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Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 2:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
This is running daily on Fox Reality Channel.. love the format.. so underproduced and cleaned up compared to Survivor. No voting out, no merging, tribes have real rivalries going.


Good stuff!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 5:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
What time is it on?

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 12:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
TNT, here it is on at 10am on Fox Reality Channel.

Of course it is set on a remote island but the cast is all from New Zealand so you get their unique accent.

What they do is get together their group of potential contestants and then they actually interview and test them and they all meet each other and give opinions on who should be accepted. They also go through some survival training, how to use ropes and pullies and slings and I'm sure how to make fire and about the native flora and fauna (they have the deadly poisonous sea snakes, and those critters don't stay in the sea! They show up in caves. On yesterday's show two of the people were sitting and working out a code for a clue and suddenly they realized one of the snakes was slithering around behind them! That tribe shooed the snake back to the water. The other tribe has actually eaten at least one of the snakes, and they had to carefully prepare it or it would have been bad for them.

One tribe got ahold of some taro that also happened to have the ability to drug them and it really knocked them out!

They are split into two tribes. Their competitions consist of various coded clues, which they have to decipher and then they have to follow the clue to find items.. they get various devices that may help in their own hunt, or may be needed for the other tribe (they have to call for a trade and the trades can be quite cutthroat) they each will get some rations, like a bit of rice or flower also. And then they use what they have or trade to go for another hunt where both teams are going for the prize, which will also contain a fragment of a treasure map.

Each week, or set of days (day in viewing time) they all come together and they use a computer to test their knowledge of each other, the island and also a guess at where the final treasure might be, and one member from each tribe is sent home based on the results of that test.

So each team decreases one at a time but the teams remain the same size.

At the very end there will be one from each tribe using the parts of the map they have had (and of course hopefully have been studying) but at least for TI UK they were forced to put the entire map together, then each had to go look for the treasure.

In the UK version they seemed to have notebooks and many had taken notes, unfortunately some had taken them home, others had left info for their final tribe mate.

This NZ season, I notice when they were figuring out one of the codes they were using a macheti and a big leaf to write out the clue, so perhaps no paper.

They also have rules where if someone has contraband, or breaks a rule (for instance, the entire tribe has to come and go together, so if two are found off alone, they are breaking rules. They also aren't allowed to use the other tribe's area for hunting. If there is a broken rule, the other tribe will demand recompense which can be in items or food or even part of the map.

Dfng
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08-04-2005

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 4:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfng a private message Print Post    
I watched this show last week when I was off work for a couple of days. I'm bummed that I am back to work and I can't watch the remaining episodes. I really hope Fox puts this on as a Saturday marathon.

There was another Treasure Island that I watched that had mostly military men. They did some really hard codes and stunts.

Good show!

Tntitanfan
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08-03-2001

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 4:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tntitanfan a private message Print Post    
Fabulous explanation, Sea! I am afraid though that FoxReality is different from my plain cable FOX. Am I right? I'm gonna be so bummed, because I love "smart" shows!

Dfng
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08-04-2005

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 5:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dfng a private message Print Post    
Tnttanfan: Yes, you are right. I would call your cable company to see if you can add it. If you love reality shows it's worth it.

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 7:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Yeah those codes are no joke! And the physicaland mental stuff as well.