Well, I’m going to keep you
updated about the movie watching that I’m doing. And while I know that there is
not enough material with just B. B. Andersen, I’ll be doing something else
while I write about him. I don’t know yet if I’ll do a drinking game with it or
not. I might not. We’ll see what ends up happening. Plus, you may see a whole
‘nother set of movies on a new list getting created. It all depends on what my
Christmas presents end up being and what my dreams may put things on my list.
There’s a lot of movies that I want to add to the list pretty soon. This could
wind up being a long update before we even get to the actual part, so either
bear with me or skip to the part that says, “In the first segment of this show…”
This is going to take a while. And while I keep track of deceased contestants,
I won’t do Caleb Bankston until that season is on DVD. Wow, I’ve already said a
lot in just one paragraph. Okay, Adam: breathe. Just breathe and relax. You can
write this later. Since the show doesn’t even start until February, I probably
shouldn’t even have started this the day after the last season ended. If you
aren’t interested in the movies that I’ve been watching lately, then please
skip to the paragraph that begins: now that I’m done with talking about movies.
I won’t hold it against you. I don’t even know why I’m telling you about it. I
guess that I just want you to know the instance I start watching Survivor:
Borneo again, although, when I do that, I will add a new post to my TV blog
every Sunday that I’m able to watch Survivor. Now, let’s start rambling as I
have a lot to say.
I am adding this paragraph to
tell you that I will be talking a lot about the movies that I watched until
Survivor started again. So if you don’t want to know about them, then please
skip to later in this blog. If you do want to read about them, please feel free
to. I’m not even sure why I’m telling you about all of this. But I put it all
here and if you don’t want to read about, then skip to the paragraph that says
that I’m done talking about it. I won’t blame you if you do it. Now to begin
this long and boring update about movie watching that I did
I won’t bother telling you
when I watched these movies until the season started. I’ll just tell you what
movies I watched and what I ended up replacing them with. I watched Aladdin and
replaced it with a VHS recording of a performance of the play Arsenic and Old
Lace. I then rolled Arsenic and Old Lace as was going to watch it, but the
audio was poor and garbled. Turning up the volume didn’t help with the problem,
so I watched a Christmas home video instead as this was back in December,
before the next year started. In fact, movies watched in one year can be
watched the next year (but normally not the same year) so Aladdin could
possibly return to the list in 2015. Arsenic and Old Lace was replaced by The
Aristocats. Thus ends the movie watching of 2014. For various reasons, a new
list, to be watched on Tuesdays, was added. Here are the movies in alphabetical
order: Flight of the Phoenix, a Little Princess, Mighty Morphing Power Rangers:
the Movie, Raise Your Voice, Taken, and the Wizard of Oz. All of them were
added because of dreams that I had about them. It should be noted that the
Wizard of Oz that I’m watching is a play version that I was in and not the
classic Judy Garland movie.
So I wound up watching
Pocahontas and replaced it with Rat Race. I watched Stargate and replaced it
with Recess: School’s Out. While I normally would only watch that towards the
end of the school year, since I’m not in school anymore, I’ll watch it anytime
before the first back to school commercial of the year airs. If I’m not able to
watch it by then, it will be taken off of the list and I won’t be able to watch
it again until next year. I also watched Raise Your Voice and replaced it with
the Ron Clark Story. I’ve never actually seen that before. My mother accidently
got that for me for Christmas. She meant to get me Front of the Class, but she
got that instead.
We then get to the next week.
I watched National Treasure and replaced it with a post event DVD of the
National Youth Gathering from 2007. Shout out to all LCMS members! I was there
in Orlando that summer. Anyways, I then watch Little Rascals and replace it
with The Miracle Worker, which is about Helen Keller, for those that didn’t
know. I then watched The Aristocats and replaced it with Amadeus, which I’ve
never seen before, but am interested in watching. After that, I watched Flight
of the Phoenix and replaced it with The Hitchhiker’s Guide of the Galaxy.
The week after that, I watched
Fifty First Dates and replaced it with Enchanted. Fifty First Dates was one of
my sister’s movies that I had to take off the list at the soonest point that I
could. I am ignoring the commentary with this movie so it can be replaced. I
just have only two of her movies left, unless I have to worry about VHS movies
of hers being removed sometime. Back to movies: I then watched The Miracle
Worker and replaced it with Mulan. After that, I watched The Omega Code and
replaced it with (drum roll please) The Omega Code 2. Lastly, for that week at
least, I watched a Little Princess and replaced it with Lilo and Stitch.
