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You guys. The new season of Survivor starts tonight and I didn’t even realize it until I was catching up on my TV blog reading this morning. What’s happening to me? Is it really time that I have the “the magic’s gone, you’re just not doing it for me anymore” talk with Survivor? How funny that the Strike was supposed to get me watching new reality crap and instead it’s got me walking away from my old reality favorites. 
That may not be quite fair… Survivor deserves all the credit for my loss of interest. Despite Jeff Probst’s claim that last season was one of their best, the last few seasons have slowly whiddled away at my love for the show. Not even the promise of my so-called “favorites” (pictured to the right) returning can lure me back.
Speaking of dropping reality shows, I’ve yet to watch last week’s Celebrity Apprentice and I’m not sure I ever will. Now that Lost is back and we’ve got new episodes of Supernatural, I have no interest in the adventures of annoying Omarosa and Piers. It’s not reality but I don’t know if I’ll even bother checking out Lipstick Jungle tonight. Last spring, I actually liked the preview for this show more than the preview for Cashmere Mafia but nothing I’ve seen since makes me want to tune in.
Man, all this negativity makes me feel like I’m all down on TV! I swear I’m not! I’m right in the middle of writing a confession post about a show I had no interest in earlier in the year and now find I like. Plus, tonight alone, I’m juggling Lost and Supernatural at 9PM and then Eli Stone and the premiere MTV’s America’s Best Dance crew at 10PM. That doesn’t even include BRAVO’s Make Me a Supermodel which I’m hopelessly addicted to but actually watch on Friday afternoons because of the 10PM traffic jam on my DVR (check out Ducky’s After Elton preview of tonight’s episode). So, see, I’m totally still the TV whore you know and love/hate.
What are you watching tonight? Are you, unlike me, excited about the new season of Survivor? Did you like last week’s Eli Stone enough to give it another chance? If not, you do realize Victor Garber will be singing tonight, right? That’s reason enough to watch right there. Are you going to give America’s Best Dance Crew a chance? What if I told you that Spads had a great time at the taping on Tuesday (keep an eye for her report!) and she totally got a hug from JC Chasez and Shane Sparks loved our blog name? Are you sick of my endless questions and just want to enjoy this full scene from tonight’s Lost courtesy of MeeVee? Ok, ok… I’ll stop. Enjoy the clip:
I’m in the same position — I had no idea Survivor was back tonight till I read it about it on a TV blog. I’ll probably end up watching the premiere, but I can’t say I’m especially excited about it. Last season featured so many foolish people under the mistaken belief that they were very clever, and it ended up being the most obnoxious season in recent memory. This time, I’m wary – there is the genuinely interesting and intelligent Yao Man returning, but I don’t think that’s reason enough to suffer through any scene with Johnny Fairplay.
I wouldn’t have remembered “Survivor” was tonight either, if I hadn’t 1) programmed my DVR last Sunday and 2) had the “February 7″ date stuck in my head.
I didn’t love last season like I loved Fiji and Cook Islands. Yul and Earl were two outstanding winners, and both scenes were a great example of brains and loyal alliances between decent people triumphing over the Mean Girl/conniving, manipulative, Hatch-lite players we saw this past season (Todd being the epitome of that).
Plus, both prior seasons each had an outstanding “OMG!” moment: Jonathan’s flip in CI, and Dreamz and the truck in Fiji. This season only had the two idols, which…was pretty dumb anyway.
I continued to love “Survivor” because they’re constantly mixing it up and it’s never the same show twice.
It’s reinvented itself more successfully, more often than any other reality series I’ve ever watched, and I respect it for that.
(Er…sorry for this novel-length comment. “The tribe” has apparently written a diatribe
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I kind of feel the same, Marcia. I don’t care for Fairplay AT ALL and don’t know if I can put up with him long enough to enjoy the show. Of course that’s how I felt about Omarosa too… unless she’s why I’m not anxious to get back to Celebrity Apprentice.
I’d probably watch tonight, too, if it weren’t for the fact that I need to decorate a cake. So I have something to fill that empty hour with instead of tuning for lack of anything else to do.
Eolivet! Don’t apologize… I did ask for everyone’s thoughts! Plus, I was honestly just trying to work out why I’m not excited for the show. Even when the show lets me down, I’m usually all excited for the next season. I will say, though, that even a couple of outstanding “OMG!” moments doesn’t necessarily make up for an overall lackluster season. I think I just haven’t liked or connected with as many of the survivors as you have over the past few years. I think that’s probably where our difference of opinion lies…
Anyway. I think I figured it out at lunch… I’m hardly watching CBS at all so I’ve been missing out on the things that get me excited for new seasons of Survivor and Big Brother… the promos. Because the promo people always know the best clips to pull from previous seasons, the clips that remind me of why I watch the shows. I could care less about the new casts, etc., but those clips get me all excited for what’s to come. Without them, I just don’t care as much…
Hmm…I think I’ve seen one episode of Survivor. Funny though, when they were first promoing LOST for its inaugural season, my initial reaction was that it was a fiction version of Survivor. Or Gilligan’s Island with more drama and prettier people. Boy, did I ever change my tune fast…
So if you haven’t figured it out by now, LOST is what I’ll be watching tonight. Even the repeat of last week’s episode at 8 pm.
Hmm – I wouldn’t say I’m excited about Survivor. The things I like about Survivor are the challenges. I love the challenges. I honestly could care less about all the manipulating/chatting/etc. I just enjoy watching people do silly things in a racing against each other environment.
I think it’s my latent sports fan raising it’s head. I used to be a fanatic sports fan and over the years, simply stopped being one. But back in the day – baseball, football, ice hockey – all held me enthralled. Now I don’t watch or follow any sports so I think these challenges are what own me.
Weird I know. It’s also probably why I adore Ozzy since he just owned some of those challenges.
I actually forgot about the Dance Crew but I think part of the reason is I’m so involved in our own competitive Dance season right now that I can’t really focus on anything else.
And happy pre-birthday by the way. Isn’t your birthday tomorrow? I’m doing privates, a show, running all over the place so if I don’t get online, I hope it’s terrific.