Word: ogakor
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...fantasy that would have been titillating were it not for the sight of Jerri's lupine countenance. (Colby's response: "I may be a lot of things, but I ain't no Hershey bar.") Before our eyes, Queen Jerri turned into a Dorian Gray of all-purpose hunger as Ogakor squabbled over fried green tomatoes and fish with flies...
...main story lines were the conflicts. The reward challenge for blankets, personal hygiene supplies and spices (spices?) was won by the juggernaut Kucha tribe ("Thank God we won the reward challenge so we can bathe Kimmi," said Mike.) But a threatened "meltdown by the Colbster" was thankfully avoided when Ogakor outraced Kucha in the rats-in-a-maze immunity challenge. Not a thrilling watch, that. (I still say they should have left behind somebody at each medal, and called them all in, in proper order. But then again, viewers had the aerial camera to help them feel superior...
...Australian and a pedant, I am heartily disappointed with the "reality" of the setting. What Jeff and his producers call the Outback is a lush, watery place in the rainy season, not the dry, red desert we associate with the word. And survive? The good people of Ogakor and Kucha are getting a whole lot of help. They may be on the peckish side, but as long as they're complaining about mushy rice you know they haven...
...Outback isn't a specifically defined area, but when Australians refer to it they're talking about country wildly different from the real estate that Ogakor and Kucha call home. Those fortunate tribes have the flowing Herbert River to drink from, wash and cool off in. In the true Outback, water is often found only by digging a hole at the bottom of a rocky outcrop. It can get up to 120 degrees during the day and there is precious little shade. There's no ankle-deep water for a bikini-clad Jerri to lounge in and proclaim "Look...
...suddenly everybody in Kucha was showing Rodger to his ice floe, and everybody in Ogakor was showing Maralyn to hers, except for Jeff and Alicia, the two truly sour souls on the show, who were eyeing Nick, the black law-school student we don't see much...