We get to the next week. Yes,
I am already getting bored of this update and don’t know what the point of this
movie update is. But, I figure that my blog posts would be too short without my
ramblings like this. I will stop posting any and all movie updates when I
finally get to watch the Survivor: Borneo special again. After getting rid of
the Sunday list, I’ll be watching the first season again while taking notes
about it which I’ll share during a hiatus between airing seasons. And yes, I’ve
told you that before.
Anyways, Saturday was when I
watched the post gathering DVD of the 2007 LCMS National Youth Gathering. I end
up replacing it with Our Lips are Sealed. I went to the 2010 gathering as well,
the one in New Orleans, but there is no DVD of that for me to watch. (Just an
interesting thought for the superstitious: if something bad has happened to New
Orleans/Louisiana area in 2005 and 2010, then is something bad going to happen
this year, in 2015?) The next movie that I rolled was Mulan. I replaced it with
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. I do not currently have the
first Night at the Museum movie so you won’t see me watching it just yet. I
then watched Power Rangers: the Ultimate Rangers. That has four hours worth of
episodes that can be watched consecutively. I replaced it with Paulie. With the
old choice stuck between o and r, I was stuck with another p choice since I
lacked any q movies. In fact, if one list doesn’t have a choice to replace it
within a certain letter range, then I have to give up that list. More on that
if I cross that bridge. I actually have other p choices, but I didn’t want to
choose between the other ones for various reasons. Lastly, for this week in
question, I watched Taken and replaced it with the first movie in the Toy Story
series.
Here’s another worthless
paragraph! If you actually read through the whole posts I make in the past
(thank you for doing that, but please do better things with your life), you may
have noticed that I mentioned being a fan of CinemaSins. Well, I once tweeted
them that they should do Toy Story. They then ended up doing Toy Story. I find
that a great honor, even if I probably wasn’t the only one who suggested that.
Now if you want to skip to an actually important part of this blog post, go
ahead and do so. I won’t mind. I really don’t know why I’m telling you about
all these movies. I guess it is so you know when I start to watch Survivor:
Borneo again, only during hiatus is when you’d see my thoughts on B. B. Andersen.
And since his time in the game was pretty short, I might write other notes
while I’m at it.
On Saturday, I watched Monster’s
Inc and replaced it with Ice Age. On Sunday, I watched The Hobbit: The
Desolation of Smaug and replaced it with two things actually, the first of
which will be my grade school graduation DVD. The one that will replace it will
be my high school graduation DVD. But we’ll get to the later. I’m just glad
that I finally stopped rolling fours for once on Sunday. Now The Hobbit series
will probably reappear on this list later this year. Typically, I watch a
movie, but don’t watch it again the same year. But, there are some exceptions
to that rule. Anyways, on Monday, I watched another dancing video and still
have more of them to watch after that so it will remain on the list for now. On
Tuesday, I watched Mighty Morphing Power Rangers: the Movie. Now of the new
Tuesday list, it had four movies that I watched last year on it, a movie I
dreamt about in December, and a movie that I had been trying to add since last
year before I gave up the list for December. It looks like the movie I could
have added soonest has now spent the longest time on the list. In the first
five weeks of having this list, I rolled from it a different choice so far.
Anyways, I replaced the Power Rangers movie with Made of Honor.
Now I’ve mentioned in this
blog before my strange history with the Charmed DVD collection of mine. I
started my collection with the fifth season. I then got the first, then the
sixth, then the second, then the third, then the fourth. I still don’t have the
last two seasons yet. But watching the show out of order is really confusing. I
didn’t want to ever do it again, but it happened again. Last summer, my brother
got me a Power Rangers DVD for my birthday. It was the second volume of the
second season, since he wasn’t able to start at the beginning. So I watched it
and then added the Power Rangers movie that I mentioned earlier onto the list.
Of course, after watching it I had a dream about it, which is why it was on the
list again this year. Since the third season of Power Rangers starts right
after the movie takes place, I will probably get that season next on DVD. But I
still have to get both volumes of the first season and the first volume of the
second season. But I’ll talk more about that in my new blog. I started a blog
about Madam Secretary. Here’s the link:
http://adamdeckermadamsecretaryblog.blogspot.com/
Here’s the next week of movie
watching: On Saturday, I watched Heidi and replaced it with Fireproof. I highly
recommend the movie Fireproof to anyone that hasn’t seen it. And if you have
seen it, then I suggest that you watch it again. On Sunday, I watched Celtic
Woman: A New Journey and replaced it with the next Celtic Woman live concert.
