"Swing Into Action" Air Date 3-13-12
I understand that sometimes people have to sit out to make the competitions even, and I find it to be an interesting twist that they let the other team pick who gets to sit out. But I find it unfair that they don't pick the person to sit out until after the practice. It gives an unfair advantage to the team with less people because they all got more time to practice than the team with more people even thought in the competition the teams will be the same. Some one is always wasting the instructors time because no matter what the greater team will have one person who will never shoot in the competition.
There are two left handed shooters in the competition. I'd say they are now the people I'm rooting for (you know in a show of left-handed solidarity), but I didn't write down who they were and I have absolutely no idea who they were.
As with pretty much every single challenge so far this season, the red team worked better as a team, while the blue team did a better job of actually shooting the targets.
I wished the jugs they were shooting at had been filled with something besides sand. The sand just kind of plopped to the ground after the jugs were shot and usually one of the best things about this show is the incredible explosions that happen when things are shot.
If the blue team was so worried about Greg's performance, why did they have him go last and shoot at the target that was the farthest away? On that same note Tim did the worst in the red teams practice, why was he the last shooter for them?
The way that they showed Greg fumbling during the challenge led me to believe that the blue team would actually end up winning the challenge. It's pretty standard for reality shows to try and pull the reversal of what they show in the previews.
The blue team didn't really beat the red team as much as the red team beat themselves.
Every week they air a commercial for the website where they sell merchandise for the show. The web address is topshotshop.com, and every single time I see the commercial it makes me think of Bob Loblaw's Law Blog on Arrested Development.
You would think that shooting through the little window like they are at elimination, that they would have all ready drawn a beat on the first target.
See, these glass jars filled with water create a much better explosion than those jugs full of sand did.
The second time they did the elimination challenge they both shot better. I think this is due to them having the timing of how fast the wall was going to move down. You could see them both struggling the first time through because they didn't anticipate how fast the wall was going to move.
Iggy just fell apart o during his second run through. It was kind of sad to watch.
"From the Top Down" Air Date 3-12-12
This seems to be an interesting concept for a show, but I'm left wondering is it really necessary? Any owner could install some hidden cameras and try and watch his staff to see if they are preforming up to par with what he wants done.
All the commercials for this show seem to use footage from this episode and only from this episode. I wonder if that means something, like they changed the format or the show was rushed to air.
I was wondering how Willy was going to be able to see all the problems that the restaurant was having. The answer: use plants!, but in reality it makes perfect sense. I wonder if the plants are crew members and they will be the same at every different restaurant that they go to. That would be kind of interesting, kind of like the secret diners on Ramsey's Best Restaurant.
I wonder what the actual time period is that they film the staff is. Because in reality to do all this to the staff on one day would make it the day from hell for them and might end up skewing the actual responses that they would get from the staff.
It's interesting none of the other "fix-a-restaurant" shows have really focused on the front of house staff. It's nice to see a different spin on the same old concept.
I think if he had shown the owner some of the footage, instead of just telling him about it, the owner might have had a stronger reaction to what was being said.
The girl she just threw a napkin at wasn't a plant, she was an actual customer. Wow, that might be the worst customer service I have ever seen.
There not really leaving much time to fix anything.
The staff is treating Willy like he is a joke, which is kind of understandable, they have no idea who he is , or what he's doing there, plus everything he's doing is pointing out all the negative things they are doing at work.
Well, for the most part I found this to be an okay show. It had some kinks that need to be worked out. The pacing is a little bit off, the owner should sit with Willy so they are seeing what he sees and learning from him who to do it the right way, and Willy needs to do a better job of conveying the changes that need to be done to the staff at the end.
Episode 5 Air Date 2-6-12
Red says she wants Jax's birthday party to be small, just friends and family. Uhhh...who else would you invite to a one year old's birthday?
If this show is only about cage fighters, you don't need to put "Cage Fighter" under everyone's name every time that they appear on screen.
The promoter sits all the boys down and tells them the honest truth, and then as soon as he leaves all they do is dump on him for trying to help them. They all came off looking like spoiled children.
They never seem to put screen names on the people who I don't know who they are, yet seem to put up the main characters name ever single time they are on screen.
This episode is the first time I've noticed it, but Jax really looks like his father.
