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Wolfie	NOTE to Mark Burnett and CREW - BRING BACK SURVIVOR OLD SKOOL STYLE!	Lead	[-]
Posts: 21 (12/15/08 7:52 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Every "season" the show evolves and you add more and more shit and its hardly the Survivor people remebered and actually watched because they "liked" it and NOT because it was "there" 1. DITCH THE HIDDEN IMMUNITY IDOL. 2. REDUCE THE "MACTOR" RATIO - (I know its hard going through Millions of applications but REAL people are more interesting when they are breaking down and starving. 3. STOP EXILE ISLAND. Serves NO PURPOSE. 4. STOP GIVING SO MUCH FOOD AS A REWARD. (Looks like Contestants are gaining weight now. How is that SURVIVING? Make em eat RATS 5. STOP WITH THE SET-UP SHOOTS AND RETAKES. (Nothing SCREAMS Phoney like. "Oooooooh an elephant" and "Will you marry me?" 6. STOP SWITCHING TRIBES EVERY FEW DAYS. (Screws with alliances and the Players ability to actually play the game. And this is basically the reason the most underserving make it to the end.) 7. NEVER and I MEAN NEVER BRING BACK BOOTED PLAYERS OT BOYS vs. GIRLS AGAIN. 8. STOP STEREOTYPING. (You know you do it. Can the Gay Guys be any Gayer? Can the African Americans be more Hood? Can the Asians be more insrutible. It's beginning to show now.) Just bring it back to Basics guys. You know this run can't last forever right?
Dr Will Hatch two point oh		#1	[-]
Posts: 6560 (12/15/08 7:53 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	My red X is so large that it doesn't register to human eyes.
Wolfie		#2	[-]
Posts: 22 (12/15/08 7:55 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	RED X? Is that AGREE or DISAGREE? Not really sure. Don't post much here. Sorry Survivor just seems over-produced now to me. And the changes every season doesn't make it interesting to me now. Just pisses me off. No one over the past 10 Seasons would have lasted 21 Days under the conditions of Season 1 Last Edited By: Wolfie 12/15/08 8:02 AM. Edited 3 times.
Dr Will Hatch two point oh		#3	[-]
Posts: 6561 (12/15/08 9:08 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Red X, or just "x" means you agree to a statement. I totally agree with you on the show being overproduced. I had an epiphany watching last nights show(well, I had it earlier, but the finale confirmed it): I don't care about stratagy anymore. It has its place certainly, but I really don't care about anyone "playing a good game" anymore. We're all going to have to choose sides one way or the other. Is Survivor a social experiment, and primarily about the castaways "story", or is it about the abstract quantity called "the game". I want both, but I refuse to put up with the awful HII/Exile Island and game based editing anymore. Last Edited By: Dr Will Hatch two point oh 12/15/08 10:13 AM. Edited 2 times.
Sicycat		#4	[-]
Posts: 240 (12/15/08 10:06 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I miss the gross food challenges. And yeah, it seems like no one on this season really complained about being that hungry. I just rewatched Season 3, those guys were STARVING literally and completely drained and depleted by the last few days.
CirieFieldsofDreams		#5	[-]
Posts: 728 (12/15/08 4:20 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Couldn't agree more with this thread.
Quiddity		#6	[-]
Posts: 4292 (12/15/08 5:21 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	There was lots of talk about them running low on rice on Fang early on. After the merge certainly all that talk went away.
WylDawg		#7	[-]
Posts: 16945 (12/15/08 5:43 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Wait...... People don't like the turn Survivor has taken since post ASS and want it to revert to the old days format????? How come we never thought of discussing this prospect?
Fart Party		#8	[-]
Posts: 69 (12/15/08 5:56 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Unfortunately I don't see a point where they've looked back at all. They keep adding worse things, and having LA's failed actor culture invade the game more than ever. But by golly that's entertaining! America loves horseshit more than pure Survivor.
ptcruisn56		#9	[-]
Posts: 4920 (12/15/08 8:39 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Oh my goodness if we went back to a no twists season...it will be just as boring as Big Brother 10. They aren't ever going back to old-school survivor... Deal with it.
menelaus		#10	[-]
Posts: 61 (12/15/08 8:58 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	The Marquesas food situation was pro. "You guys get no food, have fun," was a great way to start what would proceed to be an awesome season. And the no fire twist certainly helped (good thing both tribes knew what they were doing lol). China was apparently a pretty rough environment (it rained... a lot. And Zhan Hu's camp flooded, that was epic), but some, (like CI) have been way too easy. Also, I'm okay with maybe one or two hidden idols that everyone has an equal shot at finding, but the "let's keep replanting the idol" thing is really, really dumb. And tribe swaps have been part of the game since Africa. And the typecasting thing was done a little, but not a lot in the early seasons (brandon from Africa was about as flaming as they get). I'm okay with there being a stereotypic person or two here or there, but when EVERY SINGLE PERSON is some sort of a stereotype, it gets really boring (just look at the most recently cast gay guys: Charlie, Chet, Todd, Brad, Rafe, and compare them to the early ones: Rich, Brandon, John. John and Rich are by far the two least stereotypical, it isn't even close).
