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Survivor Heroes Vs. Villains: We've Got You Covered - Here's Your Survivor Fix
Commentary by RTVC Staff Writer Kathleen
March 18, 2010
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Doofus and fame whore,
but not a villain.
If it’s Thursday it must be Survivor.
Except that, of course, it’s not.
It’s basketball.
I, sadly to say, somehow missed the train that would have taken me to that enthusiasm. Really, I don’t know who is playing and for whom I should cheer. It’s sad, I know.
But it does lead me to ponder on those strange inhabitants of remote beaches on far away Samoa. Who is playing? For whom should I cheer?
Pop quiz: How many people were dropped into the game? Twenty. Very good. Now, quick, name all twenty. Uh … having a little trouble? Of course you are. There are about a half dozen who have barely stuck their heads up above whatever hole they are hiding in long enough to be counted for the opening credits.
That’s what happens when you – yeh, producers, I’m lookin’ at you – assume and presume that someone who was a clever player or a sneaky player or an outrageous player in his or her past season will be that way again regardless of the circumstances or surroundings. And, hey, pay attention. I’m not done talkin’ to you here … in case you haven’t noticed, human beings frequently get older as time passes. And, for some of them, they mature.
Let me work it out for you. A player who is young and hip and flip gets the chance to make an over-the-top move or two in a season. Now this player didn’t win the big prize, so he or she promptly goes home. Sure, there might have been an interview or two from the entertainment media, but mostly this player will just go home.
For the next year or two or three or four … or, God help Colby, ten … life rolls on. You go to your job or you change jobs or you go back to school or you lose your job or you get married or you have a kid or two … Life. Remember that one? Life. It happens.
So now, Burnett’s team invites you to come back to the beach. Somehow you are expected to have been a character trapped in the pages of a comic book. Right there, unchanged, since last time someone sat down for a read. And, for most of you, it won’t happen.
You are no longer the 21 year old twit who danced naked on the beach or the immature loud mouth who bullied everyone into submission. (Those two are fictional composites of real survivors. I leave it to you to decipher which.)
So here we are in Survivor 20 with the “greatest Heroes and Villains who were available to come”. We can have a discussion another time of who should have made the list of “Greatest of All Time”. I’ll toss out Yau-Man and Richard Hatch just to get you started.
Oh, by the way, you have to answer the question of “why” before you put any name on either list.
If you are watching basketball, you get.....
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