Survivor - Fans Vs Favorites - Another Reality Rip Off?

Fans of Survivor the hit TV reality show have been put in competition with past seasons most controversial competitors. You might think this is a totally original idea but, its been done before (okay well not exactly).

This idea has been used on another reality TV series before. If you guys are familiar with MTVS The Real World and Road Rules you would be familiar with the challenge series that is now featured on MTV. This show is a reality competition where you have your favorites from both series going against each other in various challenges and eliminations much like the show Survivor. A few years ago this series brought in new competition never before seen on reality TV. They had the fans against the favorites from past seasons of the challenge series. Sound familiar?

It seems that Survivor has taken some ideas from this series and incorporated it into their own hit TV series. Whats very LOL about all of this is the fact that these new competitors believe they have a leg up on the competition because they have seen the past seasons. I would go as far to say that is a very stupid and shortsighted idea. In the big picture whats going to matter the most early on is being able to survive the conditions. Since the tribes are split into 2 as usual, the connections between the fans and the favorites is very limited. None of their knowledge of the favorites will matter until the merge and by then basic survival skills will matter the most, staying in the game longer. Once the merge happens it will be as it has been in the past, numbers always count in your favor. Knowing a little about the history of the favorites will help very little since winning the challenges will put them @ a larger number for the merge. Once that happens the fans better hope they luck out on solo challenges. Even then the favorites have a leg up because they have been thru it before and they have proven to know how to deal with those tough situations.

All in all I think this will be a good season to watch for the LOL factor because we get to see the drama between favorites from different seasons. I dont find any of the new fans very interesting. Thankfully for me, Mikey B. who had shown to be very very prejudice early on with anti-gay remarks is gone and thats a plus. I also dont know how Chet the gay survivor made it onto the show. He doesnt seem to care much about anything, @ least not from the way they are portraying him on the TV show currently.

We will have to see where this goes but I was expecting a much newer, fresher idea from the minds over @ Survivor. I guess I will have to watch this filler and hope for the best next season.