Friday, September 10, 2004
Apprentice
I watched the season premiere of "The Apprentice" last night. No, we didn't buy a TV--we went to a friend's house. I wasn't excited to see the show, but went for the social aspect. Here are my few thoughts on the show.
* What's up with referring to and treating Donald Trump as "one of the most powerful men in the world"? He's just a rich, attention-starved real estate magnate. I can think of a whole bunch of people who are more influential, more wealthy, or more popular. The fact that he's even doing this show is evidence that he's washed up and needs to stroke his own ego.
* It became pretty obvious to me who was going to get fired by the middle of the show. They went out of their way to point out that other people didn't think Rob was doing much in the planning meeting. Sure, they also went out of their way to make sure that we knew Stacie J. was acting like a weirdo, but that had a different purpose that I'll get to in a second. Of course Rob's going to get fired if we say things about him during the course of the show. The people they say nothing about--they're quite obviously safe.
* So Stacie J. acts like a weirdo. It's funny to me that the directors/editors of the show made such a big deal about that. Ooh--there's conflict in the team. This is really tense. They did it to pad out the length of the show (so they could sell more commercials) and to introduce some element of conflict. But she wasn't going to get fired for acting weird.
* No fair that the un-creative team wins because they put a couple of accessories on a boring old radio-controlled car, and the creative team that thinks up a half-cheetah/half-fish action figure gets slammed because it has no moving parts or whatever. If Crustacean Nation had a cast of at least 10 characters and were accompanied by a cartoon, it would sell better than some stupid truck you can slap a spoiler onto.
* I just don't like and am not entertained by people insulting each other. When one person tried to get out of picking a coworker to rip on, Donald told him to shut up and pick someone. Stupid.
I'm not wasting any more of my blog space (even though it's infinite) on this. I'm not a reality show fan--can you tell? Give me my Simpsons!
* What's up with referring to and treating Donald Trump as "one of the most powerful men in the world"? He's just a rich, attention-starved real estate magnate. I can think of a whole bunch of people who are more influential, more wealthy, or more popular. The fact that he's even doing this show is evidence that he's washed up and needs to stroke his own ego.
* It became pretty obvious to me who was going to get fired by the middle of the show. They went out of their way to point out that other people didn't think Rob was doing much in the planning meeting. Sure, they also went out of their way to make sure that we knew Stacie J. was acting like a weirdo, but that had a different purpose that I'll get to in a second. Of course Rob's going to get fired if we say things about him during the course of the show. The people they say nothing about--they're quite obviously safe.
* So Stacie J. acts like a weirdo. It's funny to me that the directors/editors of the show made such a big deal about that. Ooh--there's conflict in the team. This is really tense. They did it to pad out the length of the show (so they could sell more commercials) and to introduce some element of conflict. But she wasn't going to get fired for acting weird.
* No fair that the un-creative team wins because they put a couple of accessories on a boring old radio-controlled car, and the creative team that thinks up a half-cheetah/half-fish action figure gets slammed because it has no moving parts or whatever. If Crustacean Nation had a cast of at least 10 characters and were accompanied by a cartoon, it would sell better than some stupid truck you can slap a spoiler onto.
* I just don't like and am not entertained by people insulting each other. When one person tried to get out of picking a coworker to rip on, Donald told him to shut up and pick someone. Stupid.
I'm not wasting any more of my blog space (even though it's infinite) on this. I'm not a reality show fan--can you tell? Give me my Simpsons!
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