Episode 31.12

We are nearing the end of this season. This means that you can expect the usual stuff that you’ll see in the last blog post. I will post the three dumbest moves of the season (although I hope that I can figure out what the three are). I will post the ranking of this season among the rest of the 31 seasons. I will also rank the tribe swaps from this season among the other tribe swaps of other seasons. Don’t forget that I will do random blog posts until the next season starts.

Joe Anglim Worlds Apart Vytas Baskauskas Blood vs. Water Spencer Bledsoe Cagayan Jeremy Collins San Juan del Sur Teresa "T-Bird" Cooper Africa Terry Deitz Panama Ciera Eastin Blood vs. Water Stephen Fishbach Tocantins Latasha "Tasha" Fox Cagayan Abi-Maria Gomes Philippines Yung "Woo" Hwang Cagayan Kimmi Kappenberg The Australian Outback Peih-Gee Law China Kassandra "Kass" McQuillen Cagayan Keith Nale San Juan del Sur Shirin Oskooi Worlds Apart Monica Padilla Samoa Andrew Savage Pearl Islands Jeff Varner The Australian Outback Kelley Wentworth San Juan del Sur Kelly Wiglesworth Borneo

There are things that I either know or think that I know about the upcoming season. Meanwhile, I will forever find it weird that it wasn’t the one that aired during the fall of 2015. It was filmed before this season was. Why the random flip? There are good enough reasons for it when you think about it though. Meanwhile, I still don’t know if there’s a guaranteed future for Survivor or not. There’s a probable and very likely future of more Survivor seasons. I don’t see it ending anytime soon, although it’s possible. The main TV ratings website that I check (www.tvgrimreaper.com) doesn’t track reality shows. Meanwhile, since I’m pretty sure that it does better in the ratings than 60 Minutes, it should be around for a while.

I’m still wondering if I’m the only one who thinks that there will be four finalists on day 39. There are different reasons to think this. Among them, unless more than one person is eliminated in some way in this episode, there will be six people in the finale, which has never happened before. SPOILER. Andrew talked about a Survivor first in an exit interview. While he could have been talking about the vote stealer, a final four seems more and more likely. END SPOILER. Let’s face it, they would probably know from the very beginning of a second chance season that they would want to help these contestants in different ways such as planning a merge at 13 players. If a final four doesn’t happen, then we’ll at least have no worries about another stupid finale reward challenge since they would just do three eliminations in the finale.

Now I have an interesting problem that relates in no way to Survivor. It relates to the TV show The Big Bang Theory. I have the first five seasons on DVD. Now when I was watching through the fifth season last year, I noticed that there was a problem with one of the discs. I was able to watch it, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to watch it well in the future. Now that show is in syndication and I can record it on VHS tape. I found a good tape after a while, one I would want to use for recording since it has me at the very beginning from an earlier college project. Now I won’t be able to record all of the episodes from this disc in this time, but if all goes well, I’ll get the first three episodes off of this disc starting Friday. It is the third disc if you care to know. I should dedicate part of a document to keeping track of this.

There are a lot of things that I do while I’m online. As such, it seems like I never get as much done online as I’d like to. We’ll see if I can visit all the places that I want to go. I can run out of time doing things around this time of year. I’m just glad that there aren’t as many new shows as there normally are during this time of year. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, people talk about who they can win challenges now that Joe is out of the game. Tasha is upset about Keith’s vote against her. I still don’t know how she would know who the person who voted against her was. Spencer is looking for a group of four to stick together.

In the second segment of the show, we get to the reward challenge. It is an interesting challenge. In the end, it is Keith who wins the challenge. He picks Kelley and Spencer to go on the trip, even though he does a bad job explaining why he does this.

In the third segment of the show, the people back at camp talk about how they went to get rid of Keith. Jeremy thinks that Abi would have been a better vote off. We then see the reward. Geez, they are painting a Spencer win a bit too obviously in this scene. Well, he might win at least. We don’t know for sure yet. Keith continues to be strange. The three people there get to enjoy a nice meal. Spencer talks about his ideal final three scenario. The value of Abi is discussed.

In the fourth segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. The main theme of it is the puzzle at the end that nobody picked from the opening challenge of Worlds Apart. They sure to whatever crazy thing works with the second chance theme. Tasha has medical problems at the challenge. She’s okay. Spencer is the one who wins despite being behind at times.

In the fifth segment of the show, people discuss the vote off. Spencer talks about the possibility of which vote off he would choose. He makes it seem like targeting either a big gun or a weak person. We then get to tribal council. Which voting bloc will have their way? When it comes to whether or not an idol will be played, nobody decides to use one. Then the votes are read. The person voted out is Abi. This makes Philippines the next season eliminated from the game.

On the next Survivor, we get to the season finale. Jeff talks about a Survivor first. But what is the first? Is it a final four like I think that it is? We’ll see. I just know that I will have to record it to watch later because the finale is on a Wednesday.

Total confessional count: Abi- 23, Kelley- 32, Kimmi- 10, Spencer- 43, Jeremy- 27, Keith- 10, Tasha- 21. New confessionals this episode: Spencer- 4, Jeremy- 3, Keith- 2, Tasha- 5, Abi- 3, Kelley- 4, Kimmi- 0.

