Other Biblical Ideas for Survivor Seasons

Well, there are some good ideas based on the bible that could be used for other seasons of the show. We don’t yet know if David versus Goliath will turn out good. But I do have some other thoughts as to what could make a thing to put in a season inspired from the bible in question.

When I had done the twists that have been done internationally that I wanted to appear in this show, one that I didn’t think would work as well was masters versus slaves where in one of the tribes, there would be women masters and male slaves while the other tribe had male masters and females slaves. Since the concept of slavery was there in Exodus and it would seem fairer if it wasn’t just one tribe was the masters and the opposing tribe was the slaves. That would be too much like the absolute failure of the rich versus poor twist. I don’t know if it would work, but I thought that I would consider the idea of it in this post.

An important theme throughout a lot of the bible is the concept of sacrifice. Imagine if after winning a reward challenge, someone on the tribe had to give up their reward in order for everyone else to get it. Or if someone had to give up their own reward for those they invited to enjoy the reward. I would not want to see it with someone being able to replace someone else being voted out, but it could make more of an interesting season to put something in there occasionally.

The failure of mankind and reason we have all this trouble in the world is due to temptation. So if they did a season where temptation was a constantly theme throughout it. Temptation challenges could be the ultimate use of a season like this. Or they could offer possible advantages to the tribe with more members before a challenge where people can get something if they sit out but then won’t be able to see what happens there. I don’t know if this would work as well as it could as I don’t want it to wind up having one advantage after another. As long as there can be a good thing done with this, then it might work.

Different things that could work would be challenges that are based after stuff talked in the bible. Could one make fire in a really wet environment? Or should there be a strength based busting things down in the way that Samson did? Trying to travel a long ways could be a good challenge. They could even do a challenge involving slingshots.

Of course, one very important thing they could do is go to a location that’s mentioned in the bible. It would be interesting seeing all different sorts of games happening in a place like Egypt. They could go to the island of Malta that was mentioned in the book of Acts. They could even go to locations that used to exist from where they are believed to be now.

Something mentioned early on was how the Israelites were nomads at one point. I thought if maybe it could be a good season if the tribes were constantly on the move from place to place. This might not work as well as it could, but maybe you would have to win the challenge to move forward to the next part of the game or vote out a member to continue.

Another thing that could be done would be a leader twist where after every tribal council, regardless of if these people went there or not, the tribe would have a new leader. What could make it even more interesting is if they aren’t allowed to vote for someone who was just the leader most recently. I think that the inspiration that I have for this is the book of Judges.

What else could work? The bible is riddled with various rules that people are expected to follow. If they did something like taking people back to how people were back then and how they were living, although that would be more of a time warp type of season. What they could do is if whoever follows the rules best or the most gets an advantage for their tribe or themselves for later in the game. There were some weird rules back then that the bible didn’t talk about that was enforced by the Pharisees or other of the leaders at the time. As for people expected to go back to something like a time warp season, that could also work as a theme.

The last thing I can think of including is a sinners versus saints season where you have those who have done bad in life and are now reformed versus those who have done a good path their whole life. I do not know if it would work and I don’t think that most sinners would want to be labeled that, even if they are considered reformed and better now.

I think that’s all I can think of for this post. I could do a list of twists that I think would be bad and that they shouldn’t do relating to biblical or religious themes. There are terrible ideas out there and I’m not sure that a time warp season even going back to an earlier time would work. Maybe I should do a post about that in the future. What year should it be like and how would it fit with the whole idea and theme of Survivor that it should generally have? And would it be needed since they generally do primitive things on this show just by putting them out in the wilderness? Sorry if I’m going off on a tangent here. I do that a lot in posts like these. Anyways, that is all. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.