(Hm...Why\'d you have to go and scrounge this old thing up?)Originally posted by Tash
how do you know that Survivor/Robinson Cruse is \"heavily scripted\"?
Well, for one, they have a writing staff...
Humans are very predictable things, and when in put in particular cirumstances it can often be deduced what course of action the participants will take. For example, last week on Survivor All-Stars, the two tribes were \"randomly reshuffled\"; although actually, the tribes remained the same save of one person who happened to be in a serious relashionship with a tribemate. Obviously, the shuffle was stacked against this poor girl in order to strain their relashionship, and to make some interesting drama for the episode. Interesting, it was; as her boyfriend made an offhand remark to her tribe\'s leader (\"protect her, and I\'ll protect you\", or something to that effect). Anticipating an alliance come merge, the leader followed the boyfriend\'s advice and mobilized the vote against one of his own as opposed to the girlfriend. All of this on the count of that one event... Any event or challenge in a reality show is intended to do the same; to poke and prod the contestants into some pre-defined roles or objectives. Much of this \"scripting\" is also done in editing, as the producers only reveal as much as they wish the viewing audience to see.
But this brings me to another point, this time related to \"The Apprentice\". I found it interesting that on two seperate occasions during the course of tonight\'s episode, the show was edited; and poorly, I might add. Firstly, as Donald Trump was explaining the objectives, it was obviously voiced over at a later point, as opposed to using his original briefing he gave in-person. Secondly, when one contestant was giving a monologue to the camera, his comment was entirely butchered; it sounded something to the effect of \" (I) (would) (not hire) (Omarosa) \" (the parentheses indicate four differant sound sample spliced together in editing).
Perhaps \"heavily scripted\" is a bit of an exageration, I\'m not sure
what I was thinking when I wrote that...
Originally posted by Xalthar
The true beauty of shows like survivor, which I think you fail to specify, is the hatred or dislike that more often than not arises between the contestants..
Yes, you\'re right there; must have completely slipped my mind in that post. [edit] Ah, now that I reread my old post, I meant the beauty of those two shows in particular that I mentioned. But backstabbing is good, too
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