Stephenie LaGrossa Palau Recap Extended Version

Well, here we are at the next recap of mine of a contestant’s previous game on a season that I have on DVD. Out of three possible people from Palau, I posted a question as to which of the three should receive a recap and the winner was Stephenie. So, now we get to a recap of mine based on her game from her first season. I might ramble some throughout the blog so look for the paragraphs that start with an episode title from this season and read only them if you don’t want to read my ramblings. Those are the paragraphs that start with a phrase, then a dash. Actually, to make this simple, just read the paragraphs that are in a different font than this one.

WARNING! This blog post contains a lot of unnecessary ramblings. If you want to read just the important parts, skip to the parts in different font than this one. I feel the need to randomly talk about various shows that I’m watching on DVD and other formats. And that’s just part of the ramblings. Sorry for all the ramblings. I even ramble about the ramblings that I ramble about. Weird, huh? I promise that I will post an alternate version of this post that contains just the recap with an introduction and closing. The alternate post will contain no rambling in it. So just read that, unless you want to read all of this.

Now you might be wondering how I was able to watch this. You might know this based on previous blog posts, but you might not so I’ll tell you anyways. In order to decide which shows to watch from, I have a list of stuff to roll from and the corresponding number relates to certain shows. Whenever I roll Survivor, I will update a different blog of mine, provided that I could watch it as originally planned. Now there were a lot of shows to add to the list before it. So in addition to an older list of TV shows on DVD, I’m going to be switching it back and forth with a new list, since there were that many to add all at once. That list, in order of how I’d add them is VeggieTales on VHS, The Muppet Show season 1, Laugh it up Fuzzball (The Family Guy Star Wars parodies), Invader Zim season 1, Flashpoint season 1, and Survivor: Palau. Now, I’ll update you which days I’ll watch Survivor: Palau to get this recap. I’ll also keep you updated on what shows change on the list.

First comes the waiting game for the first episode of the season. Alternating between two lists might be a bit confusing. But I just have to wait until I roll the number 5 to watch Survivor: Palau. Well, that ended up happening sooner than I expected. I watched the first episode of that season on 9-22-2015.

This Has Never Happened Before- Stephenie gets her first confessional of the season when she decides to jump out of the boat. She gets a second confessional about it as well. Jumping out of the boat was a mistake as she didn’t get to shore until much later after the boat. According to commentary with the episode, the other contestants eventually brought the boat back to her and Jonathan, who had also jumped out of the boat. She had a planned alliance with Tom, Katie, and Ian, but was put on a different tribe than them. She was chosen by Bobby Jon to be on the Ulong tribe and she picked Jeff to be on the tribe afterwards. At the immunity challenge, she doesn’t like her tribe’s decision to take multiple items at the challenge which contributes to their loss. It is ultimately Stephenie that successfully campaigns to eliminate Jolanda. She gets a third confessional about it. She successfully votes against Jolanda in this episode. Ultimately, she has three confessionals thus far in the game.

Now I wait to roll a 5 again. My other list got rid of an item, so I’m moving VeggieTales VHS tapes off of this list. Since I would need an option on this list here, I’m putting recorded shows on VHS on this list at number 6 and that can fill any holes in the list should more arise until just one list can remain again. Anyways, I roll the second episode of the season on 9-26-2015.

Love is in the Air, Rats are Everywhere- Stephenie gets her first confessional of the episode when she talks about how she thinks getting rid of Jolanda was a good idea. She helps score at least two points at the reward challenge that her tribe wins (the third and ninth points, at least). She gets another confessional about how the fire that they now have has helped them cook and eat food. She gets a third confessional about who to vote for at the tribal council. She voted with the majority of her tribe to get rid of Ashlee. So that’s three total confessionals for her in this episode leading to six total.

Now I wait to roll a 5 again. In case you didn’t know, while the order that the things on this list might be in one order, it is alphabetical order that decides what number they are. VHS tapes must take the lowest place on the list, thus being the highest numbers. The s choice of Survivor is the lowest place outside of the VHS tapes so that it why and how it is number 5 at the moment.

Well, the list has now changed. I must take off the random shows on VHS for the moment as I add The Big Bang Theory season 1 to the list. This means that Survivor: Palau is now number 6 on the list and I wait to roll that number. I don’t know if I should be explaining why I add each show to the list so I’ll just say what I added and not why. Most of them are due to dreams about them while others are because I recently acquired them (well, maybe not recent as much anymore with some, but they were still unwatched until now and that’s the point that matters anyways).

Due to November coming soon and me needing to blog about TV shows once a month, this means that I have to roll a Survivor episode that month. Why not October? Well, there were certain cheats that I had to post that month without having to watch this Survivor season. Those cheats won’t work in November and I think that I might be especially screwed in December when I won’t be watching any shows from my list. At least my OCD says that I must create a new post for that blog once a month so I can always find a solution.

