It’s a whole new season -
Any one know anything about the new contestants?
There’ve been several threads on it, but here is the official site. Cast bios, pictures, spoilerish information, and 30-90 second introductory video clips.
Highlights:
Several ex-military.
One FBI agent.
Several models, male & female.
Several blue-collar workers, including ranchers.
2 gay women (one barista in her 20’s, one PhD in her 50’s)
Guy with a wooden leg (arr…)
One Christian Shepherdess. No, really!
Must See TV night is back! Survivor makes me feel like I’m home again 
Minor spoiler-ish stuff from my paper this morning:
Nothing about who gets voted out, just something about that not-to-be-missed first 10 minutes.
The natives slaughter a pig (a still-living, squirming, squealing pig), and smear the blood on the foreheads of the male players. Apparently it’s rather graphic. My 8-year-old son is quite a fan, and I’m debating over whether or not I should let him watch it.
I can’t find anything saying this season’s shows will be broadcast in High Definition, so I assume they won’t be. Anyone know for sure?
It would be a shame… This is an idea show for Hi Def, and CBS is a leader among the networks in HD programming.
Still, I can’t wait. I’ve got my SURVIVOR party all planned for tonight!
I’ve picked Chad Crittendon (the guy with half of a leg removed due to cancer) in my office pool.
My only wish is that we can stop having to look at Rupert’s mug for at least one frickin’ season. I’ve had enough of that chump.
I’ve picked Chad Crittendon (the guy with half of a leg removed due to cancer) in my office pool.
My only wish is that we can stop having to look at Rupert’s mug for at least one frickin’ season. I’ve had enough of that chump.
Can I just mention how funny I find it that the SHEEP farmer is named DOLLY?
Good.
Ugh, me, too. I am so sick of seeing him in the ads. In one of the earlier threads, someone mused if he might be more involved in this version, like maybe one of the Reward Challenges might be dinner with him, off on a boat. :rolleyes:
I seriously doubt Survivor will be shot in High Definition for a long, long time. The reason is the environment Survivor is typically filmed in is too harsh for HD cameras. I understand there’s a pretty big technical staff on hand to fix the cameras, which break down often in the tropical heat and humidity.
How the hell did my message, quoting a previous post, show up before that post?
The clocks were off for a while – by four hours – when they came back up at first this afternoon. The mis-timed posts are falling in according to “assigned” time, not “actual” time.
My take after viewing the episode:
We have boys vs. girls. Nine on a team, half the boys are indistinguishable fraternity-boy types whom I’m never going to be able to tell apart until halfway through the season. Ditto the girls, indistinguishable sorority-girl types, blahblahblah.
We had the standard older folks working while the younger folks goofed off, with the standard bitching about lazy kids and workaholic geriatrics who are making the lazy kids look bad.
Have we had a Beautiful Bitches faction since Amazon? Welcome back, Heidi et al!
No spoiler talk yet…
OK, so, that was … something. I know it’s just the first episode and all, but I’m not feeling a whole lot of love for this crew. Anybody else? Although I have to admit that I am already half in love with Brady the FBI guy, who looks just like my cousin’s ex (who is incidentally also an FBI guy).
On preview … jayjay, I’m with you. Not much more than the usual going on. Also, on further reflection, I am thinking that I am hating Eliza. Which means that she’ll probably be around the whole season, because apparently Burnett loves to give me aneurysms from yelling at the TV.
Oh, and I’m still giggling over Dolly the Sheep…
Farmer…
The only two people who left me with any impressions were Chris and Rory. Chris is obviously pretty cocky, a bit in the mold of Rich Hatch. Rory is just an idiot for sticking his neck out where nobody wants to see it. Oh, and I suppose the guy with the artificial leg leaves the impression that he has an artificial leg.
Not much else to go on. Too much time on the Vanuatu welcoming ceremony and too little on who the contestants are.
I know it’s probably just editing, but it still annoys me to hell every series.
We need water to drink, and fire to purify the water, so let’s spend 45 seconds trying, then give up and go play on the beach. It’s not like water is essential or anything.
my usual first episode comment: wouldn’t it be prudent to practice that whole “fire by friction” thing before you head out to the island? have these contestants not seen the previous episodes? fire is a must have for your immediate hydration needs.
it is not really all that difficult to start a friction fire. i learned how as a cub scout more than forty years ago. if i was heading oout to survive with a water pot and a machete, i would brush up on my technique.
Anybody else get the impression that the producers expected the whole “climb the pole to get the rock” challenge to be a bit more …challenging? The whole intro turned out kind of anticlimactic when they presented a seemingly insurmountable challenge to the men only to have the first guy to try it kick its ass.
I’ve got to join in with the “underwhelming” crowd. Same ol’, same ol’.
And I’m really getting tired of the whole “We’re women; they’re underestimate us, but we’re really strong; we’ll kick their butts; go girl power!” / “We can’t get beat by girls; we’re strong but we can’t underestimate them” blah blah blah blah blah stuff. Enough already.
And, although I’m sure it was largely due to editing, I wanted to cringe at how surprised they were at the natives gasp treating women differently than men and double-gasp killing a pig! Golly gee whiz! Furriners are diff’runt!
Bah.
I’ll be watching next week.