As usual this season, Kimmi and Keith are scrapping the bottom of the confessional count. They each have just then a piece. Spencer is the highest right now. Kelley is the second highest. Jeremy is the third highest. Abi’s elimination puts Tasha at the fourth highest. We’ll see if high confessional count means good things this season. Meanwhile, I’ll be back with the last blog post of the season sometime on Thursday next week. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 31.11

One of the most annoying things about certain times of the year is that despite it being special to some people, television is still airing new episodes. Other times, they get into Christmas sooner than they should. Of course, now I am finally willing to embrace the Christmas season now that Advent has begun. Sorry that my posts will now be a day later. But it will be a problem for me too. I hate not seeing this show live. I also hate missing various episodes of shows that air on Thursday. But they aired a new episode of Elementary on Thanksgiving. How am I supposed to watch it? Last year they aired a new episode of The Big Bang Theory on Thanksgiving and I still haven’t been able to see it. Meanwhile, other Thursday shows that I watch right now are Bones, Sleepy Hollow, Grey’s Anatomy, and The Blacklist. I can’t watch The Player anymore since that show ended. I’m not sure which of these shows might have been effected by having new episodes air on Thanksgiving. I don’t even care enough to record them. But the main problem with them will come later. I'll be sure to complain about that then.

Joe Anglim Worlds Apart Vytas Baskauskas Blood vs. Water Spencer Bledsoe Cagayan Jeremy Collins San Juan del Sur Teresa "T-Bird" Cooper Africa Terry Deitz Panama Ciera Eastin Blood vs. Water Stephen Fishbach Tocantins Latasha "Tasha" Fox Cagayan Abi-Maria Gomes Philippines Yung "Woo" Hwang Cagayan Kimmi Kappenberg The Australian Outback Peih-Gee Law China Kassandra "Kass" McQuillen Cagayan Keith Nale San Juan del Sur Shirin Oskooi Worlds Apart Monica Padilla Samoa Andrew Savage Pearl Islands Jeff Varner The Australian Outback Kelley Wentworth San Juan del Sur Kelly Wiglesworth Borneo Mikayla Wingle South Pacific

I don’t know if I’ve told you about this before or not, but I’m planning on starting a new blog about the TV show CSI: Cyber. I’ll be sure to post the link to the blog here if I ever create it. I almost certainly will be creating it in the future. I’m just unsure of when I’ll start for sure.

This potential medical evacuation has me wondering about the contestants and their stories thus far. Different edits both in the promos and that people have may point to what the answer is. While we won’t know until the episode airs, I’m still going to speculate, even though we’ll find out during the episode what will happen anyways. SPOILER. From what I can tell, it won’t be a woman that gets medically evacuated. The promo made it sound like a man would. What we saw of the person was white skin as they are treated for their injury. Keith has had a pretty invisible edit thus far. But it looked like a younger person. Spencer has been shown enough that it might not be him. I predict that it’s Joe who gets medically evacuated, although we’ll see for sure what happens later. There might not even be a medical evacuation at all. END SPOILER.

I still don’t know if I should talk about the edits of various players still in the game. I mean, it is clear that some are being shown more than others. Some are either too negative or too invisible for them to do well in the long term. You’d think that they would air the fact that Kimmi has done much better this time than the last time. But maybe it doesn’t matter for her.

When it comes to confessional counts, I may add a table about it in the future. I just hope that I can figure out how to rearrange names since we are reaching the point when it becomes a problem for me to do so. I also hope that blogging about the rest of this season’s episodes on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays isn’t a problem for anyone. That’s what will work best for me. I am pretty much forced to record the episode on VHS and I watch it the next day when I post the blog after watching it. This is due to Advent. I’m at church when Survivor would typically air so recording it is the best option. Meanwhile, people probably wish that I would update my other blogs about TV shows the day of or after the episode airs instead of whenever I feel like. As of this blog post, I haven’t added any of the posts of this season’s Good Wife episodes.

There was breaking news before Survivor aired. I don’t think that it affected the airing of Survivor. I do wonder what morons keep doing these shootings. Do they want guns banned? That’s what’s going to happen if they don’t stop doing that. Meanwhile, any laws about gun control will only affect those that legally have guns. What are they going to do to stop the people that get their guns illegally? Something has to be done about them. Meanwhile, I should probably not talk about political stuff here in this blog of mine. It’s about Survivor. And I’m doing rambling for now.

In the first segment of the show, Spencer talks about how he helped vote out Stephen. Also, what’s with the voting blocs this season? I don’t remember something like this in a previous season. Kimmi talks about an all girls alliance which probably won’t actually happen as they never tend to work.

In the second segment of the show, we get to the loved ones challenge. It’s interesting that a former Survivor contestant can appear as a loved one at a challenge. I’m not sure that I’m against that, but it does seem unusual. Spencer is finally able to tell his girlfriend that he loves her. When did Survivor become a generic plot for a sitcom episode? I shouldn’t make fun of this, though. Interesting how Keith’s loved one isn’t Wes. But Kelley’s loved one is Dale. We get to the challenge next. Kelley is the winner, meaning we’ll see more of Dale. The people whose loved ones she picks are Keith, Abi, Kimmi, and Joe. I wonder why those were her picks.

In the third segment of the show, we get to the barbeque and loved ones visit. Not much is gathered from the visits and we don’t get to see everybody’s reaction to it. They randomly make it one man and one woman winning the immunity challenge. Kelley wins the woman’s part and Keith wins the man’s part due to Joe having medical problems.

In the next segment of the show, Joe is okay after his problem. It’s kind of a fluke the way he lost the challenge. But that typically doesn’t happen. There’s not a sort of precedence for that. He is upset that he lost the challenge. There is talk that either Joe or Abi will get voted out. Tasha spills the beans about the planned all girls alliance. Didn’t I say that it probably wouldn’t happen? Tasha didn’t want anyone else to find out about the alliance. But she does want Joe voted out of the game. We get to tribal council next. People talk about how Joe is a threat and that voting blocs aren’t as good as alliances. We then get to the vote. Who will be voted out? No idols are played. Joe is voted off. This means that Worlds Apart is eliminated from this game.

On the next Survivor, Jeremy and Spencer are worried. There might be yet another problem regarding a medical situation. Boy there seems to be a lot of medical problems this season. I wonder if it will be like Heroes versus Villains was in terms of there being a lot of injuries in a single season.

