Survivor AU - Hero’s vs. Villains -The Producers
I’m late to the party on this…
I love Australian Survivor but I find the producers of the show really overstep and their interference can really destroy storylines.
I bring you the case of Shonee and Liz; 2 amazing players with a great bond. Watching them work together was amazing fun. You could feel Shonee pulling for Liz from the jury, and whenever the producers made the decision to have the players remove a jury member, it absolutely destroyed one of the greatest pay offs the fans could have had.
Watching Liz struggle and fight her way into a winning position is something that Shonee and the fans should have witnessed.
Imagine the joy Shonee would have expressed seeing Liz walk into that final tribal council with the mother effin immunity around her neck! It would have been absolutely epic.
Then, we were denied Shonee being able to ask the jury questions and we were completely deprived of a winning reaction.
The producers of AUS Survivor pull this shit a lot. It’s like they just can’t let the players fucking play the game.
They’re meddling is usually done at tribal, and it undercuts the players and the game. “Guess what!? You didn’t just vote a player off, you voted them onto exile!” Or worse yet, not even telling the players that their vote meant NOTHING until they see the person they voted off show up the next day at a challenge… now part of the other team.
When the players make a decision to vote someone out of the game it needs to be left alone. It absolutely destroys the game when the producers go against what the players have decided. The players voted Shonee onto the jury and that is where she should have stayed.
The producers shit all over the fans and contestants with the HvV season. The players made the game thrilling ’despite’ the producers willingness to fuck things up with ‘twists’ and fabricated drama. The drama was already there, they just didn’t trust the players enough to make the show compelling, and as a result they fucked up everything.
I will always be bitter about how we were deprived of a Shonee/Liz reunion at final council.