Thailandsurvivor		#11	[-]
Posts: 3928 (12/15/08 9:14 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	ptcruisn56 wrote: Oh my goodness if we went back to a no twists season...it will be just as boring as Big Brother 10. They aren't ever going back to old-school survivor... http://z.about.com/d/realitytv/1/0/h/B/1/taylor.jpg src="http://z.about.com/d/realitytv/1/0/h/B/1/taylor.jpg"> Deal with it. We need another Kid Nation. The only thing I disagree with is 5. If they need a couple retakes during challenges to make it more suspenseful, that's fine with me but huge agreeance to the rest.
doc		#12	[-]
Posts: 283 (12/16/08 4:04 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Forgot the big 1. Ditch the reward for player of the year winning 100k. Not as bad as Rupert's 1 mil, but still sucks. Reward should be a car, so make peace with GM or Ford and get their sponsorship back, and bring bring back the car challenge.
foce14		#13	[-]
Posts: 15 (12/17/08 1:03 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	doc wrote: Forgot the big 1. Ditch the reward for player of the year winning 100k. Not as bad as Rupert's 1 mil, but still sucks. Reward should be a car, so make peace with GM or Ford and get their sponsorship back, and bring bring back the car challenge. Ew. Agreed. I'm so over this whole America's Tribal Council and Player of the Season bull crap. I miss the car challenges. They were always so intense. And I want the "curse" to continue! Total bull crap that it was admitted ATC was created just to give Rupert the fucking million. I, personally, don't see why. He wasn't that great of a player either time he played. He caught fish, yelled like a Yetti, hid food in his beard, smiled, played the "I was picked on as a kid" card, and road coattails both in Pearl Islands and All-Stars. I don't see what merits he has over some of the other players to have Survivor create a whole post-game "twist" to give him $1 mil. I'd be ok with redoing certain things (challenges only, actually) to make them more suspenseful - as long as results aren't altered. Both Koror winning every immunity challenge and Pagong/Tagi winning every other immunity were super interesting. You wanted to see if Koror would ever lose. You wanted to see if Tagi or Pagong would win two in a row. At least I did. I totally agree with basically removing the mactor factor and having an entire cast of people who took the time to create their applications. When people who absolutely want to be on the show are there... it makes the show more interesting because everyone's there to win. None of the "recruits" are there to enhance their career or get extra exposure or just create drama for ratings to make an episode more fun. I think going back to the original Survivor format (Borneo and Australian Outback) where there weren't any twists would be a twist in itself. Everyone would be expecting twists and turns and swaps and merges and demerges and remerges and Hidden Idols and Exile Islands and the ability to give away immunity. It would drive so many players crazy because they'd be thinking of how to get ahead far too much. If it was a simple game, I think it'd be entertaining to see how people react to the fact that there are no twists to the game they've seen evolve. Stereotyping everyone is annoying, but I doubt they'll turn away from it. It's so easy to find the flamer, ghetto-thug, crazy black girl, dumb white-trash boy and girl, and so on, that it's basically effortless during the casting process. I think a season of anti-stereotypes (which is SUPER hard to find) would be interesting. They've had anti-stereotypes of every stereotype throughout all 17 seasons, so I don't think it'd be TOO hard to find them. I honestly think, even though it's viewer base is on a continuously slow decline, if Survivor were to revert back to its original concept, it make peak interest in people who lost interest, or even new fans.