Well, October has past as of the writing of this paragraph. This means that watching Halloween based episodes will have to wait until next year. This will affect both The Big Bang Theory and Invader Zim episodes that I’m watching. I’ll let you know when they are both removed from the list. Also, I’ve decided that if Survivor: Palau goes off of the newer list and becomes part of the original list or top six shows, then I will basically forget the list that I’m telling you about (although, it will serve as future replacements for the main list) and that will be the only list, as it is meant to be.

I’m wondering why I didn’t just forego the planned replacements with the other shows and just add this one to the list. I can’t change it now, but I might change it in the future. Although, the more that I think about it, this way I’m using now probably works better anyways. Besides, it’s not like I’m doing anything more than a recap right now.

With it being November as of this paragraph, I’m noticing various Christmas commercials. Now in the month of December, there are certain Christmas movies and specials that I watch. This could affect watching Survivor that month. I do have a plan around that (two plans, actually) to potentially watch Survivor: Palau in December. Meanwhile, I’ll tell you about the Christmas specials and Christmas episodes from shows on DVD (or VHS) when that month happens.

To help readers of this blog post, I’ve made the important parts of it in Times New Roman and the rest of it in Calibri (Body). So if you are reading this font and this paragraph, then you are unfortunately probably wasting your time. Sorry about that.

It’s been a while since I’ve rolled Survivor: Palau on DVD and it is starting to annoy me greatly. Now I do have loopholes for updating my TV blog regardless of if I can roll Survivor or not. But it would still be very nice if I could watch more of it. This is messing up with me getting caught up on VHS shows. That can complicate Christmas watching that I do. Meanwhile, if I can, I’ll be adding Survivor: Palau to that list, although I probably won’t need to anyways. What I do know if that I will probably update my TV blog in December sometime after the Survivor finale.

I finally roll a 6 on 11-18-2015. There is a minor problem since today is a Wednesday and this is when I typically update my Survivor blog. I guess I’ll just update my TV blog tomorrow, which I would have done anyways if I hadn’t been able to watch this. I will say that in the future, since I’ll be doing Thursday posts during Advent and various posts during the hiatus between Cambodia and the next season, it might be okay for me to roll this on Wednesdays in the future. Anyways, I should get to the next episode.

Dangerous Creatures and Horrible Setbacks- Stephenie previously wanting to vote out Kim was discussed in the recap, even though this ultimately didn’t end up happening. She starts the episode with a confessional as to why they are tired of tribal council. Stephenie competes against Jenn in the second part of the reward challenge. I had previously told you about their rivalry when I talked about Jenn’s time on Survivor: Palau. Stephenie scores a point for her tribe. Ulong wins the reward. Stephenie is the longest lasting woman at the immunity challenge, but her tribe still loses. At tribal council, Stephenie joins the majority of her tribe in voting out Jeff. She has one new confessional this episode. She now has seven total confessionals.

Now I wait to roll a 6 again. In December, I’ll probably add this and two other shows to my list of Christmas watching even though it has nothing to do with Christmas. I’ll probably just wait to roll it once. But I’m not even sure I’ll do that. I can just wait until the finale of Cambodia airs and update my TV blog sometime after it happens. We’ll see. I’ll be sure to tell you when December rolls around.

Well, as of this paragraph, the Christmas season has reached a point where I’m willing to embrace it. This means that I won’t be watching stuff from my TV rolling list unless I have to get caught up on stuff I recorded on VHS. Basically, I will return to those lists later. I might even be able to return to them in December if I can watch through all my Christmas stuff at a good time. For the first time, I might watch more than the VHS tapes I’m backlogged on during December due to how things might work out. For one, I’ll probably want to see at least one episode of Survivor: Palau during this time and I’d have to watch through enough of the Christmas things before I’d even have the opportunity to watch it.

I still have not gotten all the Christmas specials that I would like to have on DVD. I’m not sure one exists for one of them that I’d like (The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas) anyways. So I start basically with five Christmas specials that I’d want to watch. Those are, in alphabetical order, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, The Smurfs Christmas Specials, and The Tangerine Bear. Keep in mind that unless I put this season as p instead of s, I would have to watch the Smurfs Christmas Specials (which I would do in one sitting as both are about a combined hour) before I could add Survivor to the list. Meanwhile, I would need a sixth item for the list and this year it works out for me to add two VeggieTales Christmas episodes.

Since different holiday episodes are only watched with each holiday, since I was not able to catch up to the Thanksgiving episode of 8 Simple Rule’s first season, I will pretty much have to wait to roll the episodes before it and then wait another year to add it to the list long term. Meanwhile, I should (probably shouldn’t) tell you about the Christmas watching in terms of specials.

The first Christmas special that I watch is the Smurfs one. I replace that with a Christmas episode from the seventh season of NCIS. And with the Smurfs gone, this will mean that I can add Survivor whenever it works with the list. I watched the NCIS episode, but it will stay on the list so I can watch it again with commentary. Next I watched A Charlie Brown Christmas and replaced that with Survivor which will be number 4 on the rolling list. I will only watch one episode if I even roll it this month. Otherwise, it will revert to the normal list in January. Also, after the finale of season 31, I’ll just update my TV blog without having to watch any Survivor.

