Episode 44.3

While it seems way too late to remind you right now, since you already know this, I might as well point out that Survivor was renewed for at least a season 45 and probably a season 46. We’ll see when I get these published as I need to be caught up on this blog first before I can post on any new seasons, which could take a good, long while, since I only post one post of any blog on any day and am not good at getting caught up even when I started trying (as evident by yesterday’s lack of a post here).

 

Now I want to post about the one time challenges from the forty-second season next, but there are none so I will have to end with the onetime challenges from the forty-third season. Since all of 44 has now aired by the time you see this, then I was a bit worried that anything that could have been one time isn’t included since it might have also appeared during this season as well. But there is something that I can cover before probably never covering these challenges again. I’ll get to what will replace it the moment that I’m done with this section.

 

Brain Stew (immunity challenge from Show No Mercy): In this challenge, tribes would have to push sandbags off different tables while looking for a hidden key. Using the key to unlock the net, they will crawl under it with four bags containing puzzle pieces. The pieces would first be used to form a square before it is taken apart and carried to the top of a tower. The same pieces would then be used to form a triangle. It could be done while social distancing if done as an individual challenge.

 

There are two things to note before I continue. The less important one will be covered first. I have decided that for reasons that I will explain in my Elsbeth blog (which doesn’t yet exist), I may give up different fandoms for an extended period of time. That would include the Survivor fandom, without which, I wouldn’t be able to give you a lot of the information I include in this blog like that on challenges or hidden immunity idols. This could affect this blog so I thought that I would let you know.

 

Meanwhile, in case you are wondering more about what I will post in this blog now that I’m done with posting about all of the onetime challenges before this current season, I will start at the first season and post about all of the easy votes that I feel have happened over the seasons since I just don’t believe the contestants this season when they say that there is no such thing as an easy vote.

 

Both Charlotte Alter and Lissandra Villa did an article called “Welcome to the coronavirus campaign” that was featured on page 6 of the 3-30-2020 issue of Time. It affected the Democratic primary, largely being the reason that Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race, giving the primary victory, and then the election, to Biden. It point out that the shutdown orders have been “a blow to Trump, whose signature rallies have been both a show of strength and a source of voter data.” It also points out that “There are real health risks for both the candidates and the voters [since] the virus has proved particularly dangerous for older people.” Indeed, Trump would later get it, which I’ll probably get to later.

 

I will be including a link to one of my sister’s TikToks throughout the rest of this season’s posts and I do promise not to be so superficial as to only share her videos with me in it. I’m hoping that I will only do this with stuff that existed when these episodes aired this season. Anyways, I had done a video about what I was giving up for Lent this year. Note that it should say Jay Exci and not JRT, although now I will have to see if there really is a JRT YouTube channel. Also, while I didn’t want to tell her this so she wouldn’t know I was still doing them, I also gave up non-English status updates on facebook, something I last did in November. Most of these channels I still haven’t returned to by the time you are seeing this. It makes me wonder if it is too easy to give these up.

 

https://www.tiktok.com/@nicoleboeder90/video/7212075497985953067

 

The next video that I’m sharing from The Hunchback of Notre Dame is God Help the Outcasts, which is a popular song for some, although I never understand why some songs get more love than others, not that I hate this or any of the songs from this movie because I don’t.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEEpavnk7Uw

 

You might be expecting me to do updates in regards to March Madness ever since I first put those updates in this blog back in 2021 while also doing that again in 2022. Well, those updates will be in my blog on CSI: Vegas this season, but I do plan to return and do those again here in season 46, should that season exist. I plan to switch back and forth between which of these two blogs will have the updates on that in the future, regardless of if that show doesn’t air during the tournament like CSI: Vegas is. The only change in that would be if a show that I blog about that isn’t this one airs on Sundays, I will post it there before moving it back here. But enough of my ramblings.

 

In the first segment of the show, the purple tribe gets back from tribal council. Carson is glad that he pulled off a blindside. Sarah talks about how she goes forward. Carolyn is glad that she didn’t have to play her idol. Things seem to be going well on Kane’s tribe. Danny finds the idol on his tribe and leaves the useless trinket as if it were the real idol as it were real. Matt Blankinship finds this and Danny sees it so he outs this in front of Josh. This means that Frannie and Josh think that Matt has the real idol.

 

People are worried about the potential pairing of Frannie and Matt Blankinship who promise to go out on a road trip later. I hope that they haven’t done it yet. There are four people on this tribe who might gather against these two. Jaime eats an earthworm and then finds the replacement idol. But it is not the real idol as Matthew Grinstead-Mayle had found that and put a fake in its place. I don’t know what else there is to say about that so I will skip what all I missed while I was distracted by HEY, LOOK AT THAT GARBAGE CAN!

 

In the next segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. Claire decides not to compete in the challenge again and is outed by Jeff as one who is constantly doing that. The orange tribe has issues since Matthew Grinstead-Mayle is still competing with a bad shoulder. They could have sat him out of the challenge. But it doesn’t matter as the orange tribe wins immunity with the potential solution right there for the others to snoop on. The green tribe loses. Matt Blankinship wants to stay in the game since he lost his vote and wants to play his idol, not knowing that it isn’t real.

 

In the next segment of the show, the tribe gets back to their camp. Danny thinks that they should target Claire, but tell her that the target is Matt Blankinship. Josh thinks that either Matt or Frannie should be the one voted out. Frannie wants to keep Claire around so she has the potential numbers. They have to get Heidi in with their numbers. There are potential names brought up going into the vote.

 

In the next segment of the show, we get to tribal council. Some are in awe at tribal council. Claire says that people have been playing the game. The people talk about who they want to get rid of and they are not sure who to get rid of. Claire has sat out of all of the immunity challenges so far. She thinks that she was making a good decision. Wasn’t she choosing to sit out instead of letting the others sit her out? Claire talks about tribe strength.

 

Is she on the chopping block because of this? I thought that it was Chopin, the composer, which isn’t a synonym to chopping. It will be the last day for someone. Many find tribal council too cool. You mean like Senor Cardgage? Claire played her shot in the dark. While she isn’t safe, she was right to play it as she is voted out.

 

On the next Survivor, people need to be aware of their surroundings, something could change the game, someone put an x there, and there will be a secret scene of this next episode in Lingo, but I’m not sure that I care enough to watch that show yet, although I might see it in the future.

 

Total confessional count: Claire- 4, Jaime- 3, Sarah- 4, Carolyn- 8, Josh- 3, Yam Yam- 6, Matt Blankinship- 5, Brandon- 7, Kane- 4, Carson- 8, Matthew Grinstead-Mayle- 5, Lauren- 5, Heidi- 2, Frannie- 6, Danny- 6. New confessionals this episode: Danny- 3, Claire- 2, Jaime- 0, Sarah- 1, Carolyn- 1, Josh- 2, Yam Yam- 0, Matt Blankinship- 1, Brandon- 1, Kane- 1, Carson- 1, Matthew Grinstead-Mayle- 0, Lauren- 0, Heidi- 2, Frannie- 1.

 

And that’s about it for this post as there isn’t too much else to say. Sorry that this wasn’t published yesterday. I ran out of energy. I have to juggle a lot of menial things in addition to my full time job. But I hope to have this blog caught up at some point and it sure helps that I had these at least partially written or else I might have no chance of getting it done when I actually put the time into it. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.