Archive through December 15, 2002
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Archive through December 15, 2002
Sia | Saturday, November 09, 2002 - 11:21 pm     Tabbyking, I like your "Reality RV" show idea and would only tweak one thing regarding the itinerary: I would require that all teams travel to exactly the same cities and in exactly the same order, but would just have a staggered-start like at a golf scramble. If the teams didn't have to go to the same cities, someone would be sure to complain that another team's route was easier. Hmm, how about for winning a reward challenge a team would get to spend the night in a five-star hotel instead of in their motorhome? Room service, massage, fully-stocked bar, swimming pool, sauna/steam room, and a huge jacuzzi tub!! Guess immunity challenges would be almost impossible unless all the teams ran each leg of the race simultaneously, like in "The Amazing Race." It would be fun to see teams overtake one another on the road as they vie to reach a fast-forward. . .sort of like on "TAR," but at a much slower pace!! LOL |
Whoami | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 01:33 am     I love the RV Race! How 'bout going ahead and having different routs, with the producers making sure each one has the same exact amount of miles to travel, and the same type of towns to pass through. I think it would be neat to start at different points of the US, and have them all meet at the same final checkpoint. That would be cool to see who ends up pulling in first! Maybe we should start a new thread (so this one doesn't go OT). We can call it the TVCH Reality Race (or something). We all contribute ideas, and pitch it to a network. Imagine all our names scrolling through the credits as the creators/producers/etc of the show! |
Tabbyking | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 07:53 am     okay, but i get my name at the top!! lol and i think we need to call it reality Rv because it's so close to reality Tv. they could all end up at the same place, but different routes that are all the same distance. remember, i mentioned they could try short cuts rather than the major highways. would they find more ways to make money on the big routes or the small farm areas? our theme song could be "where am i? where where?" to the tune of "who am i?" for whoami ;>) so i could get the 'based on an idea by' credit and whoami can get the song credits, and sia could work out some of the details!! i want david groh to play the host--wasn't he in the 'lost in america' movie with julie hagerty?! |
Tabbyking | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 08:07 am     sia, i think we don't want this to be exactly like surviiivor with rewards and other challenges, but maybe they could get penalties for cheating--did they try to take money out of an ATM? make a call to the family? go over the speed limit, other than for passing slower vehicles? and when they check in at each town's post office where they need to mail a pre-addressed postcard to the production company, they will find out if they have a penalty and have to spend so many hours in the town before they can head out again. they can sleep in walmart parking lots! hee hee! or take in a baseball game or something if they end up with a 6 hour time-out! |
Car54 | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 08:36 am     This sounds like that show Lost...that wasn't on very long...they didn't have RV's tho. No lap dancing for cash, you guys... that was nasty! |
Tabbyking | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 08:52 am     future races will include "Reality RV, Spain", "Reality RV, Canada", "Reality RV, Alaska", etc. Not that Alaska isn't a state, but it's far enough away and big enough to be a show all by itself. i never heard of "lost". and no 'nasties' or there are big penalties on this game!! one idea of making money is to take a polaroid camera and have your picture taken with strangers, then autographed for 5 bucks a pop. and the stranger gets the pic of themselves with a real-live team from a tv race!! can you tell that i not only want to make the show, but be in it!!? |
Sia | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 11:36 am     Tabby, I copied our posts in reference to "Reality RV" to the new thread. Hope you don't mind that I just cut-and-pasted them. |
Tabbyking | Sunday, November 10, 2002 - 12:02 pm     no, i appreciate it!! thanks :>) |
Bastable | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 09:16 am     Wow, I am now REALLY steamed at this year's editing. It's been lousy from start to finish. Two weeks in a row now, although all the talk in the camp has been about voting out Clay, NOBODY has cast a single vote for him--Jake and Ted each voted for JAN! Yet we are never shown how that happened. If Jan is being used as a decoy by the rest of the tribe, and people are convincing the marked tribemate to vote against her, WHY DON'T WE EVER SEE IT? We haven't heard one word about how Jan gets on those ballots and Clay stays off. The editing of the show is simply not matching the way the tribe is voting. I don't trust a single thing I'm seeing on this show anymore. The commercials have all been manipulative, suggesting developments that never happen, and the show itself goes wandering down roads that have nothing to do with the episode's final vote... nothing we're shown is relevant to the vote at all. The producers totally blew it. The show they taped had nothing to do with the game that was being played. |
Essence | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 09:23 am     Actually Bastable, last night Brian did tell Ted that Jan was the one. I think Ted said so is it still Jan and Brian said yes. He was led to believe that they were still planning to vote for Jan. I think that it's happened before. In the first one they wanted to get rid of Rich, and some people even threw a vote his way, but it didn't work. In season two it was Gerri & Keith a couple of times. In three it was Lex, but they never got rid of him. I can't recall anyone in four, and now Clay. I guess they have to do something to try to throw people off. |
