Wednesday Mar. 7th

"One World Is Out the Window" Air Date 2-29-12

I miss the longer credits, it only takes a minute to show them and it really help to learn who everyone is.  We are three weeks in and I am constantly having to look up the names of different players in order to talk about them because the only person who has gotten any screen time this season is Colton.

I hope Leif has a really good social game, because he is always going to be the guy the guys tribe sits out of challenges.  And if the men keep losing it won't be long before his name comes up just to keep the tribe stronger.

I like that this season has brought back reward challenges.  It is something that has been sorely missing from the last few seasons. 

I wonder if they started to make the matching challenge easier for Troyzan and Kat after they had missed it numerous times.

I have yet to talk to or hear from anyone who isn't in 100% agreement that the men are completely right in expecting something in return for letting the girls warm themselves and have fire.  That is how society works, they have something you want (fire), you have something they want (fishing supplies and a boat), your options are to either share with each other or both go without.  It's ungrateful and selfish to expect them just to give you everything that you want and offer nothing in return.  Especially when you consider the guys offered to let you sleep over there the night before, thereby sharing the tarp they had won at the previous reward challenge.  I think the only thing that kept the guys from telling them to get the eff out was everyone is smart enough to know that the game is more social than anything else and no one wanted to be the evil guy to throw them out. The women are coming off worse and worse as the show goes on.  

The only person that can do the puzzle is also the person who does the calling.  That's a lot of pressure to put on one person.  They are two very different skill sets and you would have to thing that if you fail you will almost certainly be on the chopping block.

The idol this season is very silly looking.

You would think that the water falling on the blindfolded contestants would cause their blindfolds to come dislodged.

They need to put a barrier between the two puzzle stations.  The only reason the girls were able to catch up was because they were copying the guys completed puzzle.  You can see the girls in the back looking over and telling Sabrina where to put each puzzle piece.  All this did was make it a coin toss as to who could figure out how the last piece fit in.  While I don't think it was cheating, it left a bad taste in my mouth as to how unfair it seemed.

Bill may be a surfer idiot, but I don't think he could be correctly described as "ghetto trash".  It's hard not to think that Colton said that based solely on the color of his skin.

Jay is as least smart enough to realize the true reality of the situation and jump ship as soon as he could. I think that alone might prove to propel him a lot farther in the game than it looked like he would get.

What was Bill smoking before they went to tribal council?

Matt had to go first.  His arrogance had him all ready cashing the check and spending the million dollars, and he seemed the type that was more than willing to let others know that to be the case.  He seems the type of guy that has never not gotten what he wanted and was under the assumption that he would be able to walk all the end and win the game.  Also with the way he looked and the way he acted, he would be perfect if anyone needed a villain for their 80's high school movie.

After three episodes I'm enjoying this season more than I thought I was going to.  I don't see any alliance lasting and I see double crosses coming all season long, and after the last two seasons  where veterans bamboozled rookies to take them all the way to the end, that is a good thing.

 "Home on the Strange"   Air Date 3-6-12

 Those dolls looked like they would probably be worth more than 20 dollars a piece.

When Moe pulled out that brass thing and was trying to explain what it was, my first thought was it looks like an old train whistle.  On that same note when the boys pulled out the silver disk and were trying to figure out what it was my first thought was it looks like a Tesla coil.

I was way off in the pricing of that jewelry sign.  I thought it would be worth around $2,000 and it ended up being worth 8 and a half.

I wondered why the boys would drive 6 hours to get the Tesla coil appraised, and after seeing the giant one fired up I understand why.  But why would they drive that giant truck and take the trailer with them, its not like the coil was so big that it needed to travel on a flat bed.  The cost of gas to get there must have been outrageous. 

"Crossbow Crossfire" Air Date 3-6-12

Way to call out your alliance Greg.  You better hope everyone else is willing to stick with the plan of voting in the worst performer otherwise you just put a giant target on yourself.

Kyle always seems to be able to pick out what aspect of the challenge will be the stumbling block and works with his team to address it before the actual challenge.

The expert didn't pick who was the best on each of the teams, and as I think about it I don't believe they did it last week either.  I wonder if it is something they have dropped from the show.

I liked the way this challenge worked, continuously ramping  up the difficultly by adding more and more targets and adding an element of cutthroat with whom ever finishes first stops the other from scoring.

Greg seems to get flustered easily when put under pressure.  I don't know if that's something I'd want to see in someone who has been paid to defend my country.

Chee seems to be one of the better shooters on the show, by far the most underrated of the bunch.

The more moving parts and ability to create a fumbling moment the worse Greg is going to do at the elimination challenge.  He got lucky that it ended up being as simplistic as it was.

After that eyebrow raising show of bromance after the elimination challenge.  I wouldn't be surprised if Greg's team has lost complete faith in him.

Recording 3-8-12:

30 Rock
Parks & Recreation
The Office
Awake
Archer
Jersey Shore