Re: Survivor: A New Host

In article <438cdefe_1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Obveeus@xxxxxxx says...
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> Phoenix wrote:
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> The point is that anyone can give the impression of being 'on top of things'
> when editing culls 4 insightful questions from the 100+ that were asked.


LIke Julie Chen? Ack!

No, not everybody can. Most of us can't be edited out of our habitual
ways.

You sound a little like Jerri "I'm not a bitch! It's all in the
editing!" They couldn't find 3 minutes out of 3 days to make that girl
look smart or kind or rational. She is what she is, we are what we are.
It isn't like editing can erase an entire personality.


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> >Notice how the Survivor live shows improved enormously when they FINALLY
> >let Jeff host? Everything could be pre-planned to the last detail but
> >Jeff gives the show focus. He asks the right questions of the whole
> >group, without extending his ego into the works.
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> I'm assuming that you mean the reunion shows. Jeff hosts them now and they
> still suck. Very few useful questions are asked and far too much time is
> spent with reminiscing on the order of 'previously on Survivor'.

In the best of all possible Survivors, you and I could rake the casts
over the coals. I'd like that, you'd like that, but Middle America
likes everyone to be sugary nice. That's why people like you and me are
turning more to cable TV - where the "Precious Moments" code of ethics
doesn't rule the programming.

Within the constraints, Jeff does a better job during reunions than
anyone else could. He's held some butts over the flames, in a nicey
nice way.

On the other hand, MB could go to far in the other direction and give us
Dr. Phil for campers.

Jeff seems to strike the happy medium.


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> >Supposedly, Probst is being seriously considered as a replacement for
> >Regis.
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> Sure, but if Regis doesn't retire by next year, Jeff will have to comit to
> Survivor...or sit around with no regular job waiting for Regis to retire.
> People that wait around for a job opening like that end up scraping the
> bottom of the barrel, just ask Joan Rivers.

True. Jeffs waffling answers to renewing his contract could just be a
way to see what is out there and who is willing to completely back him.

Honestly, I don't see Jeff regurgitating his life with Julie + kids on
some early show for housewives. I think he's just flirting with the
idea.


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> >Danni is too stupid.
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> What have you seen to suggest that she is stupid?

Never acting independently, number one. She had information on Gary
that could have ingratiated her to the Power Team or just Lydia and
Cindy and Rafe.

She sits around slacking waiting for Gary to make all the moves.
Typical pretty girl behavior - let someone else do the thinking while
you hang out in short shorts, pray to Jesus, and sit there gawking at
the proceedings. Pure Neleh.

[Not that all the pretty girls have acted this way, Steph hasn't, but
it's becoming eye rollingly typical every season.]

Alternatively, Danni could have commented privately on Jamie's behavior
to anyone - ie "Has he been this way the whole time? How have you guys
put up with this?" She could have distanced herself from Gary,
suggesting his ouster earlier over Brandon. And why, oh why, didn't
someone, anyone, get to Lydia sooner?


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> >Who was that 30+ woman, very smart, voted out pretty early from one of
> >the all girl tribes? Oh where is my memory!
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> Deena.
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> > Okay, she controlled the
> >group to some extent before the pretty, vacuous, whining girls decided
> >she was too old or something.
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> She was never in control. Jenna was in control.

When was Jenna doing anything but riding the surf? The only time she
actually played the game was towards the end. Admittedly, that's all
she really needed to play to win, so why bother with the rest.

IIRC, Super Genius Heidi (of beady eyes, pumped tits and parched blonde
hair) was the one who initiated the Deena booting.


Deena was just happy to be
> able to latch on to the 'poretty girls' rather than the total suck group of
> older women that included an idol nut and a jerk that tried to 'poison' the
> food. As soon as Deena tried to make a decision to control the game, she
> got the boot because she was never in control. I liked her and wished she
> had had more sense so that she would have lasted longer.

Yep, I think that's her. Her decision to control came too early. She
should have waited till some guys were around to back her up against
some weak link in girl camp.


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> >She had an interesting edge to her, and I
> >think she was a lawyer.
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> She was looking towards being a judge...a politician...can't imagine that
> she would want to be a host of Survivor.

She will probably make it too.

I'm just saying that if MB is going to fill this position with a woman,
he's going to have to be careful and NOT give us a Julie Chen clone or
some woman who falls back to the giggling sweetie position during tough
spots of reunions and TCs.

No matter how manipulated Jeff's image is, he gives the show a sharpness
and the illusion of intelligent commentary and oversite. We have the
contestants to watch being bone heads and manipulators. The host should
be our voice of sense and judgement.

bel



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