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September 29, 2006
No More RaceWar on Survivor: Teams Merge
After two episodes?
Then what was the point?
Oh yeah. Ratings.
The show wasn't as cringe-inducing as I expected, but mostly, it seems, because the producers stacked the racial deck. Each racial group was given one obvious layabout/moron/flake. (I don't know if the black tribe was-- they lost a guy right away and so it was hard to see who their weirdo was. But I imagine they had one.) So the show was stacked to be less about race vs. race than competents vs. incompetents within any tribe.