Fear Factor
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Fear Factor
Sia | Monday, March 03, 2003 - 11:30 pm     I found the piercing with the needles to be quite disturbing. I was amazed that five people would be willing to endure that much pain AND run the risk of having scars over such a big portion of the upper arm. That stunt was unnecessary and just too much. The line should have been drawn before FF got to this point, in my opinion. Eating the disgusting foods each week has gotten worse and worse. If I were a contestant on the show (and there's no way in the world I could ever qualify for the stunts), I would be concerned about contracting exotic diseases due to eating the bizarre animal products that are forced on the participants. Would I eat moldy cheese crawling with live maggots? Never in a million years. Would I immerse my face in a vat of animal blood? No way! I hope that the stunt from a couple episodes back was done with red-food-color-tinted Karo syrup instead of real animal blood. There are too many diseases that are bloode-borne in humans to take such a risk. What might researchers learn years from now about transmission of diseases from animals to humans that could negatively impact FF contestants' health? On a similar subject, did anyone see on the news in the past day or so that Daniel (of Survivor: the Amazon) is said to have contracted malaria as a result of his having been on the show? Not worth the risk and compromised health, in my opinion. I love reality TV, but there are huge prices to be paid down the line, and I don't think the contestants see far ahead enough. They are in for some future trauma as a result of their participation in these shows, in my opinion. |
Not1worry | Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 04:35 am     I truly loved the guy last night who flung the bowl of maggoty cheese away and refused to do it. I cheered! My husband disagreed, he thought it was childish and overdramatic. But I wondered why he was laughing and it tickles me to know he never planned to eat it. I'm in the category of people that says, I just don't care enough about money to do that. Some of the helicopter-type stunts are great and I'd love to try those, but I would just walk away when faced with needles or disgusting food. I thought maggots were bad for you to eat? I would not have had a chance with the needles since I have a proven history of passing out when punctured with one needle, let alone 10. |
Brenda1966 | Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 08:41 am     This show is starting to cross the line. The blood bobbing was horrendous. The needles are disturbing. Any stunt that is guaranteed to break the skin, cause bleeding and bruising, it just a bit too cruel. I didn't see the needles part, just saw them in her arm in the recap at the end. So the person doing the sticking was a professional? A professional what? S&M master? I thought the guy who threw the bowl of maggoty cheese was a jerk. Pitching the bowl like a stubborn toddler didn't make him look like the bigger man for knowing when to walk away. He looked like a fool. I can't believe these people don't get sick after eating that stuff. I know I couldn't do it. As for Daniel getting Malaria. That sucks but I don't see that as a result of being on a reality show. Anyone who travels to exotic locations risks getting the different diseases there. Heck, in the US we now have to worry about west nile -- it certainly wouldn't keep me from travelling to Disney World. |
Denecee | Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 08:55 am     I didn't think the guy who tossed the bowl, meant to break it, it just slid all the way off the table when he tossed it. I don't think I could have ate the maggoty cheese either. The needles- no problem. I know it would hurt a little but I have my bellybutton pierced and it didn't hurt that bad. The helicopter stunt looked like something I would not have been able to do but I would have tried. The pole with the flag I would have tried only because there was a safety line attached to me. I was very impressed that the girl won this fear factor episode. I thought she did all the stunts a little too good, like maybe she had pratice. JMO! |
Yuhuru | Tuesday, March 04, 2003 - 10:07 am     There is no way I'd eat maggoty cheese for the chance to win 50 grand! C'mon we're talkin' maggots !!!! I could never do this show. Gross food challenges and fear are definitely a factor for me!!!! |
Enbwife | Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 08:27 am     I love this show. I watched in horror though when they were pierced and had to eat the cheese. That was soooo gross when the guy was gagging eating it. I think this show is really good personally and I love Joe! |
Jed245 | Wednesday, March 05, 2003 - 09:06 am     I hate to admitt it I've watched fear factor a few times. And everytime I watch it I watch all of it. I think it's kinda sadistic hehe :o) Well I mean ya eat rotted maggotie cheese, get peirced by needles..... Then it comes down basically to a race???? I dunno, but, it seems kinda wrong to me to end the show in that way. I mean if I ate that cheese and took the needles... I wouldn't want to lose cause someone was faster then me. That kinda takes fear out of it and puts speed in. The speed challenge is usually the less fearful one most of the time. Then agian I've only seen a few eps so I might be jumping the gun just a bit :o) |
Wilsonatmd | Sunday, March 23, 2003 - 11:05 am     Well it will be interesting to see this week...This week the contestants are 6 of the Miss USA contestants (which six we won't know till it airs, because in interest of fairness to the other contestants, as the Miss USA pagent airs immediately after the show live, all promos have the contestants faces blurred out)....How many of the six do you think will make the first cut? I'll guess two. (I believe it goes from 51 to 10 the first cut).. |
Dipo | Monday, March 24, 2003 - 09:56 pm     did anyone catch this tonite? i was just wondering who the contestants were. |
Lizadee | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 06:12 am     I did but I don't remember them all Miss Minnesota Miss Louisanna |
Jasper | Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 12:20 pm     Miss North Carolina Miss New Mexico Miss Michigan Miss Louisana Miss Utah (I think) don't remember if Minnesota was one, can't recall the 6th one Only ones that made the top 10 were New Mexico and Michigan (top 5 I think) |
Wilsonatmd | Friday, April 18, 2003 - 04:52 pm     Well, they're almost done with this season.....after next weeks show, they are doing a 3-week Season Championship....they're gonna split the winners from this season into two groups of 12, and those groups will have two people advancing to the finals (those two winners each win a car), and the four finalists compete for $100,000. After thet, there's a special "15 Most Outrageous Fear Factor Moments" to wind up Sweeps.... NBC has picked up the show for next season (30 eps, and afer next season the production company, Endemol, will get a big raise on their episode price, currently about $800,000 an ep, since their original contract with NBC will run out. NBC still has the right to match, but ABC and Fox are very interested if the show goes into play), and this is the one reality show that repeats well (70% of its audience consistantly, because the eps are self contained), so there's also talk of selling it into syndication. |
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