Thursday, March 16, 2006

AI - Bye-Bye Melissa/Survivor

First AI,

Kevin is still there! Uggggh! That kid is getting
more annoying and smug all the time, but his singing
just doesn't improve. Bottom three this round were
Ace (surprise!), Melissa, and Lisa (another surprise!).
With the likelihood of Ace actually going home being
at about nil, it was no surprise when Ryan told him he
was safe. Of course, it's a great big wake-up call
for Ace to ramp up his singing because he didn't do so
well on Tuesday and the voting reflected it.

Lisa was also safe - no real surprise there. That leaves
Melissa who, outside of Kevin, really has been the
least consistent singer.

It turns out that votefortheworse.com has switched
gears and is promoting voting for Kevin, which may be
why he's still hanging in there.

The best thing? It was a half hour show, so, except
for the performance of an insipid new song by Stevie
Wonder, Ryan had to rush through the eliminations
without a lot of filler.

But we did have the obligatory product-placement
sing-athon for Ford at the beginning of the show. Not
looking forward to those.

Moving on to "Survivor", last night's special episode
was a rehash/catch-up show with some new scenes. It
actually was pretty good, and made me realize two
things:

1. I really liked Tina for the short time she was
there - she said it herself, if she was on a regular
8-member team like any other season, she probably
would have lasted longer. She was great and
clear-headed and knew how to play the game, i.e., she
found huge oysters/clams (whatever they were they were
HUGE!) stuck in the rocks - she ate one and said
"there's several more - enough for at least two days.
I'm not going to tell anyone else I found a food
source." SMART PLAY! The side-story about her son,
Charley, who died about 4 months before the show
started was a heartbreaker and she shared him and the
story of his fatal accident with us (the camera) but not
with her teammates, I guess, so when she went off for
grieving time, they just thought she was sneaking off
and wanted to be by herself and not with the team. So
they felt disconnected. And voted her off.

2. And then there's Shane. They showed us a few new
"Shane Scenes" last night, which further proved to me
that he's going whacko. And the further into the show
we get, the more Charles Manson-like he becomes - he
has wild, crazed eyes; he has wild black hair; his
beard is growing in wild and untamed; and he's getting
wildly psycho about his son and his teammates and
everything about camp, and he's nuts. And, did I say
wild? He's losing it, big time.

Which is fun to watch.

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