Board Thread:Season Offers/@comment-7123402-20140721070929/@comment-24776269-20140721214059

Temptation? Hardly. Everyone who's not a complete moron will take the idol clue. If anyone has seen Tocantins, the Exile Island castaways are given the option of either a clue to the idol or a mutiny. Everyone took the clue because... well, it's a freaking idol clue. This is another exile twist that isn't actually all that mind-blowing. Plus, even if this isn't the same as Ian's Temptation Island, it uses the same name and is at least somewhat similar. I don't pretend to know if the bidder knowingly plagiarized Ian's Temptation Island, but the fact that there's a shadow of doubt hanging over this bid is enough to insist that I vote no.

Also, while the location doesn't have to be 100% realistic, it certainly appeals to the imagination if you use a location that is at least a little bit possible. This location is impossible. No one could survive 39 days in flipping Kamchatka. As a viewer, I love to picture the events as they unfold in my head, and having this season in such an unrealistic location makes it hard to do that, and therefore makes it hard to enjoy this season. Last little nitpicky note, Kamchatka is a peninsula. Not an island.

I do think this bid has potential, but it has to rework some major concepts, organize and state a clear and exciting theme (reading up on some East Russian culture would be a great place to start), and spruce the details and information up to make it more appealing before I can even consider voting for it in the future. Plus either changing the name of Temptation Island or scrapping it altogether.