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Wed | September 06, 2006

une semaine jusqu'au "survivor"

There was no need to remind myself, because I have since read so many articles and blurbs about the next season of Survivor that I have Sept 14 memorized. They are all the same information too. Occasionally someone offers an "opinion," and the one that seems to be circulating is that the show is a cheap ratings gimmick and that you shouldn't watch.

I'm totally going to watch. If I don't watch how am I going to know whether they're mishandling it? Or get the gratification of seeing the Asians kick white team ass? Unfortunately I have a class starting on that day so I will have to try and tape it, I guess.

"I hope it fails" was another "opinion" offered, I think by someone from the NAACP. I think what he meant was that he hoped no one would watch. But I think the show will succeed or fail on how they handle race, how the people talk about race, if they do at all, on the show. And how they represent themselves as people of that ethnic background. I would call the show a success if the best player truly won, regardless of race, and it didn't operate according to a formulaic breakdown of elimination based on race like American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance do. I mean the second season of Dance was even whiter than the first one. During the first season I predicted all of the eliminations from the final 10. The second season I was too disgusted by the first season to watch regularly. I will never forgive them for not crowning Ryan or Melody in their first season. As for Idol, I haven't ever followed a complete season. However I was in a gym class at the time, and Suzanne (the instructor) would often ask who was going to be eliminated, and they were always right, week after week. Perhaps that means that the people in that gym class just had a really good handle on the pulse of America. Such that, presented with the choice between two or three candidates, it was easy to see whom "America" would choose. But in the case of Dance, the real winner was indisputable, and their elimination machine kept turning, regardlessly.

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