Calm down. Fact is, neither of us knows what truly happens behind the scenes of Survivor and it’s just as foolish to pronounce yourself as correct without considering alternative scenarios. Perhaps I came across as believing that my opinion was a fact, but that was not the intention (the insignificant portions of time I have to formulate responses do not permit me to review my posts with a fine tooth comb, as you seem to have). It is ignorant for you to assume you’re more correct than I.
Second, while it is true they didn’t “hype” the fire (as that would only add further fuel to the speculation), there’s no doubt in my mind that it hasn’t contributed to water cooler talk, etc, thus potentially expanding Survivor’s ever important audience (especially with the Season final this Sunday)! I would just appreciate it if you were a bit more becoming seeing as how it’s just a TV show.
The fire went out because it ran out of dried palm fronds and dried firewood to burn. Everything else in the camp is probably green wood and waterlogged from the daily rainstorms.
When did I pronounce it wasn’t? But there are more civilized ways of providing a counter opinion without posting assumptions of things that I did nor did not consider (Looks at “basic physics” portion).
Regarding the fire-building competition:
What I meant was usually they have to build fire from scratch (rubbing two sticks together, using someone’s glasses) when they get to their camps in the beginning.
In other years, they don’t get matches or any help till the first TC when they get lit torches to take back to camp.
This year they got flint, steel and kerosene because it was so wet in the Amazon TPTB gave them a break and let them have an easy way to make fire.
I taped The Early Show this morning and just now watched it.
To give the Devil his due, I have to admit HeiDDi looked really good, drool-worthy even. She cleans up nice. She even distracted me from my habitual ogling of Julie Chen, and that’s saying something.
The viewers’ called-in questions were really angry and accusatory. I’ve never heard such hostility toward a Survivor castoff before. Not that she didn’t deserve it, of course.
The only thing I could think when I saw the pre-vote speech from HeiDuh was that the other had all said similar things that we weren’t getting to see due to creative editing. I mean, seriously, wtf was she thinking otherwise?
I just thought whore was akin to slut, in that, a woman has no shame in who she chooses to sleep with. I didn’t think any of that was going on in the show with her.
Well, that was happening, as well. Jenna clearly has no shame in whom she chooses to sleep with. I mean, did you see her and Heidi spooning on this week’s show? Ick! No shame, no shame!
I don’t think they really went to the Amazon. I think they’re on a Hollywood set. Check out the shadows, and you’ll see there are multiple light sources. Also, notice that they never show the sky. Why not? Because there isn’t one. As for the fire, if you freeze the frames and examine them individually with a chromatic analyzer, adjust the gamma level up 37%, reverse the image, and invert the saturation — you can tell the fire doesn’t look quite right. I think they burned a minature model. (Also, the flames are the wrong color for dried palm fronds.)
