On May 21, 6:25 pm, kenny blankenship <bl...@blank.blank> wrote:
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> > > Approximately 48 semifinalists will then be invited to Los Angeles
> > > in September for final interviews with Survivor producers before
> > > roughly 16 finalists most or all selected by casting agents to fit
> > > the exact criteria we demanded as castaways to compete on the
> > > show's eighteenth installment.
>
> You say that like it's somehow immoral, or wrong. Are you suggesting
> that the show should cast people by lottery? Seriously, what's wrong
> with them casting exactly the types of people they want to cast?
It loses its reality theme a lot ... No not by lottery ... but
interview people with no preconceived notions of who should be a
contestant ... Pick the most interesting ...pick from the large number
of people you find ... They did quite well early on when this was
their procedure ... and each was a real person ... Viewers could
say ... hey he's like Uncle John ... or she's like your ditzy
sister ... and begin to root for someone that they can identify
with ...
Now ... at the very least ... the contestants are scripted ...
They didn't script a Richard Hatch ... they now say let's find a
middle aged gay guy ... and maybe they find a Richard Hatch ... If
they said ... let's find a blond gay guy instead ... a Chet is
scripted in ... and even if a Richard Hatch applied ... he'd be
rejected as not fitting their preconceived notion ...
There are two cooking reality shows I watch ... Hell's Kitchen and Top
Chef ... Top Chef finds a cast of good chefs ... some from
audition ... some from word of mouth ... Hell's Kitchen ... has maybe
2 or 3 chefs ... and personalities to create conflicts ... or give
Ramsey people to vent on for theater ...
Top Chef - an excellent reality show ...
Hell's Kitchen - organized crap ... totally staged ... now with that
said ... I enjoy Hell's Kitchen ... but there is little reality about
it ...
They may as well script the entire Survivor show ... By choosing
preconceived types ... they are already influencing how the show will
go to a large extent ...
doesn't make it worse ... or immoral ... just less of a reality show
and more of a series ...
