a different way. Denise is shown having a good life. She is worried that people won’t go against her in the finals. Jeff then says that it was either Erik or Peih-Gee who was in danger of getting voted out in the last few tribal councils. It hadn’t happened just yet. Peih-Gee thinks that some ambiguity is going on. Denise wants to trust people. Todd says that he trusts people, but isn’t sure by how much. Overall, it’s a very boring tribal council.

 

Once the votes are cast, it is Erik and Peih-Gee who vote against Todd while Denise, Amanda, Courtney, and Todd all vote against Erik. It is Erik who is voted out of the game. Denise thinks in her confessional that this vote could be her biggest mistake in the game. We’ll never know for sure, but she would come in fourth where she could have potentially made the final tribal council with the others. Of course, if it did come to a rock draw, there was a one in three chance that she would have to draw the rock and be voted out that night. Of course, with Peih-Gee having immunity and a tie would have given Erik the same thing, she is the only one who would have had something to lose by switching allies. I personally don’t think that Denise could have won with anyone at this point.

 

On the next Survivor, Amanda targets Todd while Todd fights back. Alliances are crumbling. It is hard to tell what would have happened without me already knowing. But I feel like the editors of this show like to mislead us far too often. How often is someone shown in danger of getting voted out and actually do get voted out of the game?

 

Total confessional count: Peih-Gee- 29, Denise- 20, Erik- 18, Amanda- 19, Courtney- 22, Todd- 43. New confessionals this episode: Denise- 2, Erik- 0, Amanda- 0, Courtney- 1, Todd- 5, Peih-Gee- 5.

 

What are Erik’s chances of returning to the game again? I’m not sure. He is more of an obscure player since you can’t really say much about him. Indeed, he didn’t even have a confessional in the episode where he is eliminated, a rarity among Survivor players, including quitters. I think that he was a good player and could return, even if I think that there were no offers of him being asked to play again. I give him about a 51% chance of playing the game again.

 

Planned October blog posts

 

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

 

I have no idea just how much else I can get done in terms of blogging. I should have more written in advance of it needing to be updated than I do. I used to be really good at this, but not anymore. I don’t have as much time for anything, but at least I have a full time job. There is something I’m wanting to do if I have time for it before the new season starts. I just need a few hours to listen to a podcast that I would share for a random post that relates to this blog. Let’s hope it gets done. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.