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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Wednesday, December 12, 2007 - 7:45 pm
Just started last night, but, as usual, runs nightly. Team Red and Team Blue, comprised of people with some sort of survival training, from UK or New Zealand (most from NZ and most of those from Auckland). There are no young "pretty people" here and last night the two teams were told they could take 6 of their 12 "items" (a pair of shoes counted as one item) and dive overboard and swim for it. They were given basically nothing, had to make fire, find food and water (but the first challenge did provide some water for the winning team). The teams had different approaches. One team wanted to basically settle in, find water, make fire, the other decided to look around and find items that might help and they found several key items that night (floatation device was one) so the next day they were faster in the first challenge. They also were called together and told that the host was in charge of game rules, but they must agree to island rules. They did agree to set up areas right around each camp and that would be off limits for the other team, as well as items the teams had found or won. One team wanted a rule that for the finding of treasure or items, just one person on a team getting to the item would equal that team being first, but that was soundly rejected by the representative of the other team. He said clearly that proposal meant that the other team wasn't working AS a team. This seemed to get under the skin of that team.. They've already had conflicts over leadership. They were called together and told that while someone from each team would leave each day, for the first day, they would just each choose a member to send to the other team. One guy volunteered to go to the other team, promising to sabotague them, while on the other team they did a random draw to choose the person to trade. Anyway, this looks like a higher powered version of TI-NZ and TI-Australia. Looks good. So far they have found goats and cooked them. One team made a big deal about drinking goat blood, which wasn't accepted by the whole team. The island has coconuts too.
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Dfng
Member
08-04-2005
| Saturday, December 15, 2007 - 6:12 am
I saw this earlier in the year - I highly recommend watching if you have the opportunity. The challenges these guys go through just amazed me. I wish the US would do a version of this show.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, December 20, 2007 - 1:00 am
I'm recording them and saving them up for my own marathon!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 7:23 pm
Wow, this makes Survivor look like Mickey Mouse Club..
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 7:56 pm
I just checked the listings for Fox Reality and I'm not finding this show. When are you seeing it, Sea?
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 8:56 pm
It ran for just a few days, one a day. I'm still watching the last few.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Thursday, December 27, 2007 - 9:29 pm
Darn, I missed it.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, December 28, 2007 - 1:48 am
If you see any season of Treasure Island, check it out and post, too.. This is my third season and it is different than the other two, but I really like them all.
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