Survivor 13: Spics vs. Chinks???

[Babette]

I agree that it is the latest "watch me" gimmick, but if you think about it, it makes sense. Survivor has been criticized for the fact that the players are mostly white. I haven't watched in a few seasons, but it seems like the minority players are subject to prejudice and early ousting. This new tribe segregation guarantees that more minorities have the opportunity to play, and will be voted off for reasons other than race. At least until the merge.

[Matterhorn Fan]

Originally Posted by Babette

I agree that it is the latest "watch me" gimmick, but if you think about it, it makes sense. Survivor has been criticized for the fact that the players are mostly white. I haven't watched in a few seasons, but it seems like the minority players are subject to prejudice and early ousting. This new tribe segregation guarantees that more minorities have the opportunity to play, and will be voted off for reasons other than race. At least until the merge.

Possibly, but they won't be separated into four tribes for very long. Didn't the whole four tribes thing last for about 3 days last season? All that hype about 4 tribes instead of 2, and it lasted one episode before the show was back to the same old same old.

Originally Posted by Scrooge McSam

What did it for you?

I'm not sure. When did the "survival" part of the game disappear? Honestly, I have a hard time differentiating one season from another beyond the third season, and even then, I don't remember a lot about seasons 2 and 3.

I think Survivor would have been quite the phenomenon had they only done it once.

Their attempts to add new "twists" and try to make the game so that the people playing it don't know exactly what they're in for are--well, quite lame.