| 12/13/2005 |
57 CHANNELS AND NOTHING'S ON
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...which is the TV related title I pull off the shelf when I can't think of any other catchy TV related songs that I haven't used 800 times already.
Okay first of all... I am going to spoil some shows. So if you've not seen the latest episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Survivor, The Amazing Race, or The Office, then you might want to just skip this post till you do.
Survivor - Overall this season was great. There was just enough happy moments and people to root for to balance out the needless drama and back-stabbing. In the end it was the underdog who won. Danni, the sports announcer from Kansas City, came from behind to win a million dollars.
Let me get a little deep into it. If you've not seen the show this won't mean much to you, but maybe the logic will still be understood. In the Final Four there was Rafe, Danni, Steph, and Lydia. Rafe is well liked and has won several challenges. Danni is well liked and won only one challenge. Steph is competitive, athletic, but hasn't won much. She's also made a lot of enemies in the people who could possibly be the people voting to give her a million dollars. Lydia hasn't won jack shit. She is nice enough, but has skated through the game as the 'provider.' She's no threat. With those four, to me the logical choice would be, get rid of Steph in 4th place. Keep Lydia around because you know she isn't going to win anything so your chances go up. Between Danni & Rafe whoever wins the next immunity should keep Lydia, because rarely are people voted to win the money because they skated by.
What really happened was... Rafe had made a promise to Danni to take her to the Final Three. Danni said she'd take Rafe to the Final Two. Which, in a game of outwitting others means nothing, but Rafe has been pretty moral about how he's played. Moral to a fault. Rafe 'released' Danni from her 'obligation' to take him to the Final Two. When Danni won the challenge and had to choose who to go up against for a million dollars she chose Steph. Obviously. Because she was not well-liked and no one would vote her, assuring Danni the victory. You're there to play and win. Makes sense to me. Yet Rafe and his self-serving sense of moral found it reprehensible that Danni didn't take him to the Final Two like she'd promised to do, from which he released her from. Idiot...
In the end Danni won 6-1 in votes. Yay Danni.
Grey's Anatomy - Izzie is full of holiday cheer, which is making everyone else slightly nauseas. I can get behind the cheer part. Yet her perkiness is weirding me out a little. She's trying to stay positive after having caught Alex, her boyfriend and fellow resident having sex with a nurse. Oops. Everyone else has moved on from this drama and are now pulling to help Alex pass his medical exam. Izzie finally breaks down and cries over it. She's only been holding on to her anger for how long now? Too long...
The Dr Sheppards have been trying to reconcile after Addison Sheppard cheated on Derek Sheppard with Derek's best friend. Oops. Derek in the meantime fell in love with Meredith. Which was all fine and good until we found out that he had a wife and wasn't really divorced yet. Oops. I find myself watching this and conflicted on who to root for. Because basically by rooting for Derek and Meredith to stay together, he'd have to dump his marriage vows and his mattress mouseketeer of a wife. Torn. In the end it doesn't matter. Derek finally tells Addison it's not going to work out. They'd tried counseling and getting back into the 'swing' of things and she just wasn't doing it for him anymore. Don't you know that just as soon as he mentions this, you know that when they come back from hiatus that Meredith is going to have a new boyfriend and Derek will be the third wheel. D'oh!
The Amazing Race - I love this show. I'd love to be on this show. It's got all the fun of a reality show with travel and prizes and excitement, without the crazy bug eating or the weeks of starvation and lack of facilities. Yet, this season has sucked. It's neutered. It has been a 'family edition' which involved children. Young children. But surprisingly to me, it wasn't the children who were irritating to watch. I feared the long hours and rigors of spontaneous travel and difficult challenges would prove too much for an 8-year old. Yet, it was the 8-year old who was the coolest to watch. That was one strong 8-year old.
It was the team of self-proclaimed religious righteous, The Weavers, that were annoying me. When someone tells you they are better than everyone else and will make fun of another family purely because the father is a garbage man. You're losing points in my book. The hook for this family was their husband died in a tragic racing accident. So when the Amazing Race had going to a race track as one of their tasks, it was awkward to watch. At first... When other teams tried to console them and be sympathetic to their obvious pain, they were upset that people were being so mean. Huh?! When you complain that someone has been treating you poorly, yet you find it amusing to throw garbage at passing vehicles of other competitors... who really has the right to be upset.
The Amazing Race ends tonight and I hope they don't win.
The Office - It is the funniest show on TV right now. Well not, right now... unless you are reading this when you should be watching The Office. There is at least one person in the cast of oddball characters that you will recognize from jobs you've had. It is uncomfortably awkward to watch, sometimes. Yet, that is what makes it funny. Because rather than being off-the-wall funny. It is this-happens-in-real-life funny. You know that someone, there is a boss who thinks he knows it all and is clueless as to why he hasn't been promoted to vice president of something. You know there is at least one person in a cube farm worrying that someone is eyeing his lunch in the fridge. You know there is at least one unspoken office romance budding. |
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