Why don't they ever hold Survivor in Greenland or Antarctica?

[TheMightyFavog]

Let the contestants really risk their lives.

[tigereye]

1. seriously.

I have to admit I hate that show. I'd like to see them face to face with a polar bear or something. Well, in the Arctic, anyway.

[begin_within]

2. Yikes... have you seen "March of the Penguins?"

[geardaddy]

3. Yeah.

I always thought they should actually be surviving, not just surviving petty political shite.

[Jamastiene]

7. Exactly

Before the show came out, I saw some of the previews and had hoped they would focus on real survival skills in different environments. Instead, it's a freaking petty soap opera, and not a good one at that.

[pokerfan]

15. Survivor is just Big Brother in swimsuits

The only real survivor shows that I can think of are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorman">Survivorman and the cancelled http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Shouldn%27t_Be_Alive">I Shouldn't Be Alive.

(Man vs. Wild is basically a mix between Fear Factor and Jackass.)

[peacefreak]

4. Probably not.

Couldn't show enough skin! :rofl:

[Shakespeare]

11. That is PRECISELY the reason it's always a tropical locale. n/t

[XemaSab]

5. I think they should put them on a real fucking island

and instead of doing bullshit challenges for food, REALLY make them work for it.

Split them into two teams, and give one team a knife and the other team a conch and see what happens. :D

[petronius]

13. I've always thought that they should be dropped on an island with limited

supplies and automated but unmonitored cameras. Told that whoever was alive after 3 months would split the $million - and no rules/laws apply...

[XemaSab]

14. I was thinking of a "weenie button" myself

Everyone could have a little "first responder" necklace where if they push it, people go pick their asses up.

That way all the losers could feel like they wimped out of a million for the rest of their lives. :D

[petronius]

17. That would work, too - but they should be required to get "Weenie"

tattooed on their foreheads so we can mock them forever... :)

[leftyclimber]

6. Baffin Island would be interesting, too.

Personally, once I found out that it wasn't some sort of literal thing where only one person would survive I lost interest in the whole concept.

[arcadian]

8. Capital idea! Just capital!

:thumbsup:

[DeepBlueC]

9. they'd have to wear clothes

no t&a

[trof]

12. Ah. No more soft porn. Death of reality shows.

;-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Damn right - drop 'em off on a fuckin' ice floe, and say "We'll pick up the survivors in 30 days."

Make it a real goddamn survivor show.

[graywarrior]

16. They should have them be homeless in NY for 39 days

[GaYellowDawg]

18. I vote for Survivor Death Valley.

Make it out alive, you win.

[leftyclimber]

25. Ooh, that would be sweet.

Take off your clothes: die.

Leave on your clothes: die.

I like this.

Followup series: Survivor: Atacama Desert.

Oh, yeah.

[LostinVA]

19. Bikinis and shirtless dudes

[Solon]

20. I say we just dump them overboard in the North Atlantic and see who lives the longest...

before freezing to death and/or drowning. Who the hell needs land to survive anyways. :P

[XemaSab]

21. Survivor: Titanic

:D

[Solon]

22. The only downside I can see is this, you know who would score the theme song?

Celine Dion. :scared:

[quakerboy]

23. Survivor: Darfur

Survivor: Columbia
Survivor: Somolia
Survivor: Pakistan
Survivor: Gaza


So many places that would present real survival challenge, plus offer potential educational benifit to the watcher, and yet still allow for scads of of bare skin for the cameras.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

24. Survivor Chechnya

Survivor Baghdad
Survivor Border between Afghanistan and Pakistan (hey, who knows, they could find Bin Laden while they are at it)

The possibilities are endless