Iltarion wrote:>Oh, I see, quitting is nothing
>new and there have been
>a dozen, so we should
>all be fine with it.
>Nice argument. What's the fuss
>about adultery? It has been
>around forever and everyone does
>it. Hahaha....
>
Adultery? Now that's a perfectly hilarious comparison. What do you propose we do to adulterers? Get them thrown out of their private country clubs? Fire them from their boardrooms? We do nothing to adulterers except listen to their stories of how they banged their secretary while the wife was busy with the kids. Heck! We offer them another round!
>Giving up, usually because you are
>about to be booted, is
>not the same as quitting.
>Really, Janu and JFP shouldn't
>be counted as quitters. They
>were arguably both about to
>be booted anyway, as were
>most the other people you
>mentioned. Osten, Nay and Kelly
>are true quitters. They were
>in no danger from the
>game.
So, in other words it was Osten, Nay and Kelly's choice. Aren't we in a free country? Did it cost you anything that they quit? Did they owe you anything?
They simply just couldn't
>hack it.
It happens. Every year, teams in every imaginable sport invest a lot of money on their rookies but many can't hack it and they quit.
>We both know MB doesn't mind
>a quitter or two, hence
>the lack of clothes, but
>that doesn't mean we shouldn't
>mind it.
What do you call that? I call it exploitation. I find it very understandable that someone would say: "This is crazy. I'm not going to go through this anymore."
>Ian made the most noble gesture
>ever done in the show.
Noble? He had messed up and didn't know how to fix it so he did the stupidest thing possible.
>He didn't quit.
Of course he did. He stepped down voluntarily with nothing to gain from it except "friendship".
Dabo wrote:
>>Quitting at jury stage only
>happened once before, though."
Sorry, but I count 3: Janu, Ian and Lisi. From the tribal swap until she was voted out Lisi kept on saying that she would quitting. Alex finally decided he had enough. That's quitting.
>>"And the way it was reported
>at the time Janu didn't negotiate
>staying on the jury as a condition
>before she quit;"
Read those reports again because Jeff was quite clear: The reason it took so long was because Janu didn't want to say she was quitting until she was assured to be on the jury.
The only other version of that story that we heard was from those Jeff-bashers who claimed that he convinced Janu to quit in order to save Stephenie. Either way, the precedent is that the show made sure a quitter could be on the jury.
The show must go on? Please. Janu had stopped caring for days.
>"from now on they have it covered
>that production can do whatever
>they decide is best. Yay!"
No. Boo! Because now we will not know what happens to quitters. Some will get preferential treatment and will sit on the jury while others will be sent away. Double standards are nothing to rejoice about and it will make it harder for Survivors to "roll with the punches." A game needs rules. People that we exploit for our amusement need compassion not fines and penalties.