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The Biggest Loser: They've Gone All Survivor On Us
Commentary by RTVC Staff Writer Kathleen
March 10, 2010
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Making a run.
Last night on The Biggest Loser, we got to watch an episode of Survivor!
Really, that pull the truck challenge was a classic.
There is the strength and endurance component and the solve the puzzle component and the teamwork and leadership part. No Jeff to provide a running commentary, but you can’t have everything.
And the challenge was where Big Mike’s plotting from last week really worked out. There was no way the little team could beat the bigger team unless someone fell down.
It’s physics. Once the truck was rolling, either team could do a fairly equal job keeping it going. But getting the truck to start to move?
That takes power. All the David and Goliath team spirit not withstanding, the Black team just does not have the beef.
The fact that they had to move that truck from a standstill not one or two but four times was brutal to watch.
The puzzle part of the challenge was rather Survivoresque also. On the blue team, one voice stepped up and was the caller for the puzzle. It sounded like Lance, but I’m not sure. I didn’t hear a voice like that for the Blacks. In his volunteer position as leader and motivator it would have been Sam, but I didn’t hear him. Heck, I didn’t hear anyone. I’m not sure they had any breath left to talk.
I wonder how the prize works. A year’s worth of food is a fabulous prize no matter how you slice it, but what do they mean? A truck full of Biggest Loser sponsored products delivered? Or just a bunch of cash equivalent to someone’s idea of food for a year for a person? Or maybe they won two bags of food each week from their local food bank?
Just wondering.
The other thing that was very Survivor, was being blindsided by the editors. Hah. They got me.
The focus of three quarters of the episode was O’Neal and Sunshine. We got a ton of O’Neal telling us how he couldn’t carry on if Sunshine were gone.
A little sidebar analysis on that is that O’Neal not only fell into but wallowed in the usual Parent Trap of “I’m here to support my child”. While I have no doubt they were real, the man’s emotions really did become a little wearing.
The flip side is that O’Neal never voiced anything about what would happen if HE were to be gone, leaving Sunshine on the ranch.
Sunshine, I’m here to tell you, will be just fine. She and the other “children” have all found their own strength through this process and are just fine without hovering parental support. I have always found these parent child teams to be a little lopsided.
I guess that’s.....
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