Continuing the Christmas watching that I’m doing, I watch The Tangerine Bear and replace that with Christmas related episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine. In the future, I’d have specials that I typically watch replace TV shows with the same letter instead of doing it the other way around. I also watch Frosty the Snowman and replace it with episodes of Farscape, which I’m borrowing from a friend. That’s on the other watching list of mine that’s not the newer one. It’s around this point that I might end up lowering the list to less choices. It all depends on what I roll. This means that Survivor might not even be a choice to roll. We’ll see about that.

I end up watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and cut the list to three choices. Those choices are the NCIS episode Faith with commentary, two Christmas related videos of Thomas the Tank Engine, and two Christmas VeggieTales. I watched one of the Thomas the Tank Engine specials before the list changed again. I’m finally able to add more specials to the list by watching a VHS tape that I have of Yogi’s First Christmas. After it is a special which changes the list again making the last choice X-mas VHS tape (as it was once called), and reinstating Survivor and Farscape to the lists. If by Thursday the choice of Survivor remains unwatched, I will certainly ignore the next episode until January (or later) whenever I happen to roll it.

There’s another update. One of the tapes that I watch that has Christmas things on it is of declining quality. While I can still probably watch it, I have decided to retire it. I might reinstate it in the future. But this will give me an excuse to watch a Christmas VHS tape of Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too instead of sticking to the tape that I watch. I might return to it at this point next year. I don’t know how long I’ve had this tape that I got from V-Stock. But I have yet to watch it and hope that it turns out good. Meanwhile, I also hope that I can get copies of Yogi’s First Christmas and The Wish that Changed Christmas in some other format should this tape continue to fail in the future. I know that I can get Ernest Saves Christmas.

To make a long story short, he got away with my snorkel. Wait, that’s something else. Anyways, I was not able to see any Survivor episodes during December, so I will go back to the normal list. I don’t know when I’ll roll the choice again, but I don’t have to worry about updating my TV blog for December anyways, and I’m good with it for the next few months as well, so it could be a while, actually.

Well, it is now January as of this paragraph. I might repeat just the recap parts of this post at the end with a message saying, in all caps, the only important part you need to read is beneath this line. This is probably an even worse post than when I did one introducing my look back at Survivor: Borneo. And, since this is a new year, if I finish watching this season this year, then I will not add it back to my lists until the next year. That could cause even further problems if I somehow don’t finish watching this season again this year.

For the first time this year, I rolled the number six on 1-25-2016. This ends the long streak of not being able to watch shows that I’ve had with some of the shows. That might not make sense. Anyways, I will now blog about the fourth episode of the season. Ironically, my TV blog would have been updated anyways today regardless of what I rolled. Also, I must roll from the list in February as I do not have a cheat that would work that month.

Sumo at Sea- Before the reward challenge, the tribe shows its continued lack of leadership by failing to pick a representative. Stephenie gets a confessional about the challenge. The tribe is still working on the challenge when Jeff Probst returns. She gets a second confessional about how she’s glad how the shelter turned out, even though they don’t end up winning. She gets a third confessional this episode about upcoming immunity challenge and how they can’t keep losing. In the challenge, she fights against Jenn and wins that round easily. There is a rematch of the fight later in the challenge. This one lasts longer, but ultimately ends with Stephenie winning again. However, the challenge is a close loss for Ulong who returns to tribal council. She is mad over the challenge loss in a fourth confessional for her this episode. She then talks in a fifth confessional about trying to get rid of the guys so they don’t gang up against the women. This is interesting as it doesn’t end up happening that the men take control, even though Kim does get voted off tonight. Stephenie even casts her vote that way, joining the majority of her tribe in making this decision. So that’s five confessionals this episode and twelve confessionals total.

The rolling list has finally changed for the first time this year. I finished something on my older list and thus moved something off of this list. The Muppet Show is now part of that list, moving it off of this list. I am replacing it with Wallace and Gromit. Why that? Well, I originally had two of the three classic tapes on VHS and at Goodwill I was able to find the missing tape. Thus, I will watch all three of the tapes. I also got something else new for a different collection, but I have to wait until something else is off of the main list before I can add it. Anyways, Survivor is now number 5 on the rolling list.

Since I must know watch a Survivor episode on DVD at least once a month, this creates a bit of a problem with all my choices. Waiting until I roll an episode of Survivor means that I will get further behind on my recorded shows on VHS. Meanwhile, I thought that I had a cheat so I didn’t have to watch a show this month, but I don’t. Hopefully this won’t prove a problem and I can roll this show quickly so I can get caught up on tapes.

