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The ratings and quality of Survivor were inevitably going to go down because the show is now in its FIFTEENTH season. There's no way it could possibly expect to stay at the top of the ratings for more than seven years. Hell, Seinfeld only had 8 or 9 seasons and it was one of the longest running shows of the past two decades. The addition of recruits hasn't make a rat's ass worth of difference. If anything, it's prolonged the show and kept it from turning into attack of the gamebots. If every player on Survivor was a hardcore Survivor expert, the show would be dreadfully boring and predictable to watch.

Face it. Survivor was going to decline in quality eventually. One day, we'll be talking about it as an important part of TV in the 2000's. But the show is clearly on its last legs (in terms of quality, importance, and relevance) at this point. And that has absolutely nothing to do with recruits in the slightest.

Stop your whining.

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SEG by recruiting a "certain type" of person rather than picking the best people that applied is " scripting the show"

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SEG has always cast this way. They have always cast by "type". It has been this way since day one. The only difference now is that they are lazier (or less subtle) about it.

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SEG could just keep picking the best people out of the 40,000 people that apply.

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Well according to their definitions they ARE casting the best people. If they want a used-car salesman, they'll go find one. If they want a UC Berkeley Asian math professor, they'll go and get one. According to what their needs are, they ARE casting the best people.

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The issue is can they find a "decent" player or a "player they want to fill a demographic"

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Filling a demographic is clearly a higher priority to them. That's probably because they are casting a TV show. They aren't running a "free million dollar giveaway" soup kitchen. This show really isn't open (and never has been open) to everyone.

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The key is will people who really enjoy the show, the die hard fans, will they put up with it.

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I love when this argument comes up, because it is such a Survivor Sucks specific complaint. This message board is NOT the prime viewing demographic of Survivor. It never has been. In fact, I'm guessing maybe 99% of the Survivor viewing audience has never even logged in here even once. The people here are not the ones who make or break the show. This is a fringe demographic at best. So the "casual fans" that are often bemoaned around here are way more important than the "diehard" self-important delusionists on the internet. What is said on this message board has absolutely zero importance to the people who are putting together the Survivor television program.

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I watch survivor because I want to see people who have gone through the process and desrve to be there, not casted people who fill a "slot".

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You have always been watching people who filled a slot. Notice there has never been a cast made up of 16 Cesterninos. The only reason some people have been more "deserving" than others is because their demographic in the cast hadn't quite been filled yet.

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Hopefully SEG will get it before they lose their true fan base.

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Which of course, around here means "OMFG! THE DIE-HARD INTERNET FANS AT SURVIVOR SUCKS!!!!"

I doubt MB even watches this show anymore. I don't think he's had a direct hand in any of the day-to-day Survivor activities for a long time. In my opinion, he got lbored and moved on to different projects somewhere around Thailand.