Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Episode 33.10

You might be wondering why I didn’t update this blog after the newest Survivor episode aired. Well, I was very busy from sometime on Wednesday when the episode originally aired, causing me to miss the episode, until sometime on Monday after all the chaos of Thanksgiving break happened and ended. I was out of state visiting relatives. Normally, they come here for Thanksgiving, but things change and I may be leaving state again. Hopefully I’ll be able to see the episode, or I’ll do an awkward post here about how I wasn’t able to actually blog about it, like I did with the third episode of Caramoan that I probably could have watched online without any problems. So I’m sorry about the lack of a blog post last week and I should inform you that new updates of this blog will now be on Thursdays, the day after a new episode airs, until the end of the season. Now, back to the regularly scheduled blog post:

Something that I didn’t mention in my last blog post was something that Lex from Africa and All-Stars posted on his facebook page. There was some facebook error which had memorialized his page. He posted about the mistake as he was surprised that this would have happened. I do have to wonder about memorializing facebook pages since someone I know has died and that seems like the logic thing to do. I wouldn’t want to leave it out in limbo at least. I still don’t know who will be death number four for the Survivor community and I don’t honestly want to know since that would mean that it actually happened. I just hope that it’s not Todd from China as he’s been going through a lot.

It seems like a lot of things have been going on with this computer. The AVG Zen thing seems messed up in a way. I don’t think that I wanted it in the first place, and now I’d have to pay for it to keep it. Can I at least keep the regular AVG? I like the free version. I don’t want this to be some annoying thing that computers do or try to do to you despite what you actually want. I just hope that they aren’t trying to take over the world as the plot of many movies are. Has anyone else been having this problem with AVG? Is there a different antivirus I should use instead?

I had dreams about what might have happened in this episode before I was able to see it. The dream was basically another confusing thing where it implied that I would be watching the next episode before or without me seeing this one first. I’m surprised and annoyed that they made it two hours long. That wasn’t even clear in the promos. They said that two contestants would be voted out, but they never said that it would be a two hour long episode. It could have been like in Samoa or Heroes versus Villains where they had two people voted out in a postmerge episode that only lasted an hour. It is always annoying when they just air a longer version of a show as if most of us don’t already have some sort of plan in place with what to watch after the show under a normal basis. Aren’t we normally watching whatever other show we want to? I guess that they don’t care about our normal plan on those nights. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, the tribe gets back from tribal council. Jay doesn’t like how Taylor threw him under the bus. But he shares the rest of the food with the tribe and he is certain that no one will think that he has an idol now.

In the second segment of the show, apparently Hannah and Ken might be together, but this is according to the awkward Hannah who can’t even say what she’s trying to say. Will tells Zeke about Jay’s idol and this soon becomes common knowledge throughout the tribe. (What happened between you and Professor Quirrell was a complete secret. So, naturally, the whole school knows.) Next comes the reward challenge. David wants to sit out of his own accord, but ends up playing after the support of his tribe. Jay is the one who doesn’t wind up playing. I'll always hate forced losers. The purple team of Zeke, Adam, Hannah, Bret, and Sunday ends up winning.

In the third segment of the show, Hannah is glad that she won her first reward, although she’s doesn’t want the losers to be upset. Adam is emotional when he gets a letter from home. All of the reward winners get a letter too. David somehow had a fear of life. Is that a real thing? That seems bad. David wants to vote out Chris, although it seems that Jessica wants Zeke gone. It’s too soon to know what will happen for sure until the immunity challenge.

In the fourth segment of the show, we get to the immunity challenge. It is something different, yet very similar to challenges that we’ve seen in the past. David winds up winning the challenge, although it was a close finish. It's hard to recap the challenge this time.

