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Summary: Not impressive
Review: Being a survivor junkie I was hoping to enjoy this one. I didn't. This seems to be a few highlights from the first season, yes, all of Susan's dialogue is in there, and so is Rudy's not liking Richard in a homosexual way, but it doesn't have a lot of substance. It is highlights from each episode, but there isn't a whole lot that you haven't seen before. Some is uncensored dialogue, but you don't see much of many of the cast members. You do see a lot of the final four, others are in there as well, but they don't get the features that those four do. Personally I'd rent this one but I wouldn't purchase it.
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Summary: Only clips not the entire show.
Review: Only clips not the entire show. Like watching an overview
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Summary: A lot is missing here, but it's a good 'fix'
Review: I admit - when I first saw this on the shelves, I'd mistakenly thouht it was all of the episodes (which would be admittedly far too big for one DVD). But as a Survivor junkie, that's what I wanted, and I couldn't help but be a little dissapointed. This was it though, as the rest of the DVD was a good synopsis of the time out on the island. What it did not do, though, was bring back much of the excitement that watching the show brings, which was the major dislike of the DVD. Overall, It's a good buy for diehard fans, and a good fix for those who miss the thrill of the first season.
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Summary: Not Bad!
Review: I'm a huge Survivor fan, and I really enjoyed this DVD. It takes you through all the players and some of the things that they had to do, in the order that they were voted off. It's a highlights disk instead of a replay of the shows. My sister missed the first and second seasons, so this was a great for her to catch up. The best thing about watching Survivor, is that you get to see people stabbing each other in the back to win some silly money. You see, that happens everyday at work, it's just hidden. You don't even know when your being stabbed in the back. The show helps me look for it at work. Thanks Survivor.
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: As a survivor fan I did enjoy this DVD, but, I was loking for the series, not outtakes. I found it very interesting. There is a glitch on the one I bought tho. About halfway through it gets wobbly and pauses for a couple of minutes. This happens again a little later then stops
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Summary: Reconsidering Rich and the first season of "Survivor"
Review: Now that we are up to the fourth round of "Survivor" it is rather interesting to go back and watch the original contest once again for several reasons. First, just as it was always interesting to watch an episode a second time to see how Mark Burnett tried to simultaneously set up and disguise the ending in terms of who got voted off the island that week, it is interesting to see how the gang of four are set up. I thought the greatest success of the show was that even when we reached the point that it was clear who the final four were going to be that it managed to create doubt each and every week as we talked things over at the office and kept thinking that sooner or later the rest of the survivors would catch on and do something about it. I am always interested in the show about the show; in one regard I liked the 24/7 coverage of "Big Brother" that was available on line (for free) the first time because you could compare what "really happened" in the house with what they actually aired. The "new" clips provided on this tape give you a little more information in this regard, but you can pick up more from the various books about the show. Second, watching the original "Survivor" again also reaffirms the closeness of the competition. By the time they got to the endgame I was voting for Rich, but when Kelly won all those immunity competitions in a row I was thinking that maybe this was a sign from the gods or something. However, I was too busy trying to figure out how the others were going to vote to ever really decide who I would have actually voted for if I had been at the final tribal council. But when you can argue that it came down to Greg's "pick a number" nonsense, I think our society really needs to reconsider the cultural lesson of Rich's final victory. Even if you go back to the first tribal council of the merger, where the gang of four took our Gretchen and everybody else voted for a different person, you can see how easily things could have gone the other way. Unfortunately, Gretchen's tribe was the first and only one in "Survivor" history NOT to go after someone from the "other" tribe immediately after the merger (although, yes, the current group of clowns ate one of their own instead of voting off one of the lazy jerks from the other tribe that joined when the tribes were all shook up). If Gretchen's tribe has immediately gone after the weakest member of the "other" tribe (Kelly?), then they would have won on a 5-4 vote, and odds are Gretchen would have ended up winning. Now think about how much that would impact our culture if the person who was best at "surviving" won instead of the person who played "Survivor" the best. A key distinction, especially since the vast majority of survivors since then have taken Rich's victory as a sacred blueprint, carved in tablets of gold or something, instead of a series of situations breaking just the right way. In his post-game interviews Rich has kept alive the myth that his victory was inevitable, that he was in control every step of the way. There is some validity to this claim in terms of voting, but there is also some revisionist history involved here. In a sense Rich wins by default because no matter how many times it was painfully obvious what was happening with regards to the voting, the other survivors refused to wake up, smell the coffee and write "RICH" at tribal council. Besides: Rich's big contribution was his ability to catch fish and feed the others. If the original "Survivor" had taken place in Australia or Africa, what would he have done to offset his personality? Judging by those who have followed, the lesson of Rich's victory is be, in the immortal words of Sue, a "snake." However, ironically enough, those who have followed the gospel according to Rich have not been the ones who win or even finish second. Yet many of the other survivors in Australia insisted on characterizing their winner as being evil, wicked, bad, mean and nasty because she "played the game" well. Maybe it all comes down to the fact that I would have liked to have lived in a world where Gretchen was the winner rather than Rich, especially given the social importance that has been placed on what happened. But, it was so CLOSE!
