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Cry away, you knew this would happen |
Elizabeth |
I was originally going to post this right after the finale, but I'm far too lazy to get anything done in a
timely fashion, and hadn't even written anything yet, so here it is.
After the survivor success, everyone was out to make reality series. I don't know why, but I seem to watch them
all. I guess my only excuse, is to see people fight as did happen frequently in Road Rules and the Real World
(err, not that I watched them), but that's wearing off now. I didn't catch the majority of the first survivor, and
didn't really care until I found out the winner was someone who lives only a few miles away from me. Then I caught
some of the reruns and was hooked. Survivor 2 is equally as interesting, mostly because I got to see all of the
episodes, and they finally got Jerri off. Horray.
What does this have to do with Tempation Island? Nothing. Well, as I said, everyone jumped on the band wagon and
we had things like Big Brother, showing that if you don't cut the footage to what actually is interesting, you're
going to make a really boring show. And they did. Then we had the Mole or something. Did anyone watch that, I never
heard anything more about it after the initial commercial run. Now we have boot camp and chains of something. Boot
camp is pretty good, but we have something far more interesting here: Temptation Island.
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| Kia, Kaya, something like that |
Billy |
Don't look into here eyes, or you'll turn to stone |
When I first saw the commercials, I figured, they must have gone and chosen the 8 most shallow people, and in some
cases they did. If you've been dead or frozen in the past few months basically it goes like this. 4
shallow single couples go to an island, to see if they can withstand being tempted by
random singles. Most people immediately thought this show was about messing up relationships for fun and profit,
but there was no plan to purposely mess anythign up, just for rating's sake. If the couples were truely serious,
then there really shouldn't be any problems.
Hosting this all is Mark Walberg who is not the same person as the star of the most excellent "The Big Hit",
but that's ok, he's better than the host of survivor. Oh how I can't stand that guy. The couples are split up
after only a short time (in terms of being on a different part of the island, not really splitting up), and they
vote some people off and set immunities of something. There is no prize, except for the stay at the island,
but they have to pay for all the other stuff. I'm guessing they didn't have much of a budget, but who can complain
about a free trip and lodging.
On to the couples. First we have Billy and Mandy. Mandy has very orange hair and is very odd looking. She talks very
quite and is very annoying. Billy freaks after seeing video clips and yells at the camera man.
Valerie and Kaya. Valerie spends the whole time worrying about Kaya, while Kaya doesn't seem to notice and goes
on his merry way thinking manta rays are flying underwater birds.
Shannon and Andy. Probably the only normal couple, they play it pretty straight throughout the show, and even end
up getting engaged at the end. How's that for "a show designed to mess up relationships"?
Ytossie and Taheed. I admit, I had to Alt+Tab several times trying to right those names down. This was the oddest
couple so far. It turned out they had a kid, so choppers came down from the skies, and told them to go off alone
and work things out.
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Careful, the shark will give you horrible hickeys! |
An underwater bird....
or so they think |
In the end, no one ends up breaking up and they admit that the experience proved they could handle anything.
There were only 7 episodes, but they didn't spend a whole lot of time at the island, and not a whole lot happened.
A sequel is in the works, although no info has been released, and I'm not sure if the creators even have decided on
details as of yet.
Well what else are you going to do on a Wednesday evening.
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| Um, the sound guy's in view |
Geez, the whole set's in view |
One of the few reasons not to watch |
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