Watching Reality TV

So I went into this episode last night with an open mind and hoping for a good show.  About 15 minutes into it, I found my eyes starting to cross.  I want to like this show.  It has slick production values, an enigmatic host, scantily clad and attractive contestants and authentic feeling challenges.  So what is missing?  I think the larger problem here is that we’ve seen this show before.  We’ve seen a lot of these reality shows before.  There’s only so much new ground to cover and it would appear this is ground we’ve been over.  Again.  And again.  The producers tried hard with this show to make it look like something new and exciting but you can’t help but think, “This is Survivor on a boat!”  There are some notable differences, of course.  Simple luxuries and the inclusion of money and captains and mutiny to sweeten the pot.  But it’s still “Survivor”.

That said, guys out there should be tuning into this show in droves while it’s still on the air (see how I sort of expect it to get canned any minute now?) because there are some excellent babe watching opportunities here.  There’s all these girls wearing little more than a bra running around the jungle.  I swear, I about went blind myself last night.  One gal had to have her chest pixilated out, I can only assume she had a wardrobe malfunction.

So what happened last night?  I wish I knew.  All I know is that Joe Don is still the captain and they sent Christian home.  That made absolutely no sense to me.  Why not Joy who suffered such awful seasickness last week and who injured her knee this week?  Or Kendra who couldn’t swim from the boat to shore to save her life and drastically slowed down her crew.  I guess Christian was a threat, but to who?  The captain maybe, since he was all for mutiny.  It was a bummer to see him go.  And an even bigger bummer to see they still aren’t making these people walk the plank.  That’s a fantastic opportunity there, CBS, and you’ve totally dropped the ball.