Total confessional count: Joe- 23, Spencer- 39, Jeremy- 24, Keith- 8, Tasha- 16, Abi- 20, Kelley- 28, Kimmi- 10. New confessionals this episode: Kimmi- 2, Joe- 3, Spencer- 5, Jeremy- 4, Keith- 1, Tasha- 3, Abi- 1, Kelley- 3.

Keith scraps the bottom of the confessional count with only 8 confessionals. He is now the only person to be under 10 confessionals. Meanwhile, Spencer has the highest confessional count of those still in the game with 39. Joe had 3 confessionals this episode and 23 total. Hopefully, I can figure out how to rearrange names in the future. I don’t think that I have a problem with it yet, though. Anyways, we approach the end of the game soon. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 31.10

Remember that there will be some upcoming changes to this blog of mine. Now, they shouldn’t be anything outside the usual. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, Advent will be starting soon. During Advent, you will see my blog posts on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays. This will include the finale, but only if it airs on Wednesday instead of on a Sunday. Meanwhile, I have been working on other posts to post during the winter hiatus between this season and the next one. There could be potential changes as to when I post them, but we’ll see what ends up happening over time. Just remember to keep reading my blog even though Survivor’s not on the air at that time.

Joe Anglim Worlds Apart Vytas Baskauskas Blood vs. Water Spencer Bledsoe Cagayan Jeremy Collins San Juan del Sur Teresa "T-Bird" Cooper Africa Terry Deitz Panama Ciera Eastin Blood vs. Water Stephen Fishbach Tocantins Latasha "Tasha" Fox Cagayan Abi-Maria Gomes Philippines Yung "Woo" Hwang Cagayan Kimmi Kappenberg The Australian Outback Peih-Gee Law China Kassandra "Kass" McQuillen Cagayan Keith Nale San Juan del Sur Shirin Oskooi Worlds Apart Monica Padilla Samoa Troy "Troyzan" Robertson One World Andrew Savage Pearl Islands Jeff Varner The Australian Outback Kelley Wentworth San Juan del Sur Kelly Wiglesworth Borneo Mikayla Wingle South Pacific

I hope that you don’t mind me keeping track of the cast like this. This might be the only season I do something like this for. That is, unless we get to choose a cast again. Would they do that with all new players? We’ll see. And I do promise that if it hasn’t happened by then, I will get rid of those names that didn’t make the cast by the time the finale has happened. Speaking of which, I need to figure out the three dumbest moves of the season, the most memorable moment of the season, and the ranking of this season among all 31 of them. I plan on ranking it pretty high. Not number one, but probably top ten at the moment. We’ll see. I’ll also rank the combined tribe swaps of this season as one against the tribe swaps of the other seasons.

I’m still wondering how they are going to quicken up the eliminations of this season. I mean, with the finale fast approaching and so many contestants left in the game, there might have to be double episodes or double eliminations just to get in who will be voted out before the finale happens. Plus, there will either be a record number of jurors or finalists this season. We don’t know which one yet. And I might be in the minority by thinking that four finalists will face the jury. I just hope that it isn’t considered a spoiler for me to speculate about it.

Today’s episode is a two hour one. I don’t know why they have been doing this with recent seasons. It can be kind of annoying the way it cuts into regular shows. I mean, on Wednesdays, I typically watch Law and Order: SVU at 8. But, I’m not sure that’s on today anyways. I will miss Modern Family, which I typically record for later. This won’t affect Code Black at all. I should probably rename this blog post, but I won’t. I won’t care either if the rest of the episodes are off in my titles. I think that I’ve run out of things to talk about for now. But don’t worry. I’m sure that I’ll talk about other things later. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, people talk about the tribal council. Tasha doesn’t like the change in numbers. Joe wants to win immunity as usual. I’m wondering if he has gone a record long time being immune in the game. I mean, he never had to attend tribal council before the merge, right? And now he has won every immunity challenge so far. But like Marcus from Gabon, things could turn sour for him the first time he doesn’t have immunity.

In the second segment of the show, there is terrible rain as seen in the preview. Most people just talk about how terrible the weather is at first. It’s possible that Jeff considers not doing the challenge at first. But it happens at the purple team wins reward.

In the third segment of the show, we get to the reward that was won by Ciera, Spencer, Abi, Tasha, and Joe. People talk about voting out Stephen. If he gets voted out, this would make this season just the second one overall were everyone in it was voted out at some point since any finalists for this season would have been voted out in previous season. The people at camp think that they should all vote out Joe. I wonder if there’ll be a potential tie between them. Stephen is down in some way and this could cause potential problems in the future.

In the fourth segment of the show, Stephen is still depressed about the weather. He might be having medical problems. What if he gets medically evacuated? Could that happen? It might explain his kind of scattered edit if he leaves like that. Jeff hands out two rocks for each contestant before the immunity challenge happens. Jeff offers people a chance to improve the shelter at camp. And they make a choice beforehand. At least half of the tribe has to not compete in the challenge. Only two people, Keith and Joe, compete in the challenge. What would they have done if nobody had chosen to compete in the challenge? Would they had just had tribal without an immunity winner? That would have been interesting to see a tribal after the merge where no one is immune. That happened once before, due to a terrible twist. But I do wonder if it would happen again. Joe wins yet another immunity challenge. In a way, it seems like an unfair twist, but I’m not convinced that it’s actually helping Joe for him to stand out as a threat all this time.

In the fifth segment of the show, people talk about the great new shelter that they have. People talk about getting Ciera out of the game. Stephen’s advantage is brought up and they try to get him out of the game. Everyone is scrambling and it seems that it is either between Ciera or Stephen. Jeremy doesn’t want Stephen voted out. But I honestly can’t tell who it will be between the two. We then get to tribal council where people talk about the weather and the decision between competing in the challenge or potentially helping with the shelter. It’s hard to gather info as to what will happen. Jeremy considers playing his idol before a commercial break.