Webkitty | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 09:29 am     Bastable, Jake did explain why he voted for Jan in his post boot interviews. Ted was told the boot was going to be Jan. That is why he voted for her. They didn't want to tell him beforhand it was really going to be him. The commercials have always been manipulative, on purpose. This is for the casual viewer so there is a surprise at the end. People that really want to know what will happen will come to internet to spoil. Sorry your unhappy! {{bastable}} |
Car54 | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 09:32 am     What show were you watching? There was a whole scene where Ted tried to get close to Brian and find out what was happening, and Brian intimated that Jan was the one they were voting. Maybe you went out for a soda during that part. |
Squaredsc | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 10:09 am     what ms. kitty said. sorry bastable. |
Bastable | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 10:52 am     Ooo, Car, no need to be snide! Three other people managed to say it nicely. |
Spunky | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 10:57 am     Well, now we now that when there is too much talk of someone to be the next to go it will be someone else. I picked Ted because I had a gut feeling Brian was closer to Helen and Clay than to Ted. That was a lucky guess but not because the editing helped me pick the right loser. |
Car54 | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 11:05 am     Hey, you were the one who was yelling! |
Hermione69 | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 11:06 am     Bastable, I see what you are saying. I'd like to at least know a bit of the stories behind the decisions. Like with Erin, what was up with that? "There was a whole scene where Ted tried to get close to Brian and find out what was happening, and Brian intimated that Jan was the one they were voting." I missed that, too! When did that happen?? All I know is that this is the first season that I have watched when I am ready for it to be over. I'm usually sad for it to be over. They did have some very interesting people, but they haven't snagged me this time (even though I post a lot!). I don't even really care right now in the sense that there is no one that I'm praying will win and no one that I am praying will lose. I was way more into S2 and S4. Do you think that's the editing or the group? |
Zipsdaddy | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 05:55 pm     Let's hope what Jeff says for the reunion promo is true: "No singing and dancing, everything you wanted to know will be answered" (paraphrased) Could be a really good show, since Jeff was there, and knows what stuff was edited..... etc, etc... |
Seamonkey | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 06:45 pm     I think they all would LIKE to vote Clay out, but they also all feel like if they were with him at the end, they'd beat him. Better to be there with him and also not have him on the Jury. |
Curlyq | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 08:03 pm     I just hope that Jeff as host doesn't have the opposite effect. It could be that he will only ask the questions Burnett tells him to ask. At least with a 3rd party like Gumbel or O'Donnell the host was in the same boat as the viewing audience, with plenty of questions to ask about what really went down. Probst is on the Survivor payroll, so if there was anything significant that Burnett chose to edit out of the show, I doubt Probst would expose it. It may just be like having Mark Burnett hosting. |
Car54 | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 08:10 pm     The thing is, I doubt if there IS much we haven't seen. The last two series seem a lot less complex to me. There was a lot of fresh strategy in the first 3... with S4 and 5 I haven't really been surprised by much. I think they are showing us the best stuff. Can you remember any post boot spoilers in the past 2 shows where the boot let something meaningful slip? |
Fruitbat | Saturday, December 14, 2002 - 07:19 am     Bastable, I understand what you are saying. There is a formula now. When they talk of who they will vote we automatically KNOW that is not the person to go. I was not surprized to see Ted go. The misleading is transparent. We have seen little from Jan. Erin going? That was not even fun and it should have been. We still have no idea why. We find out things in the post interviews that could have been on the show. |
Tweepee | Sunday, December 15, 2002 - 06:26 pm     i agree with you bastable... that little whispered meeting happened so fast that it was easy to miss. and it still doesn't change the fact that there has been NOTHING on Jan... if she's the hinge of the voting process, why haven't we seen more of her and what's going on in her head? or even the reasons WHY she's being used as a decoy? the editing is bad. i also think that there have been many scenes this year where some subtitles would ahve done a lot of good. that little "we're voting jan" scene that bastable missed is a really prime example of that. Survivor should take a tip from Amazing Race and put subtitles in when players are whispering or if there's alot of ambient noise fruitbat, so true--the producers have been misleading us again and again... i might add they also have been doing it in the commericials. they should be a lot more careful about getting all hyper and leading us down wrong paths or the drama of the show will be nonexistant since we wont be able to trust what we are seeing. |
Bastable | Sunday, December 15, 2002 - 06:28 pm     Well, Car54, if they're showing us the best stuff they've got, then they clearly didn't manage to tape the good stuff to begin with. |
Car54 | Sunday, December 15, 2002 - 08:15 pm     . |
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