Well, I roll a five on 2-3-2016 so I will watch the next episode of Survivor: Palau. This means that I don’t have to roll this choice again this month. Now this will affect my blogs overall for today since it is a Wednesday and I won’t be updating my Survivor blog today. But I’ll be sure to tell them what happen when I post on Sunday. But I will make sure that I have a cheat in place so I don’t have to worry about rolling Survivor when I would normally update my Survivor blog after a new episode. It’s a different kind of cheat, in case you are wondering. It’s one that would prevent me from rolling from the list of TV shows that I have on DVD.

The Best and Worst Reward Ever- Stephenie gets the first confessional on her tribe this episode. People are exploring the camp area and she gets a confessional about it. She gets a second confessional about how it is raining all night. Ulong took an early lead in the challenge, but it is blown when Ibrehem doesn’t get a bottle in his turn. Stephenie is close to winning the challenge, but that doesn’t end up happening, although it probably didn’t matter as Tom says that Koror was still ahead. Stephenie is hoping for an early merge in her third confessional of the episode where the tribe complains about losing all the time. Ulong is disappointed by their loss at tribal council and get kind of screwed by when Koror votes to give people from their tribe immunity. My records say that Ian and Coby voted for Stephenie to have immunity. There isn’t an official record of this, so it’s unknown if my information is right. Ibrehem wins immunity, thus throwing a wrench in the plans of Ulong. This leads to a bit of scattered votes. At first Stephenie votes against Bobby Jon, but there is a tie. It’s one of the few tie votes (possibly the only one) where we know for sure that there isn’t a possibility of a tie at the revote. Stephenie votes out Angie at the revote, joining the rest of her tribe in doing so. She now has three confessionals this episode and fifteen total.

I end up rolling another five on 2-9-2016. Now I was wanting to use a different computer at home more often, but I might not be able to. Besides, I just want to use it so I can finish reading a Time Magazine before its first birthday. (This is a double issue, so it has two first birthdays.) I will work hard to catch up on that. Meanwhile, I am not as backlogged on tapes as I could be, but I don’t have to roll this show next month anyways.

Jellyfish ‘n Chips- Stephenie’s vote change from Bobby Jon to Angie was mentioned in the recap. She gets a confessional about the tribal council and twist that it brought. Stephenie helps bring her tribe to a win at the reward challenge. She gets a confessional about it. They mention various Survivor facts that are printed on the Pringles. She gets a third confessional about the reward. Preparing for the immunity challenge, she gets another confessional. When confronted about the vote from the previous tribal council, she lies to Bobby Jon about her vote. This gets her another confessional. At tribal council, she doesn’t know who to vote for at first. Originally she votes against Ibrehem and causes a tie. But she then votes against James and he gets voted out. So she has five confessionals this episode and twenty total confessionals.

When it comes to the rolling lists of mine, there are two intentions of having multiple lists. It is certain that the only reason I have the second list is because of Survivor: Palau being one of the choices. Now either it will become part of the main list and that will be the only list or I will finish watching it while it is still on the other list that it is on now. Things from this other list could and probably will disappear in the future without moving to the other list, which is the main list. Only by enough choices being backlogged did I create this other list and being backlogged could create other lists. But not being able to keep up with stuff on VHS is the main problem, although any number of things could prevent me from watching shows on DVD.

There are problems with me watching things on my lists as I’m too far behind on tapes. There are things on the list that I haven’t rolled this year. We are in March now as of this paragraph. I will need to roll an episode in at least April. But I’m getting so backlogged with other choices that if I’m not able to roll choices like now then I’m not able to finish watching stuff and replace it with other stuff. There might be more problems and if there are, I might tell you about it in my next recap which I can hopefully figure out how that will work. Meanwhile, I really need to figure out how to better handle these lists in the future. I’m not sure if I can go back to other ways of watching shows, whatever that was. I can’t even remember that well what it was.

I decided that if you want to get bragging rights, I will create a ten question quiz to anyone who claims they have read all of this blog post. If you get all ten questions right, I will post you in the hall of fame that I will especially create just for you. Remember that not all of this on the quiz will actually refer to what this post should be about and it will mostly be about the ramblings between the actually important parts of the blog post. If you are up for the task, just let me know.

Kelly Wiglesworth may not be the next recap I do after all. Maybe I should create a poll like I did with the contestants from Palau and someone can decide based on those choices who they think should be the next recap. If it is not Kelly, then the Borneo contestant it will be could be Jenna, Sue, Rudy, or Richard with Kelly still remaining a choice. I’m not sure when I’ll do that poll, but it will be before I finish this recap on Stephenie.

I am at a point now when I am backlogged on tapes and can’t watch anything from either list of shows to watch. But I have only a limited number of shows that I can watch. Once I run out of that number, if I’m still backlogged, I’ll just roll from this alternate list that I’m using. Every time I roll from it gives me another jump ahead, as I call them, to watch an episode on tape as this other list doesn’t have the tape as a rolling option. Also, I’ll have to roll a Survivor episode at least once in April as I do not have any cheats that would allow me to avoid rolling to update my TV blog (although I will update the blog at least once that month regardless of if the roll ever works out on it or not).