In the sixth segment of the show, we return to tribal council. Jeremy plays one of his idols on Stephen. Was the idol play worth it? By the looks of it, it was. Who voted for Kimmi and why?  They could have messed things up. Despite these votes, Ciera is the one voted out, making Blood versus Water the next season to be eliminated from the game. It turns out it was the minority women who voted against Kimmi. So now Jeremy has only one idol. And I think that he’s the only one with an idol now. I miss some of the camp life due to my mother coming home from work. Anyways, I will continue blogging about the second hour of the episode as one with the first hour. You will only see one list of confessionals.

In the seventh segment of the show, Stephen talks about how he didn’t know that he could have gotten voted out last night were it not for Jeremy saving him. We then get to the return of a classic Survivor challenge. They are making it more complicated than they have before. I also don’t remember this being run at night before, although it could have been. Kelley Wentworth (who until the finale, I will be simply calling Kelley) manages to get a clue to an idol with her thing. Stephen messes up Abi intentionally. He barely beats out Spencer for reward. Stephen picks Tasha before picking Jeremy to go on the reward. Spencer almost won. Did Stephen consider taking him at all?

In the eighth segment of the show, the whole tribe gets back after the challenge. The new idol is at the shelter. We then show the reward. He wants to repair his alliance with Tasha. Stephen tells of his power to steal the vote to both Tasha and Jeremy. Abi wants to win the challenge as a loyalty test. Kelley is trying to figure out how to get people out of camp to look for the idol. Abi doesn’t leave the shelter for a while. Kelley then sees her opportunity and gets the idol while people are coming back to the shelter. She stress out about it.

In the ninth segment of the show, we finally get to an immunity challenge that isn’t an endurance challenge. Is Joe finally doomed? We’ll see. They need more classic challenges in this season. Stephen’s foot problems prevents him from doing well. Spencer ends up winning the challenge ending Joe’s long immunity streak. What would this mean for the future?

In the tenth segment of the show, Stephen wants to get Joe out of the game now that they have their chance to do that. Kelley wants to get rid of Stephen now that they have the chance to do it. Will Kelley use her new idol on Joe? We’ll see. Stephen is trying to make it seem like Abi is getting voted out. Of course, this makes her go crazy. Meanwhile, there’s a problem with Spencer not getting airtime about his immunity win. People are trying to stick to the plan. Boy, that has been a major theme of the game ever since Keith said it. It makes me wonder if we’ll see that next season. The choice is between Stephen and Joe. Who will get voted out? Will Joe have an idol played on him and thus get even farther in the game with some form of immunity?

Not much can be gained from the conversation at tribal council. Stephen decides to use his advantage. He steals Joe’s vote. But will there be idol plays? There could be a null vote. It’s hard to make sense of things as usual. He casts an extra vote for Abi and another vote for Joe. Could Abi be eliminated with just one vote that counts? In the end, no idols are played. The person voted out is Stephen. I wonder why Jeremy didn’t use his extra idol on him. Anyways, Stephen is voted out and every contestant on this season has been voted out, even those that will become finalists this time around. Interesting how it came around full circle so quickly from first to last.

On the next Survivor, we get to a loved ones challenge. There is also some sort of medical situation that might result in an evacuation. I wonder who it might be and why. Which challenge will it be? Will normal loved one challenges finally be a part of the show again? Also, before I forget, Tocantins has been eliminated from the game.

Total confessional count: Kimmi- 8, Joe- 20, Spencer- 34, Jeremy- 20, Keith- 7, Ciera- 16, Stephen- 30, Tasha- 13, Abi- 19, Kelley Wentworth- 25. New confessionals this episode: Kelley Wentworth- 6, Kimmi- 2, Joe- 5, Spencer- 9, Jeremy- 5, Keith- 2, Ciera- 5, Stephen- 11, Tasha- 2, Abi- 4.

Remember that for the rest of the season (since there will be a finale on Wednesday) you will see new blog posts from me on Thursdays instead of Wednesdays. I will be back to Wednesday when the hiatus starts, although things could change with that posting. I’ll be sure to point out why it might change at the beginning of new posts. I’ll remind you that I’m still posting later. As to the confessional counts, Spencer is the highest at the moment. But, will he get voted out like previous contestants with the highest confessional count? Meanwhile Keith has the lowest confessional count. We don’t know who the potential medically evacuated player is. SPOILER. (Well, we know that it isn’t Jeremy or Tasha as it was a white person. I know that Abi isn’t technically white, but we obviously didn’t get a clear shot of this person for a reason.) END SPOILER. I don’t know what the edit so far will mean to a person who is pulled this fair in the game. I didn’t keep track of confessionals during Caramoan so I don’t know what Erik’s count was. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 31.9

There will be some upcoming changes to this blog in the near future. Don’t worry: these are just the regular changes that happen from year to year. As usual, I’m not sure if next week’s episode will be something that I’ll be able to watch and post live on Wednesday. As usual, I’ll probably be able to watch the episode live as usual. But next week’s episode airs the day before Thanksgiving. It’s hard to believe that it’s coming up so quickly. The start of Advent means that my blog posts will be moved to Thursdays for the near future. I don’t know yet when the finale of this season will be. If it’s a Wednesday, then I’ll have to post the episode when I see it the next day on Thursday. If it’s a Sunday, then I should be able to live blog it. But Sunday finales may have become a thing of the past. Meanwhile, I’ll be updating other blogs of mine after this one is published since I don’t want to push it to later with potential problems that waiting would cause. Only rolling the right episode to watch on DVD would change that.