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Summary: A Recap of the Best Season Ever for Survivor!
Review: Being a Survivor Junkie myself, I loved it! However, if you're looking for an in-depth look at the first season, you might find yourself disappointed. This is not a full showing of each episode--you can't find that anywhere. Rather, it's a pasted together collage of bits and pieces from each episode, so you can get the feel of how it went (even if sometimes the story is a bit hard to discern). I liked the added features alot, and seeing the auditions was great -- but the way the actual 'movie' part of the DVD was a bit long, and I found certain parts should have been clipped or cut shorter for the more interesting ones. While I am only nitpicking on the editing, it's still a great flashback to that first season, and if you love Survivor, you have to get this. I found the 2nd season DVD to be much better edited than this one, though I liked the added features better in this one than in the second one. I'd recommend to anyone that is a true survivor junkie to pick it up.
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Summary: Some of What You Don't See.
Review: This video takes a look at some of the best scenes from the first edition of SURVIVOR. If you watched the first show, then there isn't much here that you haven't seen before. However, there are audition tapes for each of the contestants as well as more lengthy parting words by each Survivor after they recieved the boot. There is a little profanity heard from B.B. and Sue that was edited out of the televised episodes and you do get a few clear pictures of Richard Hatch's .....butt. That's about it. The tribe has spoken.
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Summary: WASTE OF TIME!
Review: Being an extreme Survivor fan (I waited about 2 years after first hearing of the concept before it aired), I am extremely disappointed with this DVD; hence, a 1-Star rating (I couldn't give it a NO-STAR rating). This DVD does not capture the essence of the series AT ALL! The biggest attraction of the series is watching the development of the personality conflicts and the political maneuvering based upon that. However, with this DVD you see none of that. You cannot even tell what is happening with the story on this DVD. The DVD just shows the Survivors in different clips and then, all of a sudden, they show the vote but you don't know how the vote developed because you don't see the interpersonal relationships or the politics! This DVD, and the Season 2 DVD which fails in all the same areas, was a waste of time for CBS to put out. If CBS truly wants to do the Survivor Series credit and honor the hardcore fans, they will release a DVD boxset of the entire series with complete episodes, complete Final Words, Reunion Episode, Return Episode, The First Days rehash episode, all of the CBS Morning Show interviews, the complete audition tapes, and a DVD website archive with full content. CBS, do the Survivor fans a favor and release the box set!!!
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Summary: "Definitely worth checking out!"
Review: "I'll admit that I have not seen one episode of season 1 of Survivor. I thought that when it first came out on t.v. in the summer of 2000 that the show was corny and stupid. But my opinion of Survivor changed when I stared watching on the 3rd episode of Survivor 2, now i'm hooked. I feel like I had missed so much so I bought this video to see what I missed. The video it self is pretty cool to have if you have already seen season one. But if you haven't like myself you will want to see more. I love the characters from season one....
1. Greg- this guy is just a head case and funny to watch especially when he pretends to cry when being voted off! 2. Rich- Its hard to tell whos more of a nut Greg for talking into a coconut or Rich for walking around on his b-day naked..haha!!!!! 3. Rudy- for his conservative attitude and the rude comments he makes about his tribe mates and how blunt he is toward, "Sue keeping her damn mouth shut and Richard being a fat naked fag." This is definitely a video worth buying, every Survivor season is just so awesome in its own way. I'm looking forward to seeing the video/dvd of Survivor: Africa with Lex,Tom,Ethan, and all the others...................................I can't wait!!!!
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