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Cyli wrote: On 5 Apr 2005 06:11:26 -0700, "Tinkerntom" wrote: (snipped) Like I said, you more than qualify for a real survival show. There have been some of the more mature women on the show, but I agree that most of it seems to have little to do with real survival, and more to do with social climbing in a semi-primitive setting. I always figured the tribe that wants to survive should raid the other tribe, maybe bash a few knee caps to weaken the competition, and generally cause havoc. Maybe go after the producers camp. Now we can have a real program, with Jeff living on the beach. TnT Format has changed or I watched too little of it. I didn't know there were two tribes competing. Geeze. Too much silliness for Cyli. With real tribes you don't raid until there's a need. Usually a need to get rid of some of the too many young over-testosteroned men who are pretty useless if you've already got enough hunters. True primitives tended to wander apart from one another most of the time. As tribes got larger there was warfare and trade, but these start out with 20 people or less for the 'reality' show, don't they? Insane. Cyli r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels. Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. http://www.visi.com/~cyli email: lid (strip the .invalid to email) Usually they start out with two tribes, but one recent series, I think they had three. I watched the first series with anticipation, but once you get the dynamics of the very small society figured out, subsequent series have been boring. The producers in order to capture our subsequent attention, have to keep coming up with some angle, none of which has anything to do with survival. I read about a couple who purposely stranded themselves on a South Pacific island to see if they could survive in paradise. They just about died, and would have except for some locals from an adjacent island. The Locals wanted to know why anyone would want to live on this particular island that was infested with a particular sand flea, that made you very ill. Plus there was no local sourse of water. They were surprised that anyone could be so dumb. Reminds me of some of these series that have turned out to be pretty dumb, especially when you get sleep and food deprived bimbos and bimbobs, trying to make a decision about who to vote off, when they can hardly stay in the game themselves. In one series they made their camp right down on the beach which worked until high tide. In another, they camped in a riverbed, that ended with a flashflood. Another they caught their camp on fire. Obviously things you would want to avoid, but you would think that there would be some good boy scouts and girl scouts somewhere to be in the games. How CBS chooses such loosers is amazing, unless they are going for the "OH no, Groan Factor"! TnT |
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