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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-03-26 (Tuesday)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:38:58 -0400
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:25:29 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

>In article <uu1q7b$30sko$1@dont-email.me>,
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>
>> On 3/27/2024 11:32 AM, shawn wrote:
>> > On Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:25:01 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
>> > <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>
>> >> Survivor - They didn't even bother to do a proper vote to get rid of
>> >> that one whiny guy. At one point I thought that's not fair if they were
>> >> planning to blindside someone else. But then, no they wanted that dude
>> >> gone! And were very open about it. How did he even get on the show?!?
>> > 
>> > His back story was really good. Sadly he tended to fall apart as time
>> > went by. I don't know that they could have known he would do so poorly
>> > in the actual game.
>
>> I know I would do horrible in the game. I don't need to make the trip 
>> to find out. As soon as I set foot on the island and see a spider's web 
>> I'd be ready to go! And if I had to spend the night I'd be demanding to 
>> know what's the thread count on the sheets they provide. What do you 
>> mean they don't provide sheets?!? Well how many pillows do I get? And 
>> don't get me started on the quality of the food. They would not like 
>> the review I leave on Yelp...Just as soon as I find where they hid my 
>> cellphone. And what's the WiFi password. The island better have a good 
>> WiFi signal or I'm leaving that in my yelp review too!
>
>I stopped watching this show ages ago and one of the reasons I did was 
>the contestants no longer really needed to tough it out in the elements. 
>They were constantly getting rewards of tents, equipment, and food that 
>made their stay a lot more comfortable than it used to be.
>
You should have seen Banu's tribe as they couldn't win anything. So
week after week they went without their flint so no fire. Also since
they didn't have a tarp or anything there was no cover for them which
is why in one episode we saw them sleeping underneath this big rock
that had a nice area where they wouldn't be hit by the constant rain.

>When the show first started, the contestants would look like anorexic 
>skeletons by the final vote. Now they look the same as they did when 
>they first arrived non the island.

I think they gave up on that as they realized contestants that were
starving don't make for good TV. There was one woman on Banu's tribe
who works as a data analyst so she's likely fairly smart. But she
wasn't able to sleep out there and with the lack of regular food she
was a basket case when it came to doing the challenges or even putting
coherent sentences together by the end as she couldn't keep her focus.