Now as for that Survivor show... WOW! I am still blown away by it's existence. It's like being in Time Square, or seeing Seinfeld live, or jumping on a motorcycle - I can't get used to it, I can't wrap my mind around how something so surreal can actually be, well, real. And it's not like this bad boy has peaked and is on a steady decline, which to me is shocking since it burst out of the gates so powerfully with that Premiere. Each episode makes me forget about the last. Each challenge feels more important than any other challenge. Each eviction seems like a tragedy, until the next episode when I almost forget that the show has lost anyone because it is still SO good. A few thoughts I've been having:
- How is it possible that Rupert is not only still in the game, but has never been a potential victim of the vote off? He's never even been mentioned as an option. I don't know what he's bringing to the table, at all. I'm fine with having him around, he feels like a lose canon and looks like a sick pirate, which keeps things interesting, for me, but why is his tribe fine with having him around?
- Is there any way that the alliance choice that JT made last night can be viewed as anything but terrible? He could have voted out James and his crippled leg, joined up with Colby, Tom, and Candice, leaving only Amanda (weak physically and emotionally - nice girl, don't get me wrong, but she's one rain storm away from totally losing it) and Rupert (I get it, he looks like something from Where the Wild Things Are, but he's still a big pile of useless) to oppose him. Instead he is now on a team with Amanda, Rupert, and 1-legged James. I'm a James fan for sure, even if he does seem unstable (short one leg and a bag of marbles), but these tribes are going to merge at some point, and JT's team right now would just get torn apart by those wily villains.
- I can't believe how badly the Heroes Tribe is doing in challenges? Physical, Mental, it doesn't seem to matter, the Heroes suck, biiiiiiig time! I think it comes down to one thing, Boston Rob. Villains have him, Heroes don't. The guy is a game changer, a leader, and by far the coolest cat I've seen on TV in a long time, maybe in Forever. Heroes oddly enough lack in leadership, and seem to have none of that 'make it happen' drive that has clinched so many of these challenges for the Villains. It's baffling to me that a team full of physically weak players (Danielle and her boobs, Tyson and his crushing wit, even Jerry and her pent up bitch-anger), nutcases (Coach the self-proclaimed Dragon-Slayer, Russell the self-proclaimed Greatest-Human-Ever), and individuals of pure Survivor-Evil (Sandra with her powers of Mean, Parvati with her powers of Seduction) can dominate what should be an unstoppable Heroes' force. I love it, I love those Villains, and I love that this show can still surprise me.
- So many stories, so many characters, so many possibilities, so little show. There's just not enough survivor in a week. I need two episodes or two hours or behind the scenes stuff or something, I just plain need more. It's great that they can jump from a scene where Tom and Colby are working on JT, and I feel like this is the big story line, only to have the show cut to Russell working on Coach in an attempt to go after Rob. There's just SO many survivor greats - it's all quality, no filler.
- The Probst. God that guy is good. He's the ultimate Survivor. Best Host of the Reality world without a question. I am loving the Tribal's, and think he is really getting a lot of good stuff out of the castaways at the challenges. It seems like he is very familiar with how he addresses this group (obviously he knows them all already), which I think allows for more interaction between player and host, more discussion, more arguments, more intensity, more Probst-probing. Probst won't let these guys off easy, which is the way it should be; grill 'em.
- I think we are going to see some stuff coming up that we can't even pretend to imagine right now. This could be based on the social game with strange alliances, big face-offs, backstabbing, and side switchers, or maybe the game layout with no-merge, a team shuffle, more idols, or it could even be the unexpected exits like injuries or quitters or ejections (I'm expecting anything). All I know is that each season of survivor has brought something new and previously unforeseeable, and this season is the BEST of the BEST and doesn't seem like it plans on slowing down at all. You're right, Most Exciting Show on Television right now, F'SHO! ... if there are people out there not watching "Survivor: Heroes vs Villains" but still watching TV, mistakes are being made, atrocious mistakes.
A quick tangent towards Lost (without referring to this weeks episode, I dread the idea of causing a spoiler... a Spoiler Causer is a murder of dreams, happiness, and smiles): Again, just like each package of episodes, this season is something new. The show still has that classic Lost vibe, but this is a very different season, with a different formula, a different path, and a different set of rules. I'm very much lost (it's the right word for it, with this show it's always the right word for it) with the 'alternate reality' concept, but I like that the characters are making parallel choices (Sayid goes bad in both realities, Linus chooses to change in both cases) which shows me that there is a force within each person that is driving them and shaping who they are, regardless of their surrounding environment. I have no idea how the show is going to wrap things up with less than 10 episodes left, but Lost has never let me down, and has seemingly painted itself in a corner before only to escape through a trap door.
- I think we are going to see some stuff coming up that we can't even pretend to imagine right now. This could be based on the social game with strange alliances, big face-offs, backstabbing, and side switchers, or maybe the game layout with no-merge, a team shuffle, more idols, or it could even be the unexpected exits like injuries or quitters or ejections (I'm expecting anything). All I know is that each season of survivor has brought something new and previously unforeseeable, and this season is the BEST of the BEST and doesn't seem like it plans on slowing down at all. You're right, Most Exciting Show on Television right now, F'SHO! ... if there are people out there not watching "Survivor: Heroes vs Villains" but still watching TV, mistakes are being made, atrocious mistakes.A quick tangent towards Lost (without referring to this weeks episode, I dread the idea of causing a spoiler... a Spoiler Causer is a murder of dreams, happiness, and smiles): Again, just like each package of episodes, this season is something new. The show still has that classic Lost vibe, but this is a very different season, with a different formula, a different path, and a different set of rules. I'm very much lost (it's the right word for it, with this show it's always the right word for it) with the 'alternate reality' concept, but I like that the characters are making parallel choices (Sayid goes bad in both realities, Linus chooses to change in both cases) which shows me that there is a force within each person that is driving them and shaping who they are, regardless of their surrounding environment. I have no idea how the show is going to wrap things up with less than 10 episodes left, but Lost has never let me down, and has seemingly painted itself in a corner before only to escape through a trap door.
I'm interested in how much the core characters have changed since season one, and how they are taking on different roles - Hurley, Jack, Kate, Sun, Jin, Sawyer, Locke, they have all been so heavily affected by what's happened since the plane dropped out of the sky, that even though they still possess the same fundamental character traits, these are vastly different people.
I'm so intrigued by the secrets and workings of the island - Jacob, Smocke (haha, I love that), the lighthouse, the temple, the unexplainable like the 'evil' in Claire which seems to be after Sayid, the Others (how great is it that the workings of the Others is style so mysterious - Richard, what's his deal), I just can't get enough. This will go down as one of my favourite shows of all time (and one of the biggest lost opportunities by those who didn't watch), even if it doesn't end as strongly as we would like, the way it has captivated me and the detail of the story can't be denied, this is a tremendous component of television history.
Anyways, as you can tell, I don't have access to the fitness centre yet, so I have used my Lunch Break for good and not evil, to talk TV, haha. Hopefully this little / massive ramble allowed for a nice afternoon break...
March 2010 appears to be all about Survival.
Anyways, as you can tell, I don't have access to the fitness centre yet, so I have used my Lunch Break for good and not evil, to talk TV, haha. Hopefully this little / massive ramble allowed for a nice afternoon break...
March 2010 appears to be all about Survival.
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