Lots to like about the new season of “Survivor,” including a locale in which elephants (how cool) can wander into the camp site. The casting folks turned up the usual quotient of the young and beautiful, but also a lot of real characters, including Randy from Eagle Rock, Mo., the wedding videographer who hates marriage and had a lot of snarky things to say to the cameras. He also split his head open and had to have the medics in the very first night — kudos! The castaways chose tribes, playground style, and the result was a good tribe and a terrible tribe, which has lost every challenge so far and argues about everything — very entertaining. I also enjoyed the Exile Island twist in which the exile could choose between a clue and “comfort” — comfort being a hut and an apple. Dan, the first exile, chose the clue, couldn’t find the immunity idol and wound up staring sadly through the bars at the apple. At least he wasn’t back at camp, listing to his tribe mates squabble.