This Season's Editing
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Car54

Sunday, December 15, 2002 - 08:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Exactly. Or more likely there was not the same "good stuff" to be gotten.

Twinkie

Monday, December 16, 2002 - 01:57 am EditMoveDeleteIP
IMHO, I think that the show as a whole has become too predictible. Not in who will be booted out or who will win, but in the way the game is played. Let's face it.....anyone who applies to be on Survivor now has to have seen the show at least for a season or 2 and will play accordingly. This season, aside from the choosing of teams, not much has really changed. Except the editing. Don't we all really care less about these people this year? And that's because we haven't really gotten to know them very well. I don't think this format holds up after a while. I remember everyone from the 1st Survivor because it was something so new that I was riveted every week. And the personalities of the people kept me coming back. After that I barely remember anyone from the other Survivors except the winners. And even some of those...eh. A year from now I doubt that I will remember these people except for who won. Yes I will keep watching future Survivors but I think that I will care less and less. As it is, for this season, if it weren't for being on the jury Erin would be a long forgotten memory already. Don't know her and it doesn't matter to me that I don't. Robb remains in my memory for now because he was so annoying. But a year from now I'm sure I'll be saying Robb who.

Bastable

Monday, December 16, 2002 - 09:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree. And I really think it's the game's fault. The producers should being reinventing the game and coming up with better twists and turns. Not just stuff like "The merge is going to happen two weeks after you think it is -- ha! gotcha!" That's not a twist. It's a typical plot point that comes late.

Time to get crazy. Like awarding each tribe member the right to invalidate two votes against them at any time during the game.
Or giving people a reward challenge that lets them cast two votes against two people.
Or starting with three tribes.
Or shuffling tribes once every 8 days.
Or having a "wild card" sudden death game where a person is eliminated in the middle of the game, by chance or challenge.
Or enabling a person to come back.

"Big Brother" has succesfully shaken things up. "Survivor" is long overdue. When even die-hard fans like us are bored, you know you're in trouble.

Car54

Monday, December 16, 2002 - 09:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
They have a commitment til S9. Doubt if they are going to change anything with that type of business on the line. Their ratings are very good, people are still watching. Bet they do 9, do the All Star, then come up with something totally different, and retire the venue.

Kady

Monday, December 16, 2002 - 09:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Good ideas Bastable. I am so tired of watching the show and whoever they are editing to leave ends up staying. I told my son 5 minutes after the last episode...Clay's not going. They were trying to hard to make it look like he was the one.

Tabbyking

Monday, December 16, 2002 - 09:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
i agree with the post about needing subtitles sometimes! when ted was talking with brian, either the ocean or a wind was all i heard through the microphone. i told my daughter, "i can't believe they aren't showing us at the bottom what ted is saying. they edit these. i can't understand a word he is saying." she couldn't hear anything he said, either. so maybe that's when the little alliance talk took place that so many of us missed.
i remember with tom, i sometimes wished they would subtitle, because at first, even when i heard him, i couldn't understand what he was saying! it was like the cajun coach they had on 'the waterboy'(the same actor who owned the hardware store in 'home improvement' and i think he also played one of the dads on 'boy meets world' or something.) anyway, he was hysterical...lol

Calico

Monday, December 16, 2002 - 09:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
use the CC! (Closed-Captioning)

Bastable

Monday, December 16, 2002 - 09:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Smart idea, Calico, but it's not like we know in advance that they're going to be inaudible. Most of the time we can hear them. We're not going to leave those distracting words up on screen on the off chance the producers mic the tribe members inadequately.

Fruitbat

Monday, December 16, 2002 - 10:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Bastable, those are great ideas and I do have faith the next season will have more drastic changes. I trust they have learned from this mistake.

Tabbyking

Monday, December 16, 2002 - 10:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
plus, only one of our tv's has CC and it is in my son's room...

Hummingbird

Monday, December 16, 2002 - 10:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I agree that the format has made the game somewhat predictable. Something has to be done to break up the winning team alliance thing -- something to keep them from bonding so tightly. Breaking up teams once a week could do it. I challenge the writers to come up with something really good next game. Somehow when the merge is made, the playing field should be equal for all left standing.