Joe Anglim Worlds Apart Vytas Baskauskas Blood vs. Water Spencer Bledsoe Cagayan Jeremy Collins San Juan del Sur Teresa "T-Bird" Cooper Africa Terry Deitz Panama Ciera Eastin Blood vs. Water Stephen Fishbach Tocantins Latasha "Tasha" Fox Cagayan Abi-Maria Gomes Philippines Yung "Woo" Hwang Cagayan Kimmi Kappenberg The Australian Outback Peih-Gee Law China Kassandra "Kass" McQuillen Cagayan Keith Nale San Juan del Sur Shirin Oskooi Worlds Apart Monica Padilla Samoa Troy "Troyzan" Robertson One World Andrew Savage Pearl Islands Natalie Tenerelli Redemption Island Jeff Varner The Australian Outback Kelley Wentworth San Juan del Sur Kelly Wiglesworth Borneo Mikayla Wingle South Pacific

Regardless of when this season finished airing, you will see posts during the hiatus between this season and the next one. I just don’t know yet when I’ll be posting these updates. I’m trying to catch up on Survivor: Palau on DVD, but I’m not able to do that as well as I’d like. This is so I can post a future blog post about Stephenie’s time on that season. It’s also so I can add a new post to my TV blog whenever I roll an episode. The only potential problem is rolling new episodes when I’d update this blog. This could change things during the planned hiatus postings. I already have some written now and will probably get more written than I need for this hiatus anyways.

Counting out how many players we have left in the game and when a finale probably should be, I realize that they may have to do a two hour episode as they have done in the past to catch up with eliminations so that this season ends at a good time. But will it happen that way? We’ll see. I just know that mathematically, the possibility of four finalists facing the vote seems more and more likely to me.

Here’s a paragraph that I felt was worth posting in multiple blogs. On the 13^th of November (which was incidentally a Friday for all you superstitious people) a bad event happened. There were terrorist bombings in France. The news talked about how this could affect football games over the weekend. It could also potentially affect various programs on TV. While it doesn’t matter in the long run if shows are affected due to current events, I will keep an eye out for potential changes in these blogs.

This probably won’t affect this blog unless there is breaking news about the event on Wednesday. Like back when the Boston Bombings happened, there was a Friday when most programming was preempted on the east coast as they showed a live manhunt of the suspected terrorist there. (I’m actually glad that he both got a fair trial somehow and was found guilty.) I don’t know what we’ll be learning about it and when in the future. I just know that they tend to give a show like Survivor which has almost repeats some extra leniency. I might post more about that later. Then again, maybe I won’t. I don’t know yet if I will or not.

Hopefully people don’t think that it’s weird or trivial to point out how TV can be affected by terrorism, but it is important to mention in my blog about a TV show. Yes, I am more worried about the affects of terrorism (or is it effects of terrorism?) than about how it will affect shows. I’m also worried about whether or not I’ll be able to see the new Celtic Woman special. As long as it isn’t on a Wednesday, then it shouldn’t be too bad. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Kelley Wentworth likes her idol play. Gee, I wonder why? Also, doesn’t coven use the short o sound? #nitpick. Anyways, there is another search for hidden immunity idols. Even Jeremy wants another one. Abi gets a confessional. I thought she was irrelevant, but maybe not.

In the second segment of the show, we get to a reward challenge. I always hate it when the sit-out doesn’t get a shot at the reward. I especially hate that during loved ones challenges or events. Why can’t she pick a team to support and then win or lose with them? At least that makes it a bit farer. The opening maze looks far too simple to be a maze. Maybe it’s actually a labyrinth, which, believe it or not, is not actually a maze as you have probably been lead to believe. The challenge is a blow out, even though the losing team still has a bit of fight in them towards the end.

In the third segment of the show, the reward winners of Ciera, Spencer, Stephen, Joe, and Tasha enjoy their reward. Back at camp, Jeremy looks for an idol and finds a clue to it. Does he really need a second one? Maybe not, but he’ll probably find one anyways. Well, now he’s got two hidden immunity idols. He joins the ranks of James Clement, Parvati Shallow, Malcolm Freeberg, and Tony Vhalos. Well, I hope that I’m not forgetting anyone. We’ll see.

In the fourth segment of the show, Stephen starts trying to work with the so call three witches. Considering other names they could have used, witch isn’t that bad. We’ll see what develops from this. The immunity challenge is next. Why are they using so many freaking Cagayan challenges? Other seasons had good challenges. They seem to be overusing it. Is it just me or did they get rid of what should have been the earlier parts of the challenge? At the buoy portion of the challenge, Stephen barely beats out Spencer to win the advantage. The winner of the challenge is Joe.

In the fifth segment of the show, Kimmi talks about wanting to get rid of the witches. I don’t know how long it has been since Kelly Wiglesworth had a confessional, but she had one again this episode. Thankfully, the real sign of the end of the world is the Cubs winning the World Series. Stephen effectively wins the power to steal a vote. Why not just introduce the veto amulet? If you know what that is, then I hope you would like the idea of it being introduced to the American Survivor. Stephen tries to get people to vote out Kelly Wiglesworth. Will that happen? We’ll see. There is a lot of rain at tribal council. They typically don’t have storms this bad at tribal council. Everyone is miserable, even the jury, probably. The music is intense in some places. I don’t know who is getting voted out. It could be Kelly Wiglesworth. The person voted out is Kelly Wiglesworth. Not only is Borneo eliminated from the game, but now every contestant from that season has been voted out.

On the next Survivor, there is terrible rain and there’s a decision as to whether or not to compete in the next immunity challenge, presumably at least. Of course, there’s probably more interesting parts of it not shown in the promo. We’ll see.

Total confessional count: Jeremy- 15, Keith- 5, Ciera- 11, Stephen- 19, Tasha- 11, Abi- 15, Kelley Wentworth- 19, Kimmi- 6, Joe- 15, Kelly Wiglesworth- 4, Spencer- 25.

