Survivor 44 Premiere

I know that it is weird not seeing schedules of potential blog posts or even knowing why I went on hiatus with certain blogs twice to close together. As I seek to update you some on what can be done with some of my blogs, at least know that the post explaining the first hiatus is up at ready to read. You will see me share the one on the second hiatus as soon as I make it.

 

http://adamdeckercsicyber.blogspot.com/2023/01/tech-explaining-blogging-hiatus.html

 

Here’s a paragraph worth posting in both my blog on Survivor and CSI: Vegas. Since I have to drastically scale back the amount of blogging that I am able to do, there are only four blogs that can be updated right now. I won’t know when I will be back to normal with blogs or how long that will take. An optimistic prediction would be April. The absolute latest is July. While there are new episodes of these two shows airing, I am trying my best to at least record them for later if not seeing them live even as the blog posts on them are delayed. I do not know when blogs will be updated, but do know that you won’t see a blog on a show when a new episode of it has aired and I haven’t gotten caught up to the episodes before it yet. I am also keeping my blogs on The Good Fight and Fadam Secretary updated during this time as well.

 

https://fadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/

 

Let’s get to the one time challenges from the fortieth season. It turns out that there is at least one, even though I’m not sure that it even aired. I’m going to talk about it as I have to finish off all of the onetime challenges that have happened before this season before going to something else. I should point out that I already know what will replace this since a lot of this season’s posts are written out of order.

 

No title (reward challenge from This is Extortion): In this challenge, the teams are shackled together and must crawl under a maze. How is that possible? I don’t know. I’d have to see the challenge again. The teams then have to use a slingshot at the end to knock all of their targets down. You can tell that this was before the pandemic as it is set up in a way that it couldn’t be done while social distancing. I don’t think that this aired, which is why I’m not familiar with it. And that’s the only one time challenge from this whole season.

 

I will be sharing a paragraph in Wingdings in each post of this season. I picked it as I wanted to write about stuff relating to the covid pandemic and felt at the time when I started that picking a foreign language shouldn’t be done. Now while some of this might also be covered in Greek in the future, I might as well get to this now and in every post of this season.

 

Since Im not going to post about anything coronavirus related in a foreign language, this is your warning that I will be doing this in Windings instead of anything else related to it. Im sure that Time has done a lot of great articles about it already so I am planning to talk about it. I mean, it is one of the biggest news stories of today and to not talk about what Time said about it would be doing it a disservice. I do not know how much more I will still write in Chinese. I dont blame China for the pandemic even though it started there. I mean, if Hillary Clinton were in charge, wouldnt conservatives be blaming her instead of China? I doubt there would be as many people dead if she were in charge.

 

There are not that many things that I can say at this point in time so I will just talk about the Wednesday shows that I watched during Survivor’s hiatus. They were Tough as Nails on CBS, Home Economics on ABC, The Flash on the CW, Kung Fu on the CW, and Chicago PD on NBC. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, we start with Carolyn having to be coached through her opening confessional. Carson is introduced as a super fan. I know that I am a fan, but I’m not that crazy. I find it hard to keep track of all of the confessionals and don’t want to talk much as I want to keep track of them. Anyways, Jeff introduces the contestants to the game. Yam Yam says that he wants to see it all and says that they are family. As usual, the tribes have to give birth to the game with a reward challenge right off the back. In the first time that they started the sweat or savvy tasks to punish those that don’t come in first, the second place tribe gets to pick one of them while the third place tribe gets what is left. Isn’t something bad going to happen to one of them?

 

Bruce seems to be the one who is having issues at first. At least Jeff knows that something might be up. At one point, Bruce goes down. I don’t think that he will be pulled, but we’ll see. Maybe this is a sign that people named Bruce are going to have issues at the game. Is this only the second Bruce? It turns out that he’s okay. After this issue, the challenge is back on. If the ring gets stuck, why don’t they climb the pole? Are they not allowed to go up there? Carolyn does terrible at the purple tribe and she, I guess, is not allowed to switch out? What’s up with that? The green tribe comes in first, the orange tribe comes in second, and the purple tribe loses.

