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There's a new season of Survivor kicking off tonight, and they've found a way to bring Li'l Russell and Boston Rob back. That show sure knows how to milk its "stars," such as they are. The bad boys will seemingly be mentoring the folks that get kicked off and then they will somehow be competing Real World/Road Rules Challenge-style to win a spot back in the game. It all sounds very complicated and confusing.
That said, this show needed some sort of infusion of creativity, even if it does seem to borrow liberally from another show. There are only so many bored looking twentysomethings starving themselves that we can really handle getting to know and forget in the course of the run of this series. Even if I'm over Russell (and I should be over Boston Rob, but there's just something about him that I personally find utterly watchable), at least I know what I'm getting with him, and that's more than I can say about the new crop of people who may or may not have the ability to entertain me.
The new season kicks off tonight at 8 on CBS and is up against Idol and the like.
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What??? No, no, no.
"The bad boys will seemingly be mentoring the folks that get kicked off"
No. They are assigned to tribes. They are normal contestants.
"and then they will somehow be competing Real World/Road Rules Challenge-style to win a spot back in the game"
I'm not sure if you meant the kicked-off contestants or BRob/Russell. After every elimination, the booted contestant goes to Redemption Island. Whenever a new bootee arrives
at Redemption Island, they participate in a challenge with the person already there in order to stay in the game. Whoever wins the final challenge goes back in the game.
Note to anybody who hasn't watched most of the seasons: avoid. Jeff Probst stated that real fans wouldn't be sick of Russell's chaos-causing antics. Shit like that is why Phil Keoghan should shove all three of Probst's undeserved Emmys up his ass. As for Rob? Most overrated contestant in the show's history. I used to think that was rupert, but at least the tie-dyed turd made the jury all three times he appeared.
jkalderash . . . are you certain Russell and Rob are just contestants? From what I heard, they will "mentor" the other contestants, and both would be guaranteed to appear on the jury. Even if that turns out not to be the case, doesn't that sound like some cynical shit Mark Burnett would pull?
I LIKE Russell and I'm tired of him, and BROB, but atleas, there was a bit of a break inbetween appearances for him.
I might give this one a shot, but I'm thinking at after 20 and a half seasons I'm done.
Lantern7: I believe the "mentor" rumor was a false spoiler disproved quite a while ago. They can be voted out just like normal contestants.
"I should be over Boston Rob, but there's just something about him that I personally find utterly watchable)..."
I think it may be that Rob brings vituality and originality to that ol' TV trope: the bad boy who is true blue, the cavaliar kid with a cavaliar's heart.
On TV he is that TV character. Or perhaps a male Adriana, with his "Ambuh" to her "Christophuh". And no drugs, no tears, no long-term pahking.
I've always favoured the schemers in reality shows (probably comes from being a wrestling fan, I suppose), so I'm actually a bit of a Boston Rob fan. Was a fan of Russell for a while in his first season, too, 'til he started acting like a whiney bitch in the reunion show.
I'm gonna tune in tonight, and will no doubt stick around for the season, but I swear, if Russell comes back next season....
Looks like I was wrong on the "coach" thing.
Right now, I'm going through the 2201 thread before posting. Short story: Production doesn't care about Russel-proofing the idols anymore, the contestants have the potential for Samoa/Nicaragua levels of stupidity, and Phillip puts the "special" in "special agent." Honestly, he sets back black men so far back, I think Earl Cole will wind up getting stripped of his Fiji title. And while the "What If" commercials were meant to be intriguing, all of the scenarios were post-merge. What about people who got cut off before the jury phase, like Shii Ann, Rob C. (on All-Stars), Silas . . . shit, the one I keep focusing on is "What if Mike Skupin didn't go hand-first into the fire?"
Seriously, if you have willpower, skip this show. It'll send a message to Burnett and CBS to quit the stunts.