I ended up being at work on Wednesday from 7:30 A.M. until 11:30 P.M. Needless to say I didn't have any time to write this blog, or watch anything on TV for that matter. Once again I must stress never work for family! Then on Thursday I came home and crashed, Friday I went out with friends and didn't get in till after midnight, Saturday I spent doing all the catch-up work I didn't get to during the week, and Sunday was Easter. So here is what I watched last Tuesday; hopefully this week won't be so hectic and things will finally return to normal around here.
"This Is Wicked Strange" Air Date 3-25-12
The border patrol seems to be becoming more and more likeable, I think it has to do with the fact that they seem to be acting more and more humble. They have gone from talking about how they are the best and should always be in first place, to saying they know they are one hard task away from being in danger.
The fast forward seems to be way more time consuming and much riskier than the last one. the helicopter one was a few feet away from the task and was quick and simple and only one team even tried it, yet the one today where they have to drive to it and looks to be very hard and time consuming two teams go to do. If I were the second team to arrive I would have left as soon as I got there. The amount of time the task will take makes whom ever doesn't win almost surely in last place or at least fighting to stay out of last.
If I got car sick very easily I think the last thing I would want to do is go on the Amazing Race, and if I knew my partner was easily sick I think I would try and find another person to run the race with before I applied. I don't know how Mark could sit there while Bopper threw up; if it had been me there would have been some chain reaction vomiting going on.
How many times does Rachael need to tell Dave not to throw the bales on top of the pile? It almost seemed like he was passive aggressively trying to hit her with one of them.
They didn't give the contestants much info as to what the road block would be, and with it involving going underwater and then spinning around, I'm surprised that someone didn't freak out before they had to do it. I mean really freak out like that girl that lost because she refused to go down the water slide.
Actually after seeing some teams do it the roadblock seemed pretty easy. I miss the old days when a roadblock could be a game changer, instead of a short pointless task that everyone has to do.
It's interesting to think about how these workers take a helicopter to work every day. On most reality shows one of the best prizes contestants win is a helicopter ride to somewhere and these guys have to do it everyday as part of their daily grind.
I think there have been past contestants that would not have fit through the simulators windows.
The water in that pool had to be freezing.
When Vanessa, who was the only person to freak out even slightly at the roadblock, was getting ready to do the roadblock there was a noticeable heartbeat coming through my speakers. I could not decide if she was very nervous and her mike was picking up her heartbeat or if it was something that the producers added to create more drama. Since she was able to do it without a problem after the commercial I'm leaning toward the latter.
The Jersey Boys only hope is that there is a very hard detour that involves finding something using only luck.
The detour seems to be a choice between something easy and gross or something more challenging but much more sanitary.
One thing to take into account is that the racers don't know exactly what the apple they are looking for will look like. Sure they can assume that it will be a normal apple that is somehow marked with the race flag, but it could have just as easily been a little wooden apple hidden within the car.
All the scenes with the oil looked like they could have been in the movie Borat and all the guys in the bath looked like they could have been extras in said movie.
With the way the fast forward played out this was pretty much a pointless episode. Thou it did amuse me that the Jersey guys left to house music instead of the standard music.
Also Brenden and Rachael had a pretty melodrama free leg.
"The contestants receive makeovers" Air Date 4-3-12
I don't know if I have mentioned this before but when I add the show logos to the page I always have to go in and make them bigger so they are the size I want them to be; the only exception to this rule is the biggest loser logo which I have to shrink to get it to be the right size. I'm pretty sure that is the definition of irony.
I don't know why this is the only reality show where the contestants can't admit to actually playing the game while on the show. I don't know if the producers stop them from doing it or if no one has the courage to say what they are actually doing. I for one would change the way I see some of these people if they would just say "Yeah so-and-so was more deserving and probably needed to be here, but I'm trying to win this money and she was a threat to my doing so." instead of the wishy-washy reasoning they always give when eliminating someone.
The challenge seemed rather basic this week almost like the designers are running out of things to have the contestants do. Climb a little cargo net and then shoot a ball with a slingshot at a target? It seemed like something that the producers had these extra parts lying around and forced them into being a challenge.
I don't like one pound disadvantages. I can see letting someone get a pound advantage for winning at something, but it seems unfair to further punish someone just because they are not good at some unused and unnecessary skill.
They should have used some kind of glass that would shatter better when the target was hit. It made the challenge seem very lack luster and uneventful.
