If you don't know who I'm talking about, you don't need me to warn you that this link is a spoiler for the 39th season of "Survivor."
For some people, chaos is a method. It's so disturbing to the other players.
ADDED: Noura also said, "If you follow the herd, you’ll never be heard. Be a peacock." But she mispoke/"mispoke" when she said "Be a peacock" and said, "Be a cock" before correcting it.
ALSO: One player got ejected from the game after he was accused once and then again of sexual harassment, and the show announced a new policy:
The production will add another on-site professional to provide a confidential means of reporting any concerns, so that the production can address them promptly apart from the game. The full range of reporting processes will be communicated clearly to the players during pre-production orientation. The new executive will add to a support system that already makes mental health providers available to players on location and after they leave the island.
The show will enhance its pre-production orientation with new anti-harassment, unconscious bias and sensitivity training for cast, producers and production crew on location.
A new rule will be implemented stating unwelcome physical contact, sexual harassment and impermissible biases cannot be brought into the competition and will not be permitted as part of gameplay. This will be covered in the cast orientation for each season, along with clear instructions on how to report violations.
The show will also partner with a third-party expert in the field to review, evolve or add to these new policies and procedures going forward.
In addition, CBS Entertainment will develop appropriate enhanced policies and procedures equivalent to the new Survivor measures and adapt them for the network’s other reality programming going forward.
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Good Morning. I didn't know Survivor was still on.
However, that quote does seem an apt description of how Trump approaches all things. He is most definitely a disrupter. Remember everyone's reaction when he first started insulting Jeb!? They were all startled and everyone- from the other candidates to the media, were chuckling nervously for a week or so until Trump started laying into all those around him. Disrupter? Yes. But he's more than that. Unpredictable. Smart, though not sure what kind of smart it is. Strong- he's in his 70's and still fighting this hard, all day, every day. Confident.
Disrupter. Unpredictable. Smart. Strong. Confident. Hmm....sounds like descriptors of early Steve Jobs, Bill Gates. Mark Z. etc.
Sounds stupid.
As always.
Noura made a mistake with the quote because it is scripted, not spontaneous. Watch the Mandalorian and at least you get to see Baby Yoda.
I have zero interest in watching anything "Star Wars." I saw the original movie "Star Wars" and then "The Empire Strikes Back." I read the reviews of "Return of the Jedi" and could see that things had gone downhill. The only thing that would make me see anything "Star Wars" now would be if I were taking care of a child who wanted to see it.
I have zero interest in watching anything "Star Wars."
You are not alone. The movies went downhill because they introduced identity politics and skipped the storytelling (as well as not only killing off the original characters that everyone loved, but smearing most before they did). But the Mandalorian is a different beast--for now. Disney's way of saying "Come back!" And it is still better than a fake competition like Survivor.
"if I were taking care of a child who wanted to see it."
Same here, except that in my case the "child" is a 74 year old sibling. I have to go see Cats....
The entire Star Wars series has been a slow motion murder.
Disney is just pissing on the corpse.
"so that the production can address them promptly apart from the game.”
OK Boomer.
I have to go see Cats
Only if you want nightmares. The perspective changes alone will give you a headache. Everyone involved should have used fake names.
The originals starring Clint Eastwood with down on their luck but still good looking hookers instead of Baby Yoda are better.
“The Mandalorian” is a good show, I have enjoyed every episode. I just wish the episodes were longer than 35-40 minutes and that I didn’t have to wait until Friday to see the next episode.
Or they could have gone full Jungle Book and call him a "Yoda cub.” Would have been better in my opinion.
People used to wait breathlessly for Harry Potter, so what do I know?
Harassment rules that are ripe for abuse and exploitation. Just like real life!
Ya but...baby yoda!!!
The mandalorian was also on game of thrones. Might as well tell Ann he works in finance...
The Bridge (Sofia Helin) went downhill after season 1, as the screenwriters feel they are losing women and simultaneously running out of plot. Who knew there were so many traumas to overcome. Sexual harassment is still okay though, though the show tends to murder, which is less socially awful. In The Survivor, whatever that is, it's the opposite. Probably murder is tolerated.
It's awful, of course, that woman have to experience something like this!
What a far cry from season one, when eventual winner Richard Hatch, would stroll around naked.
The first Star Wars and Muppet movies came out at about the same time. Which was more enjoyable? For me, the Muppets stormed the troopers.
You can’t get those Clint Eastwood squints out from under that helmet either. Real horses are more beautiful to look at than those comic monstrosities out of H.R. Puffenstuff that Mandalorian rides.
I think Sun Tzu came up with that concept first, keep your enemy unprepared, do things he cannot anticipate.
Everything old is new again. And outside of Godfather II has there ever been a sequel that was better than the first?
Toy Story III. If I could write opera, I would use it as a libretto.
impermissible biases
What are those? I did a search and the only use of the phrase are discussions of the same statement by CBS. What are the permissible biases?
