Put me in the incredibly big shoes and over sized suit of Mr. Goldstriker and two things I would do differently right off the bat:
1. Have people apply with the intro video telling us a little bit about you and showing you off. Along with sending the chosen contestants an ironclad and fair contract send them a list of instructions
- Choose a fake name. (any name, I don't care if you make it Captain Cool it's your autistic choice)
- Make an instagram for the fake name
- Upload at least 10 videos on it to show viewers who you are or anything you would like to share (if you want to do more that is up to you, but don't put anything with identifying information.)
if you want to share who you are after the show that is up to you but during the show you maintain the new persona.
2. Relates to this a little bit:
Not letting people sabotage your challenge in a fun way by shaking toy babies? Really fucking gay, are they actually just supposed to sit in a room all day and play with stim toys.
I would sit down with the crew for days on end and watch seasons of reality TV, primarily things like Survivor, Big Brother, and Hell's Kitchen for the gameshow aspect and how to be a good host, and maybe some of MTV's the Challenge or The Real World for the purpose of understanding people's interactions while in front of a camera and how to set those things up. It's evident he hasn't done enough of this if he has at all. People like to sperg about how fake all these shows are, but the closer truth is that they're curated. What's going on is real, but we see it from the perspective that production wants to see. There are contestants from Survivor who will come out and say things like "I wasn't really
that mean on the show, they just showed my meanest moments." Production has to craft a story and narratives are produced. It's probably harder to do this in a pre-recorded show like Survivor since you have to predict who is going to be hated/liked, where as Sam just needs to look at chat and influence actions that way.
In addition to that: let the fish plot. Early seasons of Survivor show this well. One of the fan favorites from a long time ago was a man named Rupert. He was a big bushy beard hippy who bought a van and made a mobile children's library with money earned from the show. What was this nice man's first act on the show?
literally stealing people's stuff to barter for pineapples and knives with. Jeff Probst didn't come out and go "RUPERT'S A THIEF. YOU'RE FUCKING OUTTA HERE!" instead they added quirky pirate music and made him look like Robin Hood. at the end of the day it is a game and you have to let them play. if they go "off script" you've gotta roll with it. One of the few instances I can think of where crew stepped in was another season when a contestant dumped the tribe's rice (their only food) out into the sand. He wasn't "removed" from the show, they held a vote on the spot and everyone kicked him off.
heck Johnny Fairplay lied about his
grandmother dying, something he planned going into the show just so he could win a challenge. What did this man of reputation do after Survivor? went on shows, brawled with Danny Bonaduce, and would even go around to local bars, tell people who he was, and let them punch him for 20 bucks.
sam let someone be a Johnny Fairplay if that's how they wanna be.