When it comes time for April, which is what will happen soon as I’m writing this paragraph, I might as well say that I’m going to go back to rolling for choices as soon as I’m done watching one of these tapes. I must then roll Survivor to go back to watching the tapes. Of course, I still will update my TV blog in April if I’m not able to roll an episode.

It turns out that I am able to roll an episode in April. On 4-10-2016, I get to watch the next episode. Since I have cheats to update my TV blog in May, it will be until at least June before I have to roll for a new episode. Meanwhile, I just need a break from recording shows on VHS for a while so I won’t get so backlogged on them and won’t need to get caught up as much.

The Great White Shark Hunter- Stephenie starts the episode with a confessional about the fact that her tribe keeps losing challenges. It is only now on my fourth time watching this season that I’m able to catch the foreshadowing. Both tribes build a distress signal for the reward challenge. The challenge is actually an interesting point given the huge number advantage that Koror has. They are the only tribe to sit out the same people in back to back challenges as the other tribe had less than half of their members. You can tell that the edit favors Koror and not Ulong because Ulong sucks so much. Ulong loses the reward. Stephenie gets a second confessional about why they want to win a challenge. Sadly, they won’t ever win a challenge again on Ulong. Stephenie originally helps with one part of the immunity challenge and then switches to the other. Regardless, her tribe loses again. She gets a third confessional when she was worrying about the upcoming tribal council. Stephenie seems to be considered for the vote against Ibrehem and she tries to get Bobby Jon on her side. She gets her first vote against her from Ibrehem. She votes against Ibrehem and Bobby Jon does as well eliminating him. This means that she has three confessionals this episode and twenty-three total confessionals.

One of the reasons that I’m so backlogged on tapes is that I record as much as I do on tape. Now it isn’t always me having three shows that I watch at once that get things recorded on tape instead of either watched live or recorded on my laptop. Sometimes there is too much room on my laptop for stuff so I record it on tape instead. Sometimes it’s the same situation with shows I would typically watch live. Sometimes someone is using my laptop so I record on VHS instead of using my laptop as I normally would. But there are problems with it and most of it is just me watching too much TV. Here’s hoping that I’ll like less shows in the next TV season. It’s sad that I’m hoping that when you think about it. But in a way, it is far more sad that I watch this much TV in the first place.

Things are changing in the Survivor world in terms of what is on DVD. Or, at least that’s what they are saying. It seems that there is nothing new released since South Pacific, but they are getting closer to releasing Blood versus Water on DVD. When they do, it will be added to my wish list and hopefully I can acquire it at some point. I might end up buying it for myself. The last show on DVD that I bought for myself was NCIS: Los Angeles season 1 and I told you that when I did my look back of Borneo back in 2014. When will I be able to do the look back of Blood versus Water? I don’t know when that will happen at the moment. I’ll try to report it so hopefully it won’t be during the summer or winter hiatus of Survivor, although it could be. I’ll tell you about it either as I’m able to start it or during the regular season if I get it on DVD or not. I’m just really confused by the whole preorder thing. Why are so many seasons out for preorder but not something we can buy?

Remember when I talked about using a different font so you’d know which parts of the blog post to read? Well, I’m about to introduce another font that includes shared information. Since I normally tell people about what group of shows on DVD I’m watching in my blog about Madam Secretary, I will have some linked information there. Here’s more information about this:

If you ever see this font when I do a post, then I have linked it up with my Madam Secretary blog in a way for a reason. I talk about what I watch on DVD in that blog and once Survivor: Palau is moved to that blog (if it is at all, that is), I will mention certain things in this font in both this blog and my blog about Madam Secretary.

To prove how lazy I am at these blogs of mine, read the post on the season finale of Madam Secretary (if it is posted yet, that is) and look for a paragraph on that font. I changed very little when a basically transferred the same thing into this document. While I’m on this topic, copying and pasting things are generally a bad idea as that could be plagiarism in many ways. Or not. It depends on what you are copying and why. For instance, the fact that most of this post (the important parts, at least) was already posted by myself isn’t something that could be worried about. You copying this blog and claiming it as your own is something that would cause a problem.

Finally getting into the whole summer watching shows is a good thing since that means finally getting caught up on stuff. And this means that the list will finally change. Now I was able to roll everything off of the list once the new year started except for The Big Bang Theory. It wasn’t until the last day of May in which I was finally able to watch it. Now I am done with it for the moment as the next episode in line to watch is a Halloween based episode that I will not watch until October. This creates the first time something is removed from this list without being moved to the other list. I am replacing The Big Bang Theory with the previously holiday locked NCIS season 7.

Remember how I have different blogs? Well, now there are times that I won’t want to roll Survivor since I plan on updating other blogs on those days. Of course, things could easily change relating to that. I’m posting more of my Good Wife blog and my CSI: Cyber blog now that both shows are over. I’ll do that until every episode from the show I have left to publish is up there. Sometimes I don’t roll this option when I want to, but we’ll see what happens for sure or not.

