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"Sorry Shakes...but "Boot Camp" was better!"
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AyaK 8129 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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10-23-01, 01:10 AM (EST)
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2. "Casting versus Gameplay" |
I agree with both of the previous posts. In terms of game-play, Love Cruise was probably at the bottom of the current crop of reality TV -- the "game" was little better than an episode of Basically-Moronic Productions' The Real World. But, perhaps because of BMP's prior experience, the casting was extremely good. If you'd put these people into a structured show like Survivor Africa, they would've dumped the fresh water, failed to keep sentries, and ended up as lion bait, but it would've made for great TV.One of the funniest things in shakes' description of the facts was that the crew got every fifth day off -- and so they dumped the contestants on an island with no cameras! How destructive to the whole claustrophobic "stay-on-the-boat" atmosphere that they were trying to cultivate ... and what an opportunity for things like Toni's bribe -- which leads to bad TV, because we only get to hear about it, not see it.
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deebo 30 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Beauty Pageant Celebrity Judge"
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10-23-01, 11:14 AM (EST)
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5. "RE: Sorry Shakes...but "Boot Camp" was better!" |
I agree w/sleeve. I do think that the show was a few tweaks away from being a run a way smash hit.
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deebo 30 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Beauty Pageant Celebrity Judge"
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10-23-01, 11:13 AM (EST)
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4. "not even close" |
LAST EDITED ON 10-23-01 AT 11:18 AM (EST)This is why I disagree with the idea the BC was superior to LC. It is true that Boot camp had a very strict and well known set of rules, and was edited better than LC. Even knowing all of that, I still found LC to be much more entertaining. Initially there was a big voyeuristic appeal to the show. The whole idea of 16 sexy singles forced to bunk together screams "Watch me get bucked neked and get it on". But then when everyone figured out that it was a game with the goal of winning money, the drama started. Fast and furiously. People still managed to get their "man" (especially greg and anthony), but that was not even a major issue. Boot camp was just a hyped up version of a good workout, w/no spandex. Yeah there were the drill sgts, and some individual manuvering by the contestants, but that didn't change the way the game was played. Not like the way that things changed from hour to hour on the boat. Greg went from some good morning love, to being voted off, just like that. I said before that I felt like I was watching the action under a strobe light. There was probably a hell of a show left on the cutting room floor. I think that the editing was bad, and that was the show's fatal flaw, not to mention the fact that it was squeezed in between the national tragedy and baseball playoffs. We never got a chance to really connect with the cast members on LC, and that hurt the show. They left too much for us to infer and guess. Who was Darin? Where was this incredible chemistry w/Melissa? Why did Melissa want to save tomiko at the end, when did they become close? Did Toni and Andrea just hit it off immediately? But, the cast itself was awesome. And the show was way better than BC, even with the flaws.
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