[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'182561\' date=\'Mar 26 2008, 02:54 PM\'][quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'182557\' date=\'Mar 26 2008, 02:00 PM\']Just by the article, I thought it interesting at first, but is borderline torture really that fun to watch?[/quote]When you know that the contestants are all partaking in it of their own free will, and can stop literally at any time?[/quote]And this is perfectly shown in 2.0, when one of the guys from Survivor: Vanuatu is in one of the pods. After winning a cheese pizza in the Solitary Auction, someone else steals it away from him moments later. And then he's stuck in the black box for an hour. While sirens are blaring.
In a later "favorite foods" contest, participants must drink blended shots containing favorite foods of the participants. Then two or more foods are blended. Then more, and more. Long after everyone else has quit, our Survivor Alumnus is told by Val that he's the last one. In Round Seventeen. And yet he still asks for another shot.
When you know that the participants are one Red Button away from ending the whole lot, it's hard to feel bad. But when one contestant endures more pain merely to prove to himself that he can, it's hard not to laugh.