On Monday, I watched another dancing video and there are still more of them
left so they do not need to be replaced at the moment. On Tuesday, I watched
The Ron Clark Story. It’s actually a pretty good movie. Afterwards, I replaced
it with The Sound of Music, and, like other things on this list, this is a
recording of a play version, this one having my cousins in it.
The next week gets a bit
confusing since I wasn’t able to watch things normally. Plus, there was a movie
that I watched without it being any list. Why I watched it, I’ll get to
shortly. I ended up watching my grade school graduation DVD, which doesn’t
actually have any footage from said graduation on it. The name I gave it is
kind of a misnomer. Anyways, that choice remains on the list as there’s still
my high school graduation to watch. I also watched The Omega Code 2 and
replaced it with Monster’s University. After I had watched Monster’s Inc
earlier this year, I stopped by a store and bought Monster’s University, its
prequel, since there were no other movies at the time for me to add onto the
list. What I’m referring to is that sometimes there are movies for me to add to
the list that changes my usual method of replacing movies. The usual method of
replacing movies on the list is normally decided by me simply rolling for a
replacement. But if I recently acquired a new movie, I dream about a movie I
have, or I simply want to watch a movie, then I add it to the list without
having to roll for something.
So I ignored the movies for a
day of the week to watch The Ultimate Gift. Why did I watch that? Well, I’m
going to tell you possible spoilers about that movie. A dead grandfather is
central to the plot of the movie. The day I watched this movie was the
anniversary of my grandfather’s death. (My other grandfather is still alive.)
That is why I ignored the rolling list for that day.
Now there’s only one last week
of movie watching to tell you about from before the new season starts. Then I
will just post updates once a week about each week of movie watching. On Saturday,
I watched the Decker Family DVD that I’m pretty sure I told you about before. I
then replaced it with the Chronicles of Narnia movie series. I’m not entirely
sure that I should put that on the list again, but I think that it might work
out, for now at least. I’m worried about certain movies no longer being
available to me, but that could change if I want it to or I could go to a video
store that I know has the movies that I’m interested in. Alternatively, I could
just get rid of that option with something else. I’ll cross that bridge when I
get to it.
On Sunday, I watched Celtic
Woman: Songs from the Heart. When I watch that, I also have to go online to
watch two songs from the concert that aren’t on the DVD. Ultimately, looking up
stuff online may be a good thing considering how I watch something online to do
a cast assessment of the season. If you are reading this post, then there won’t
be a cast assessment this season and I’ll explain why later. That concert will
be replaced by the next Celtic Woman concert called Believe. On Monday, I
watched Recess: School’s Out. I replaced it with A Walk to Remember. The last
movie that I would wind up watching before the season premiere of Survivor was The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. That would be replaced by Dumbo. Now Dumbo
should be with Rain Man and the Back to the Future trilogy as summer movies.
But a Dumbo dream of mine put it on the list sooner.
Now that I’m done with talking
about movies, I might as well bore you to death about various dreams I had
about Survivor. One was about Survivor: Guatemala and implied that a contestant
from that season died. Well, I’m not exactly sure that’s what the dream meant
as they are hard to interpret sometimes. Another Survivor dream implied that a
lot of my former classmates had competed on Survivor. Now in reality, I have
never known a Survivor contestant before they have done the show. (I’ve
technically never known any after they’ve done the show either, but thanks to
social media like Facebook and Twitter, I can interact with them that way.) I
hope that I will meet one in person someday, although I’d settle for a Skype
conversation. I’d start vlogs where I’d interview contestants, but I lack the
technology to do that and probably won’t get it anytime soon. While I could
potentially borrow the technology, I don’t want to impose on anyone.
You may also be wondering
where my cast assessment is this season. Well, I wasn’t able to do one.
Normally, my best source of information for something like that is the Survivor
preview show that airs on the TV guide network. They didn’t do one this year
(that I know of at least). There might be another network with a special, but I
was unable to find one before the start of the show. Seeing the first episode
will taint my opinions in a cast assessment and I would be unable to do one in
a real way. Thus, you will not see one this season. But I hope to be back in
future seasons with it. They are well read posts, unless Google is lying to me.
