Survivor is back. It’s too early to pronounce sentence, but until they really started to get nasty with one another about a third of the way into the second episode Thursday night, I was wondering why I was even watching. While I have a handle on most of the “personalities,” it’s hard to remember even which tribe they belong to. Right now, they just seem like a bunch of snapping turtles, emphasis on the snapping. You just can’t recreate the newness that washed over the Pulau Tiga beach last year. Because they all know how to play the game, they don’t play a very interesting game, if you know what I mean.
I think my S1 favorite, Colleen, summed it up quite well when she was talking about one of the later challenges, which took the form of questions and answers: “I got so excited because I thought, ‘We’re going to be on a game show!’…And then I realized, *we are* on a game show.”