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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 2997323" data-attributes="member: 8158">Right, and there's never been any issues regarding the authenticity of events in Survivor heh.  Nothing you proposed sounds impossible, or even implausible. It's actually much easier just to have talent agencies send over actors than it is to coordinate auditions for applicants from around the world.The availability of real people to star in the show isn't really the issue. The issue is desirability. A scripted show is just easier to do; less risky to produce, and easier to sell to a network. It certainly helps convince Sci-Fi to give the winner a starring role in a movie (although having seen some of Sci-Fi Channel's Saturday night movies, maybe that ain't such a big deal).Having said that, I certainly don't think every little line or event goes according to a script. For instance, the crying little girl was definitely a surprise for some and not so much for others. But a lot of the reactions, like the teary-eyed emoting during the elimination process? Pure ham--they're trying to show what great actors they are, and are willing to do multiple takes to do so. And I'm fairly suspicious about the likelyhood that they're having direct one-on-one conversations with Stan by closed-circuit TV, with Stan always using perfectly chosen words with never a stumble or moment of hesitation. Stan's eloquent, but he's not that flawless a speaker (nobody is). A lot of that's edited in.You're off on some completely other tangent. Fault doesn't enter into anything I've said.Sorry, but some of you guys seem a tad adamant in your defense of a show that's not really under attack. I'm hardly panning it. I enjoy it quite a bit, but I also know what is. I don't entertain illusions that Stan really picked Iron Enforcer out of all those applicants for his fine heroic qualities, that IE was given a perfectly fair shot in each challenge, and that it's only in light of IE"s constant failures (such as easily making it across the yard, then falling down and crying "uncle" within reach of the door) that it occurred to Stan to make Iron Enforcer a villain. Then again, maybe he was equally prepared to create a Dark Cell Phone Girl, right?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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