Kid Nation

[Nemiroff]

What a great idea, send a bunch of kids to a ghost town and let them start a new one....on their own

too bad the adults ruined it: the kids were divded into classes, upper class, lower class. Let the kids do that on their own, why force one of our system's greatest flaws on them.

At the end of each episode they get a solid gold star worth 20 thousand dollars, these kids are as young as 8 wtf are they gonna do with all that money!! 20 bucks was a fortune back then, they're just putting greed into the system.

They should have just left the kids alone (except camera crew and doctors of course) with enough enough food and basic supplies, and let the kids figure it out. they are all there for a purpose, wether they work together or not, they will work towards they same goal. if they do unite, well that question would have been what its all about. either way the adults didn't stimulate their teamwork, on the actual show, the kids worked together on their own.

Personally I would have loved to go on that show, if i was young enough , It would have a sense of adventure unlike any we experience nowadays in our "civilized" world.

This was such a good idea, but was tarnished (probably by demands of the producers and the network)

[ruksak]

Me and my daughter watched about 20 minutes of that show.


A perverse exploitation of innocence for our amusement.


If adults want to make asses out of themselves on television, fine. But this is going too far.

[Nemiroff]

They turned it into entertainment so people would watch it. i think the people who created this actually had this in mind as an experiment, a good one, and none of the kids were hurt that bad, (the worst injury i believe was a girl got burnt while cooking, pretty badly, but thats not the most dangerous of situations either, and was a complete accident. The kids volunteered and any of them could go home at any time they want. The fact that none of them were ever eliminated but could leave whenever was a great touch that showed the difference between this and other shows.

Although the "competitions" they play to determine what class their in every week are stupid and embarassing, the whole class concept should not have been introduced, and the only thing keeping them from leaving (other then peer pressure) were the 20 thousand dollar stars, which should have been left out as well

[Milton Bradley]

I gave it a few episodes, because I like sociology, but once I determined all the hardships were scripted from the history of the other settlers, I gave up on the show.

[Winter wind]

its reality tv, something I always find to be less real then most fiction

[ruksak]

I felt like a child molester just watching it. I don't really mean that in a sexual way.

But somehow I felt like I was apart of their exploitation. Many of them didn't seem to enjoy this. Rather, they seemed confused as to why they were doing this instead of just being kids.

[Suburbanite]

I have a reality show for you: Gladiator Fights.

[Nemiroff]

i don't partically like the show, but the idea is great, those games are stupid, but just cause their not smiling don't mean their not having fun, their on an adventure, they're playing town.

yes there will be drama, its like 40 kids, some wont get along, and the producers or somebody messed it up, but they are having fun, noone is forcing them or their parents. i would jump at this as a kid, and if my kids wanted this, really wanted this, I would let them.

Its very different from other reality shows (all of which are basicly the same) and in everyone, the people are fake, they hand pick some people that will cause stupid drama, and they always eliminate people, so people will fight.

Noone gets eliminated in this show, and it tries to make them work together, the stupid games, and class system kind of undemine this, but all the teams have to finish a task or noone gets an extra "reward"
Its very different from any other reality show, but then again at the same time very similar, which messed the show up

[Praxius]

I heard of the show, but never bothered to watch it, because I already knew there would be adult influence, therefore whatever occured in the show wouldn't be accurate to reality in the first place.

Just like how Survivor is a joke. I've seen some other shows which put that show to shame, like Survivorman. Sure he screws up once in a while, but considdering he's all on his own having to get out of nature on his own while carrying and filming with the cameras, it's still quite a feat.

[grandpa]

Quote by: Praxius I heard of the show, but never bothered to watch it, because I already knew there would be adult influence, therefore whatever occured in the show wouldn't be accurate to reality in the first place. Just like how Survivor is a joke.

Such a show is an adult conception, so the kids are automatically being influenced/constrained in some way.

Grandpa h.

[Praxius]

See if it was something along the lines of Muppet Babies, where there was very little influence in the Muppet Baby community, where Nanny only appeared once in a while to see how things were going, then that would be more interesting to see.

[Milton Bradley]

I thought the part that ruined it was the scrpited hardships.


That made it LAME.

[Nemiroff]

What scripted hardships? Its not that easy to start up a town

[Milton Bradley]

Quote by: Nemiroff What scripted hardships? Its not that easy to start up a town

Didn't you watch the show?


All of the supposed "missions" that were put forth for the children to accomplish in the challenges were gleaned from the notes of the original settlers hardships.


Ruined the whole show for me. Well, that, and the Probst ( Survivor ) like intervention of the host, and the way they always attempt steer the conversations.