Do You Know Where Gabon Is?
Written by: Tom Sawyer
Where can you find the following:
- One Asian guy
- One Old guy
- One black woman
- One, two, or three women who some would consider “hot”
- Possibly and probably one homosexual person
- One black guy
- At least one set of fake breasts
- One old woman
You can find all of that in Gabon. You may be wondering where Gabon is right? I looked it up on Wikipedia and got the following:
Gabon (pronounced /g??b?n/ or /ga?bõ/ in French) is a country in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo and the Gulf of Guinea. The capital and largest city is Libreville. Since its independence from France on August 17, 1960, the Republic has been ruled by two presidents. In the early 1990s, Gabon introduced a multi party system and a new democratic constitutionnatural resources, and foreign private investment have helped make Gabon one of the most prosperous countries in the region, with the highest HDI in Sub-Saharan Africa. that allowed for a more transparent electoral process and reformed many governmental institutions. A small population (less than two million), abundant natural resources, and foreign private investment have helped make Gabon one of the most prosperous countries in the region, with the highest HDI in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Besides all that, Gabon is where you will find the latest cast of Survivor. Yes, it has lost some of its luster over the years due, in my opinion, to how predictable it is. Go to any town/city in the US and randomly pick 18 people. Are they really going to fit that list above? We understand reality TV (RTV so I don’t have to keep typing it) wants to hit several demographics, but how about just randomly picking some people who will make for an interesting show?
Survivor is probably the third big RTV show, assuming you think Who Wants To Be a Millionaire Qualifies after the Real World. What is the state of RTV? Are we ready to move away from this genre? If we did, what would be left on TV?
More Survivor stuff to come.
Tags: Reality TV, RTV, Survivor
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:20 am
Hi my name is Kim and I’m a RTV junkie. I watch all of them at least once and then choose my favorites — Survivor being one of them. RTV is TV now! We will not get a way from them so might as well embrace them.
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