I don't think it makes any difference if they have their own island or not. It's just going to make it suck a little more when it rains and floods. Who cares. I think they should do Survivor: Volcano. Or, since the show isn't about surviving as in, roughing it, but more like surviving, as in, manipulation and popularity contest, they should do Survivor: Homecoming Dance.

they should do Survivor: Homecoming Dance.

LOL, Venus!

I think they should do a Diet Survivor because people who outlast also outlose weight.

Yeah, I know outlose is not a word.

I thought the Survivor Panama imagery was very cool. Do we know if they have started filming yet?

I don't think they have and this Survivor should make every other Survivor filled with more backstabbing and alliance breaking.

Survivor has been refreshed with the Amazon and now I really can't wait for Survivor 7: Amazonian Aftermath.

do you really think it will matter? isn't the cast chosen already and the people out there or somewhere getting ready? i thought this was going to be filmed over the summer...

The CBS website says casting was to be done in April, to be filmed in June-July.

Kieth Fan, Great Minds must think alike...I immediately thought of walking the plank, but I figured that would be how they leave after being voted off. Can't you see Tribal Council on a ship in between the two islands...... I also think they may make them swim to their respective islands when they are marooned. That would be a great start, and would definitly set the strong apart from the weak. Talk about marking targets first thing....

I hope the pirate theme will result in 16 "Rob's" out there willing the play strategically, and ruthless. We need a good group of villans for this one!

I would like to see something like that--they walk off to a plank and must swim to an island, whichever island they swim to is the one that determines their tribe.

Somehow they would have to have a way to ensure that 4 women and 4 men get to each island. Otherwise, I like the randomness in it. I think it would be unfair to have a 6/2 or even a 5/3 split along gender lines to start with because it MIGHT set up gender alliances. Dunno, MB needs to do something different to keep things fresh.

I think gender-imbalanced tribes to start the game would be interesting. Remember NewMaraamu? Pappy and the ladies acquitted themselves quite well against NewRotu.

ARRRRRRR!!!!

>I think gender-imbalanced tribes to start
>the game would be interesting.

Could be. As long as one gender doesn't gang up on the other gender for no good reason. That would stink.

>Remember NewMaraamu? Pappy
>and the ladies acquitted themselves
>quite well against NewRotu.

Pappy, Neleh, and Kathy had been together for 9 days already and had a bond. That's why Pappy survived the TC where Gina was booted.

All I know is MB wants to avoid an all male final 4, final 3, and even final 2.

That said, I would love to see a repeat of the tribal dynamics and sexual tension of the Amazon. They can't recreate it, so they probably won't try. But something new has to be done.

I was thinking that somehow they would sink the ship that they're on. We say all that imagery of sunken ships, after all.

The ships have a slow leak. There is only room the lifeboat for 5. Toss three overboard, row the remaining five to a merge ship. This ship also has a slow leak, but its lifeboat only has room for one. A completely new way to determine the sole survivor.

Come to think of it, didn't they make a big deal about all the sharks? Could be on to something.

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Russian Survivor, "The Last Hero," was played in Panama, but on the Atlantic side. The website is difficulty, links many going nowhere. But here is a brief quote:

Before the debarkation to the island, the heroes they divide into two " tribes ". Now for them one must live together not one week in the severe/cruel competitive fight for the survival. Only two minutes to that are given, in order to take the necessary equipment and supplies from the ship. With all this the heroes must swim to the coast. If something sinks/drowns, replacements will not be. No completion/addition of supplies! Subsistence heroes must obtain themselves. To their services nature of paradisiacal island, with entire variety of its edible, and sometimes also poisonous animals and plants.

Will remain only one! Last hero!

Walking the plank and swimming for it is starting to seem like an intriguing possibility.

SMILES ARE FREE

The question I have about swimming to show is when do they get their tribal boats. With each on a separate island they will need these to get to challenges and to TC. The boats could be waiting for them at the island, I suppose. All of the sea maroonings have had them in some kind of craft, even if it didn't hold all of them.

Totally off the wall idea but here goes.

There is still well over a month, possibly closer to two, before filming starts, plenty of time to get things set up (after all they got everything having to do with S4 done in 6 weeks when 9/11 made their original Jordan plans impossible). What if the whole idea behind their "announcement" was to get the spoilers speculating and coming up with possible ideas? Then MB and company simply pick one and use it?

Long time lurker and Survivor fan.

I do like the idea of the walking the plank, but here is the idea that popped into my head when I first watched the preview on tv. Maybe I've read too many novels and watched too many sci-fi movies and other movies. Feel free to say it seems dumb. I think it may be unrealistic but I think it would make for an interesting beginning.

Start with an individual boat for each tribe member driven by the crew to a different spot on the island where they would be dropped off. This would then force the tribe members to wander around and gradually find the other tribe members. They can't get lost because of the physical boundaries of the island. Leave the box of supplies somewhere (maybe in the centre of the island).

As people find each other, they may try forming alliances even before they even meet the other people within the tribe. And first impressions would certainly be interesting because it would be more one on one (or two) instead of one on eight (or sixteen).

Anyway, those are my thoughts.

I like this idea. Provided the islands aren't too big and filled with mean and nasty critters, this could be really interesting. Actually, mean and nasty critters would make it more interesting.

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Since we're throwing out ideas...
I would love to see some form of seeing the jury interact after they are voted off. I was so blown away by Jenna's landslide victory, I would like some more insight on the politics that go on with the jury members interacting. MB probably would not want to show too much of how they live after they get voted out, but a few confessionals would be nice from the jury. (other than the generic "this is how I'll make my decision on the final vote...")

>Start with an individual boat for each tribe member driven by
>the crew to a different spot on the island where
>they would be dropped off.

This is EXACTLY what I was thinking, with the possible exception of a map instead of a crew member. Get out of my brain!

Ok I like the speculation on walking the plank, but what about after they get there. Maybe they are physically stranded on the island until they build a raft. Then if they don't get the rafts done on time them miss the first challenges and automatically have to go to TC.

Kucha_Vivor