CSCin3D wrote:
Mypoody2 wrote:
Quiddity wrote:
^But how in the world is that relevant to Survivor, a show that never airs repeats? We're not arguing the viability of DVDs of the show here, which have been proven to not work for likely the very reason you mention. That's 100% irrelevent to Survivor's neilson ratings sans the recap episode, which is always viewed as irrelevent anyway.
I honestly think that survivor doesn't rely as heavily on suspense as most other reality shows do. TAR for example is almost completely unwatchable in re-run form. Survivor, however, can be rewatched hundreds of times because of the story-lines. DWTS and American Idol are also virtually un-re-watchable.


See, that's the problem with the newer seasons. The "storylines" now tend to focus on one person in a very cartoonish way (Coach, Russell, etc.) or just pure strategy (Micronesia). Pure strategy is NOT fun to rewatch, because once you know the outcome there's no mystery.
I'm going to disagree with you. I don't think they focus on one person in a very cartoonish way. I think they give a dynamic edit to that person in that they have episodes to hate coach and also one episode to love him. This is what they've always done. Inversely, they've had episodes to love sugar and one episode to hate her. Aside from those players, I think we were able to get to know everyone else. Strategy is boring, and I don't think the new seasons are revolving around strategy whatsoever... infact the past few episodes of this season were solely about the struggle to survive and people's mentality.