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Survivor Samoa: The Petulant Child Can't Even Buy The Title
Commentary by RTVC Staff Writer Kathleen
December 23, 2009
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Creating his own
downfall.
A lot has been said regarding the outcome of Survivor: Samoa. For me, for the first 24 hours, everything I had to add to the commentary consisted of cussing.
Phooey.
So, here are some random musings on all things Survivor.
First, a memo to Russell. The losers, especially those who are collateral damage, in any conflict or act of aggression do not like the leader of the winning side. The fellow standing in the rubble of his dreams is not going to raise praises about the strategic skills of the victor who caused all the grief.
So, dear Russell, your scruffiness at the Reunion perhaps confirms that you are playing in the next round. Too bad you had to play it without knowing the outcome of Samoa. There might have been a lesson for you in the way the jury voted.
Second, I have mixed feelings about the next season. Many of the players advertised as heroes aren’t. They are just nice people who play well with others. Some seasons that will get a player far and for some of them it already did. A few of these nice folks have already proved, however, that they couldn’t organize a trip to the corner store. Nice but naïve. As for the so called villains, some were serious players, like Russell tried to be this season. Some were just jerks. A few rate a loud, “huh?”
I do think that there is the potential for blood on the sand next season. There are a handful of players whose egos are so huge as to be a hindrance to navigation. The question is only whether they will slaughter the lovely lambs before they turn on each other.
The only hope for the season is if a substantial group of better balanced players band together. It will depend on if a strategist emerges among them. Otherwise, it will just be the lions and hyenas loosed among the gazelles.
Finally, back to my total disappointment in the outcome of Samoa.
Should Natalie have won? Sure. She got the jury votes. The jury was there and lived the rain and the pain and the deprivation. They were subjected to subtexts of behavior that we, the audience, never heard or saw.
Natalie obviously out lasted. She apparently played Russell sufficiently, so she must have outplayed. Did she outwit anyone? Not from where I sit on my couch, but I didn’t get to vote.
This brings up the whole ugly can of worms about editing.
It has become evident over the last few summers of Big Brother that an edited broadcast is almost as good as a scripted show. When raw footage is made available to the same people who view the edited version, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist (sorry John) to see that it’s almost two completely different shows.
How much of this does Burnett.....
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