June is now the month as of this paragraph. I will not have any cheats until August to post my TV blog in except for really late in the month should I not roll it at all. But I don’t have any unused offering envelopes until August so I’ll have to roll it this month and the next month for sure. Plus, there is still a backlog of tapes that need to be caught up on. I have to roll anyways and since I don’t have enough automatic watch options of the tapes anyways, it’s good to get caught up anyways.

Well, the rolling list has changed again. It won’t affect where Survivor: Palau is on the list just yet. But the Laugh it up Fuzzball trilogy is now on the older list. Replacing it on this list is Power Rangers season 1, volume 1. (Actually, select episodes of Power Rangers: Megaforce will be on the list before being replaced by what I mentioned.) There was once a time when I had the single list of mine down to just three choices. Power Rangers was one of the three. I had a rule against watching the same show twice in one day. This meant that if I already had watched Power Rangers that day and rolled it again, I would have to keep rolling for an option until I got something other than Power Rangers. As a result, I ended up with more jump aheads to watch than episodes that I could watch at the time. Now that I have more seasons of it to watch, I can finally use the rest of those jump aheads.

At first I thought that I might never end up rolling Survivor: Palau during the month of June. I was all ready to just do my obligated monthly post of my TV blog anyways once I reached a certain point without a roll of it. Well, on 6-22-2016, I finally rolled the option after constantly rolling a five on my other list. I was not ultimately able to watch the episode or update my TV blog until the next day, but I figured that I might as well roll it to see if I would finally get it or not. Looks like the stars have finally aligned and I’ve also got enough tape jump aheads to go back to what recorded shows I still need to get caught up on. I just hope that I don’t have problems in July regarding what to roll for.

Neanderthal Man- Stephenie starts this episode with a confessional. It has always bothered me that there wasn’t a merge in this episode. I guess that producers just wanted to see a tribe of one for a change. At the reward challenge, it comes down to a tie-breaker that Ulong loses. Nobody could root for the members of Ulong. Koror had the sit-outs all rooting for the tribe. Stephenie believes that Bobby Jon is the strongest on their tribe. She gets another confessional about their tribe’s constant losses and she seems at first that Bobby Jon is taking it too well. Some members of Koror talk about wanting Stephenie to survive longer since she was originally part of the Tom, Katie, and Ian group that I will mention later.

Recap continued- Stephenie talks about how Bobby Jon is like a cave man (or Neanderthal man?) in another confessional. I’m wondering if some of what she is saying is actually from the next episode but put into this one. She is at around five confessionals so far this episode. She gets yet another before the upcoming immunity challenge. Ulong loses the immunity challenge and will thus never win again. Stephenie gets another two confessionals after the loss. She puzzles over what might happen in the future. She is also concerned over Bobby Jon being too good at the game. She gets yet another confessional about it. At tribal council, she wins the intense special immunity challenge. I do wonder why it was a fire making tie-breaker, but I guess that anything else would have been anticlimactic. Do you know how random a rock draw would have been? By winning this challenge, she causes the elimination of Bobby Jon. If my count is corright, Stephenie has nine confessionals this episode. She would then have thirty-two total confessionals.

Well, the rolling list has changed again. It will probably and hopefully do a lot of that this summer. I finished watching Wallace and Gromit and will replace that with season 1 of Dollhouse. Now I had dreamt about Dollhouse while it was still last year but knew that I wouldn’t be able to add it until this year. So I’m adding it this year with Spanish subtitles. If you ever saw something on my facebook page in Spanish, it was a quote from Dollhouse. The change in the list means that Survivor: Palau is now number 6 on the roll.

It didn’t take long for the list to change yet again. With a choice removed from the main list since I finished watching that, I am moving Invader Zim off of this list. It will be replaced by Richard Scarry videos that I have. This does not affect where Survivor: Palau is on the list.

I end up rolling Survivor: Palau again on 7-8-2016. This could possibly mess up some of my other blogs in a way, but I’m not entirely sure if it does or not. I’ll just do what changes I can and things should work out for the best.

I Will Not Give Up- If there were ever an episode about Stephenie, this is the one. We begin with her returning to camp alone and getting a confessional about it. I guess I would call this a really long confessional in a way. She gets another confessional while still alone on Ulong. She then gets the treemail about joining Koror. She calls this a merge, but it isn’t actually considered one. Stephenie gets a third confessional in the episode by talking about her new tribe Koror. Jenn talks about Stephenie and Jenn considers her a threat.

Recap continued: Coby ends up making a possibly fatal mistake by telling Stephenie all that is wrong with Koror. Some Palauans teach Koror members how to fish which Stephenie is happy about in a confessional. In another confessional, she’s concerned about being the next one to go. Coby does air Koror’s dirty laundry to Stephenie, a move that got him voted out later. Everyone talking to Stephenie confuses her and makes her wonder if she’s safe or not. Jeff tells Tom that they can vote out Stephenie and make it an easy vote. She loses the challenge for pizza, which is the last of the food temptations. (I just lost the game.) At tribal council, Jenn talks about her rivalry with Stephenie. She talks about possibly feeling bad for herself if she got voted out tonight. She only gets one vote against her from Janu. Meanwhile, she joins the rest of the tribe in voting out Coby. She has six confessionals this episode. It wasn’t as much about her as I thought. She then has thirty-eight total confessionals.

