LAST EDITED ON 11-24-15 AT 12:28 PM (EST)

Jason's cave, Shambo's tree and Tony's shack were all one person dwellings. The producers don't mind if someone wants to isolate himself since he can't talk to anyone. They don't want a group to be out of reach of their cameras. Gabon may have been an exception but the shelters have to give access to the camera crews.

But, I haven't argued that they don't have to give access to the camera crews, Michel. I have said, instead, that it is a fact that Survivor's film crews have at their disposal a vast array of recording devices that permit them to film anyone, anywhere and in any circumstance ... at will. Even under an overturned boat. Where you can do that with small, battery-powered, remotely-controlled devices affixed to the underside of that boat. Or with body-cams worn by the Survivors themselves. Or, I'm certain, via dozens of other ways that I've never heard of. And if they can manage to surreptitiously record Amanda's and Ozzy's fumblings, they can most certainly figure a way to film these players from the dry side of a canvas curtain affording them some small protection from 7.7 inches of driving rain (accompanied by wind gusts of up to 35 mph) over the course of one three-day filming cycle.

But, in saying all of that, I am presuming a lot. Because I don't know precisely what the Survivors had at hand and what they didn't. And I haven't suggested that they should have demanded anything more than the resources they had available. Part of the Game is - still - surviving. And if, knowing that they were in a tropical climate during the rainy season, they neglected their camp in favor of their intrigues, then that's on them. As it is, in my opinion, on them if they were denied the use of on-site mateials to protect themselves from the extreme weather in order for the camera crews to record them in a pitiable state because it's considered to be good television. And they acquiesced.

But, good television is, I admit, a matter of personal taste. For instance:

Obviously, there is much about Survivor that I enjoy. And the fact that it is a very physically demanding Game is one of those things. But, I don't enjoy watching privileged Americans play at extreme deprivation when there is so much of the real stuff playing havoc with lives all over our world.

As for mutinies:

Although I did say it obliquely - because to participate in Challenges, or to sit for the length of a Confessional or a Tribal Council, or to forego eating because my Tribe wasn't resourceful enough to protect a fire is one thing - I did, I thought, indicate that the hypothetical Georgianna would crawl out from under the boat to participate in camp chores, change places with her tribemates and show up, on time, for Challenges, Confessionals and Tribal Councils. She just wouldn't do it (unless it was her turn to give up the boat) to go sit in a posed lineup of seriously bedraggled human beings - in a wind-driven downpour - for hours on end because misery looks better in HD.

But, I have no doubt that you are right. That for all of that indignation, she would, in the end, disappear into that pool of forgotten Survivors with barely a ripple.

Of course, now all of this has become moot. Because we're about to see what Cambodia's players did with Jeff Probst's slick little proposal. And, if it were up to the hypothetical Georgianna, she would just say - Here you go, Joe! - and skip merrily off to the new digs. But I have a feeling that we'll hear some line-toeing speech (probably delivered by Tasha) that ends with - We're all here to win, Jeff - that will be followed by another investiture of Joe (anyway) and then they will all skip merrily off to sit in the rain some more.

However, I do have the tiniest bit of hope:

Because it just may be that the two minutes of air time between the Survivor's revelation of their votes and the shots of Joe, Spencer, Tasha and Jeremy on the beach that I noted up above really was just two minutes of air time (and not the product of a fast-forward button). And since we now know that the 17 ScreenCaps that were taken during that time frame were of something other than the standard Compete-or-Feast option, it is possible that the scant time is a reflection of a very short - and sparsely attended - Immunity Challenge.

And I really would like to see what a Survivor construction crew constructs when they construct a shelter.