I find it quite hilarious that at 24 I am one of the seniors in this thread! 
So hilarious that I decided to include an emoticon!
I must have been 16 when I started watching Survivor. I actually missed the first ever episode cos I thought it looked like crap!!! But I saw the second episode and was instantly hooked. I became so obsessed about the show that my friends were a little disturbed! I was completely in love with Colleen (which seems strange now given certain developments in my personal life!) and was so disappointed when she was voted out I swore never to watch another episode again. Needless to say that come the very next week I was in front of the TV absolutely hooked!
Like most of you, I went for the nice guys early on (though I detested the boring ones like Tina) and was ecstatic when Ethan won. Nowadays I tend to go for the arseholes (hello, Randy) and the entertaining contestants.
They actually filmed an Australian version of the series that I was dying to apply for but I was three months too young at the time. THREE MONTHS! Probably lucky in the end cos it was the biggest load of shit season ever. You think Fiji was bad? Aussie Survivor had boring castaways and TWO people that were actually playing the game. One was edited as a villain and the other a hero. Surprise! The hero won!
Anyway back on topic, I don't think Survivor has changed me per se. It was an outlet where I could feed my competitive nature (if that makes sense) and an object for my obsession (sadly, I have an obsessive personality, whether it be Lost, Survivor, chocolate, gin...). Survivor has robbed me of hours and hours of my life, both in watching it and fantasising what it would be like to compete, how I would react in a given situation...but I would not change it for a minute.
Viva la Survivor!
So hilarious that I decided to include an emoticon!
I must have been 16 when I started watching Survivor. I actually missed the first ever episode cos I thought it looked like crap!!! But I saw the second episode and was instantly hooked. I became so obsessed about the show that my friends were a little disturbed! I was completely in love with Colleen (which seems strange now given certain developments in my personal life!) and was so disappointed when she was voted out I swore never to watch another episode again. Needless to say that come the very next week I was in front of the TV absolutely hooked!
Like most of you, I went for the nice guys early on (though I detested the boring ones like Tina) and was ecstatic when Ethan won. Nowadays I tend to go for the arseholes (hello, Randy) and the entertaining contestants.
They actually filmed an Australian version of the series that I was dying to apply for but I was three months too young at the time. THREE MONTHS! Probably lucky in the end cos it was the biggest load of shit season ever. You think Fiji was bad? Aussie Survivor had boring castaways and TWO people that were actually playing the game. One was edited as a villain and the other a hero. Surprise! The hero won!
Anyway back on topic, I don't think Survivor has changed me per se. It was an outlet where I could feed my competitive nature (if that makes sense) and an object for my obsession (sadly, I have an obsessive personality, whether it be Lost, Survivor, chocolate, gin...). Survivor has robbed me of hours and hours of my life, both in watching it and fantasising what it would be like to compete, how I would react in a given situation...but I would not change it for a minute.
Viva la Survivor!
