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"Colton"
TxMom2011 188 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Blistex Spokesperson"
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03-08-12, 10:58 PM (EST)
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"Colton" |
In all of my years of watching Survivor I have never been so disgusted by a player as I am with Colton. This guy makes Naonka look like an angel. Colton's complete ignorance, lack of acceptance and refusal to even tolerate a person who is from a different background than himself is unfathomable. From the first episode I didn't like Colton. I found him completely ignorant and childish. But this display tonite just has me undone. When he originally said Bill's goofy voice and incessant talking got on his nerves... I got it. But his true reasons and true colors came out tonite. He doesn't like Bill because he is from a different background? Really...? I'm with Jeff... smells like veiled racism to me. Granted this kid must come from a pretty isolated community in ALABAMA that tolerates his whinny effeminate personality. I've been to Alabama.... he is not the norm. Not that long ago he would've been run out of the state or found dead on the side of the road for being openly gay there. By sending him to an elite private school and sheltering him from the real world, his parents have done him no favors. Kudos to Bill though.... he is a class act. I hope he gets an up in his career after Survivor. Colton will get his comeuppance, of that I am certain. He is an ignorant bully. Someone needs to give him a Gay American History lesson. Maybe then he will be more tolerant and stop judging people on superficial things. One last thing..... why didn't those other men call him out on the crap he was saying? No real man I know would've sat silent listening to that mess.
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jasonkola 240 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Network TV Show Guest Star"
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03-09-12, 00:14 AM (EST)
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2. "RE: Colton" |
Yes I agree he really rubs me the wrong way as well. I have disliked him from the vary first time I watched his introduction promo's. Just everything about him is just wrong. He is a spoiled rich boy who says he dose not believe in hand outs yet I bet he has never worked a day in his life. His whole life is a hand out. The only other person in survivor history I have disliked as much as Colton was Russhole Hanze for some different reasons but I believe my distaste for Colton has now surpassed that of Russell.
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dabo 25344 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-12-12, 08:54 PM (EST)
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24. "RE: Colton" |
Size is relative. Monroeville is the seat of government in Monroe County. All of the other towns in the county have populations only in the hundreds, now them's some right small towns. And Monroeville isn't off the beaten path, it has an active tourist industry owing to having been the hometown of both Truman Capote and Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird).
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SOAR64 136 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Blistex Spokesperson"
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03-09-12, 08:55 AM (EST)
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5. "RE: Colton" |
I personally find the character that Colton is playing to be offensive and revolting. But, I believe that each survivor contestant assumes a role which is relative to the story line that the producers want presented to the viewers. If Colton has convinced everyone that he is who he pretends to be, then he is very good at acting. He is very good at the visual, and verbal presentation he makes. Consider this, if you were one of the producers of Survivor, would you want to leave to chance what the viewers see, or would you inform the contestants of what you would like the viewers to see? Some of the survivor contestants both past and present are very good at improv. By allowing the producers to create a story line for the contestants to follow without having writters who belong to the writters union, the show is able to legally say that the show is not scripted. I have worked in the film industry in the past and have a working knowledge how it works.
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TxMom2011 188 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Blistex Spokesperson"
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03-09-12, 10:50 AM (EST)
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6. "RE: Colton" |
Well if he is playing the role of an ignorant azz... he deserves the Emmy. But I am more inclined to think he is just being himself.
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SOAR64 136 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Blistex Spokesperson"
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03-09-12, 03:01 PM (EST)
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13. "RE: Colton" |
I remember one time on the show "Little People Big World" about the Roloff family and their experience being Little People, their was a picture taken of the wife setting at a table. On the table to the side it could be clearly seen a piece of paper which said "Shooting Script". My problem with Colton presenting himself as a bigited person who has a problem with blacks and little people is what he says or does may influence younger people who watch the show. We have enough bulleying in schools today without someone promoting it on national TV. I would hope that Mark Burnett and his production company would understand that by pretending that the show is real and not scripted, they are just promoting the idea that that type of behavior is O.K. I believe that many of us who have followed Survivor from the begining have problems with accepting the possibility that the show may not be what we once thought it was. I still love to watch the show, but I now question the way things happen on the show.
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Toban 110 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Blistex Spokesperson"
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03-09-12, 08:50 PM (EST)
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16. "RE: Colton" |
I can't see how Colton's treatment of Bill or Leif could in any way "promote" bullying if kids were watching. To the contrary, his edit has so negative, that I can't possibly see how anyone would want to emulate his behaviour. As for casting the likes of Colton, these people exist in real life and I'd rather have racism/classism exposed and ridiculed than swept under the carpet.
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michel 10812 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-10-12, 06:00 PM (EST)
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18. "RE: Colton" |
I have exchanged with enough Survivors at Sucks or POS (Jenna, Lil, Eliza, Cirie, Adam, Yau Man, Kathleen, Jill to name a few) to say that they aren't acting. And I'm one of those that believes SEG intervenes a LOT with the game but not to the point of feeding them all the lines. It's much more subtle than that.
