It’s interesting how the environment plays a larger and larger part in each Survivor series. In the first one, they lived on a placid beach; they didn’t have a lot of food, but they had plentiful clean water, and caught a fair amount of fish. In Australia, the climate was harsher, and a flood washed away a lot of their camp. And now in Kenya, they have to fortify fences to keep out wild predators, they will have to raise food by farming, and their only water sources are muddy, contaminated water holes. Yeow. What’s next – living in the mouth of an active volcano?
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Next they’ll have to work in a corporate office. Much, much worse.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the next one is either in Siberia, the amazon, or in the artic.
If they could get the cameras to work reliably in ultra-cold weather I’m sure they’d do Antarctica too. If they did the Arctic, they could actually have the whole show offshore, on the ice covering the ocean. I read a book this winter about an icebound ship’s crew that survived months trekking over the Arctic ice in the early 1900s. Actually only two guys survived, but they lasted way longer that I thought was possible.
I think the only problem with the Arctic (darn spell check didn’t work last time) is that we wouldn’t get to see people bathing and walking around nekkid. I mean, what would the show be without being able to see nekkid sweaty bodies toiling under the sun with little to no water and food? That’s what I live for with every show. They would stay bundled up in furs all the time. Course, there may be more action during sleeping time, since they would have to bundle together for warmth. And of course, what would the challenges be? Who can build an igloo the quickest? Ice fishing? Ice skating?
Nah, they will stay with some hot, tropical climate so that they can make sure that us armchair survivors get to see as much flesh as possible. It’s all about skin, see, skin skin skin!
It puts the lotion on it’s back!
Underwater would be good, in some sort of “Deep Blue Sea”-type facility. Then they could wear skintight scuba gear or skimpy bathing suits. And the close quarters would drive them crazy. Talk about sociology!
I’m waiting for “Survivor: The Office”………..wait, no, I already live that.