Since this blog’s very first post was based off a link to the TV Show Survivor, I’d be a fool not to say something - anything - about the newest season of Survivor: China, filmed in Jiangxi province, where my dad’s side of the family is originally from. (Apparently, they only filmed 24 miles away from the local capital, but if the guy on Man vs. Wild can spend the night in a posh hotel room after squeezing elephant dung into his mouth, I’m not going to judge about this Survivor’s “remoteness.”)
My thoughts about some of the Asian-American contestants and the logo, after the jump.
So, about that logo: Great Wall, check. Red dragons, check. Great big pagoda like Tribal Council area, check. Phrase kinda-like-but-not-really the phrase “Outwit, Outplay, Outlast” in simplified Chinese - check. Brush-like font in the word “China,” check. (At least they didn’t use that shitty Chop Suey font. Sometimes, you just got to pick and choose your battles.)
As for the cast members themselves, the last two seasons of multicultural castings have been thrown at the window in favor of chicks with mullets, Playboy models turned WWE RAW Divas and guys named Chicken, but at least there are two Asian-American’s in this cast: Frosti, a half-Japanese, half-Russian parkour athlete, and Peih-Gee, a Chinese-American former video ho music video dancer, now a jeweler.
Admittedly, I’ve been watching Survivor less and less each season - I stopped watching at Vanuatu, watched Cook Islands because of the big “war against the races” twist and stopped again - but a part of me might tune in to see how they portray China, as well as trying to see if Peih-Gee is going to be a complete trainwreck or if she’s going to be completely awesome. (Hopefully, a little bit of both; that makes for great television, after all.)
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John wrote:
What, no Panda in the logo?
Posted on 21-Aug-07 at 2:49 am | Permalink
Bertie wrote:
At least it’s not lead-laced [fill in the blank] in the logo…
Posted on 21-Aug-07 at 6:31 am | Permalink
Jesse! wrote:
hah! I love how people think China is all like, NOT INHABITED… damn, that’ll be fun to see how they edit out the guy on his motorcycle, complete with rice-picker hat, yacking away on his cellphone as they tribes “rough-it” hiking up a hill (the locals call a mountain) with cut-in steps… can’t wait!
BTW Chicken could have all sorts of fun Chinese nicknames:
Feiji (airplane… or if said right, fat chicken)
Or my fav: da feiji (if said wrong, big fat chicken, if said right: jerkoff)
Or even better call him “big airplane!” da feiji
Posted on 21-Aug-07 at 8:38 am | Permalink
Akrypti wrote:
Isn’t “Chicken” the name of one of the sidekicks in “Young and Dangerous”?
Olympics 2008…China refusing to acquiesce to U.S. demands with its currency…lead paint…human righs violations…black market trafficking of organs from Chinese death row inmates…manipulating the atmosphere so it won’t rain during the Olympics in Bejing… and now Survivor - China?
Ooh baby. This will be interesting indeed.
Posted on 21-Aug-07 at 12:01 pm | Permalink
Xxxtine wrote:
OMG! … did Akrypti just make a very obscure pop culture reference?
Yes, it is Chicken (Jordan Chan) who’s actually featured in a spin off movie of his own called ‘Born to be King: Young and Dangerous 6′ which isn’t so bad.
And on a somewhat related note: I love the Deep Fried Lemon Chicken Wings from my local hole-in-the-wall Chinese restaurant - must have some tonight!
Posted on 21-Aug-07 at 2:57 pm | Permalink
Mike wrote:
Ooo now I’m totally in the mood for some seasame chicken. Wait, what were we talking about again?
Posted on 21-Aug-07 at 6:17 pm | Permalink
akrypti wrote:
HAHAHA! See Xxxtine?? I *don’t* live in a hole!! I know Chicken from Young and Dangerous and I know Tila Tequila! I’m hip! And cool!
Posted on 21-Aug-07 at 6:27 pm | Permalink