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SOAR64 136 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Blistex Spokesperson"
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03-12-12, 07:50 AM (EST)
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22. "RE: Colton" |
The fact that former contestants have to sign a contract including penalties that they will not disclose what happened during the filming of their shows is another clue that the show may be staged and scripted. I understand that contestants should not reveal any information after the filming up to the point that all the episodes as well as the final reunion show is shown, but it serves no purpose to continue after that has happened. For heavens sake, it's just a television show, not the mafia or organized crime where no one is allowed to speak. Most viewers would continue to watch the show if Mark Burnet would allow former contestants to discuss what goes on during filming.
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SOAR64 136 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Blistex Spokesperson"
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03-13-12, 08:04 AM (EST)
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28. "RE: Colton" |
Not everything is staged. But when the camera crew sets up a shot and tells two of the survivors, that they need to film a disagreement and confrontation between the two of them, of course the two will improv an argument hoping to catch the eye of a casting agent. Richard Hatch is dealing with the IRS and the FBI. He knows the least said the best. Besides, how do we know that he may have said something about the show, but the Judge just will not allow it to be made public. The contestants on so called reality shows are only acting out a character role. The fact that people believe them is due to the fact that we who watch these shows want to believe it. In order to film a storyline on an island with 18 people, it has to be pre planed. Otherwise,it would be chaos.
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michel 10812 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-13-12, 05:25 PM (EST)
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29. "RE: Colton" |
What's wrong with chaos?  I talked about contestants spoiling the show but there were also staff members doing it. For example, Snewser was able to call practically every boot and the winners from Season 4 to Season 10. He admitted he got the info from someone inside the show. If there was pre-planning on the scale you are assuming, don't you think that a disgruntled employee would have said something by now? It's been 12 years and no one has said anything. And we know what Hatch told the judge: He was supposed to have an agreement with CBS to pay his taxes because he caught some staffers giving food to some players. Don't you think he would have used the additional ammo you assume? What about someone as rich as Jimmy Johnson who was an ardent fan of the show but just happens to work for FOX. Wouldn't he tell FOX that, without a doubt, a hit show from their main competitor is rigged if he had been told what to do? Don't you think FOX would pay the $5 Million in penalty if they could air that revelation on their news show?
LIke I said, I've exchanged posts with many players and most say they'd go back because the game is so fun it becomes addictive. It wouldn't fun at all if it was scripted. Were they angling for appearance fees? Some of them were very well off and didn't need the money that bad.
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iltarion 1791 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Herbal Healing Drugs Endorser"
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03-13-12, 08:40 PM (EST)
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30. "RE: Colton" |
michel is right. It is all more subtle than that. There are 4 ways that production keeps control of the story: 1) casting - self-explanatory. 2) challenges - many challenges can be easily fixed to provide a desired outcome. 3) the HII - either through easy clues or crew hints the HII can easily be guided into the right hands. The HII remains the most powerful in-game tool that production has to create a story or craft a particular one. 4) the edit - the edit is easily the most powerful out of game tool that production has. With it, contestants can be made villains or heroes to suitably fit the story. >
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jbug 16685 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-14-12, 10:04 AM (EST)
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32. "RE: Colton" |
That's my Michel! I figure the staff puts ideas into their heads, and even contrive to set up controversy. But scripts for what to say? I don't think they have teleprompters.
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Jims02 7328 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-09-12, 08:38 PM (EST)
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15. "RE: Colton" |
LAST EDITED ON 03-09-12 AT 08:40 PM (EST)Colton is probably the most unlikeable person to ever play the game of Survivor. And that is quite a feat, given some of the people we have sat through in previous seasons. He might be worse than all of the Big Brother contestants too. Maybe. In college, I was actually friends with someone like Colton. He wasn't a homosexual, but he did have similar views about class and poor people. He came from an affluent family, never holding a job in his life, and then in college would preach about lazy welfare people who won't go out and get jobs. The difference with this guy and Colton is that this guy 1) was at least self-deprecating about it and 2) didn't treat his poorer colleagues like cattle. I could see that he was still kind of living in a bubble (even at college), but he was at least open enough to get to know many different kinds of people. Colton, on the other hand, is just a snobby douchebag who has deluded himself into thinking he lives in some utopia. Man, Alabama clearly must be the worst place ever, for Colton (and family) to self-isolate themselves like that.  Y'know, when I read Estee's Survivor fic, I thought to myself, "There's no way someone as cartoonishly evil like Connie could ever be put on network TV."
...I was wrong.
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michel 10812 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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03-10-12, 06:05 PM (EST)
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19. "RE: Colton" |
LAST EDITED ON 03-10-12 AT 08:08 PM (EST)Jerri, Silas, Brandon, Sean, Fairplay, Ami, Judd, Rocky, Dreamz, Shambo, Russell, Ben, Na'Onka, Phillip... There's a new worse ever all the time. I won't give Colton the satisfaction of putting him up there.
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iltarion 1791 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Herbal Healing Drugs Endorser"
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03-11-12, 01:21 AM (EST)
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LAST EDITED ON 03-11-12 AT 01:53 AM (EST)I don't think Colton is nearly the worst person to be on this show. He is a spoiled child who was given a shred of power. The results are predictable. We have seen some bonafide mean people on this show, including just recently: Corinne, Randy and Na'onka. I don't think Colton is mean-spirited at all. I think he is just ignorant. >
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