In the fifth segment of the show, Jay talks about blowing the challenge. Sunday wants to get out Jessica. Why can’t women get along on this show? There are three women left and they turn on each other. Haven’t they seen John Tucker Must Die? There is discussion among who to vote for. Well, right before I started watching the episode online, I was spoiled as to who would be eliminated. I should have just gone straight to Survivor’s part of the website. Chris gets voted out and proves that when Jeff asks you if you are safe third, you are probably the one getting voted out.

It then goes straight into the post tribal council life. Jay is glad that he didn’t play the idol: that his gamble paid off. David wants to get rid of Zeke and Zeke thinks the same of David. Somehow, David and Zeke form a rivalry with their sides to the game.

In the sixth segment of the show, there is more talk among David and Zeke about each other. Why are they so against each other? I guess that, like most rivalries, there isn’t really a cause: it just happens.  At the reward challenge, instead of the sit-out automatically losing, this time, the sit-out automatically wins. That seems strange to me. The orange team of Bret, Sunday, and Zeke win the challenge. Adam talks about not using his advantage this time around.

In the seventh segment of the show, Zeke and Bret become drinking buddies. Bret is apparently gay and tells Zeke about it. So they bond over this. I wonder if they will start dating at some point. There’s not much to this segment.

In the eighth segment of the show, Hannah wonders who to vote out. She reveals information to David about the game. David then considers what potential mistakes he may have made in the game. We then get to the next immunity challenge. The challenge has a maze that has to be solved before anything else happens. But, contestants can’t see the maze as they solve it. Jay solves it first and then has a huge lead on the sliding puzzle. He ends up winning the challenge.

In the ninth segment of the show, Jay doesn’t want to give his idol to any other player. You know, Adam is probably the only one in the game who still has a secret idol still. Things seem to be falling apart for everyone, it seems. Is it still David and Zeke? I can’t honestly tell. How did things become five against five anyways? We might be missing something here...

At tribal council, David plays his idol for Ken. But Ken doesn’t get votes. It is between Zeke and Hannah. This means that if he had played it for Hannah like she wanted, he could have averted a tie and caused his enemy’s elimination. After the first tied vote, they vote again. There is still a tie and they decide to draw for rocks as they can’t decide who to vote out. Jessica (whose side was she on?) is the person who ends up drawing a rock. She wills her legacy advantage to Ken. Why Ken? That doesn’t really seem like a connection she had, but we don’t know much about her from her invisible edit.

On the next Survivor, David does something or another of some sort. The loved ones challenge changes the game once again. Will Adam use his advantage? Why do they even have such a strange advantage in the game in the first place?

Total confessional count: Zeke- 28, Jay- 22, Will- 8, David- 32, Sunday- 9, Chris- 15, Adam- 24, Bret- 12, Jessica- 15, Ken- 13, Hannah- 17.

New confessionals this episode: David- 7, Sunday- 2, Chris- 1, Adam- 4, Bret- 2, Jessica- 4, Ken- 1, Hannah- 4, Zeke- 9, Jay- 4, Will- 1.

Chris had only one new confessional in this two hour episode. He had the same number as Ken and Will. Jessica had four confessionals this episode, the same number as Hannah, Jay, and Adam. The people with confessionals between the number of Jessica and Chris were Sunday and Bret. David and Zeke were both higher than four with Zeke as the highest with nine. In terms of total confessionals, Chris and Jessica have fifteen confessionals. Those with a lower number are Ken, Will, Sunday, and Bret. The lowest total count is Will with eight. David has the highest with thirty-two. While it probably was two separate episodes combined into one, I still decided to make it one count for this episode.


Well, I’d like to apologize again for this being a week late due to Thanksgiving. Hopefully this won’t happen again, but I should be able to explain it in the next post if this ever does happen again. I know that I’ve missed planned posts in the past, although that’s typically from the hiatus between seasons when most people don’t even update their Survivor blogs anyways. I’ll be back tomorrow with the episode that airs later tonight. Posts will be on Thursdays now until the season is over. Then, I’ll move them back to Wednesdays. I don’t know yet when the new season will start, but I’ll find out more about that later. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.

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