Survivor
Byeka
Name changed from Freak83Toronto Join Date: 2003-03-13 Member: 14484Members, Constellation
Name changed from Freak83Toronto Join Date: 2003-03-13 Member: 14484Members, Constellation
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Another season of Survivor has just ended. I don't know how many people here watch it or are interested in it but for those who are... (TWG players I expect? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->)
This isn't so much a season discussion (although feel free to do so if you wish), instead I'd like to know something.
Has anyone here ever applied to go on Survivor? Is anyone planning to apply for it? I'd like to, a life changing experience, a possible shot at a million dollars... Unfortunatly for me, the show requires you to be 18 and American. Since I'm 17 and Canadian I fit neither of those requirments. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
If the show ever expands to Canada I'll definatly apply, so who here has/wants to/is going to/etc. ?
This isn't so much a season discussion (although feel free to do so if you wish), instead I'd like to know something.
Has anyone here ever applied to go on Survivor? Is anyone planning to apply for it? I'd like to, a life changing experience, a possible shot at a million dollars... Unfortunatly for me, the show requires you to be 18 and American. Since I'm 17 and Canadian I fit neither of those requirments. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
If the show ever expands to Canada I'll definatly apply, so who here has/wants to/is going to/etc. ?
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Then it'd just be a matter of making sure you didn't overplay your hand -- but you could know what anyone was saying, anywhere, anytime. Get what opponents were saying while you were asleep. Get what the show makers were planning as the next challenge. Scare everyone with your omniscience.
If you wanted to scare everyone, you could bring a Glock instead.
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Then it'd just be a matter of making sure you didn't overplay your hand -- but you could know what anyone was saying, anywhere, anytime. Get what opponents were saying while you were asleep. Get what the show makers were planning as the next challenge. Scare everyone with your omniscience. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Isn't that Nem 0's jeorb?
An urban legend passed on through the generations
It probably wasn't the first "reality show" produced in the US, but the financial success of its first season is probably what caused the recent wave of them. Just a show where a number of people are deserted* on an island, or desert, or whatever, and various challenges/votes happen to determine who gets kicked out one by one until someone sticks around long enough to get a large sum of money.
*The deserted part is questionable. It <i>is</i> still a for-profit television show, so it's in their best interest that the contestants stay in acceptable physical shape so viewers don't get scared away. My assumption is that the television crew gives them easy access to clean drinking water. Perhaps even daily multivitamin tablets.
That POS "I'm a Celebrity Shoot Me" or whatever it's called actually replaced Survivor over here after only two seasons (I think). Even though it's still reality TV Survivor was/is much better than most becuase it was obviously a lot harder than most other TV shows know how to be, just look at how much weight the contestants lose and the beards they grow during the filming*.
*At least on the few seasons we had over here before it canceled.
Has anyone ever/is going to apply to go on the show.
And Marik, I really have to disagree with your idea that they're given vitamin pills or whatnot. After how many seasons have they had now, if that was honestly true word would have slipped out about it in some form or another.
It's not like they're left without food and water anyway. They do have access to get water, they have a water hole which has a supply of fresh drinking water. Food they usually manage to get in fish, reward challenges, and if you've seen how skinny some of them get... It's easy to tell they're not supplied with food other than what they earn.
My interest waned after Survivor 1 ... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I wouldn't join... I'd go crazy on those pop culture stereotypical contestants, hunting them from the trees they have to call home for months with a handcrafted sharp object.
Not because of boredom... not because of emotional stress or trauma. I would do it in a vain hope that the mass killings aired (And i could only hope the soulless bastards that make these types of TV shows would go for the insane ratings filmed stabbings would bring in) would turn the public's stomach when it comes to reality TV shows. Perhaps even ending the horrible waste of TV timeslots.
If you can think of another way to change the reality TV show craze without the brutal slaughter of a bunch of handselected sheeple in front of millions of viewers... feel free to post it.
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Then you break out all the weapons you had smuggled in, set up different caches everywhere, and announce that only one person will be taken back alive. What happens to the others does not matter.
Then the game of cat and mouse begins.
...you know, except somebody'll be watching."
Reality TV sucks, Sitcoms suck; the only good stuff on TV is the Daily Show, cartoons and stand up comics. And no, I don't plan on applying to Survivor or any other reality TV shows (Fear Factor is s joke <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> ). Although my cousin contemplated it - I'm not quite sure what became of that.
And plenty of other things, <i>I should hope.</i>
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