Well, the rolling list has changed once again. Flashpoint has moved up off of this list. In its place, I will be watching the second season of Charmed. The last episode I watched of it was a Valentine’s Day episode. Since that holiday has passed, I’m putting it back on this list. Now, the next thing set to move up off of this list is Survivor: Palau. If that happens, then I will not be using this alternate list anymore. But that’s if I don’t finish watching something else on this list first. I’m also reaching the point where there may be too many duplicate letters and not enough new letter choices. But, if Survivor: Palau is transferred, then I won’t have to worry about that, for a while at least.

The list has changed and it is not the transfer of Survivor: Palau just yet. That would mean the end of this list for a while. But the list change is a bit complicated. Why do I say that? Well, I’m adding two different choices to this list while temporarily nullifying a choice already on the list. The next item to be added is the first season of NCIS. I’m starting at the first season again due to a dream about an episode from before the seventh season that I was watching. Like Dollhouse, I’ll have to watch this in a foreign language whenever possible, but this won’t work for the first season just yet. So the first change to the list is the first season of NCIS instead of the seventh. I will switch back to the seventh later.

Now, you don’t even know which of the choices from this newer list has been removed just yet. That show that I finished watching was the Richard Scarry videos that I have. The new letter choice that will be added to this list is VeggieTales on DVD. This puts Survivor: Palau as number 6 on the list.

Remember how this is linked up my TV blog in a way? Well, if you read any of my other blogs, you’ll know that they have changed starting during the summer. The cancellations of both The Good Wife and CSI: Cyber have made me change the way that I did those blogs. I already did them in a strange way in the first place as I wouldn’t post about the new episode immediately after each new episode happened. I thus started in May posting the rest of the episodes of those shows each week. The roll of this show is how I started posting The Good Wife episodes on Fridays and CSI: Cyber episodes on Saturdays.

The next month, the roll messed up this schedule and moved The Good Wife to Saturdays and CSI: Cyber to Sundays. This, in a way, left Friday unfilled in posts. Then, a roll happened that would put the TV blog on a Friday. I decided to start doing weekly Friday posts of my TV blog from that point forward, although I might put it on other days in the future. This push back put The Good Wife on Sundays and CSI: Cyber on Mondays. It was then that I stopped posting CSI: Cyber. This means that, at the moment at least, Saturdays and Mondays are unfilled days that can be locked in for weekly posts on my TV blog should I ever roll this choice on that day. This also means that I won’t have to roll Survivor every month with possible exceptions for as long as everything works out with the current weekday.

I have yet another update about the rolling list and it affects this blog. You see, I am moving Survivor: Palau off of my other list and it becomes part of the main list. This means that, at the moment at least, there is no need for a second list and I’m going to go back to a more manageable list of six choices instead of two lists of six choices. So the choices currently on this list will slowly be moved to the other lists as stuff on that list slowly disappears. That means that once any show is removed off of the main list, I’ll then add, in this order, NCIS season 7, Power Rangers season 1, volume 1, Dollhouse season 1 with Spanish subtitles, Charmed season 2, NCIS season 1, and VeggieTales on DVD. And there are more choices after those.

Now that these blogs are linked up in a way at time, you will be seeing more posts like this in the courier new font. Every time I roll the Survivor: Palau choice, you will see a note about it in two of my blogs. These notes will explain when I’m able to watch these episodes of Survivor: Palau.

On 7-30-2016, I rolled the number 5 and will watch the next Survivor: Palau episode. This will put the updates of my TV blog on Saturdays and get rid of the Friday updates as it is the end of the month. I will wait for the next roll after this.

Exile Island- We begin with a recap of Stephenie’s time alone on Ulong. For the reward challenge, Stephenie is put with a group of Ian, Katie, and Jenn. Her team or tribe loses the challenge. She gets a confessional before the immunity challenge. There is talk about voting out Stephenie. She gets a second confessional about thinking that she’ll be the one who is voted out. She only has two new confessionals this episode. Stephenie gets upset at the tribal council due to Janu wanting to quit the game. In the end, Janu decides to quit the game so there’s no vote. This puts Stephenie at forty total confessionals.

You know, soon it will be the one year anniversary of when I started watching this show on DVD. You’ve probably heard of the phrase: moving at a snail’s pace. Well, I’m moving so slowly at this, a snail could easily beat me. I’m hoping that I can at least finish this before the next winter hiatus of Survivor. Meanwhile, people are probably wondering what happened to this potential recap of mine. I am working on it, but I don’t do it as quickly as someone else. I still won’t know at first whether I’ll be doing a recap on a Borneo contestant next or if Blood versus Water will come out on DVD so I can watch that twice more with blog posts for a regular look back and another recapping Caleb Bankston’s time on the show. And I still don’t know yet if I’ll be wanting any other past season of Survivor right now.

