Do you realise...
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Joan | Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 06:00 pm   they have enough footage of each Survivor that they could realistically put together another alternate season of each without repeating very much footage? Wow. |
Gina8642 | Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 06:17 pm   Yeah, and what do they show us on the re-cap episode? Mostly all footage shown before. They have their themes and they are sticking to 'em. |
Admin | Monday, December 24, 2001 - 10:43 am   Further evidence of how scripted or planned the whole thing is. ;) |
Joan | Wednesday, December 26, 2001 - 09:11 pm   Scripted? I think some shots may be directed and the questions asked in the interviews are definitely strategic but if these folks are reading a script, they all deserve Academy Awards. |
Gina8642 | Thursday, December 27, 2001 - 08:00 am   I don't think it is scripted. I am even quite skeptical of those who say Mark B chooses challenges to favor certain cast members. I think he chooses a cast where he would be happy with any of them being winners. He doesn't care who wins, as long as they are entertaining on the way. I do however believe that the tape is looked over very carefully. Certain themes and story lines are chosen from everything that is going on. Then they are carefully shown to the exclusion of all else that may or may not have been going on. Each story line is carefully developed and highlighted. I think this is happening during the filming too - not just in post-production. Alot of thought goes into what questions to ask the contestants. Both at tribal council and when they are pulled aside for on camera remarks. They are responding to questions of producers. It isn't hard to get negative comments about someone if you ask for them. Like - "Gee Kelly - What did you think about having to swear on your brother's life?" It would be hard to get a really positive response here. Still the responses and reactions are genuine - or at least true to the way that contestant was playing the game at that moment. The cast members are asked if what is shown is true. Of course it is, because real people with real reactions are used. Somethings are not shown. Why? - Sometimes it may spoil what is to come in the future. (E.g. If he had shown Colby and Tina promising motorcycles to each other - everyone whould have known that Keith had no chance. Most of us figured it out anyway) -Sometimes they are extraneous to the plot - they are out there 24 hrs a day, clearly alot is missed. -Sometimes it may obscure the plot that Mark B. is trying to develop. (E.g. The "Lex is a paranoid idiot" episode. This was carefully crafted to put Lex in a bad light. Did he do and say these things? Of course. Was he the only idiot out there? Not likely. Kelly said as much in her interviews. She was stung by KimJ's rejection of her more then Lex's. But, the theme of that episode was Lex, not KimJ. The average viewer is nearly ignorant of Kelly's negative feelings toward KimJ - but everyone thinks she positively hates Lex.) Now, is Mark B. trying to put one over on us as to certain characters on the show? (Like how some said he showed Tina in her best possible light because he wanted a popular winner.) This I am less sure about. I'm not even sure it is necessary. He just wants ratings, and he has the characters to get them. Clearly Mark B. is manipulating us, the viewers. That is his job. And that is why this show is/was so entertaining. (I say "was" because these alliences are becoming rather perdictable - with the same producer and editors, the same show seems to shine through, even with new characters/contestants.) |
Car54 | Thursday, December 27, 2001 - 08:25 am   Gina, I think you are right on. After Lindsay was booted, she said that clearly she went ballistic after the elders all piled their votes on her, and that is what was put in the previews and the show, but that she immediately realized she was being a jerk and apologized- the apology was not shown to us. The same was true with the Linda/Lindsay hug- Linda hurt Lindsay's feelings by saying "didn't your mother ever hug you?" and until the recap, we never saw that they had a talk afterward and Linda apologized and they made up. It will be interested to hear Lex's perspective when he leaves. |
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