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TLEberle:

--- Quote from: Neumms on May 10, 2024, 12:42:18 AM ---Do you still watch Survivor, Travis? I was Jeff’s loyal friend and true up ‘til a couple years ago. Now I find the array of advantages too hard to follow and the challenges too much the same: collect puzzle pieces, drag pieces somewhere, do puzzle. I’m curious what you think, though. Maybe I should give the last season a try.
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Yeah, I do, though the bloom is off the rose. The coronavirus protocols as well as naked attempts to save money (shorter game that is also faster paced) and so many superfans who approach things with an almost religious fervor where every elimination is met with a metaphorical "Aw, you got me, well played" makes me yearn for the likes of a Russell Hantz or Jon Dalton who won't mind never seeing these people again if it means taking home the extra $900,000.

I happen to like the little extras like stealing votes and risky choices, but my hope was that the expansion to an hour would have given us more time at the Tribal Council (for as hokey as "The Apprentice" was there's a certain joy in watching a team disintegrate during the inevitable boardroom showdown in order to stave off elimination just one more evolution.)

In the old days Survivor was little more than win food or don't, win immunity or don't, and if you were on the outs in your tribe there was sweet fink-all you could do about it. Now pocket idols make players stress over every vote, and those low players on the totem pole can pull off massive blindsides that add just enough chaos to be intriguing.

Anything that's 24 years old is going to feel long in the tooth, but Survivor is going the same way as TPIR, Jeopardy and Wheel by reinventing itself.

steveleb:
Honestly curious why this show is resonating so dramatically with non-NBC viewers, enough so that it’s otherwise lousy numbers inflate enough to warrant a legit renewal.  I’m obviously older and not a fan of survivor, and I know that show has never shown the kind of age or platform skew that this one has—and frankly, neither did shiny floor DOND. Anyone under the age of 40 is welcome to set me straight.  Numbers don’t lie, just the people that use them.   But this particular one has me totally stumped.  It can’t all be seeing Joe’s forearms, is it?

BrandonFG:
This is the network that inexplicably renewed George Lopez’s sitcom and seems to be trying to make it a thing. I’m guessing they don’t have much else other than Dick Wolf dramas and The Voice.

steveleb:
Actually they passed on two pilots I know of plus I believe they had some unscripted lotions they have not committed to.

Since the streaming numbers they claim justify the renewal are proprietary I can’t tell how much of the truth they stretched to renew this.  To me it’s abhorrent-and remember I had to watch every single episode of the original nbc series when GSN bought it.

I am truly curious who here does watch and like it and would be elated to have any insight as to why.

Jeremy Nelson:

--- Quote from: steveleb on May 12, 2024, 08:12:17 PM ---Actually they passed on two pilots I know of plus I believe they had some unscripted lotions they have not committed to.

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Are we talking Lubriderm? Premium Nivea? I know every lotion can't be an Aesop, but man...

Anyways, the finale dropped on streaming this morning and...

1. we find out that the "banker" this whole time was Howie Mandel, who provided live offers for the final round while Joe hosted. It was actually nice to have him for the finale, and while Joe didn't have a ton to work with in terms of the DoND elimination games each episode, the fact that Howie essentially hosted the whole final game from the Banker's chair punctuates how good he was on the original show, and now I kinda want to see a version of DoND where the Banker is also the host.

2. the top case was more than $13 million, while the rest of the right hand side of the board consisted of the highest cases retrieved during the excursions throughout the season ($1-6 million). The left hand side of the board were cases going from $.01 to $1,000, so short of a really unlucky run, the game was set up for the final contestant to win seven figures.

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