In case I haven’t mentioned
this as much already, know that I have a Survivor season ordered for the future
so I should have the potential to talk about Blood versus Water again. It is currently
the plan to have it replace Gabon when I’m done with that on Sundays.
I have an idea to possibly
post on my YouTube channel that others could do too. I haven’t done this yet,
but it is based on Survivor where you do something like a voting confessional,
but with recreations of a ballot since you might not be able to do a ballot
legally in some states online. With ballot selfies illegal in some places, you
can write down a vote and share with people why you voted that way for that
person or issue. Maybe you could share it on TikTok or some other forum like
that.
Speaking of politics relating
to Survivor, it turns out that producer Mark Burnett supports Trump. This may
relate to the time they worked together on The Apprentice. While some don’t
want to watch the show of Survivor due to this connection, I don’t care about
his support and am not going to let it affect my love of this show. I mean, he
is one person who has a relation with the show, but it doesn’t matter that much
how he cares about whatever way politically.
What I do care about is an
unfortunate affect of coronavirus. There is now a lot of racism against Asians
and descendents of Asians because of coronavirus. This should not be happening
at all. Just because the virus originated from China doesn’t mean that we
should attack those from there or looking like they are from that area.
Now in the last post, we got
to Aaron’s vote out from this season that some might consider unfair since it
seemed like the deck was stacked against him. This was mentioned in a podcast
that I was in once where one of the people successfully argued this as a point.
This part starts at around 36:30. You can watch this and see if I picked a bad
choice for this category like I think that I did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1P6L5Wab18
It may seem like I’m jumping
around from place to place when I mention different challenges in each of the
posts that I’m doing to see if they are something that could be done while
social distancing or not. Well, you’d be largely correct to think that. But I’m
still doing to get to the challenges that start with the word the from Survivor
fandom.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ball_Drop
In this challenge, contestants
must balance a ball on a cylinder with ever growing wooden parts to it. This
challenge could be done while social distancing. This is one of many ball
related challenges that are part of Survivor. I wonder when they took over and
became such an easily mocked part of Survivor.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/The_Cruel_Sea
This challenge is also known
as dress to keel. In it, contestants have to get one ring at a time and then
use those rings to land them on a post. This could maybe be done while social
distancing, but I’m not sure that it can be, depending on if it is tribal or
individual.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/The_Game_is_Afoot
In this challenge, contestants
must make a tower and put a flag on it using only their feet. This challenge
could be done while social distancing. I wonder if they could do a version of
this that would make use of the metric system.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/The_Gauntlet
In this challenge, people
compete through something like an obstacle course trying to gain pendants while
members of the other tribe attempt to knock them off of said course. This
challenge could possibly be done while social distancing.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/The_Home_Stretch
This challenge is also known
as Wizard’s staff and home stretch. In it, the rules seem complicated, but you
have to get through things such as maybe a net crawl and then find items like
tiles or discs before going through more obstacles and then either solving a
puzzle to potentially unlock a box or spell out a phrase or possibly landing
the discs through a bunch of slots that are there. It is possible that this
could be done while social distancing.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/The_Maze
This challenge is also known
as obstacle puzzle maze, snakes and ladders, Maya maze, a-mazing Gabon, Meso
maze, balance beam maze, roundabout, maybe I’m a maze, and Vin Skully. In it,
contestants have to find items and then leave the maze. There is a link to this
as a blindfolded version covered elsewhere. This challenge probably couldn’t be
done while social distancing unless every contestant were given their own maze
or only did it one at a time.
https://survivor.fandom.com/wiki/The_Obstacle_Course
This challenge is also known
as double play, wicker ball relay, rats in the rigging, big bad o-course,
balance beam maze, Austin’s elemental obstacle course, and tower of power. In
it, contestants must complete various obstacles, both physical and mental, to
win. This challenge cannot likely be done while social distancing from what I
could tell of it.
Now in the last post of me
covering this season, I shared a challenge link that was also the name of a
song by the same group that did the song Free Bird. This song is called Gimme
Three Steps. I am going to share a link to that song here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYhh-avGjpU
You should know that there are
other songs to mention, maybe, in other posts, if they have a link to the
challenge that I can find and I like the song enough to want it included in
this or other blogs in the future at some point in time. I will share them
throughout the time in the future if it works out.
