Reality Show Challenge Episode 3 Part 2

It's a good thing I'm keeping detailed notes otherwise I'm sure all these shows would blur together. In fact they are starting to do that despite of my notes. But I promised you a challenge and a challenge I will deliver.

Bad Girl's Club

Episode 2 left the the Bad Girl's house in a state of discord with five of the girls annoyed with Nikki. Maybe annoyed is a bit of an understatement. In-her-face-furious is more like it. So after the last episode I expected them to lift Nikki's body and forcibly remove her from the house kicking and screaming. Instead one girl dumped Nikki's stuff in the pool. Not the most mature of approaches. But Nikki decided to call the police anyway. Really, out of everything that's happened so far you call the police because your pillowcase ended up in the pool? Not to mention I just found it to be disrespectful like calling 911 for a papercut. The police should be out keeping the public safe not taking inventory of which of your belongings got wet.  When the drama with Nikki seemed to be petering out, the show decided to bring in a new bad girl named Ashleigh (left).

As always everyone was quick to judge the new girl and the episode ended with a physical fight (a pretty nasty one from the look of it) between Ashleigh and her friends and the girls in the Bad Girl's house. Gee, a fight. Never saw that coming.

Characters: 2 I liked Ashleigh although I can understand why other girls might not (and I do think she is one of the prettier girls in the house) but at this point I feel like some of the girls are just picking fights for no reason at all. I do admire Sydney for returning home once she found out that her uncle had been bombed in Afghanistan. I didn't expect that from her (or any of the other girls) I knew there was a reason I liked her.

Emotional Intensity .5 When people are fighting over nothing its difficult to muster up the emotion to care. 

Conflict: 2 The fights are getting boring. It's the same thing every time. One girl makes a comment to another girl, then they go head to head, then one of them shoves the other, then the other girl shoves back and a third or fourth girl gets involved (in this episode a fifth and a sixth as well as a random guy who happens to be standing in the kitchen) It's just not interesting the fifth time around.

Class: 1.5 Wow. I never thought I'd see this show score above a one. I was impressed with Sydney leaving the house to be with her family and I was glad Nikki and Char managed to form a truce and prevent another round of sabotage. As for the score, I guess there is something to be said for having low expectations. 

Overall Rating: 6/20

The Biggest Loser

Quick recap of the last two episodes: the white team is down to two people having lost two contestants to the dreaded red line of elimination during the last two weeks. Meanwhile the blue and red teams both have five people. But the white team which now consists of Pam and my favorite Loser Danni isn't giving up without a fight (I mean of course not. They have Jillian as a trainer). And as usual every week begins with a challenge. This time it was a trivia competition on the subject of childhood obesity. The Blue Team lost which doomed them to four hours a day locked in a room with a TV and every fast food/sugary drink/ candy known to man. The host said it was because the average American kid spends 4 hours a day in front of the TV so their punishment was to spend 4 hours a day "like a kid" Hey, I somewhat resent that! But anyway I was never really clear if they were locked in that room and banned from exercising or they just didn't. Because they definitely could have pushed all the couches to one side of the room and made the most of it. Later in the week the teams were split in two and participated in another challenge, this time competing for a years worth of groceries. This time the challenge involved dragging a 10 pound gumball across a pit of gum. I actually thought it looked fun but then again I wasn't the one plodding through it. At the end of the week the rest of the Red team voted to send Catie home.

 Characters: 2.5 Not much going on character wise but I am happy we got to know Sunny, Lindsay and Bingo better (they are the three kids that are helping the Biggest Loser combat childhood obesity) They're the ones who inspire me the most.

Emotional Intensity: 2 Instead of a red line elimination, this week the team that lost the least amount of weight had to choose to vote one team member off. This week it was the Red Team and they chose to eliminate Catie since they felt that she had the support of family back home. Disappointing but I can understand their logic (sort of) I couldn't imagine having to vote off one of my own team members. But at the end of the episode we got to see Catie and she seemed to be doing well on her own (she's on her way to run a marathon which is more I can say for myself)

Conflict: 3 Who knew that gumballs could be so heavy?

Class: 4 Even when the Blue Team was locked up all week with an obscene amount of candy, they kept it classy- no stuffing their faces, no diet cheating. One girl even poured orange juice over everything so that no one would eat it which I thought was a smart idea. But as I was saying willpower is the definition of class.

Overall Rating: 11/20

Beauty and the Geek

I'm really not sure where I stand with this show. Just when I think I have it all figured out, it switches things

up. Literally. This episode involved the girls and the boys swapping a team member (Jillian joined the boys team while Chris became part of the girls team) for this weeks challenge which was flag football. To make a long story short, the girls won if that gives you any indication of the athletic prowess of the guys. Losing the competition meant the guys had to send Jillian home which is weird because even though the Beauties won the competition they still lost a member. Then the show turned it from Beauty vs. the Geek (girls vs. boys) to Beauty and the Geek where each beauty pairs up with one geek and competes against the other pairs. Since there was an extra Beauty, the Geek that was not picked would be sent home. Of course I never found out who would be sent home since the episode ended on a cliffhanger.
Characters: 1.5 These girls are all the same. They all seem very nice but just bland. I know the point of the show is for viewers to see that beautiful girls have substance but I'm not getting that. More like beautiful girls are  kind of boring. I'm sure they aren't but that's the way the show makes it seem. Plus, they are all so similar. I can't even match a name to a face since I find them all somewhat indistinguishable from one another.
Emotional Intensity: 1 The only reason this episode scored above a .5 is because it ended on a cliffhanger. Unfortunately that's a trick that could get old really fast so you have to be careful how many times you use it. Alot of people started crying when Matt fell down and injured his shoulder but...um that's what happens in sports. None of those guys should ever play in a real football game. They might kill themselves.
Conflict: 1.5 You know you're in trouble when the only thing really propelling the story forward is a football game.
Class: 3 The girls were pretty nice when it came to picking their partners. Most of them said something nice along the lines of "You're such a great friend" or "I am so glad to have you as my partner" And the look on the Geeks faces? Like a puppy that had just been given a little TLC. Well nothing is so classy as innocence.
Overall Rating: 7/20

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