Author |
Message |
Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 6:49 pm
me too!! they dont entertain me at all! I also want to ban blindfold challenges!
|
Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 6:50 pm
I love Karen's idea of living together but still on different tribes!
|
Nickovtyme
Member
07-28-2004
| Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 7:15 pm
No way! We can't get rid of half naked women wrestlin' around in the mud.
|
Stormie
Member
03-01-2007
| Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 7:28 pm
What about for one or two challenges, the winner can choose the reward, or gain a person from the other tribe to be a member of their tribe.
|
Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 12:01 pm
...or send a member over to the other tribe for keepsies. LOL
|
Bombaycat
Member
07-21-2007
| Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 1:08 pm
No previous survivors No friends of previous survivors No other reality show participants No friends of the casting directors or producers
|
Sia
Member
03-10-2002
| Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 3:32 pm
Maybe the show shouldn't run back-to-back challenges that favor certain physical attributes of the survivors. If there are two or three challenges in a row that favor the women (standing on tiny pegs or balancing/holding onto a pole, etc.), it's as bad as two or three challenges in a row that heavily favor those contestants who possess brute strength. It sort of has a leveling effect when the challenges are comprised of multiple phases, incorporating all types of elements: physical (like untangling the rope tied to one's waist), balancing (walking along a narrow board), and puzzle, for example.
|
Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 4:16 pm
Yea, Sia! I like the "mixed" challenges as well -
|
Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 4:21 pm
I missed the water challenges this season.
|
Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 6:04 pm
I heartily endorse Bombaycat's criteria. I am really tired of friends and business partners of previous contestants getting on the show. Do some work, Mark Burnett and review those audition tapes. Thank you very much. Enough of this actor crap. Enough of Russell who is a bar-owning business partner of Boo who is a Cajun bayou bar brawling partner of Krista fer crissakes.
|
Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 6:42 pm
Me too! "I heartily endorse Bombaycat's criteria." Give us some fresh faces instead of the rehashed and actor wannabes! Texasdeb said: "I missed the water challenges this season." I think it was Colby's exit interview that said because of the dangerous undertows and poisonous coral, that's why they had to stay out of the water. Even all the fishing had to be done in some freshwater stream or river. But I agree, I like the water challenges when they can have them.
|
Padivius
Member
08-21-2003
| Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 6:49 pm
I really like Bob2112's idea. I have often thought of that one. Basically, you have 16, or 20 people, all living on the same beach. No tribes, but teams are picked randomly before each challenge. The group of castaways that loses the challenge is the group that will go to Tribal Council. Interesting dynamic; with alliances, you can never be sure the rest of your alliance will come with you to TC. Also provides flexibility, as Bob said: you could have 2 teams or 3 teams at the IC, extra people would be (randomly) safe. I just really like the idea of having to build a social network and alliance among a larger group of people, yet never knowing if you'll be able to rely on those people when the time comes, because they may not even be there!
|
Jasper
Moderator
09-14-2000
| Thursday, May 20, 2010 - 7:38 pm
Good idea, if they all lived together and had to pick coloured rocks to build their teams before each challenge that would be interesting! If they were at an uneven number whoever pulled a black rock would be safe for that challenge if immunity and if reward they would automatically participate in the reward.
|
Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Friday, May 21, 2010 - 5:09 am
what a bunch of smart people we are! There are some great ideas here!
|
Konamouse
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, May 21, 2010 - 7:41 am
That's what Pirate Masters did and we loved the idea. New teams each week. So you had to have a good social game from the beginning. CrossFit challenges - a little of everything (brains & brawns). This season had that in the beginning. Remember Heros had the brawn but the Villans would catchup and win with the brains (puzzle solving).

