Car54 | Wednesday, January 09, 2002 - 02:05 pm   Found this at the Survivor Sucks spoiler board: The person who posted works for a CBS affiliate- evidently MB did interviews yesterday to promote the finale. What Mark Burnett Said! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to all those who suggested questions for my interview yesterday with Mark Burnett on a local CBS affiliate. I'll transcribe the Q & A below and let the experts ferret out the spoilers! Q: Lots of Survivor spoiler sites out there, do you think they've helped the show? MB: Oh absolutely, no one ever knows whether we own them or not! Q: Do you ever surf around and check out what people are saying? MB: Oh, all the time! People are looking for a conspiracy theory, and actually, I wish we were that intelligent! (laughs) Q: Do you ever see something on a spoiler site and decide to re-edit an episode to make it less predictable or so that people can't figure out what's going on? MB: I could go deeper... maybe we place the stories on the spoiler board to mislead people to begin with! Q: One of the most interesting things this season was the switch of the tribes, tell us about that. MB: I loved doing that! I loved Silas's face, the most incredible moment! He couldn't believe it! And uh, it keeps it fresh. The audience loved it, I loved it, and even the tribes loved it as it settled down. Q: Was that something you planned at the beginning of S3, before the game started, or did that evolve as you saw the alliances forming and you needed to shake things up a little? MB: I planned it in Australia, in fact, and the right moment came in Africa, and the mantra became, "Dont' try to outthink us!" To assume is making an ass of you and me, right? So that's the thing everyone learned. Q: How is the final episode going to be different from S1 and S2? MB: Well, we haven't said yet whether it's going to be live or whether it was pretaped in Africa. No one's ever bothered to ask us that, which is really funny! Q: Well let's just ask that now, is it going to be live? MB: Watch on Thursday! Q: Oh come on-- MB: No, there's gonna be three tribal councils and two immunity challenges. All four people have a chance to win, clearly, and in fact, no matter who won out of those four, they're all pretty likeable and kinda deserve it. And so it's actually going to be pretty interesting, you couldn't really begin to predict who the final two will be and who will win. Q: Let's go through the final four... your impressions, starting with Kim. MB: Yeah, grandmother, from Long Island New York, husband was very successful, lives in a nice big home and loves playing games. Uh, Ethan... a Jewish soccer player from Massachusetts, who hasn't hardly said a bad word to anybody. Lex... a tattooed, skateboarding Internet manager who's wild and crazy and very interesting and emotional. And of course Tom... Tom, the Virginia mountain goat farmer who's the real deal, and uh, is someone I'm so happy to see in the Final Four, and uh, who's a loveable character. Q: Talk about strengths and weaknesses... I was surprised to see Kim make it so far, a 57-year old grandmother who has failed at some challenges and has not been strong physically, but somehow her alliances seem to be getting her through. MB: She came under the radar, she had some alliances and basically didn't bother anybody. And I think that's the strength of the grandmother in her, being around complex groups of family certainly gives good experience of how to deal with people. Q: (note: my co-anchor changes the subject here, wish we had more in depth comments on the other 3!) Mark, this environment seems to be the most difficult environment your contestants have been in, do you agree? MB: Oh, by far! I mean, I lived there for 3 months in a tent with these people! It was both awe-inspiring, in view of the giant animals and the scaryness of the lions, to the Samburu Masai peoples, to the -- the sun that never stopped-- I mean, it's a hard existence. I'm never gonna forget Africa. By far the hardest experience for the crew, and for the Survivors. (CBS wraps the interview at this point) Okay folks, spoil away! |