Word: suspenseless
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Problem is, recognizable though platform diving is, it still isn't football. And Olympic basketball, while it is basketball, is Olympic basketball, a suspenseless, unsettling metaphor for everything ugly about American world dominance, as our arrogant stars steamroll over tiny countries at as much risk as one of our air squadrons pounding a Third World nation from 35,000 feet up. No, NBC needs to embrace the weird, surprising, freaky side of this panoply of minor sport. Think of the Winter Olympics, in which American viewers have lately fallen in love with the luge, not because they've ever used...
...Tagi tribe formed a voting alliance that, if it stayed intact, would continue until they voted off every Pagong member, one by one, for five weeks - which, so far, they've done. The producers knew that. They knew, then, that they were looking at a month of suspenseless votes, as the Pagong lined up for the slaughter like veals. This, in its way, could be as dangerous as having people knowing the winner. So why not float a rumor that some of the Pagong made it to the Final Four? We smug viewers who bought it would tune in anyway...