This has become more of a soap opera. It doesn't matter whose the most skilled. Great idea but the alliance BS has ruined this show! Rupert had the most skill, then the girl from MS but Sandra won it. Stupid.
It is about skill. Skill at reading people, social interaction, and manipulation. Rupert had a lot of skill, but he wasn't able to see all sides of the game.
aaahchuu said this in post #1 : This has become more of a soap opera. It doesn't matter whose the most skilled. Great idea but the alliance BS has ruined this show! Rupert had the most skill, then the girl from MS but Sandra won it. Stupid.
It's funny that you mentioned soap operas. An older relative of mine always laughs at me and can't understand my interest in shows like Survivor. Calls it silly and SUCH a waste of time.
This same woman has been following General Hospital daily for just about as long as it's been on --- which is for Umpty-some years ! She takes her phone off the hook every afternoon for an hour so she won't be disturbed
I am not sure what your definition of soap opera is but in some sense yes, we do tend to get "hooked" and involved with the players.
I missed the first Survivor, but my understanding is that Richard Hatch won because he is the ONLY one who understood going in that it wasn't just about physical survival but a psychological game.
This is oversimplifying it, but the show is supposed to somewhat be a scale model of life/society and test the individuals' ability to "survive" this microcosmic society ... but without the necessities and the niceties and at the end -- ONE person gets a Million Dollars.
Rupert had the most physical Survival skills and if I was to be stranded on an island, yes, of the group I would choose him.
But, if the person who was biggest and strongest or who could catch the most fish or keep the fire going was always the winner ... it would be a predictable, boring show ... and besides, life isn't like that. In reality, men and women, good guys and bad guys, givers and takers, workers and freeloaders, etc. etc. etc. all coexist. But do the laborers who physically work the hardest, always take home the biggest paychecks ? Do the most deserving employees always get the promotions ? Could a talkative, very heavy set black woman from a poor family or a guy tinkering in his garage become multi-millionaires ?
I'm not saying Survivor is perfect, but they try
It would be interesting to hear what you think might make the show more enjoyable for you.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Very well put, OBAF! Couldn't have said it any better.
Sure, there are people that you want to see be the one to win, each time... but, that would be too predictable. Who wants that? I don't. That's one reason that I LOVE Survivor. Because you think that you know where it's going, and... SLAM... something else happens!!! I like that... I like to keep guessing.
Sure, I would have picked Rupert to be the ultimate winner... but, that's not how the game works. It's who survives the longest, without being removed, for numerous reasons. Look how far Jon got, simply because he's an @ss. He wasn't a threat... so they kept him around. Rupert was a threat... because they ALL knew that up there in the final two, he would have won it, hands down.
I don't see Survivor as a soap opera. Soaps are far fetched... everyone is rich, blah, blah, blah! Survivor is REAL LIFE. It's people that are put in a position to have to survive and compete to win. They are who they are. They aren't actors, portraying a script.
I too didn't see the first Survivor. It didn't look interesting to me when it first came out. I started with the second one. I haven't seen all of them. But, I have watched most of them. I like the show a lot, and I will continue to watch it. It's good entertainment... it's a game. I might not like a lot of the players. I might not like a lot of things that they do while on the island. But, I love the show and the concept of it all.
:::>^..^<::: ~*~The Journey is more important than the end or the start~*~ :::>^..^<:::
12-16-2003 02:57 PM
