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If you know anything about art, color or television production, you'd know having a similar color would be a bad idea.

The problem with having dark blue and light blue at the same time is they are hard to differentiate in certain situation. Sure it will be easy to differentiate if you put it on your face, but that's not the case with Survivor.

1. In master shot (not close up), the buffs would look small so you usually only see a hint of the buff color. It would be easier to have different shade, so people would automatically know "Oh that's red, so that must be tribe A" or "Oh that's blue, so that must be tribe B" rather than: "Oh that's blue, wait a minute. Is that light blue or dark blue? Which one is that?"

2. Dark blue and Light blue if exposed to water will have a similar blue hue (dark blue hue). Imagine in a water challenge, both of the tribes swimming with the same blue buffs. Can you imagine how confusing that will?
I mean my friend don't like to see Survivor and I forced him to watch Survivor China, all he remembered was red tribe and yellow tribe. Now if I tell that friend of mine to watch 2 tribes with blue buffs, he will say, "Yeah that tribe with the blue buffs. I don't know light blue or dark blue. Don't remember. Whichever."

3. Dark Blue buff will be washed out after several days. I mean look at Jalapao's buffs. It turned into lighter red in 6 days.

Well let's hear from you then why having 2 shades of blue is not dumb from you.

I've given my reasons above. Let's hear yours.

And to be frank your so called "sarcasm" really don't help your case.

As I said, if the buffs is in your face,(big & not wet) like in your pictures, sure we sucksters won't have problems differentiate them since we like to dissect the tribes once the cast announcement is out. I'm sure some of us even remember all 16/18/20 people's names when the premiere starts and in which tribe they are.

Can you say the same thing for people who suddenly stay tune on eps 2, never watched Survivor before, And you gave them 2 tribes with blue buffs? Only difference is that one is dark blue and one is light blue. Can you say that those people won't get confused at first if there's no tribe names shown and all they have to go with is the tribe color?

And as I said, Dark blue buff and light blue buff will both be dark blue buffs if they are exposed to water. What happened then in the challenge? How would you differentiate which one is which tribe. Sure for us who remember the names and the faces would automatically say oh this one is this tribe, but what about regular viewer?

Let's say if they use 2 blue buffs, in the middle of a swimming challenge, call your mom (or anyone who has never watched Survivor before) and tell her to differentiate which tribe is which, see if she can do that.

I'd like to hear your argument for that one.


You know how I know this things? Coz I work in television production. This is production 101, you want your viewers to right away connect with the characters. Like in Panama, Survivor did the age and gender thing. They keep calling the tribes not by their names but by "younger women", "younger men", etc. That's because so we would easily remember how to differentiate the four tribes instead of having to remember 4 weird names. That's production 101.

Sure having 2 blue buffs would be awesome for us sucksters coz it never happened before, but it alienates new viewers. They can't differentiate the tribes that easily.

Our brain is designed to recognize colors in different stages. Stage 1, your brain tries to process what color is that. blue, red, green, etc. Then after that your brain will try to recognize how blue is that or how red is that.

So it will be easier for people to recognize different color like red and blue then dark blue and light blue.



About the cold Survivor thing, I never said it's dumb. I only said it will be difficult. Read again.

I'm an assistant cameraman but never in a famous production yet. Still fighting my way. Hopefully one day I'll be in Survivor's set.


Bowie I swear, you reminded me of my friend who suffered from ADD, who can't stay still and his brain is always thinking.
He always suggested weird, absurd things. "Let's stay underwater for 10 minutes without any oxygen.", "Let's try to eat 20 bowls of noodles in 2 hours."
And when we called him on it, he'll pout and be angry.

Yeah as I said. Cold season isn't impossible but it will be difficult. Though I can't see it anytime soon. As long as there's a good amount of countries with islands, they'll go there.

Alaska would be awesome. lol. TC in bright light. It would be the first.

In my imagination the only thing that Survivor hasn't done is putting people in an igloo, and all they do all day is ice fishing. As much as I'd like to see that, I doubt it would ever happen.