 

In the second segment of the show, the green tribe arrives at their beach as Matt is stoked like a steam engine perhaps? The tribe introduces themselves to each other. A cage in the daylight has three people seeing it. The game is live and public. What does a bag in a locked caged mean? On the orange tribe, they decide to do sweat, giving the other tribe savvy. Two people start doing that task. The purple tribe is given savvy is a result and have to count the rings in a sphere.

 

The four people who aren’t doing the challenge on the purple tribe find the cage in the jungle. Maybe it’s a double rainbow. WHAT DOES IT MEAN!? The tribe is able to solve the puzzle. Meanwhile, the others struggle to deal with the coconuts. The other people find the cage. Brandon worked in the NFL. I’d have to look up which team. I might root for that team if it isn’t in the ranking already. He and Matthew Grinstead-Mayle are just barely able to complete the “challenge” in time.

 

In the third segment of the show, Yam Yam helps make a fire. He says that if you are trying, you are not failing. This makes way more sense than Yoda’s terrible advice of not trying. Also, is anyone getting John Cochran vibes from Carson? Frannie and Matt Blankinship seem to bond romantically. At night, it seems that Bruce is having more issues again. It is his head this time. He is getting pulled from the game. And that explains why it seems that only five people were competing at the immunity challenge. Is this going to become a recurring spring season thing? I’m not yet convinced that this is the only evacuation of the season. But we’ll see and I’ve heard no rumors yet.

 

In the fourth segment of the show, Matthew Grinstread-Mayle is focused on some. Also, who made him Matthew and the other one Matt? The infamous rock fall happens next. A medic treats him, but I am guessing that he is okay as he is talking about it now instead of someone else talking about it. It is like knowing the outcome of a Dateline mystery by knowing who they aren’t talking to. His arm is put in a swing so he is lucky that he can sit out of the challenge, even though he doesn’t know he can yet.

 

In the fifth segment of the show, Carson wants to start a threesome with Helen and Sarah. Wow. This guy who has never been in a relationship easily found a threesome with two women. Carolyn seems kind of crazy in a way. It then gets to the time for the summit. They draw sticks for it on two tribes and get rocks on the other. Lauren rigs it so that she gets the right rock and can go. Others left alone try to find the key to the cage. But what if only the people on the summit can get it?

 

Brandon finds something, but thinks that Maddy knows. She does so in the pretense of being honest, he tells her about this. It was him being caught, but at least he was smart enough to know it. Maddy wants to keep it a secret, but Brandon doesn’t want to work with her. Stupid player. Stupid, stupid player. Brandon finds both the idol and a useless, orange dummy idol. But everyone on the tribe (minus the person who is at the summit) knows about both and he made a mistake and knows it. He should have trusted Maddy with the secret. Why not do that? He could have left her with the dummy idol and no one would have known but them.

 

In the sixth segment of the show, we get to the summit. Who all is on the summit? I kind of missed that. Sarah is one of them, Lauren is the other, and some guy is the third. Sarah loses one vote and then gets the inheritance advantage. She can get any idols or advantages played at a tribal council. The guy loses two votes. Lauren gets a bank your vote advantage where she is able to not vote and then get an extra vote at the next tribal council. No one is entirely honest about this to their tribe. Everyone said that they just lost one vote with not one of them saying that they either lost another vote or that they got an advantage. That is when we get to the next break.

 

In the seventh segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge where everyone learns that Bruce was pulled from the game. The immunity idols are a shield or a sword. I guess that they destroyed the powers of a mystic. But wasn’t one something they were supposed to pick? Also, are they just going to ignore the fact that Matthew Grinstead-Mayle is injured and not even talk about it? Maybe they just don’t want to talk about the elephant in the room. Jeff mentions a heavy chest. Maybe it is implants? Also, the person that I couldn’t identify for sure as having gone on the summit is Matt Blankinship. He is now the caller in the challenge.

