I have a cold. It’s far too soon to have a cold. This is so annoying.
Anyway, since Sven asked…I actually kinda dislike the wrestlers. It came off to me as a Johnny Fairplay situation; they wouldn’t mind winning, but they’re really there to see if they can get noticed by the right people (and considering Fairplay’s paycheck compared to his work, WWE might not be the right people. Although talk about a promotion dying for reality TV stars…)
The wrestling bit at the tent stop was the final straw. It felt like it was planned from the moment they got on the show – the first moment they had where they were waiting around for something and knew the cameraman had no activity to track, they took advantage of the situation to push their characters. You wrestle in the middle of the show, you know it’ll make the final cut and you know people be talking about it the next morning; mission accomplished.
They’re not the only couple who are there more for the cameras than for the show; the entrepreneur is quite likely a prick, but he’s visibly playing it up for the cameras, and their completely fake over enthuasim to go the Blue Lagoon made me want to vomit, suck up my vomit, and choke on my vomit.
(…I didn’t actually do that. Yes. It was pretty bad.)
See, the way I figure it, after 4 editions of the show (tAR 5 hadn’t aired yet when these guys started out), I gotta figure they have plenty of people who would love to be on the show just to be on the show to fill out the show, and they end up instead with people who are just there for the network TV time. Bleh.
And then I have ANOTHER casting complain where they really shouldn’t put people on the show who have no chance of doing any of the physical tasks because they’re well out of shape, but you’d think those people would figure it out themselves.
Lots of pretty pretty people. I wish they’d cut down on the models, just because they’re amazingly difficult to tell apart for the first few episodes.
We’re doing a tAR draft tonight. It’s “pull a name out of a hat” variety, which is great because I have no idea who’s going to win yet. I’ll guess Freddy and Kendra, just so I have a 1 in 10 shot of being write later