Friday, March 18, 2011

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Survivor Redemption Island-

Instead of calling this season Redemption Island, it should be called Mosquito Island. Kristina and Phillip are covered in a skin of mosquito bites. Yikes, can you get malaria from that? Just looks so nasty. Spending 40 days on an island has to wreck your skin. You'd come back with bites, brown sun spots and wrinkles. That's why I could never sign up for that. Plus the fact I need my pillow and soft bed and warm clothes. Love paradise, but it better be in a resort. Rob and Grant and Stephanie and Krista are sent to redemption island to watch the duel between Kristina and Matt. This time it's building a cube out of heavy blocks. Not fair since Matt will have the advantage of strenght to carry those things. On the other hand, I thought Kristina would have a chance at this since she's pretty smart and was ahead of Matt in setting up her blocks when he knocked his down to start over, but she couldn't pull it out, let alone move those heavy pieces. Stephanie takes the opportunity to tell Rob and Grant that her and Krista are up for grabs now that Russell is gone and they would be willing to join them once they merge. I'm sure Rob is hoping that would be the case since he could convince those two to do anything for him. I'm sure those two would be survivor groupies to Rob's celebrity.
The challenge is the blindfold challenge to collect puzzle bags with Rob as the caller and puzzle maker and Stephanie for the other team. While Rob dumps his puzzle pieces on the table a piece falls on the ground, but thankfully he sees it. Whew close! I knew this was going to be a shoe in for Rob because he can do two things great, solve puzzles and build things. Who knew he could also be crazy devious. When his tribe won reward, Grant and Rob notice a clue in the coffee, which Rob quickly takes, runs to where his hidden immunity idol is buried and switches the clues on Grant. As Rob says, the first clue was clueless, "under a bush, in a tree, on a branch", or in other words anywhere and everywhere.
I kinda felt sorry for the two Manson (Russell) followers, Krista and Stephanie since no surprise here, they are on the chopping block. Everyone is faulting Stephanie for not being better at puzzles, when it was Sarita who chose her to do it, so why isn't she on the chopping block?
Guess the tribe decided to keep Stephanie because she's the stronger of the two players, and I have to hand it to her, the girl's got gumption. Hillbilly Ralph can't spell for nothing as he writes Krista's name as Krasha. Maybe if Hillbilly wins he can go back to school.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The Next Bachelorette-Ashley Hebert

Ashley, third place runner up or cast off of Brad Womack Bachelor season, will be the next season's Bachelorette. The 26 year old dental student is ready to fall in love so bring on the men!

After the Rose-Brad and Emily

The prince proposes to the princess and they rode happily into the South African sunset. Well, not exactly. After watching the After the Rose Ceremony, I got the distinct feeling that Emily is just not that into him. While Brad is definitely head over heels about her. Every time Emily was about to say something negative about their relationship, she would first pat his shoulder and then say, "I love you" and then, "No I'm not moving to Austin", "No we're not getting married" and "Yes, he does have a temper". We watched another Emily emerge. Gone were the Southern Fried charm and in it's place a reality show make over. I hate to say it but her demanding ways were showing. I caught a glimpse of that when on their last date in South Africa when she kept grilling him about her daughter, that he'd have to be there for all the bad stuff too, like emergency runs in the middle of the night, hey I think he gets it. Brad seems fully vested in her, but she's the hesitant one, afraid to take the plunge because maybe in the back of her mind, no one will ever live up to her Ricky.
Both seem extremely stubborn and temperamental, a volatile combination. They confessed to having knock down drag out fights. How knock down and drag out fights can one get over the phone since they haven't been together since the finale? My guess on their relationship lasting, when it rains money! Too bad, we did want the Hollywood ending for Emily, but she looks like she is trying to sabotage it. Come on, where's that sweet Emily that is looking for love?

Monday, March 14, 2011

Amazing Race-In Lijiang China

I have to make this quick, the bachelor finale is in 10 minutes. Teams leave for China, except for some reason the Goths can't seem to find their way to the airport and miss the required flight to China.
Lijiang China looks so awesome, put on bucket list. The plane lands in Kumming, (which I heard means the city of eternal spring), ah that's why it looks so clean and beautiful.
The challenge has the teams riding yaks across the waterfalls, how fun, after which they race to the old city and make candy, Chinese style, with a wooden mallet. The candy looked like toffee with nuts, yum! Asian dad can't seem to stop eating this on this leg much to Christina's frustration, to which she says you can eat when we reach the rest stop. The roadblock has the teams collecting zodiac charms, reminiscent of the locks at the Great Wall challenge. Zev and Justin have a hard time doing this and get so far behind that the Goths catch up with them. Once the Goths catch up, it looked like they finally got out of their funk, but instead Vxysin completely loses her cool and they fall behind again. Christina and dad get on the wrong bus and when Christina tells the bus driver to stop in English, why isn't she speaking Chinese to the Chinese bus driver? So instead she jumps out. Luckily it wasn't going that fast.
First on the mat, Luke and Margie, but all teams find out they are still racing. I'm sure team Goth are spared elimination, even though they are now way behind because they leave their fanny pack on the gondola ride and have to go back.

Bachelor Brad Choses!

And the winner is...... Emily!
Nothing more needs to be said!

Richard Hatch-Back to Jail

The notorious first winner of Survivor, Richard Hatch who bounced around Survivor beach in the buff was ordered back to jail to finish out serving a 9 month sentence for still not paying his taxes on the original million, which has now double into 2 million in taxes and penalties. What? Did they let him out on a promise to pay his IRS taxes? Did they not watch Survivor and see that he was the scummiest player that first season? He remarked of his jail time that it reduced his "arrogrance". I think it's pretty arrogrant not paying the taxes in the first place. What so you think you're above Uncle Sam? Apparently he's the newest star of this season's Celebrity Apprentice. Didn't even know that was on that (probably trying to win some money to pay off his IRS debt), but I guess his stint will be shorted lived as he has to surrend to the US Marshal's on Monday, hopefully he'll be fully clothed.