Fight to Survive

Wanted to like but was just a bullying competition. Way too many dropouts even setting aside the late ones that quit and refused the physical competitions. Nappy Missy was just disgusting throughout. Save the hood rat behavior for your everyday life. Just trash. Amal was almost as bad. J at least showed some class throughout. He, the competitive athlete, deserved to win the bullying physical competition.

Changing the rules 3/4 way through the show was terrible. Didn't blame those on Team survive bailing. Not worth 10-15k to have to deal with possible long term physical ailments. The show should have been named Bully to Survive.

Id be surprised if another season of show happens w/o a more variety of eliminations outside of purely physical one.

This is a horrible game. Set up for violence and burial conflict. People seeing this makes the world a worse place. The conflicts aren't even interesting its just lazy people resorting to violence to get what the think they need. Through episode 2 I don't see any redeeming qualities with the contestants given the parameters of the challenge. There are huge gaps in footage and reasoning for the actions taken by contestants as well as production. Stealing resources is allowed, and officially fighting for resources is also allowed. There is only negativity in this show. I do like the host, but I feel sorry for him that he got roped up in this community destroyer.

The idea for this show is basically a mashup of shows that already exist, particularly Survivor, the Challenge, and Million Dollar Island. It's a solid idea but it is terribly executed. The competitive portion of the game ultimately comes down to a physical battle to hold onto an item. Fight classes exist in professional fighting for a reason. You have two or three physically dominant contestants throwing around the other contestants like rag dolls. There's absolutely no real competition whatsoever. You know who's going to win before the match even takes place, which makes the whole 'challenge' element of the game utterly pointless. I'm honestly surprised people weren't seriously hurt. You have a jacked male and female team battling out of shape male/female teams who are twice their age. The contestants all should have been within the same range of fitness and competitiveness. CW, watch the Challenge and take notes. You had a great opportunity to create something of your own and you completely missed the mark.

I wanted to like this. It has all the ingredients for a programme that should...should be an enjoyable watch. It has familiar people we've all seen before if you watch Survivor type shows. People who know how to use tactics, people who don't mind going without to get to a win. People who are willing to compete with each other. People from 'Survivor', 'Alone', Naked and afraid'..you get the picture. Theoretically they know what they're doing and they also know how to react to camera and be interesting. And yet it's not a good watch.

It's not about surviving, it's about fighting. It's appealing to something rather unpleasant in human nature and rewarding it.

Consequently any given episode revolves around people moaning and being genuinely uncomfortable and these are people used to survival situations. Plotting to make life as horrific as they possibly can for the others is the way to go. In other words for me it's nasty.

It goes against many of the principles of the shows a lot of them have been in before. Seems that survival principles are for sale.

What's bothering me is this trend towards who can inflict the most discomfort on the rest seems to be the way this type of show is going. Who behaves the worst and the cruelest is the featured contestant and might well win. Where is this going ?

As unlikely as that seems consider...the closing hook on an episode is that someone says forcefully they are going to make people fight for water. Really ? Water ?

Chances are this won't actually happen but it's the selling point for next week.

If you enjoy this kind of thing go for it. Not for me.

To me it's appealing to an aspect of humanity that is a concern.

When I read the description of the show I was excited and had big hopes. I watch Alone, Survivor, Naked and Afraid and I enjoy them, I am a fan of those shows. However, this show seems to be more about bullies/bullying in my opinion. There is not that much footage or focus about surviving. If you expecting a "survival" show this is not it or the format is highly imbalance where your knowledge about surviving is secondary. Instead, if you are strong and know how to "wrestle" you are good.

Most survivalists are about knowledge of the environment what can you eat, how can you hunt games, etc. Not all of them are Athletes or super strong physically. But this show is mostly focused on hoarding items and to get items you fight for it. No surprise, the strong people (a few) just bully everyone else for their resources.

If this game show was supposed to be more focused on the competition/fighting portion instead of the surviving part, they should have make sure all participants were wrestlers/fighters or at least have diverse/balanced competition games like in Survivor. Instead this was like watching dogs fight.

Bully to survive / Get bullied and survive should be the name of this show.