Survivor: Cook Islands, Post-Colonialism Colonialism Ratings Grab

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ANH-TUAN CAO BOI BUI (Pronounced Cowboy)

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

I didn't get to watch this last night, but I wonder how much planning went into the casting of this, like did they measure out iq & physical strength factors somehow in advance to try and make all the teams equal? I mean, if you're going to make it a race war, what responsibilities do you have not to stack the deck for a certain race/team and what standards do you use to ensure that? Did they embrace any racial stereotypes or try to avoid them at all costs? I know all they really care about is ratings, so how much of a social experiment is it really? It's more of a social experiment on the viewers, like can how many americans can talk about this show around the water cooler without offending anyone?

― BrianB (BrianB), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

If they really wanted to get with the times they should've divided the teams on religious lines. They could have a challenge where they reinacted that bible story where each team prays to it's god to set a bush on fire or whatever.

― BrianB (BrianB), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:41 (seventeen years ago) link

They clearly are not - nor do i think they will ever be - in the practice of measuring iq.

xpost

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i still can't fucking believe they're doing this... "as a response to criticisms we're racist, we're starting a race war"?!?! massive wtf.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:53 (seventeen years ago) link

i expected more ILX water cooler talk about this. it is pretty mindblowing that it even exists. won't they all join up into one big mixed tribe within a few weeks anyway? so then it can be a big luv-fest set to some old school Bruce or Mellencamp tuneage with a touching message about how the USA is NUMBER ONE because it's a big melting pot where even foreigners can live like White People (aka The Amazing Race) and we all DO get along etc. (this will mostly work because there ain't no a-rab tribe)

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

if nothing else, the ladies generally make up the hottest Survivor cast in memory. Chaoboi seems nuts in a good way, too.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

That's the oddest criticism about The Amazing Race I've ever seen.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

considering the racism/misogyny i saw behind the scenes on certain programs, none of this surprises me

― gear (gear), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

DISH

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Which programs would that be?

xpost. yes, please do.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

d@vid f0ster, 'popstars' svengali and 'princes of malibu' patriarch, seemed to enjoy calling the girls 'cunts'!

― gear (gear), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Cao Boi is brings the MONSTER BASS for the Vietnamese Acid Mothers Temple.

Fritz OTM. In no more than four weeks' time, the tribes will be redivided (reintegrated, if you will) simply because of the numbers game. (Watching 2 and 3 person tribes at this point in the show would be BORING.) Fraternity will rule for a short time after the merger, but soon all that will disappear in the name of the GAME again with requisite backstabby action.

The producers do apply pre-screening tests, but those are mostly health and psychology stuff, definitely no smarts-testing.

― c('°c) (Leee), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

same show: the most talented girl didn't make the cut because she was black

― gear (gear), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

'bachelorette 1': solitary black dude on the show was, one night, carried outside and dumped on the front lawn by the white dudes

― gear (gear), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i never worked on another show anyone ever saw, come to think of it.

― gear (gear), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Survivor did all of this stuff before on "Amazon" naked gurl edition. My liberalism was like, PHWOAR.

― c('°c) (Leee), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeez!
xpost!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

It's shows like that that give reality TV a bad name! UGH.

― c('°c) (Leee), Friday, 15 September 2006 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

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