They could be considering how they mentioned that nobody had read my first post
on my new blog (the link is posted above) even though the blog mentioned having
some people looking at it. As for cast assessments, I said the first time that
I didn’t know if I’d ever do them again. So I don’t know if you’ll see
something about them again or not.
I had written some of a post
about a cast assessment, but since you won’t see that, I’ll just steal what was
meant to be in that post in this paragraph. Other parts of the post aren’t
worth sharing in my mind. When a Survivor season starts with three tribes,
there tends to be a way each of those tribes fare. There’s the tribe that fails
immediately, gets dissolved, but still manages to have players in the finale
(such as Saboga, Matsing, and Luzon). While I did not predict that the brains
tribe would lose a lot last season, I did think that it would be funny if they
failed as a tribe. I was right. So I don’t know which of the three tribes from
this season would fail, but I’m guessing that it would be the no collar tribe.
The second tribe in a three tribe season tends to do well when there’s still
three tribes, start failing at the dissolve to two tribes, and be the first
ones completely eliminated after the merge (such as Mogo Mogo, Kalabaw, and
Solana). It would be hard to predict which one of them would be that, but I’ll
go with the white collar tribe. Then there’s one last type of tribe in three
tribe seasons. That’s the dominate tribe that starts out well during the three
tribe stage, stays doing well in the two tribe stage, and winds up with members
in the finale (such as Chapera, Tandang, and Aparri). I think that the blue
collar tribe will be that tribe. I do wonder if any of my predictions will be
right. I do think that we’ll find the typical three tribes dynamic, as
mentioned earlier, but I don’t know yet which tribe will do what. The blue
collar tribe could fail with its expectations, much like how the brains tribe
did poorly in Cagayan. But I am convinced before the season starts that the
winner of this season will probably come from that tribe.
Anyways, I don’t know whether
or not to get into what I think about specific contestants or not. I mean, I
don’t have thoughts about all of them, just some. But with those few players, I
might as well mention what my thoughts regarding them are. Nina is deaf, but
not in the typically sense it seems. Many commentators on youtube were thinking
that she’ll be out before the merge, which just seems a bit mean-spirited to
me. Do I think that she’ll do well just because they think she’ll fail? Maybe.
There was another contestant named So. She was one of the lost players from
last season so it makes you wonder if someone dropped out of this season and
allowed her to play. Meanwhile, I just hope that my computer doesn’t have the
annoying grammar check every time I write the name So. At least I can ignore
what they say, which I do a lot.
There’s not much else to say
outside of what transpired in the episode. I’m glad for those of you who have
read this whole post. I wouldn’t mind if you skip to the actual important part.
I’m not even sure why I keep doing this. But this might be something that I’d
try to stop doing but never actually succeed in stopping to do. I really hope
that I have said all that I need to for this blog post, outside of the episode
itself. I’ll try my best to keep the movie updates to a single paragraph that
will be labeled in advance. I especially hope that I can roll Seventeen Again
so I can replace it with and then roll the Survivor Borneo special which would
probably mark the end or close to it of my movie watching list until I have
another season to get caught up on. But unless an unfortunate death happens to
a Survivor contestant or Blood versus Water gets released to DVD, I won’t have
anything to worry about, for the moment at least. Of course, outside of the
first two seasons, I wouldn’t have to worry about watching feature length
specials about them before or after watching the season itself. Future
ramblings shouldn’t be this long in the future and as soon as this paragraph
ends, I’ll get to the actual point. But enough of my ramblings.
In the first segment of the
show, we get the usual introduction of the contestants that we get at the very
beginning. Since I didn’t do a cast assessment, I might mention some of what I
think of different people as they are introduced. Dan is a cocky person, from
what I can tell. I’m never sure how cocky players will do in the game.
Typically they are out before the merge, but some people who are cocky are like
Tony and win the season. Each tribe chooses a representative. Might this be the
new twist we’ve heard about? Interestingly, only men are chosen as
representatives. Each of them chooses another person to make a decision. I’m
wondering if these pairs will form instant alliances. There’s a blog I read and
the writer is convinced that pairs is how this game will work considering how
that typically happens during three tribe seasons.
In the second segment of the
show, the no collar tribe gets to their camp. The pair of leaders have to
decide between honesty and deception. Honesty is a bigger bag of beans.
