LAST EDITED ON 11-16-08 AT 02:42 AM (EST)Stupidest most contrived all over the map theme ever!!!
1) They decide to call it Eden. I think it is Gabon and Eden was somewhere in the Middle East, but whatever.
2) They coach all the players to mention Eden in confessionals.
3) They try to make the HII into some sort of apple.
4) Now everyone knows or should know that the story of Eden is about The Fall after the temptation by the serpent, who was evil.
It was not a war of good against evil. It was a question of whether to obey and be happy, or disobey and use free will and find out now you're totally screwed.
If anything it would work with EPM and Probst as the evil ones and the players as the poor confused inhabitants of Eden who are kicking each other out because the producers say that's how you play.
The whole theme is contrived. First Fang is useless loser whining tribe, and Kota is the good functional tribe. But after Fang ousted Marcus, the "previously" played up the old Fang as these poor underdogs who are standing up to the arrogant Kota alliance ... David and Goliath, David now has two hits. (oh wait, that is a different story.)
There are several people who act like jerks, and they're on both sides. No one is that good, except maybe Bob. I think Marcus and Charlie were good, but if Fang is now the good, then they were arrogant and bad or had bad associates.
I suspect it might come down to whether Sugar, Matty, and maybe Bob can outlast Crystal, Kenny, Corinne, Randy, and we won't see it til the end.
My opinion is that way back in China, when James was spouting off about not biting the apple, and then again in HA Micronesia, someone said -- hey, that apple temptation thing would be a good hook! We're about out of ideas and we haven't done Eden yet!!!
There ... reassembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend our enemy, our own loss how repair, how overcome this dire calamity~ John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1
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