I've been hearing the buzz about the next installment of Survivor and it's rather heated, already. The producers have decided that they will have four ethnic groups of all Blacks, all Whites, all Asians and all Hispanics/Latinos. The contestants didn't know this was how it was going down this time around until the night before actual filming.
I can't imagine anyone getting that far and wanting to walk away just because the producers decided to pit them against each other in this manner. I'm sure all of them will stay, and so far it seems they have.
I've heard that there have been a lot of protesting by people far and wide, (read overseas) about them doing this. We all know the producers are doing this basically for ratings. Who won't watch it? I doubt that many won't. Due to the novelty of it, and perhaps to see some people fail, many will.
Another group who is also cheering this on are the Arian groups around the world. Yea, watch the others fall at their feet. I can see the salivas dripping!LOL! Aw people....
It's actually on right now, I am curious to see the outcome of this first episode and perhaps I'll stay around to see the end of the entire series. I don't know. Honestly, I have lost interest in the show since the first couple of seasons. It's like they just keep doing the same things over again, nothing interesting in seeing people connive, and lie and cut throat each other.
I know I'm probably in the minority who don't watch it much anymore. It's still interesting to some so that's what has kept it on. However the ratings have dropped a lot in recent years, and hence this debacle of the new shows.
According to Jeff Probst (hope I spell his name right) he wants to see the end of racism as is and this show will get people together somehow. Uh uh...and maybe you should have made the show more diverse from day one? Maybe your audience would have been a good representation of what the world looks like? Maybe people are just plain bored by Survivor, they've moved on and now he wants to get his foothold on the diversity market. The possibilites are endless.
Maybe I'm just being too cynical. I'm not really, just tired of people doing stupid things and trying to justify it with good intentions. Why should this be such a hot cake of contention now? Why should this be the way it is at this point in 2006? I guess it just shows how fragile our world still is. And that makes it sad to think about.