Deception would have a smaller bag of bean, but a clue to the hidden immunity
idol. Sierra doesn’t believe that her tribe leaders actually chose the bigger
bag of beans, which they did. Why even tell them that there was a choice if
they are just going to choose the wrong one? You’d just tell them that you only
had a smaller bag of beans and there wasn’t much of a choice. The white collar
pair chooses the deception choice while the other two tribes make the honesty
choice. This is more than likely the new twist that I heard about. It’s a
pretty good one, one I’m surprised hasn’t really appeared before.
In the third segment of the
show, So comes up with her lie regarding the choice and made up a third option
that could have happened. Shirin was not fooled by their lie. Now that So and
Joaquin are in an obvious alliance to the other players in the game, the other
players on their tribe consider forming an alliance against them. Mike is
already becoming the crazy person in his tribe. He randomly ate a scorpion and
got sick from it. I already don’t have much hope for his long term chances in
the game. I haven’t picked a favorite to win yet. Jenn and Vince are probably
going to have a showmance. Will it work out? They normally don’t work out, but
we’ll see. Joe becomes a leader like person regarding building the shelter.
In the fourth segment of the
show, there are arguments on the blue collar as to how to build the
shelter. They thought that Dan was too
serious about it. Nobody seems to like him and he knows it. If you ask me, this
pair twist may make them easy targets for the other four players. Vince is
probably jealous of Jenn and thinks that she connects more with Joe than with
him. Well, it looks like their showmance won’t work out after all. Carolyn
looks for an idol even though she doesn’t have a clue for it. Wouldn’t you know
it, she finds the idol.
In the fifth segment of the
show, we get to the immunity challenge. They show the yellow tribe winning the
challenge so following my theory regarding that, I’ll probably think that they
lose the challenge. If you don’t believe me, then rewatch Caramoan and see how
other Gota was shown winning a challenge that they would end up losing. It
doesn’t always happen like that, but you’d be surprised how often that is what
happens. At the first stage, everyone starts out using keys but then everyone
then switches to untying the knots. I always hate the challenges where only one
person can help at a stage. The blue collar tribe loses a lot of time at this
stage and the other two tribes get a huge lead. Only one of the three puzzles
has to be solved. In the end, the no collar tribe is the first tribe to win the
challenge and a race for second place starts happening next. At least people
can switch at the challenge even though only one can compete at the time. The
blue collar tribe pulls a come from behind second place finish. The white collar
tribe failed at the puzzle and thus attends the first tribal council. Shirin is
the one who failed at the puzzle and thinks that she’ll be voted out. But is
that what will happen? Carolyn’s idol could come into play here.
In the sixth segment of the
show, a great nature shot of a bunch of birds eating the corpse of a dead deer
or deer-like creature. What a great shot! Is that supposed to represent Shirin?
Maybe. But we’ll see how this all unfolds. Carolyn senses that she’s the
target. She tells Tyler about her hidden immunity idol. With everyone in the game having a
confessional, then I have no way of telling who will get voted out. Will the
tables turn on So? Will Carolyn play her idol? There’s a lot of drama at tribal
council which is hard to summarize. In the end, Carolyn does not play her
hidden immunity idol. She must be convinced that she’s not actually the target.
In the end, So is voted out. I’d be so nervous if I had an idol that I’d sooner
waste it than risk getting voted out with it in my possession. Ultimately, Carolyn
made the right choice.
On the next Survivor, the
white collar tribe gets a bit risqué and Nina fights with her tribe. Maybe the
commentators were right about her. But we’ll see what ends up happening. I just
hope that she isn’t voted out just because of her deafness.
Total confessionals: Kelly- 1,
Carolyn- 4, Will- 2, Joaquin- 3, Sierra- 1, Vince- 3, Joe- 2, Jenn- 4, Lindsey-
2, Max- 3, Dan- 4, Hali- 2, Tyler- 3, Mike- 2, So- 5, Rodney- 2, Shirin- 2,
Nina- 1.
The elimination of So means
that Jenn, Dan, and Carolyn have the highest confessional count in the game. As
usual, I may have messed up the numbers. At least I do the best that I can.
Anyways, the people currently at the bottom of the confessional count are
Kelly, Sierra, and Nina. Things, of course, can and will change early into the
season. Remember that my blog will be updated on Thursdays until holy week due
to Lent. But I should be here every week as normal. Also, be sure to read my
random blog posts that I added between the end of last season and the start of
this one. I’ll probably always have random blog posts, unless I’m blogging
about a previous or current Survivor season. For now, this is Adam Decker,
signing off.
