My thoughts on…Survivor: Cook Islands

October 2nd 2006 -

Survivor, the mother of all reality shows. Lies I tell you, lies! That title belongs to the Real World! Poor show never quite got its props. Anyway, it was the one that started the whole reality show craze, causing networks to churn out these ridiculous shows because they knew you had nothing better to do with your life than watch. Well now after six years and a declining viewership, they’re trying to revive the old bag with Survivor: Cook Islands, or Survivor: Race Wars as its more commonly known, as the cast has been segregated. It’s been on for about three weeks now.

I’ve been trying to watch the show, but it clashes with the news. But then again I probably won’t need to, as its the same Survivor but with a new gimmick. I’ve seen the original Survivor, and I’ll tell you, I was underwhelmed. “This is what all the fuss is about?”, I said to myself. If I wanted to see white people on an island competing with each other, I’d go to the North Coast or something. Plus I could be enjoying the white sand beaches up there instead of being slumped in front of my television set.

This was obviously an attempt to create controversy in order to gain viewership, hoping that people would rally around their respective races or that some racial slurs would be thrown across camps. This seems to have failed, because after just three weeks, the camps have been split according to gender. Or maybe it was because of all that bad press. CBS, shame on you for trying to grab ratings for your once hit show by trying to ressurect one of history’s greatest sins! I guess people will have to amuse themselves with this until American Idol returns.

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9 Responses on “My thoughts on…Survivor: Cook Islands”

lilfeathers2000 Says:
October 2nd, 2006 at 5:32 pm
Surfing through passing out Cheer. Its’s click and comment Monday.
Have a Blessed Week
Cuppojoe Says:
October 2nd, 2006 at 5:54 pm
I watched the first Survivor and got really pissed off when I realized they had spent the entire series only showing Richard Hatch as a bastard that no one liked, only to have the “shocker” finale where the rest of the castaways actually voted him the winner. What a manipulative sham!

I got my own reality show to entertain me… I call it Reality.
Abeni Says:
October 2nd, 2006 at 6:19 pm
Never watched Survivor after the first show. I gues sthey were trying to be controversial with this latest idea
Melody Says:
October 2nd, 2006 at 6:26 pm
It really didn’t pull me in, either. They should’ve stuck 2 their guns & added an even more outrageous element. In TV, U can’t start out aimin’ 4 de shock value, & then back up when it gets sticky. Now they’re really strugglin’ 2 get more viewers.
Margaret Feinberg Says:
October 3rd, 2006 at 11:10 am
I was such a reality tv fan..and now have switched to Lost, House, CSI and of course, Grey’s Anatomy.
taylor Says:
October 3rd, 2006 at 1:18 pm
um.. i hate tv shows like these its why i dont watch tv that much anymore i download what i wanna watch.. filter out the rubbish the media throws in my eyes. mtv is such rubbish because it should be renamed from music television to reality tv shows booo on reality shows they suck.. its gotta take someone with not much of a life to sit and watch someone else live thiers.. kinda sad when you think about it.
CoolDestiny Says:
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:51 pm
I absolutely hate reality shows. They suck big time. Used to be a big real world fan but that started to suck as well so I just cut it loose. I stick to watching my sitcoms, Law & Order , Monk and GSN. They are good enough entertainment for me.
Mad Bull Says:
October 4th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
I watch VH1, Hype TV, Tempo, and …
and … well, I watch those. Oh yeah, and flavour of love and cebrelity fit club! Thats cool!
Dr. D. Says:
October 5th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Scarcely watch TV…reality shows…none at all.