New confessionals this episode: Ciera- 2, Stephen- 5, Tasha- 0, Abi- 1, Kelley Wentworth- 3, Kimmi- 1, Joe- 2, Kelly Wiglesworth- 1, Spencer- 1, Jeremy- 4, Keith- 0.

Well, Kelly Wiglesworth’s elimination means that Keith has the lowest confessional count with just 5 confessionals. Meanwhile, the highest is Spencer with 25. Ciera is now above 10 confessionals. Jeremy is above 13. Keith and Tasha had 0 confessionals this episode. I’m not sure what I can say about the numbers that isn’t redundant. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 31.8

There was a merge at 13 and the moment of truth about the whole twist is whether or not the thirteenth placed person would make the jury or not. Since that person did, then we know that something strange is happening. A final three would mean a ten person jury, the highest that the jury has ever been. But, it could mean something else completely and unusually strange. If there’s a final four this season where four finalists compete for the votes, then I’m calling that it will happen now. Some may wonder if they’ll be a jury of 11 and final two, but I just don’t see it happening right now. I really think that it will be four finalists facing the jury vote.

Joe Anglim Worlds Apart Vytas Baskauskas Blood vs. Water Spencer Bledsoe Cagayan Jeremy Collins San Juan del Sur Teresa "T-Bird" Cooper Africa Terry Deitz Panama Ciera Eastin Blood vs. Water Stephen Fishbach Tocantins Latasha "Tasha" Fox Cagayan Abi-Maria Gomes Philippines Mike Holloway Worlds Apart Yung "Woo" Hwang Cagayan Kimmi Kappenberg The Australian Outback Peih-Gee Law China Kassandra "Kass" McQuillen Cagayan Keith Nale San Juan del Sur Shirin Oskooi Worlds Apart Monica Padilla Samoa Troy "Troyzan" Robertson One World Andrew Savage Pearl Islands Natalie Tenerelli Redemption Island Jeff Varner The Australian Outback Kelley Wentworth San Juan del Sur Kelly Wiglesworth Borneo Mikayla Wingle South Pacific

I still don’t know that many rumors regarding Survivor 33. It might have already been filmed. But I don’t know if it has or not. I’m not sure that I can post something asking about it in facebook groups as they normally don’t have spoilers like that and I normally wouldn’t want to look for information without finding out things that I didn’t want to know. Speaking of which… SPOILER. I have talked some about Survivor 32. From what I know, it will reuse the brains versus brawn versus beauty twist. Now you’d think that after San Juan del Sur that they would know better than to reuse twists like that. (But, I did think that Vanuatu was better than Amazon and One World was better than both of them.) They seem to be overusing the more than two tribes concept. Among the rumored contestants are Caleb Reynolds from Big Brother. END SPOILER.

With the fact that both Kelley and Kelly are still in the game, it is clear that they are going by their last names for votes. I don’t know when things could turn against either one of them. Now you can call me crazy for this, but I hate being called by just my last name. If you call me Decker, I will ignore you. I just don’t like it. I find it rude. So I’m still confused to this day why so many people like that.

Now speaking of Kelly Wiglesworth, it is incredibly obvious from her edit and possibly lowest ever confessional count that she is not winning. But how does she not win? Does she fail at the jury vote again? Does she get voted out? Does something else happen that removes her from the game? Now even if you factor in players who have played more than once, not one season thus far has had every player in it voted out. And for proof of that, here’s a list of all the players who were never voted out from each respective season.

Kelly from Borneo was never voted out. Michael from Australia was never voted out. Kim Johnson from Africa was never voted out. Paschal, Neleh, and Vecepia from Marquesas were never voted out. Clay and Brian from Thailand were never voted out. Matthew and Jenna from Amazon were never voted out. Osten and Sandra from Pearl Islands were never voted out. Jenna Moresca from All-Stars was never voted out. Twila and Chris from Vanuatu were never voted out. Jonathan, Wanda, Janu, and Katie from Palau were never voted out. Danni from Guatemala was never voted out. Bruce from Panama was never voted out. Becky and Yul from Cook Islands were never voted out. Gary, Cassandra, Dreamz, and Earl from Fiji were never voted out. Todd from China was never voted out. Kathy from Micronesia was never voted out. Susie and Bob from Gabon were never voted out. Joe and Stephen from Tocantins were never voted out. Mike, Mick, and Natalie from Samoa were never voted out. Sandra from Heroes versus Villains was never voted out.

Continuing the list, NaOnka, Kelly Shinn, Sash, Chase, and Fabio from Nicaragua were never voted out. Natalie from Redemption Island was never voted out. Albert and Sophie from South Pacific were never voted out. Kourtney, Colton, Chelsea, Sabrina, and Kim from One World were never voted out. Dana, Lisa, Michael, and Denise from Philippines were never voted out. Shamar and Sherri from Caramoan were never voted out. Colton and Katie from Blood versus Water were never voted out. Lindsey and Tony from Cagayan were never voted out. Julie, Missy, Jaclyn, and Natalie from San Juan del Sur were never voted out. Carolyn, Will, and Mike from Worlds Apart were never voted out. And the two contestants from this season that have not been voted out as of yet are Kelly Wiglesworth and Stephen. Just voting off Kelly would cause Survivor history that has not happened in 31 seasons.

You know what I’m tired of hearing? There’s always all this crap being said that Survivor is rigged. I’d once again like to point out that it would be illegal to rig something like Survivor. I’m tired of hearing it over and over again. I should write a blog post about that sometime. In fact, I have at least six pages worth of ideas for the potential of future blog posts. Plus, who is the 13 merge meant to save anyways? There’s not a clear person that it saves, in my mind at least. Also, twists are planned out from the beginning and are rarely changed as the season progresses. They knew that they were going from two tribes to three after two players were voted out. They knew that they were going to do the merge earlier than ever before. And they had no reason to change this just to let the game play normally. If they were going to let the game be normal, than Samoa wouldn’t have been the last season to lack a major starting twist, have no returning players, and have only two tribes. They like to shake things up and that means nothing about it being rigged.

