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February 23, 2005
Survivor: Race War
Yay! Survivor is back! Now I have something to live for again ... well, on Thursday nights, anyway. The rest of the week is still a wash.
My joy reminds me of an idea that I had, or helped generate, or at least was in the same room when it came about (actually, I think Herr Higgins and I may have developed this one together), during Survivor 6 which was (not to get all sentimental about my Survivors) the first one that Chris and I watched together ... sniff ... anyway, this was the Survivor that they divided teams into girls and boys and I think it was also the first to have somone with a disability - you know - the deaf chick.
It's safe to say that the most interesting part about the show is how groups form, and leave people out, and one of the things that's been pretty obvious over the years is that anyone who is not a muscled up white frat boy is vulnerable in the group dynamics. Skinny white chicks are also favored. Black people, people with tattoos, etc. tend to stick out. This doesn't mean they don't compete well, or even win, but the frat boys tend to stick with the skinny white chicks and each other.
Anyway, this gave us the idea that they should have some Survivors that take the next logical step: if they'd do boys against girls, why not whites against blacks? Young against old? Gays versus straights? Disabled versus regular abled or whatever you call it? Working class Southerners against preppies? They would have to come up with some slightly more interesting challenges in some cases, but that would be a good thing (I am getting really bored of the net and wall climbing for one thing and some wheel-chair accessible challenges could only improve things) and it would rule! And I think they'd get good ratings, too. The only thing that would suck is if the white frat boys won.
Posted by mary at February 23, 2005 3:35 PM
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Yeah!
Plus they should all be naked until they found some big leaves or killed some animals for their skins at least, and the way you'd win is to impregnate as many of the females as possible. On either team - call it "sneaker baboon" or "quest for fire". Maybe eventually they'd learn how to do it from the front... Dirty old man ratings would be high.
Posted by: Lrak at March 3, 2005 3:34 PM
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