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Another ‘Survivor’ winner — yawn
Well, the toughest Survivor endurance contest has ended, but it ended with a whimper, not a roar. Danni Boatwright was the last one standing, though here at the office there is talk about whether she deserved to be.
My guess is she had a pretty good guess she would be the winner, because her smiling, frequently licked full lips looked a bit … enhanced, shall we say, at the reunion. Maybe I’m just suspicious. After all, she was the first runner-up in the 1996 Miss USA pageant. She could have just lost a lot of lip weight in Guatemala.
Now attention turns to Panama (isn’t this the third time the show has visited the islands off Panama?), but the real question is, does anybody care? A former Survivor fanatic has said she’s just so over reality TV. It bores her.
Yes, Survivor is the No. 7 show for the season, but it used to be event TV, and the finales used to be party occasions. What do you think? Should we bid reality TV goodbye and just put another 30 or so CSI clones on the air?
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By Martha
December 14, 2005 1:10 AM | Link to this
I agree completely about Danni’s lips. They definitely were a lot more plump, and it also seemed as if she had put on about double the body weight she had in the last night in Guatamala, bringing her weight to about 116 Sunday night. How tall is she anyway? Six foot? A former beauty pageant contender - what do you expect?By Rob
December 13, 2005 1:00 PM | Link to this
I’ve started out watching every season of Survivor. This is the second season I’ve given up on partway through. (The other was Africa.) I found I just didn’t care. It would sit around on my DVR for a week and I’d find myself thinking “Awww, do I still have to watch that?” (And then I realized I didn’t.) Part of it is casting. I just didn’t find anybody to root for. I didn’t see a Rupert in the bunch. Probably a bigger part of it is just Survivor overexposure. They’re running two seasons a season now. It’s something like 5 1/2 years since it debuted and they’re already done with Season 11. Every time you turn around there’s another group of people in another place that looks exactly the same and you realize that you’ve seen it all before. It’s the same thing ABC did with Millionaire. When it’s on every time you turn around then it stops being event television.