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...nature or authority? In the two shows' current forms, Jeff Probst and the drill sergeants match up (thematically, if not physically) as authority-figure facilitators. Both deliver the rules, make life plenty lousy for the contestants, and stir up a little conflict along the way. Nature, be it the Outback or Parris Island, heaps on some abuse, and certainly the setting is the biggest difference between the two. But the real damage - the voting off - is done by the contestants...
Brown was voted out of the Australian outback, where the show was filmed, after "surviving" until the 10th episode. Brown will now join a jury with the other people voted out of the outback to decide the fate of the remaining six contestants...
...harsh Old Testament order was restored to the Outback on Thursday night in a Week 10 episode of "Survivor 2" full of hunger, weariness and Deadly Sins. The victim was Nick, who it should have been - not only was he the perfect candidate to reunite the spasmodic Ogakor alliance, he walked under the cursed cloud of envy known as "having won the last Immunity Challenge." (There's a certain way those things can make a target appear on your back, at least around the ol' watercooler...
...After Jerri). They had eaten all their rice, and as CBS taunted us with the possibility that Amber had not made it out of her dead Queen's shadow in time to feel safe with her fellow Ogakors, Keith and Colby were forced to wander the fields of the Outback in a comically edited ritual known to Colby as "grasshopper wrangling." Yet even as the bait ran them ragged, they could catch no fish...
...factors, drinking bottled water sporting various designer labels, and several comfort-loving individuals who had brought portable beach chairs and recliners to help them endure what looked like a three-hour wait. They did not look like hardy types ready to brazen out an extended ordeal in the Outback, let alone the Hollywood jungle...