4 Horsemen		#14	[-]
Posts: 197 (12/17/08 1:05 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Dr Will Hatch two point oh wrote: My red X is so large that it doesn't register to human eyes. Probably because that's you who made that post
O2JamFreak		#15	[-]
Posts: 27 (12/17/08 4:58 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	foce14 wrote: doc wrote: Forgot the big 1. Ditch the reward for player of the year winning 100k. Not as bad as Rupert's 1 mil, but still sucks. Reward should be a car, so make peace with GM or Ford and get their sponsorship back, and bring bring back the car challenge. Ew. Agreed. I'm so over this whole America's Tribal Council and Player of the Season bull crap. I miss the car challenges. They were always so intense. And I want the "curse" to continue! Total bull crap that it was admitted ATC was created just to give Rupert the fucking million. I, personally, don't see why. He wasn't that great of a player either time he played. He caught fish, yelled like a Yetti, hid food in his beard, smiled, played the "I was picked on as a kid" card, and road coattails both in Pearl Islands and All-Stars. I don't see what merits he has over some of the other players to have Survivor create a whole post-game "twist" to give him $1 mil. I'd be ok with redoing certain things (challenges only, actually) to make them more suspenseful - as long as results aren't altered. Both Koror winning every immunity challenge and Pagong/Tagi winning every other immunity were super interesting. You wanted to see if Koror would ever lose. You wanted to see if Tagi or Pagong would win two in a row. At least I did. I totally agree with basically removing the mactor factor and having an entire cast of people who took the time to create their applications. When people who absolutely want to be on the show are there... it makes the show more interesting because everyone's there to win. None of the "recruits" are there to enhance their career or get extra exposure or just create drama for ratings to make an episode more fun. I think going back to the original Survivor format (Borneo and Australian Outback) where there weren't any twists would be a twist in itself. Everyone would be expecting twists and turns and swaps and merges and demerges and remerges and Hidden Idols and Exile Islands and the ability to give away immunity. It would drive so many players crazy because they'd be thinking of how to get ahead far too much. If it was a simple game, I think it'd be entertaining to see how people react to the fact that there are no twists to the game they've seen evolve. Stereotyping everyone is annoying, but I doubt they'll turn away from it. It's so easy to find the flamer, ghetto-thug, crazy black girl, dumb white-trash boy and girl, and so on, that it's basically effortless during the casting process. I think a season of anti-stereotypes (which is SUPER hard to find) would be interesting. They've had anti-stereotypes of every stereotype throughout all 17 seasons, so I don't think it'd be TOO hard to find them. I honestly think, even though it's viewer base is on a continuously slow decline, if Survivor were to revert back to its original concept, it make peak interest in people who lost interest, or even new fans. X!!!!!!!!!!!!!
survivorjordancontestant		#16	[-]
Posts: 1643 (12/17/08 5:13 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	foce14 wrote: I think going back to the original Survivor format (Borneo and Australian Outback) where there weren't any twists would be a twist in itself. Everyone would be expecting twists and turns and swaps and merges and demerges and remerges and Hidden Idols and Exile Islands and the ability to give away immunity. It would drive so many players crazy because they'd be thinking of how to get ahead far too much. If it was a simple game, I think it'd be entertaining to see how people react to the fact that there are no twists to the game they've seen evolve. I honestly think, even though it's viewer base is on a continuously slow decline, if Survivor were to revert back to its original concept, it make peak interest in people who lost interest, or even new fans. a completely twist-free season would be a disaster. We've seen that already in Borneo and Outback and while the pre-merge makes for great character interaction it yields a horrible post-merge that will always be a pagonging. Why? Because the 2 tribes would've spent so much time together and so much time as rival tribes that there's a snowball's chance in hell for any possibility of inter-tribal relationships. Even if there is a tribal switch Pagonging still happens (Africa, China), what more if there wasn't any? Other than that, yeah get rid of Exile Island it was a big social experiment that failed. They should've taken China's kidnapping thing instead if they really wanna keep the whole HII thing (which I detest).
Postreply		#17	[-]
Posts: 327 (12/17/08 4:07 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I agree to almost everything that has been said in this thread. And they must get rid of these boring challenges...nowadays, each of them has to be about finding puzzle pieces and assembling them. Gross food challenge FTW!
StaggoLee		#18	[-]
Posts: 42 (12/17/08 6:21 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I think the much vaunted challenge designers are up their own asses too much. Some challenges are creative and interesting(like the boulder one earlier this season), but most are repetitive and akin to watereddown Most Extreme Elimination.
foce14		#19	[-]
Posts: 16 (12/17/08 11:43 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I'd LOVE to see the "story" challenge again. The one where Probst would tell the survivors a story and they'd have to answer questions. I always liked that one... especially from Borneo (Rudy: "I dunno..." on every question! HILARIOUS! <3). It's also cool to be able to learn a little about the places we're watching the show take place. I loved hearing about Australia's history. I loved hearing about the creepy things going on at Tribal Council during Borneo (still creeped out to this day...) I also loved the one Borneo challenge (or maybe it was another season - or maybe I'm making it up and it was on a different show... but I'm almost certain it was Borneo...) where they had to run back and forth searching for items throughout the abandoned house. Also disappointed in the Final Immunity Challenge this season. Unique, yes. However, I'm always a fan of the grueling endurance challenges that last for 10+ hours. I'm also a fan of the "Question/Answer" challenge in some of the seasons when it was super late in the season and the survivors' minds were going downhill. Not sure why, I just loved watching the internal struggle of people "knowing" the answer but writing down the wrong one. -- To me, there aren't enough completely mental challenges anymore. They're all mostly physical - or a physical/mental combination (like running through a maze, getting puzzle pieces, and putting together a Gabonese puzzle hut).