There’s always a lot of me to ramble about. Heck, soon I’ll be starting a new blog. I ramble a lot in all my blogs for various reasons. That always tends to be how I start most of my blog posts. Anyways, I’m sorry if you don’t like my ramblings. I’m done with them for this post.

In the first segment of the show, Andrew talks about how he’s glad that he made the jury. Ciera tries to talk to Stephen about what needs to be done in the game. He wants to get a threat out of the game. Will he succeed?

In the second segment of the show, we get to the reward challenge. You may remember this challenge from its use in Redemption Island duels. Jeff (probably intentionally) gets the quote wrong about Kelly’s loss in a water relay challenge. What she actually said was, “I got beat by a man who can’t fucking swim.” They left out the f bomb. I’m not surprised. Keith is doing well in the challenge. The green team won, although I can’t exactly tell who they are. It is redemption for Kelly Wiglesworth.

In the third segment of the show, both Kelley Wentworth and Kimmi are glad that they made an individual reward this season. Ciera talks about how reward challenges are a good time to talk about the game. Keith takes a ride with a vehicle that is there. Also, Orkun is the name of the merged tribe. Stephen is bummed about losing the reward. Joe could wind up facing the same fate that he did the last time. But will it happen?

In the fourth segment of the show, Joe talks about how Stephen was gunning against him. Meanwhile, Andrew is trying to help Joe or it at least seems that way at least. We have another ball challenge for the immunity challenge. Don’t lose your ball. Stay in the right position or your balls will get messed up. Balls can easily drop in this challenge. Moving back far makes handling balls more difficult. People are getting further away from their balls. They have to stay in position to keep their balls in place. Man I really hope that somebody is finding humor in my double entendres. I do wonder if Joe is in a catch 22 situation. If he wins, he’s a threat. If he loses, he could get voted out. Joe wins the challenge.

In the fifth segment of the show, Joe is trying to put the target on Stephen. Will he get voted out? Some people talk about getting rid of Andrew. Does Stephen have too many connections to get voted out? Is it Fish-back or Fish-Bach? I can’t tell and will call him Stephen anyways. We get to the tribal council. Ciera and Kelley Wentworth try to point out who is running the show. The four five people controlling the game are Stephen, Jeremy, Andrew, Joe, and Tasha. Meanwhile, it seems like Ciera could be digging her own grave. Is she? I honestly don’t know what to make of any of this. WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN? I don’t know. Kelley Wentworth decides to play her idol on herself. But was it worth it? Turns out it actually was. Interesting how nobody wrote down Kelley. Of course, I knew this was probably going to happen. Andrew is voted out. Here’s an interesting fact: he’s on the jury this time despite ranking higher the last time he played when he was one short of the jury. Pearl Islands has now been eliminated from the game.

On the next Survivor, everyone’s looking for an idol that’s actually going to be given to a brave person who drops out of the challenge. But they probably won’t know that. Would someone actually do it? This is something that I will actually look forward to.

Total confessional count: Kimmi- 5, Joe- 13, Kelly Wiglesworth- 3, Spencer- 24, Jeremy- 11, Keith- 5, Ciera- 9, Stephen- 14, Andrew- 25, Tasha- 11, Abi- 14, Kelley Wentworth- 16.

New confessionals this episode: Kelley Wentworth- 3, Kimmi- 1, Joe- 3, Kelly Wiglesworth- 0, Spencer- 1, Jeremy- 2, Keith- 1, Ciera- 3, Stephen- 4, Andrew- 4, Tasha- 0, Abi- 0.

Once again, the person with the highest confessional count is eliminated. Well, according to my probably wrong numbers it is. Andrew had 25 total and 4 in this episode. His elimination means that Spencer has the highest confessional count with 24. This also makes 25 the next number to beat. I might add tables about this in posts for future seasons. Tasha, Abi, and Kelly Wiglesworth have no confessionals in this episode. Jeremy is now above 10 confessionals. Stephen and Joe are now above 13 confessionals. Joe has 13 and Stephen has 14. Kelly Wiglesworth still has the lowest with a mere 3 confessionals. There was nothing about how she got redemption in this challenge. She’s my only finalist pick that’s still in the game and if she does make it to the end again, she cannot possibly win this time. Any uptick she might have in confessional numbers will be when she is eliminated. If only things were different for her this time around. If things were good for her, it was in another previous season. But I’ll talk about the differences between people’s games this season in the future. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

Episode 31.7

With a record number of players apparently entering the merge, you might be wondering who all is in danger and who has the best chances going into it. Now here are my thoughts on the players still in the game thus far. These thoughts will mostly be based on their edits. Kimmi is getting a mostly negative and invisible edit. I’m not sure that I have high hopes for her, but she could prove to be a threat down the road. Ciera looks like a hidden threat who could turn the game around for other players. I’m not sure that she has much on her own though. Why not take out Andrew when she had the chance too? Joe has been made to be seen as a threat, although we really haven’t seen how much yet. Kelley Wentworth has been made to look like a villain and has been getting mixed edits.

Andrew could be heading for a fall, although it might not happen. Keith has been ignored for far too long for him to make it to the end. Kass is all over the place and I don’t think she’ll make it as far as she wants to. Abi is almost certainly not going to win, although she may make it to the end. Kelly Wiglesworth has been ignored so long that if you do see her, then you’ll know who gets voted out. Tasha has been given a villain edit, but not a bad one that could turn against her, although it might. Stephen seems to not be getting a good edit at first, although that might change in the future. Jeremy might be having a good game, but it’s hard to tell for sure. Spencer may have a goodish edit, but he seemed to have barely squeaked by two tribal councils and is clearly a threat to others going ahead. So it seems clear to me that I have no way of knowing who has the best odds when nearly everyone has bad enough edits to be the next one voted out or #blindsided.