TV shows I watch on DVD
update: starting in 2021 when I went back to watching these things, I reached a
stopping point in mystery choice #8 so mystery choice #5 will be its
replacement for now. This also means that NCIS replaces NCIS: Los Angeles and
Power Rangers season 3 replaces Parks and Recreation. Again, nothing new is
added to the list of things to watch this time. I am hoping that I can whittle
down the list to just six choices soon, but we’ll see if that happens or not.
There are just a bit of complications that are going on or could go on
potentially.
On Saturday after watching the
previous episode, I watched The Great Race. I replaced that with The Fugitive.
On Sunday, I was busy doing other things for lunch. While I’m annoyed in some
places that my Sundays aren’t always used for watching movies, since I’m often
using it to spend time with both of my living grandparents who are in their
90s, then I can’t really complain which meant that there was no movie again
that Sunday. On Wednesday, I watched no movie which I also didn’t do either
that Thursday or Friday. I had the chance and time on Friday due to no new
shows, but I didn’t know this in time and ran out of time to see a movie or
even roll for one. That takes me to the next week.
On Saturday, I watched The
Fugitive. I replaced that with Indiana Jones: The Temple of Doom. The next day,
Sunday’s movie wound up being Finding Nemo. I replaced that with Finding Dory.
I did not watch a movie on Wednesday or Thursday. On Friday, I watched True to
the Game. I replaced that with The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
Now I promised myself that whenever
I watch True to the Game, I would share a link from my blog on Elementary since
I got that movie to review it for my blog on that show. I mentioned a lot of
the episodes that I posted after that in my blog on Madam Secretary until that
show ended. Now, here we get to the last post that I posted in that blog. I’ll
get back to posting about The Good Wife blog posts in the next post of this
blog or later if other weird things about it.
http://adamdeckerelementarytvshow.blogspot.com/2018/06/june-18th-2018s-episode.html
On Saturday, I watched Indiana
Jones and the Temple of Doom. I replaced that with Raiders of the Lost Ark. On
Sunday, Wednesday, and Thursday, I watched no movies. On Friday, while the
movie choice was locked in for the future, I did not see it this week in
preparation for a visit with family for the weekend. That meant no movies for
me the next Saturday or Sunday. On Wednesday, I wanted to see a specific movie
that would not have been on my list of things to watch. But it didn’t work out
to see it. Nor could I see something on the main list either.
On Thursday, I watched Tower
Heist. I replaced that with The Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood. On Friday, I
watched The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. I replaced that with Rain Man. On
Saturday, I saw The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. I replaced that with
John Q. On Sunday, I watched Kingsman: The Secret Service. I replaced that with
Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
On Tuesday, February 23rd,
2021, I rolled this episode and watched it. I was regularly updating my TV blog
on that day of the week in my quest to phase it out and put it on just
Saturdays weekly. I will now have to update my Madam Secretary blog then
instead. I will alternate Tuesday posts between the TV and Madam Secretary
blogs during this time until the TV blog is updated on the last Tuesday of the
month and then just the Madam Secretary blog will be updated then instead.
We begin with Peih-Gee talking
about potentially throwing the challenge and wanting to throw the next
challenge in anticipation of the upcoming merge. James wants to conserve energy
to make sure that he can help win the challenge if he needs to.
Todd talks to Amanda about the
hidden immunity idol. They both want it. They then gather for the next reward
challenge. At the challenge, Peih-Gee tells Sherea that her tribe is still
looking out for her and Frosti. Fei Long wins the challenge and gets to kidnap
a member of the other tribe. They take James with them as he now gets to enjoy
the reward with them.
At the reward, people enjoy
the tea and baths and other things like that. Some call it the best reward
ever. But it doesn’t even have loved ones with it. Courtney wanted to be as far
away from Jean-Robert as possible. James doesn’t mind being naked in front of
others, which Amanda talks about some as his butt is good to her.
Back at Zhan Hu, they realize
that Frosti isn’t making eye contact with them and they feel that they have to
win immunity. Peih-Gee doesn’t think that Sherea is still on their tribe’s side
since they didn’t talk much at the challenge.
Todd approaches James about
the idol clue. He convinces James to give the clue to him. They find the idol,
but Frosti is there. He is part of this now. He is part of the group. Amanda,
Todd, and Frosti know about the idol. James is told to look for the idol at
their camp and throw the challenge so that they all vote for him and then
nullify his votes. They want to get rid of Jamie while Todd tells Courtney and
Denise each about the idol and how they have to win the challenge.
