Quote Originally Posted by CheddarMan View Post
I agree with the lovey dovey couple, clearly the thing will fall apart when the two couples break up and one of them gets with someone else! And the veggie menu could evaporate overnight!

To be fair though, Castaway also focused on the problems between the members of the group, it's what makes it interesting. Imagine if they all got on well, developed a perfectly functioning society, made two well thought out and fully working 'villages' and it all went really well? How boring would that be? Like Formula 1, at some level we all want to see a crash!
By the same token, the series was asking "what if we could start again" etc, and yet is placing focus on pure entertainment and schism rather than the potential to show the positive side of the experiment. At least Castaway started out with a positive spin (before they made a big thing about "Ray" the builder falling out with several people).

I fear it is a victim of "entertainment over education" as ever with TV