Is this fight over his birthday party really that big of a deal. He's turning one, he won't remember any of it anyway.
Are shingles contagious? If they are and he's been rolling around on the mats at the gym, everyone else that trains there is going to get them also. Since they are stress related they probably aren't.
Really you're going to have your mommy call and tell them you are sick? What a little child.
Ugh, don't try watching anything at MTV.com, in this one episode that I missed the player has crashed twice and skipped ahead to the final segment three times. It's frustrating crap like this that makes people download stuff illegally instead of watching it where they could online.
Wes missed the weigh-in because his flight was late and then he was still over weight. Then they let him try and sweat the weight out. My question is how long does a fighter have to make weight after the "official weigh-in" is over? Is this standard practice or did MTV pull some strings so they had at least one fighter fighting this week.
Don't corner men usually get paid? When Wes asked them to corner him they should have asked him if he wanted to pay gym fees like all the other people that they corner.
You know, "It's time to rattle the cage" actually isn't that bad of a catch phrase for an announcer to have. He should trademark it before some one steals it from him.
I'm surprised the ref didn't stop the fight after Wes dropped the guy in the first round. It seemed like pretty poor officiating on the refs part.
We're in the fourth episode and this is the first real fight that has had any drama to it.
I'm not surprised Wes ended up losing. Between his head not being in the game and the tough weight cut he had to make, the cards were stacked against him.
"Leap Year" Air Date 2-29-12
Oh look, another holiday for The Middle to do an episode about. I wonder how many different shows I'm going to watch this year that have a character with a leap year birthday?
The logo on the fast food bags was blurred out, but it wasn't the normal blurring effect that shows use. It was just kind of always out of always out of focus, even when the bags were placed somewhere that it should have been in focus. Strange, i wonder why it was like that, the show doesn't use actual products so it's not like they lost sponsorship from some company and were blurring out their logo.
I must say I have never noticed the kitchen floor in the Heck house before, but for some reason it constantly jumped out at me.
There were lines drawn in the sand for the competitors to go to and essentially hit their mark. Out of all the domes they have done this is the first time that I have noticed this.
This was a pretty stupid dome. It was basically the same thing as the one where CT went home last season, except instead of it being run in an X, this time it was just a straight line. This made it into nothing more than who could do the 50 yard dash faster.
If you watch closely you can see one of the producers come in and replace one of Ty's balls that have fallen off the rack. I only bring this up because last season one of Adam's balls fell off and if I remember correctly, it basically caused him and CT to go home. So, I wonder who the producers wanted to win this challenge.
They should have been checking each other every single time they passed one another. Because they didn't all this was was a narrow boring race.
Also, with all the previews they have shown all season long of a black guy getting blown around by a jet engine, this dome was pretty much given away before it even started.
Again, they do a poor job of explaining the rules of the competition. Do they have to set the stuff back up on the other side of the jet? If it's a timed comp how is it judged? Do the different items have a different point value or is everything worth the same? If it's all worth the same they should move the little stuff first since you can carry a bunch of it for quick points.
For as much as it seemed like CT didn't want to ruffle Johnny's feathers by throwing him into the dome, CT had no problem making him go first in the challenge.
I wonder how much jet fuel was wasted to do this challenge.
Did it seem like the jet ramped it up when it came to the parachute part?
The Dummies were the hardest thing to move, were they told that each team member had to move one of them. Because it seemed like that is what ended up happening and some of the teams could have shaved off some of the time if only one person had done both dummies.
It's a stupid move on CT's part sending Mark & Robin into the dome. They are by far the weakest of all the teams left and at this point in the competition it only makes sense to take an easy team to beat to the final. I understand CT motivation in only wanting teams that have proven themselves to get the money. But if he ends up losing he only has himself to blame. Especially when you consider this is two weeks in a row he has had the option of putting Johnny & Camilla and Ty & Emily against each other in the dome.
Hasn't Mark retired from doing these show like three times now? He's almost a professional wrestler in terms of doing retirement matches.
But it is a credit to his character that he has done so many of these and never seen the inside of an elimination round. I think this is mostly due to the fact that when the challenges started he was already seen as the elder leader figure and he is a nice guy so he was able to retain that role, where some of the other older players like Coral got left in the way side by the younger players.
Continued again? Really MTV? Bad form.
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