At the immunity challenge, the
contestants have to eat Chinese dishes that are not considered good as we get
to the challenge at hand. The first round is Peih-Gee versus Frosti eating
chicken heart. This might not be too bad, based on the beef heart that I had
once in Peru. Frosti and thus Fei Long wins the first point. Courtney and Jamie
then eat eel with Jamie and Zhan Hu winning a point. Amanda then faces off
against Erik while eating baby turtles. Erik wins a point for Zhan Hu. Denise
then faces off against James for eating balut. Denise does terribly at eating
it. James is unable to throw his part as a result. The next round is 1,000 year
old egg. Erik gets the winning point, just barely besting Frosti.
At Fei Long, Denise is upset
that she wasn’t able to win it. Todd gathers with Amanda over getting rid of
one of the former Zhan Hu members. Between Frosti and Sherea, they think that
they should go with Sherea since they feel they can trust Frosti more and even
have him as an ally potentially. Courtney then joins them to “gather water” and
is not sure that she likes the plan to vote out Sherea as she wants to vote out
Jean-Robert instead. He has a feeling of uneasiness. Sherea doesn’t want
to go down without a fight. Todd talks to Amanda about who to vote out since he
doesn’t want to be seen as a power player and voted out as a result instead.
We then get to tribal council.
Jeff wonders just how much the game changes when a tribe loses and has to vote
someone out. Sherea does a lot of attitude to Jean-Robert. She says that people
don’t like him and he even admits that he knows this. He thinks of himself as a
bad boy, but Courtney finds this to be ridiculous, much like how one would do
the laughing reaction on facebook when one finds a point that one has to be
ridiculous. Todd seems to fight some with Courtney. Jean-Robert thinks that
he’s in a good spot. When the votes are cast, Courtney and Sherea vote for
Jean-Robert while Frosti, Jean-Robert, Denise, Amanda, and Todd vote out
Sherea. Todd and Amanda picked their side as if they wanted to get rid of
Jean-Robert, he would have gone home instead.
On the next Survivor: China, Jamie
and Erik might have found an idol, there is more drama between the two members,
and the two tribes merge. What else could happen? Well, we already know if we
care and we’ll have to see later when this post will be.
Total confessional count:
Amanda- 9, Courtney- 7, Todd- 17, Jamie- 13, Peih-Gee- 11, Denise- 7, Frosti-
10, Jean-Robert- 9, Sherea- 11, Erik- 5, James- 9.
New confessionals this
episode: Erik- 0, James- 2, Amanda- 4, Courtney- 2, Todd- 6, Jamie- 2,
Peih-Gee- 1, Denise- 2, Frosti- 0, Jean-Robert- 2, Sherea- 1.
I don’t think that Sherea had
much of a chance after the most unfair swap in Survivor history (which was even
worse that what Caramoan’s would be, which also screwed over players in a
different yet similar fashion) and it wasn’t helped when Frosti did what he
could to stay as part of the new tribe. She did have a chance to work to get
rid of Jean-Robert, but it didn’t pan out in the end. Still, I would like her
back at some point and I feel that her chances of returning to the game are around
60%.
One of the reasons that I’m
always wanting to do a post on an episode every month is so I can do one of
these planned calendars where I talk about which blogs will be posted on each
date in the upcoming month. The plan might not end up happening for whatever
reason, but I still feel like doing it to see if it will be close like that or
not. At the moment, only The Good Fight blog posts are locked in that specific
dates that I have them at and are not subject to change.
Planned March blog posts
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Sunday
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
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Not March
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1: freebie
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2: TV
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3: Survivor (maybe)
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4: freebie
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5: The Good Wife
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6: TV
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7: CSI: Cyber (maybe)
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8: Elementary
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9: Madam Secretary
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10: Survivor (maybe)
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11: The Good Wife
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12: Survivor (maybe)
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13: TV
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14: Survivor (maybe)
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15: The Good Fight
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16: TV
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17: Survivor (maybe)
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18: The Good Fight
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19: Survivor (maybe)
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20: TV
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21: Survivor (maybe)
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22: The Good Fight
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23: Madam Secretary
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24: Survivor (maybe)
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25: The Good Fight
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26: The Good Wife (maybe)
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27: TV
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28: Survivor (maybe)
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29: The Good Fight
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30: TV
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31: Survivor (maybe)
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Not March
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Not March
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Not March
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And here the post ends. I need
to juggle all of the blogs that I have and have to put some more effort into
some posts than I do in other posts. But I’m always trying to produce some
content for it in the end and can only hope that the posts are good enough to
some extent as a result, although I’m hoping that it will be better at times
than I’ve done. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.