Tempting Fortune

I have little care for Paddy McGuinness as a television presenter. That dating show he did was terrible (ok, I only tried one episode). He would barely exist on tv without Peter Kay giving him a hand with Phoenix Nights.

So back to the program....

It makes absolutely no sense!

It rewards failure. There's only a few of the contestants that are barely likeable (I don't know their names - one of the black guys, black girl, and the young white woman with the pigtails).

They seem like a bunch who didn't make it through 'Big Brother' or 'Jungle' auditions!

Finally, why did they have to all the way to Malaysia?! The UK has plenty places this could have been made in ('Jungle' proved that in Wales).

A load of rubbish.

The entire problem with this show is that the reward differential for those that had resisted temptation and those that didn't was not great enough. That ruined the whole show.

I actually enjoyed this show at first but the ending was absolutely terrible and the message of the show by the end was absolutely terrible because of how the show was made and the rules it has.

It DEFINITELY needed a final twist and didn't have one, making it one of the most morally bankrupt shows I've ever seen. It should have had a twist where at the end the ones that gave in to temptation were told that actually that money came out of their own funds.

The vilest and most disgusting aspects of human behaviour like theft, no impulse control, lies, rationalisations carried out by the lowest and most reprehensible types of people are actually justified by the show which rewards sociopathic, anti-social and dysfunctional behaviour.

The progress of this is pretty predictable. Pit one person's values and ambitions against another or at least 12 of them.and the inevitable clashes emerge. Watching the consequences start emerging the entertainment starts big time. That's underpinned and driven by the personalities. We have. James practising being miserable and single minded , Carolyne making up meaningless philosophical sayings to support the moment as she wishes and somewhere in betwen Lani behaving like a spoilt child "I want a pastry" . It's also quite amusing how they see minor climbs and relatively short treks as exhausting and overwhelming but again the consequences of them realising they haven't just signed up for a walk around the block kicks of the entertainment.

I thoroughly enjoyed this programme, and got the reasoning behind it, but if I had produced this, I would have stated the winning prize was to be shared by all, but there would be a twist at the end, which would have been , all who spent and were tempted with other's money, would have the amount deducted from their share, and the ones not tempted, would have walked with the full £25,000, plus the amount spent, divided by them.

It was heart reneging to see the ones not tempted, to walk away with just slightly more than the ones tempted, and that for me was disappointing, bad viewing and I was left pulling my hair out at the end. X.

I found it faintly amusing to watch this bunch struggling through a pretty mild hike, complaining and whining the entire time.

Only Luke and Taheera never had anything and yet we hardly saw either of them. Neither of them had much to say or contribute to the group except to agree with everything James had to say. James, the strong and ethical leader who stole a teabag and sugar when the others were sleeping. Yes, that one. He cost the group the same as the ones that openly took the temptation. So there's that. He also never seemed to do any work or help around the camp, but we had to listen to his pompous, self righteous lectures on ethics.

As it turned out, they might as well have taken the temptations as is still cost them almost the same.

They could have had a little fun and a few unique experiences in a beautiful country along the way. After all, when would that kind of opportunity every occur again? They certainly weren't pleasant to watch. Not to say that the blatant weaknesses of Lani, et al were not irritating too.

Although the splitting of the cash at the end was a tad unfair, them's the odds when joining a show like this.