I only watched half the season, and only because my wife likes to watch it. I watch very little television, and usually do something on my computer while the wife watches her shows. I never been a fan of Survivor because I find the whole thing destructive. Be a cock! Yeah, that's what we need. More people in the workplace, fighting their way through the corporate ladder, and being a cock the entire time. Be sure to blind side the most productive person early! I'm little surprised that we end up with Trump as President and Democrats impeaching him.
My history and opinion of Star Wars matches Althouse. I feel the same way about superhero movies. I just don't get the attraction.
While you were watching Survivor, a man in Iowa got sentenced to 16 years in prison for burning a flag.
My kids are obsessed with Survivor and watch all the old seasons (there are like 40), and have totally lost interest in Star Wars. I can't get too excited about Survivor, but it's way better for kids than anything else I've seen them watching.
Whoa, that flag story is crazy.
The crazy lady didn't get any votes. Conclusion, the jury was full of anti-Trumpers. Of course the liberal producers of Survivor probably screen out real Americans, hence the obese are not represented.
Whoa, that flag story is crazy.
I agree. Over 10 years for a violation of speech. If he was tried for the basic crimes committed, it was only 5 years max.
As Stars Wars has gotten worse, the special effects and CGI have gotten better. The movies have all been intermittently entertaining. The disappointment is factored in and is part of the Star Wars experience. They've never gone full Game of Thrones and destroyed the franchise.
Their new policy prohibits bringing impermissible biases to the island. That's neat.
I guess they're ok with bringing permissible biases--it's just those impermissible ones that are now banned.
I stopped watching Survivor a while ago. A woman I dated liked the show and we went back and watched several seasons via a streaming service, but we skipped/fast-forwarded through the endlessly repetitious tribal council discussions. If you do that and fast forward through most of the boring and meaningless conversations leading up to tribal council it's often an entertaining 12-14 minute show.
Some of the older seasons featured very attractive young women, often lovingly/sensually shot. That's enough to garner some interest, even if it became less appealing as they got skinnier and dirtier. The last few I watched didn't have anyone particularly attractive or amusing and most of the discussions were so meta in nature (talking about The Game, how playing this game or that game was part of Their Game, etc) that I didn't have any desire to keep watching.
I think they could reenergize the show by going back to the survivialist core of the show; they seem to have a much easier time living, eating, being sheltered, etc, now than they did in the early seasons of the show and survival-type skills/knowledge don't seem to matter much anymore. Time for a gritty reboot!
"Bushman of the Kohlrabi said...
My history and opinion of Star Wars matches Althouse. I feel the same way about superhero movies. I just don't get the attraction."
I have never seen any of the Star Wars movies or any the super hero crap.
"The only thing that would make me see anything "Star Wars" now would be if I were taking care of a child who wanted to see it."
Not much chance of that.
rehajm said...The mandalorian was also on game of thrones. Might as well tell Ann he works in finance...
The actor was quite good on Narcos, too--that's one the Professor might enjoy.
Some people prefer fiction that speaks to the human experience. Mandalorian just reruns old tropes with admittedly first rate special effects. Terry Gross did an interview with Bill Murray one time where he talked about special effects that had me in stitches to the point where I almost crashed the car.
I suppose I will catch up on the episodes though, so I can talk to the Millennial children about it.
There's Apollo and Dionysus. Not everyone even consumes Apollonian art and there's much wrangling in recent decades over whether the current crop is even any good... But everybody has their own Dionysian entertainments and they frequently sneer at the ones they don't personally enjoy: professional sports, crime fiction, science fiction, superheroes, romance fiction, reality TV, amusement parks, etc. And sometimes, Apollo visits one of those genres (science fiction in particular, has rather a lot of attempts at high art: Murakami, Atwood, Nabokov, Delillo, and Lethem, for instance).
Now me, I enjoy almost all of those genres. I even like Romance Novels when they're written by a master of the genre and crossed with Space Opera (Lois McMaster Bujold is a genius). But I absolutely despise reality television. It seems like about the dopiest thing to spend time on that I can imagine. At least I try to be self aware about it. De gustibus non disputandum est.
And The Mandalorian is the third best Star Wars thing ever made, so, even if you only liked the first two movies, you might like it.
As noted in another popular series Althouse is not interested in ("Game of Thrones"), "chaos is a ladder."
But when you create chaos to prevail, you have to be smart enough to work it, and strong enough to withstand it.
Trump has demonstrated that he can do both. Democrats seem to be attempting it with impeachment in the House and then NOT sending it on to the Senate. They seem to failing at both.
Noura wasn't a disruptor. She merely rationalized her emotional behavior after the fact. I saw no reflection before she began running her mouth. Trump mouths off with a plan.
This was the first time I'd noticed the reunion show (which I confess I don't pay attention to after the winner is announced) making a big deal over the singer (who!?) giving $100k to her favorites. Do you think it may be because the Survivor winner, and, in fact, none of the final three were popular or even likeable?
"Time for a gritty reboot!"
It's called "Naked and Afraid".
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