 

I’ve never seen a sliding puzzle that big before. But I guess that they wanted to make sure that the whole tribe had to do it. Well, it was supposed to be the whole tribe. Meanwhile, the two sit outs gain some intel on each other about the summit. Did they show you that they lost their vote? Brandon gets exhausted and has to cool down out of the challenge for a while leaving his tribe a member short for the rest of the challenge. The green tribe comes in first. The purple tribe comes in second with the orange tribe not able to recover with Brandon’s exhaustion. He ponders whether or not to play his idol. Are you pondering what I’m pondering?

 

In the eighth segment of the show, Matthew Grinstead-Mayle, who is not in a cast anymore and I did not notice this somehow, reveals that Lauren may not have lost her vote. Brandon is still the target to many people. Maybe they are a bunch of conservatives if they are thinking, “Let’s go Brandon.” (I knew that I would have to reference that terrible phrase at some point.) Wait, can chickens really live with their heads cut off? I know that a cockroach can. But a chicken? What’s the meaning of that expression? Oh, wait. No one reading this can tell me since I turned off comments.

 

Okay, I can do the broom dance, I mean, now I really don’t know how injured Matthew Grinstead-Mayle is because of how I can’t tell whether or not he’s in a cast at times. It is too subtle. He seems to be in a scheming mode most of the time, but isn’t yet a target.

 

In the ninth segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Jaime is asked about the vibe and she says that she is getting a choking feeling. Jeff says that he’s never seen an easy vote. I have the feeling that I could go through a lot of them based on the notes that I have so far (they aren’t complete yet and I am only working on the voting part at this time, albeit just occasionally) and mention all of the easy votes that have happened throughout Survivor’s history. It could replace the trivia that I do on one time challenges in new seasons since I will obviously get caught up to the current season.

 

I’m going to be glad that I’m likely recording all of this season as this means that I can rewind or pause things when I go on a tangent like that while the tribal council is ongoing and can just see things instead of missing out. Brandon talks about how to navigate where the snake is going. Jaime is told that they have to trust others. Brandon has an idol that everyone knows about. It is his and not the tribe’s. He wanted to build the trust since they didn’t know it was an idol or a target on his back. Maddy thinks that the tribe will be the same tribe, just stronger. There are weak links.

 

Before the vote is going to happen, Jaime says that she is playing her shot in the dark. Brandon says that it is interesting to think that her vote doesn’t even matter. Lauren decides to blank her vote. For the first time ever, Jaime is safe from the shot in the dark. Matthew Grinstead-Mayle, who also played his shot in the dark, isn’t safe. Brandon played his idol and only one vote is then counted as a result, Brandon’s for Maddy. I guess that we are now saying Let’s go Maddy. He was right to play his idol.

 

On the next Survivor, there is an angel and devil at war with each other, Carolyn is crazy in different ways in the game, I guess that more of the one showmance is budding, and that’s about all that I can tell about that. Maddy mentions in her exit confessional that things went topsy turvey for her.

 

Total confessional count: Yam Yam- 4, Matt Blankinship- 3, Brandon- 5, Kane- 1, Carson- 4, Matthew Grinstead-Mayle- 4, Lauren- 4, Heidi- 0, Helen- 2, Frannie- 4, Danny- 1, Bruce- 1, Maddy- 2, Claire- 2, Jaime- 3, Sarah- 3, Carolyn- 2, Josh- 1.

 

Due to all that is going on in my life and the fact that I want to make sure that I have this show recorded, I will likely be putting most episodes this season, if not all of them after the first one, on my laptop for later. I know that this will be weird and I will not be sure as a result when I will be able to either see them or post about the episode, but hopefully you can bear with me as my blogs will hopefully return to normal at some point in time.

 

I may be on facebook a whole lot less during this time as I try to avoid it when I haven’t seen the newest episode so hopefully I don’t miss a lot of facebook time, but I don’t think that it will matter much and I’m honestly kind of mad with facebook right now to the point of never getting on it on Fridays again so the less time I spend on it the better. But that’s the topic of another blog for some other time. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.