|
Mamabatsy
Member
08-05-2005
| Friday, May 21, 2010 - 2:04 pm
This was posted on the Survivor board on AOL and I thought it was funny enough to share: THE NEXT SURVIVOR SERIES Six married men will be dropped on an island with one car and 3 kids each for six weeks.. Each kid will play two sports and take either music or dance classes. There is no fast food. Each man must take care of his 3 kids; keep his assigned house clean, correct all homework, complete science projects, cook, do laundry, and pay a list of 'pretend' bills with not enough money. In addition, each man will have to budget enough money for groceries each week. Each man must remember the birthdays of all their friends and relatives, and send cards out on time--no emailing. Each man must also take each child to a doctor's appointment, a dentist appointment and a haircut appointment. He must make one unscheduled and inconvenient visit per child to the Emergency Room. He must also make cookies or cupcakes for a school function. Each man will be responsible for decorating his own assigned house, planting flowers outside, and keeping it presentable at all times. The men will only have access to television when the kids are asleep and all chores are done. The men must shave their legs, wear makeup daily, adorn themselves with jewelry, wear uncomfortable yet stylish shoes, keep fingernails polished, and eyebrows groomed During one of the six weeks, the men will have to endure severe abdominal cramps, backaches, headaches, have extreme, unexplained mood swings but never once complain or slow down from other duties. They must attend weekly school meetings and church, and find time at least once to spend the afternoon at the park or a similar setting. They will need to read a book to the kids each night and in the morning, feed them, dress them, brush their teeth and comb their hair by 7:30 am. A test will be given at the end of the six weeks, and each father will be required to know all of the following information: each child's birthday, height, weight, shoe size, clothes size, doctor's name, the child's weight at birth, length, time of birth, and length of labor, each child's favorite color, middle name, favorite snack, favorite song, favorite drink, favorite toy, biggest fear, and what they want to be when they grow up. The kids vote them off the island based on performance. The last man wins only if...he still has enough energy to be intimate with his spouse at a moment's notice. If the last man does win, he can play the game over and over and over again for the next 18-25 years, eventually earning the right to be called Mother!
|
Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, May 21, 2010 - 8:45 pm
Im a mom and I dont all of that stuff!! The stuff I dont do my better half does!! Yes, I am very blessed with the greatest husband/daddy!
|
Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, May 21, 2010 - 9:57 pm
You are very blessed, Pamy, as am I. Still, it is a hilarious concept. Betcha Bigdog and SirBill could win it, though!! They would be final two for sure, and should not take each other to the finals.
|
Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 4:12 am
Now that is funny, Mambatsy.
|
Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 10:10 am
Since I was in the military when my kids were little, I'd bet my DH could ace that exam, lol ...
|
Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 10:22 am
Funneeee! 
|
Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 11:43 am
Juju, LOL yep they would be in the finals! and since they are both so nice they wouldn't be able to be cutthroat and would still take each other to the end!
|
Stormie
Member
03-01-2007
| Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 2:15 pm
LOL Mamab 
|
Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, May 22, 2010 - 4:19 pm
And for the first time in Survivor history, they would allow a well-deserved Bigdog - Sir Bill tie!
|
Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, May 24, 2010 - 7:36 pm
I'm still ticked that they didn't put Bill on Survivor instead of, well, several guys who couldn't even swim, light fires, um.. well that includes way more than several guys!
|
Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 4:15 pm
<No more "characters", just real people.> Then people complain that the contestants are boring, that the show is boring. You can't have it both ways.
|
Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 4:50 pm
Well, you could have it both ways if you cast a real life person with a colorful character. Rather than hiring an actor/model wanna-be who been "inspired" to create a character.
|
Mimi
Member
04-30-2009
| Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 3:14 pm
Jeff should write his blogs during the show not when he gets home. As entertaining as they are they seem slightly slanted. I think there are some really good ideas here. Hopefully the producers will use some of them.
|
Sportsfan
Member
09-03-2007
| Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 3:25 pm
I love the new teams each week idea!
|
Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 3:33 pm
Until the show is edited, Jeff doesn't know what will be shown on TV, so he wouldn't know what to blog about.
|