Makeover week can be very hit or miss if you ask me, and it all depends on who they have lined up to pick out the clothes. When Tim Gunn was the stylist that they used almost everyone came off looking like a million bucks, but last year it looked like everyone was going to a fancy ball. What the makeover should be about is letting these people, who have had so very little options as to what clothes they could buy, experience what it is like to go into a store and know that they can buy just about anything off the rack, not trying to outfit them to go to the prom.
Great, now all these horrible people get to go meet the first lady. I don't think they could have sent a worse seasons worth of players to the white house. I didn't care for the most of the people last season, but that was more due to not finding any common ground with any of them and also finding them annoying. This season I have disdain for almost all the people who are left.
How could the contestants not realize that their families would be there? They do this every year and there are always family members at the reveal. Usually it is only one person, I think this might be the first time that multiple people have come to a reveal. Also I am not talking about the emotional breakdown that the contestants have when they see their family, I am talking about the fact that they are always shocked that their family is there, like they have no concept that this would ever happen.
Of all the reveals I would have to say Mark and Chris were the best two. Mark looks like he should be walking into the finale, not like he still has a potential month left on the ranch, and Chris looks about 25 years younger with her hair colored.
If they are going to split up the episodes like it looks like they are, then the second half should air sometime later on during the week. If this was a one time deal then it is okay, but I am pretty sure NBC has added an hour of the Voice results to Tuesday nights and plan to split episodes for the foreseeable future.
"The Beauty in a Merge" Air Date 3-28-12
On one hand it seems a bit early in the game to merge the two tribes, but on the other hand this might be the perfect time for a merge. There are six men and six women left in the game and everyone has to be a little unsure as to what their next move/alliance should be. Salani dominated after the tribe shake up, so all the people on the Manano tribe are going to be looking to go back to their old tribe and it would be easy for the new Salani to go with a new alliance that was made there, but any alliance that was made there has not been put to the test and could just be lip service and as soon as a member of one sex is voted out the tribes could shift back and wipe out the now under manned team.
I think if I was on Salani I would go to my new alliance and say that I trust them and want to work with them but it is survivor and it only makes sense to have a good plan in place, and then tell them that what we should do is whoever wins immunity that week, a person of the same sex is voted out. So if a guy wins one of the new Manano guy gets voted out and if a girl wins a Manano girl gets voted out. That way the choice of which sex becomes the underdog is left up to fate. Of course I would then try and throw the challenge so that a girl would win; there by letting me remain with the most options.
So now after more than a third of the players have gone home we finally get opening credits with the cast in them.
The fact that the reward challenge is team based and the colors that are used are the old tribe colors, makes me think that they moved up the merge.
Why would you send your smallest player out to dig the hole first? I could see that he should have to dig the smallest hole and there by get through sooner and get you out to a psychological lead, but it also means that who ever goes next is going to have to stop and make the hole bigger so they can fit through it.
And then to top it off Leif goes into the little hole head first so the hole he dug isn't big enough anyway because he is trying to get through the opposite way his spine works.
Toward the end of the reward challenge Jeff says both tribes are down to their last three pieces, but the second after he said that they showed Jonas and Tarzan and they had at least 6 pieces left to put in.
I feel sorry for Tarzan. In real life he is a surgeon and from the way he talks you can tell he is a very educated person, but the way he is being edited and the whole thing with the poopie pants is going to make him into nothing more than some wacko who pooped himself on a tv show and then tried to argue that he didn't do it. I don't see how anyone would ever want him to operate on them after watching this.
I wonder if the producers planned to add another immunity necklace to the game after the merge, or if they added this one to replace the one that Colton took with him.
If they are going to keep hiding the necklaces they need to start coming up with some better hiding spots. When Russel found them without any clue is was new and ground breaking and you could tell he put in some work to do so, but now it seems that people can't walk down the beach without tripping over a hidden immunity idol.
I wonder what would have happened if after Tarzan was out of the immunity challenge, he had accidentally bumped into one of the other players and knocked them out of the challenge?
This seems like a rather tough but fair immunity challenge.
Wow, someone one that tribe is quite the artist. They just showed the new tribe flag and it looks like it could have been made by professionals, usually they look like something kids would make during kindergarten.
If I were Jay I don't think I would be banging the "vote out the strongest, biggest threat" drum quite so loudly.
You could tell some of the people were really upset with voting out Jonas.
I can't believe the Salani men didn't seem to ponder the possibility of the girls going back to an all girl alliance. By voting out Jonas they are putting themselves at the mercy of the girls in their alliance with no real backup plan.
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