Joe Anglim Worlds Apart Vytas Baskauskas Blood vs. Water Spencer Bledsoe Cagayan Jeremy Collins San Juan del Sur Teresa "T-Bird" Cooper Africa Max Dawson Worlds Apart Terry Deitz Panama Ciera Eastin Blood vs. Water Stephen Fishbach Tocantins Latasha "Tasha" Fox Cagayan Abi-Maria Gomes Philippines Mike Holloway Worlds Apart Yung "Woo" Hwang Cagayan Kimmi Kappenberg The Australian Outback Peih-Gee Law China Kassandra "Kass" McQuillen Cagayan Keith Nale San Juan del Sur Shirin Oskooi Worlds Apart Monica Padilla Samoa Troy "Troyzan" Robertson One World Andrew Savage Pearl Islands Natalie Tenerelli Redemption Island Jeff Varner The Australian Outback Kelley Wentworth San Juan del Sur Kelly Wiglesworth Borneo Mikayla Wingle South Pacific

There are rumors or possibly just guesses that there will be a final two this season. I don’t know why people would think that. Too many people have complained in the past that final twos have prevented good people from winning the game. That’s why I’m pretty sure that they wouldn’t use that in a second chance season. But that’s just my thoughts on the matter, at least.

Speaking of rumors, I have no idea why a person was talking about Monica being a finalist, but it was weird. It happened in a facebook Survivor group that I’m in. I was talking about how all the finalists that made the cast this season were from final two seasons. He said that I had forgot to mention Monica. Now Monica didn’t make the end of Samoa and that wasn’t a final two season. So I don’t know if that person was high or something, but I do find it weird. I’m not sure why I’m mentioning this.

Terry’s situation was weird. He was removed from the game. Some people have classified it as medical evacuation of sorts. This would mark the first time that a healthy person was evacuated due to a family emergency. I’m guessing that he’ll probably be back for another season, although I’m not sure about this. This leads to my next set of medically evacuated players.

Since Philippines happened, I’ve been putting various medically evacuated players in groups of three (or just two when not possible to have three in every group) provided that these players have not played since they were evacuated. Now, I seem to have three perfect groups of three, for now at least. There are the questionable evacuations which some fans actually debate as medical evacuations. That group would have Terry from this season, Gary from Fiji, and Dana from Philippines.  There are the postmerge evacuations that consist of Bruce from Panama, Joe from Tocantins, and Erik from Caramoan. Then there are the other, premerge evacuations that consist of Mike Borassi from Samoa, Kourtney from One World, and Shamar from Caramoan. Those are my sets for the moment.

I have decided that since things are working well, I’m going to live tweet today’s episode. This could mean that my blog will suffer in quality as this tends to happen. I’ll probably not be on twitter as much as I used to. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, Andrew is surprised about what happened at tribal council. Spencer talks about relaying on Kass. There are unidentified confessionals that I’m missing. I don’t know why Andrew is making such a big deal about the merge. He made the merge in his last season. Maybe he just wants his fate to change, hopefully unlike how it changed for him last time.

In the second segment of the show, the contestants are all surprised by the early merge. I’m guessing that it’s at 13 in a second chance season so enough people will enter it. Kelley Wentworth is glad that she’s made it as far as she has so far. There is fun at the merge feast but others are waiting for stuff to unravel soon afterwards.

In the third segment of the show, Andrew tries to get his feel on the new tribe. Will things fall apart for him? It could, because there’s never such a thing as a well laid plan on Survivor. Unfortunately, we’ll probably see a great player voted out tonight. Tasha says BS to Kass in order to not let any valuable information be passed. Kass sees right through this.

In the fourth segment of the show, Tasha and Kass talk some more about various things in the game. Tasha is refusing to bury the hatchet which could turn out badly for her. A lot of drama happens at camp live before we get to the immunity challenge. Joe wins the challenge.

In the fifth segment of the show, Andrew is talking about what he wants to do and if he’ll be able to do it. Will he turn on a former ally? People discuss who they want to vote out. Jeremy considers an idol being in play. The target is supposed to be Kass, but she could easily screw up the game. If that does happen, then Alex Gomory Keisler was right. We get to tribal council, the first for Joe and Keith this season. Jeff forgets that the tribal council from This is the Man Test was the biggest, although I guess this is a tie with that, actually. Kass is voted out of the game and becomes the first member of the jury. So will this be either the largest jury ever or the first season with more than three finalists?

On the next Survivor, “everyone is worried about big moves… and the only question is, who will strike first?” That summary perfectly describes what could be ensuing chaos of the rest of this season. It’s just what I’ve come to expect.

Total confessional count: Ciera- 6, Stephen- 10, Andrew- 21, Tasha- 11, Abi- 14, Kelley Wentworth- 13, Kimmi- 4, Joe- 10, Kelly Wiglesworth- 3, Spencer- 23, Kass- 15, Jeremy- 9, Keith- 4.

New confessionals this episode: Keith- 1, Ciera- 1, Stephen- 1, Andrew- 6, Tasha- 1, Abi- 0, Kelley Wentworth- 3, Kimmi- 0, Joe- 4, Kelly Wiglesworth- 0, Spencer- 4, Kass- 5, Jeremy- 1.

Poor Kelly Wigleworth is proving very irrelevant to this season. She has the lowest confessional fount with 3 and will probably only get a higher number if she gets voted out. Remember that Survivor history will happen if that happens. I’ll explain how again if you want me to. Anyways, Spencer has the highest confessional count with 23. Andrew is above 20 with 21. Stephen and Joe both have 10 confessionals. Kelley Wentworth has 13. Kass had 5 in this episode and 15 altogether. Meanwhile, I’ll talk about some craziness in future blog posts. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.