On 8-4-2016, I rolled the number five again which means that I will watch the next episode. This day was a Thursday so this doesn’t mean any new weekly updates for my TV blog. I could finish watching this season sooner than expected, especially now that I only have one list of shows to roll from.

I’ll Show You How Threatening I am: Stephenie starts the episode with a confessional. She gets another confessional wondering what happened to her alliance on this tribe. There’s even a third confessional about it. There’s yet another confessional about what might happen next and how Stephenie wants to show others that she’s a threat. At the Survivor auction, Stephenie joins Caryn to buy an item. They originally get cheese and crackers, but trade it for hamburgers and fries. After Tom sets the price for the letters from home, Stephenie is allowed to buy hers at the same price he bought his at. Stephenie gets a confessional about the letters from home that she got. Stephenie talks about a possible all women’s alliance after she loses the immunity challenge. She’s at seven confessionals before tribal council happens. She votes against Caryn in the episode, but the rest of the tribe votes against her and she’s eliminated. This gives her forty-seven confessionals.

With Stephenie’s elimination, there really isn’t much to blog about until the jury speaks so the next two episodes are kind of irrelevant in a way. Then the finale won’t matter for a long while until Stephenie addresses the jury. Then there’s the reunion show, which I know will matter when it comes to airtime that Stephenie will get.

On 8-17-2016, I rolled the number 5 again. That day was a Wednesday so this means that I will be updating my TV blog instead of my Survivor blog on that day. I am almost done with watching the show on DVD.

We’ll Make You Pay: Stephenie’s last stand is covered in the recap. That’s pretty much all the airtime she’ll probably get this episode. I am right about that. I’m not sure how I should be doing the recap part right now, but we’ll see.

I know that the alternate TV show watching list that I roll from is gone now, but since I’m still transferring stuff to the main list, I might as well tell you what gets transferred to the main list from the old alternate list. NCIS season 7 is now on the main list. If I still had this other list, this would be an ideal moment as this would mean that only the earlier NCIS season would still be on the alternate list and I wouldn’t have to worry about any major changes in the list.

The list has changed again and I’m moving Power Rangers season 1 volume 1 to the main list. I’m not sure what other major changes there will be to the list in the near future, although there could be something that would be changed soon.

On 8-24-2016, I rolled the number 5 again. This means that I get to watch the penultimate episode of Survivor: Palau. Just one more change and then I will finish watching it.

It Could All Backfire: It appears that there is no importance of Stephenie to the story of this episode, which seems appropriate as she is on the jury right now. I’m surprised that there wasn’t a mention of how the previous episode started with only contestants from the original Koror tribe.

On 8-30-2016, I rolled the number 5 and watched the last episode of Survivor: Palau. This will mean replacing it on the list. It could be a while before Survivor: Borneo is added to the list, but you’ll see more about that later.

The Ultimate Shock: Stephenie is mentioned a lot in the really long recap leading into the finale. On the rites of passage, Stephenie talks about how much stronger she is now because of Survivor. Her jury speech is first addressing Tom about how he might have done something to save her in the game. She also asks Katie what she might have done better than Tom. Katie thought that whoever came from Ulong would be voted out, but Tom retorts that he thought that Stephenie was an ace in the hole. Ultimately, Stephenie gives her vote to win to Tom.

Reunion show: Stephenie gets a segment of the reunion show to herself. Jeff Probst wonders how it felt to be on a tribe on her own. She is considered one of the most popular women to play the game. She only gets a small amount of airtime as they were much better at doing the reunion show back then.

Notes about Stephenie: Special features reveal that she auditioned the moment that she got out of college. She was in an early alliance with Katie, Tom, and Ian, but they all wound up on a different tribe than she was. When she realizes that these people want her out, she tries and fails to create an all women’s alliance. This is when she gets voted out.

Well, there’s still more useless things for me to talk about in this extended blog post of mine. Since Survivor: Palau is now gone from the main list, I am replacing that with Dollhouse. That means that I will now have only three choices from the alternate list to be transferred, in this order: Charmed season 2, NCIS season 1, and VeggieTales on DVD. Of course, there are other options to add past them. I probably will share the n option with the seventh season of NCIS by alternating between the two of them for as long as necessary. We’ll also see if I ever create a list like that again.

Congratulations! You have wasted a lot of time by reading this whole blog post. But, consider yourself a dedicated reader of this blog. Send me a private message on facebook if you have read all of this post so I can quiz you about it. There are 13 pages of this post. Also, if you have a blog about Survivor, let me know. I will return in the future with a recap of Sue Hawk from Borneo. That’s who won the poll I had posted as I decided not to automatically go with Kelly Wiglesworth after all. Maybe next time. I’ll be back soon with more blog posts. I mean, a new season is about to start. It will be nice to get back to blogging about episodes again.