I hadn't watched Survivor in a while, but at the moment there's nothing else on at 8 on Thursdays so I thought I'd check it out. They had me at the Buddhist temple. Very cool! But honestly, if they're going to do the Buddhist thing in China, I'd like them to mention how China is royally screwing over Tibet and just pretty much violating the crap out of their human rights.
Anyway the first person to piss us off is, of course, the Christian radio host who decides that she's not going to "put her face on the floor for anybody but Jesus." Even though the host clearly said that a visit to the temple was about welcome, not worship, this lady walked out on them (what an insult) and said "I think I did the right thing." Personally I think you demonstrated why people think that Christians are intolerant. I'm sure all of the contestants have religion – heck, one of them is listed as a gay Mormon – but none of them had a problem with the Buddhists, only the Jesus freak. It's going to be fun watching Ashley, from the WWE. There's a funny moment where the host tells all the contestants that they don't get to have their luggage, only the clothes on their backs, and we get a shot of the 20lb boots that Ashley is wearing. Then the girl next to her says, "But I'm not wearing a bra." "That's going to make you very popular," says the host. On the annoying side of the fence is Courtney, the waitress from New York who wanders around saying things like, "People from New York don't talk like dis, dese people are like people I wouldn't normally be seen wit, ya know what I'm sayin?" She won't last, I hope.Ashley then proceeds to get violently ill on the first day and can't really pull her weight, which puts her on the chopping block. But luckily they keep her around (it's times like that I wonder if the producers have something to say about it, why get rid of the hot chick with the big rack on the first day?) and instead we lose the chicken farmer from Virginia. That's for the best, since nobody could understand a word he was saying.
I have no idea if we'll watch every week, like I said I haven't watched Survivor really since the very first season. But it started out well.