User blog comment:JERealize/Progress Bar: Issue 034/@comment-3432330-20131205055046/@comment-1874924-20131206042918

JER, this has been a recurring thing with you. When ROTI was airing, if memory serves, you speculated on whether any of the eliminated contestants were surviving the Hurl of Shame, and you basically demanded confirmation that they were alive. When TDAS started airing, you expressed similar misgivings about the Flush of Shame. Now you're assuming that the ex-campers who floated away in their baloons are dead, until/unless you get confirmation to the contrary.

The problem is that you seem determined to apply real world standards to a show that doesn't even pretend to be bound by real world restrictions. Instead of assuming that the eight are dead, it would be far more genre-savvy to assume that they're alive and well unless a later episode tells us otherwise.