The Summit

Are you kidding me?? Gave this show a go because it looked different. Different?!?! It is the same tosh as every other Australian show. What do we have...?? A bunch of contestants from different walks of life, different demographics, different abilities, but oh boy do they AAAAALLLLL have that same old "life has been hard" montage to bleed out. Same thing over and over. Introduce contestant, slow motion montage hiking/walking/climbing/surfing/playing with their dog/whatever. They've got three kids (tick), a loving relationship (tick), great job (tick)... and here it comes... quick switch from upbeat music to sad piano... here we go... "... but life hasn't always been easy..." And boom. Here we go again. Every two minutes there's a slo mo montage on TV of someone who looks perfectly fine on the outside, but *cue sad piano* "... life hasn't always been easy". They lost this, they lost that, they fought, they rebuilt, they blah blah blah. How are people still switching this rubbish on?? Summit, jungle, kitchen, island, city, dog pound... no TV show format is safe from this same old dried up bottom of the barrel nonsense of the real life DRAMA every single show wants to ram down our necks. Uplifting orchestra flips to sad piano flips back to uplifting orchestra over and over for sixty minutes. It's DONE, DONE, DONE. Honestly, how can people still care?? Every year new seasons of the same drivel just in a different format. This time people "who haven't always had it easy" climb a mountain. Oh great. Cue tears, sad piano, life montage. There seriously can't be anyone left in Australia with a sob story to tell to a slo mo montage anymore. Just stop.

I cried when Brook deceived Alex. She said she wanted to teach her children how to be a strong woman, but it's not a lesson I would want to teach my children , that it's okay to stab people in the back, that helped you get to the top, and that loyalty is not important. Sorry, that's not a good life lesson to your young ones. The show is a lot of manipulation, very similar to Survivor. I enjoy watching the physical events they have to go through, but not so much the meanness and back stabbing. It was interesting to watch Isaac overcome his fears . Well done Isaac one of the few genuine people on this show along with Alex.

It's such a shame that this show format has great potential, but is woefully let down by the so called host who adds nothing, and just comes across as a smug half wit. Also the challenges faced by the competitors could be much more diverse and enhance interest by incorporating basic survival tasks like shelter building, fire making and at the very least cooking food, rather than arriving to a ridiculous banquet of meals and booze. It doesn't have to rival or copy Survivor and Alone, but surely it would benefit by being more authentic and interesting by exploring some other elements of traversing this amazing environment.

This show is clearly run by producers expecting the contestants to overcompensate the reality and bring out the Hollywood. The hour long show (42 min) could be chopped in half and not lose a step. Too damn drawn out. No thumbs up, CBS.

The are choosing players that have such limited skills, too! As much as CBS tried making this like Survivor, they failed. Why is it so hard to make a reality show REAL? It's interesting that the same lack of tactics plays out on this show as well. Men vs. Women, color vs. Caucasian, strong vs. Week, straight vs. Gay, etc. Why can't it be human vs. Human? Because, once again, producers are involved!

The show summit is somewhat irritating to watch. Because some of the people on the show are so out of shape and that contestants vote off the strong means the week are never gonna make it to the summit. And then when they have a choice to vote off the week, the strongest are voted off and the week slow the rest of the contestants down. How dumb is that? Yeah, the people are letting their emotions overshadow the strategy of the goal of the game which is getting to the summit, but they are not going to get there when they keep voting off strong people. And then the host doesn't really let the contestants vote. He basically picks 2 people and then they vote on the two people he picks.