Episode 35.4

I don't know if you know that my laptop was having problems even though I was still able to work on it despite these problems. I'm getting the laptop fixed and am using a different one for now. Hopefully I can get mine back to use normally for the future pretty soon. Until then, I'm glad that I have another option. I hope that then I can use what I planned for this post in the next post like I did in April when the laptop failed then. But enough of my ramblings.

In the first segment of the show, we get immediately to a challenge that is set up for three tribes. The tribes are then switched around. I don't know if I can get all the new tribes or not. I might get them later. But there are still three tribes and the two love birds are still together. Ben had an alliance with Chrissy apparently.

In the second segment of the show, we get to the reward challenge. How long are they going to keep up the new three tribes? This is the typical do something then solve a puzzle. Only the winner will get reward. I wouldn't be to thrilled about this reward, although I wouldn't have to use the peanut butter, I think. Peanut butter is only good paired with chocolate, in which case it is AMAZING! The blue tribe struggles a lot during it. The red tribe wins. Ali feels that her tribe fails. I think that's why they aired that confessional, but I have no idea who is one what tribe anymore.

In the third segment of the show, to little surprise, there is a secret advantage in one of the chip bags. Jessica gets what is very similar to the veto armelet from international seasons of Survivor if you care about them. She gets to block a vote at tribal council and this has to be given to the other tribe if they win. She tells Cole despite the fact that he doesn't keep secrets as evidenced by the last episode. To little surprise, he blabs it to everyone on his tribe. This is why I wouldn't tell secrets to my sister if we were playing together. (Love you, if you are reading this.) Ryan tells Chrissy that he was responsible for her getting the idol. Joe lies to a person on his new tribe for some reason and Ashley doesn't like the fact that Alan is on her new tribe.

In the fourth segment of the show, Lauren wants to tell Mike about the advantage. She wants to prolong herself in the game since she knows that Jessica and Cole are buddy buddy. This could actually bite Lauren. Cole blabs that he blabbed to them and now she is rethinking her relationship with him. There's still nothing shown on Joe's tribe about his idol so his tribe could be losing this immunity challenge. Let's get to that, shall we? The red tribe comes in first, although I don't think that things will stay well with Jessica and Cole. The yellow tribe comes in second and the blue tribe will head to tribal council. What can Jessica do with her vote blocking power?

In the fifth segment of the show, we get to Levu, the blue tribe, after their defeat. Devon learns of Joe's previous lie about people trying to vote against him. Joe continues to be all concerned and devious. He thinks that Desi is getting voted out and wonders if he should play the idol. We still don't know who Jessica will either give her power to or block from voting. I think that she can't just pick someone, can she? There is a load argument over who should be voted out? Joe is really crazy. Desi thinks she is a target and she wants Joe to play the idol on her to gain her trust. Risky move. I wouldn't trust her, but it could be a good move in the end. How is Alan not the crazy person? Devon gets the secret advantage.

Tribal council is next. Joe talks about his crazy plan before tribal council. We don't really know what all is going to happen. I don't know who Devon would block with his vote or why he doesn't yet know that that's the power of the secret. What is good for each player's game? Devon is blocked from voting which is not the advantage he thought he was getting. I like how they played that. But why did Devon get targetted by Jessica?

When asked about an idol, Joe plays it for himself. That's the best move even if he does wind up wasting it. To little surprise, he got votes. It would have been a tie between him and Alan if he hadn't played it. How would they have resolved it if Devon can't vote? Alan is voted out and Joe is now the most annoying player still in this season. Hopefully he can get voted out next. It would seem that Desi voted with him even though he didn't hold up his end of the deal. What could that mean?

On the next Survivor, there is a wiggle room, an alliance that might not work, and other things that might be crazy too. I don't understand what went on with the blocked vote, but we might find out more about it later and I'll see what my local news has to say about Jessica, which will be a lot this time. In fact, I might just wait until the broadcast of it tonight (and maybe in the future) to add to this blog post too. If you care, comment on this blog and say where and when you want me to mention this on blog. I can also not mention her news blurb at all if you'd rather, but I might as well since I have this link.

Total confessional count: Lauren- 9, Ryan- 12, Desi- 5, Mike- 3, Alan- 7, Ben- 7, Ali- 9, JP- 2, Chrissy- 5, Jessica- 10, Roark- 3, Cole- 5, Joe- 9, Ashley- 7, Devon- 5.

New confessionals this episode: Devon- 2, Lauren- 2, Ryan- 1, Desi- 3, Mike- 1, Alan- 2, Ben- 2, Ali- 1, JP- 0, Chrissy- 2, Jessica- 5, Roark- 1, Cole- 2, Joe- 3, Ashley- 2.

Alan had two confessionals this episode, the same number as Chrissy, Devon, Cole, Lauren, Ben, and Ashley. The only people higher are Jessica, Joe, and Desi with Jessica as the highest with five. Everyone else was lower with JP as the lowest with no new confessionals. In terms of total confessionals, Alan had seven, the same number as Ashley and Ben. The people that are higher are Jessica, Ryan, Lauren, Joe, and Ali with everyone else lower than seven. Jessica is now in double digits, but Ryan remains the highest with twelve. The lowest is JP with just two. I can't even remember who this guy is.

Jessica was mentioned in the news again as she trusted someone more than she should have. Her parents are the people that get the main bit of interview for the news blurb and we don't get anything from her yet. The story mentioned nothing about her advantage, but I guess that they are just doing whatever short things they can do.

That's all for this blog post. We'll see what ends up happening with whatever laptop I might end up using whenever I can blog about this show. Just know that I will use something as long as I can and keep this blog updated. If the show were on hiatus, then you might get a break from updates for a while. I guess that we'll see what ends up happening. I could even use both laptops while I keep this one for this blog until the end of the season should both of them work in the future and I'm allowed to keep this one. I should know by the next post if I can use my main laptop again. I hope that I can as the copy and paste doesn't seem to work well on this other laptop. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.