Last week TBL was split into Tues & Wed show. I wasn't a real big fan of that because Lee has class on Wed and LOST is on, so then TBL gets pushed back to Thursday... And my Thursdays are very full for tv already.
The Tues Show
This show was a bit useless. I mean, there wasn't even a weigh-in. Come on. So, in order to keep some excitement, they decided to switch up the teams. I was seriously confused on their method the entire time it was happening. Basically, the winner of the challenge got to stay with their partner AND stay with their trainer. Everyone in the middle was up to the toss of a coin. Then the loser automatically had to switch trainers. Sounds easy enough, but things kind of got jacked up when it was actually happening. Tara & Sione were neck & neck through the whole challenge, but Sione just lost it at the end. So, green team got to stay with Jillian. The blue team went with the flip of a coin and were forced to go to Jillian's team. Basically, Jillian's team ended up being STACKED with the green team, the blue team, + Mike & Helen. Bob's team was the purple team, the yellow team, + Ron & Dane.
And the boo-hoo-ing begins. Bob's former team totally acted like the world was ending. And actually, Bob did too. That pretty much took up the rest of the show.
Ok, they did have a blue vs. black challenge at the end. They had a stationary bike and the challenge lasted 24 hours. Basically, whichever team put the most miles on the bike won. Seriously, the black team has SUCH an advantage, it isn't even funny. A lot of the players whined about it, but when you think about it, you ride the bike for a 1/2 hour, then you have 2.5 hours to rest. So, in the 24 hours, you ride for 4 hours and rest for 20. I know that the rest is split up, and that is not ideal, but still. The yellow team was especially whiny and wanted both teams to stop riding. What a shock, they're never cry-babies. Oh wait, they always are. In the end, (as expected), the black team won. They won bikes and a 3lb advantage at the weigh-in... ON WED SHOW.
The Wed Show
The show starts out with a "pop quiz" challenge about aging with some annoying chick from Prevention magazine. The winning team wins a trip to FL. Now, this is a challenge where the blue team SHOULD have a chance. But they lose anyway.
The players are finally whining a little less about the trainer switch-up and realizing that both trainers are pretty competent. If I were on TBL, I would want Bob as a trainer, but I know that I would still lose a ton of weight if I were working out with Jillian.
On to the weigh-in. The blue team lost 54 lbs with a total 3.24%. This included Dane hitting the 100lb weight-loss amount in the fastest amount of time in show history. Black team lost a total of 57 lbs with a total of 3.65%. No surprise there.
So, the blue team heads off to decide who to vote off. Now, have I mentioned that Ron is useless? As Reuter said this weekend, he is all denominator. He weighs a ton, and due to his injuries (which used to be just his knees, but now his shoulder has been added to the list?) he is not losing weight. I thought this was a NO-BRAINER. But, apparently the blue team has no brain because they kept useless Ron and voted off Dane. Their best player. Morons! Yes, there IS a point in the game where you want to take out the threats, but this is not the time. You still need the strong people or else your team is going to be in the elimination room EVERY WEEK. Stupid. I am losing more & more respect for Ron. I mean, instead of saying "Hey, I suck, I don't want to hold you back," he pointed Dane out and said that Dane could do it at home and Ron couldn't. Well, that's true, but Ron, you're not doing it on campus either. So, what's the point.
Sorry for that rant.
The good news is, they showed Dane at home and he completed a marathon with his skinny wife. However, the show claimed that he did the marathon in under 4 hours... Which seemed REALLY fast to me... I just looked online, and apparently everyone is all atwitter about it. I think the show fudged the time.
Let's watch this week to see if the blue team continues to suck at life.
The Tues Show
This show was a bit useless. I mean, there wasn't even a weigh-in. Come on. So, in order to keep some excitement, they decided to switch up the teams. I was seriously confused on their method the entire time it was happening. Basically, the winner of the challenge got to stay with their partner AND stay with their trainer. Everyone in the middle was up to the toss of a coin. Then the loser automatically had to switch trainers. Sounds easy enough, but things kind of got jacked up when it was actually happening. Tara & Sione were neck & neck through the whole challenge, but Sione just lost it at the end. So, green team got to stay with Jillian. The blue team went with the flip of a coin and were forced to go to Jillian's team. Basically, Jillian's team ended up being STACKED with the green team, the blue team, + Mike & Helen. Bob's team was the purple team, the yellow team, + Ron & Dane.
And the boo-hoo-ing begins. Bob's former team totally acted like the world was ending. And actually, Bob did too. That pretty much took up the rest of the show.
Ok, they did have a blue vs. black challenge at the end. They had a stationary bike and the challenge lasted 24 hours. Basically, whichever team put the most miles on the bike won. Seriously, the black team has SUCH an advantage, it isn't even funny. A lot of the players whined about it, but when you think about it, you ride the bike for a 1/2 hour, then you have 2.5 hours to rest. So, in the 24 hours, you ride for 4 hours and rest for 20. I know that the rest is split up, and that is not ideal, but still. The yellow team was especially whiny and wanted both teams to stop riding. What a shock, they're never cry-babies. Oh wait, they always are. In the end, (as expected), the black team won. They won bikes and a 3lb advantage at the weigh-in... ON WED SHOW.
The Wed Show
The show starts out with a "pop quiz" challenge about aging with some annoying chick from Prevention magazine. The winning team wins a trip to FL. Now, this is a challenge where the blue team SHOULD have a chance. But they lose anyway.
The players are finally whining a little less about the trainer switch-up and realizing that both trainers are pretty competent. If I were on TBL, I would want Bob as a trainer, but I know that I would still lose a ton of weight if I were working out with Jillian.
On to the weigh-in. The blue team lost 54 lbs with a total 3.24%. This included Dane hitting the 100lb weight-loss amount in the fastest amount of time in show history. Black team lost a total of 57 lbs with a total of 3.65%. No surprise there.
So, the blue team heads off to decide who to vote off. Now, have I mentioned that Ron is useless? As Reuter said this weekend, he is all denominator. He weighs a ton, and due to his injuries (which used to be just his knees, but now his shoulder has been added to the list?) he is not losing weight. I thought this was a NO-BRAINER. But, apparently the blue team has no brain because they kept useless Ron and voted off Dane. Their best player. Morons! Yes, there IS a point in the game where you want to take out the threats, but this is not the time. You still need the strong people or else your team is going to be in the elimination room EVERY WEEK. Stupid. I am losing more & more respect for Ron. I mean, instead of saying "Hey, I suck, I don't want to hold you back," he pointed Dane out and said that Dane could do it at home and Ron couldn't. Well, that's true, but Ron, you're not doing it on campus either. So, what's the point.
Sorry for that rant.
The good news is, they showed Dane at home and he completed a marathon with his skinny wife. However, the show claimed that he did the marathon in under 4 hours... Which seemed REALLY fast to me... I just looked online, and apparently everyone is all atwitter about it. I think the show fudged the time.
Let's watch this week to see if the blue team continues to suck at life.
5 comments:
That was an awesome episode, by the way. I love that Bob totally broke down. At one point I thought he was going to quit the show.
His time for a marathon produced about a 9 minute mile. This seems pretty reasonable for a woman who is training hard (his wife) and a dude that is competitive and has some training (Dane).
I was ranting and raving like a lunatic about three different times during the episodes: when the yellow team said "Let's quite and be a bunch of slobs" (my words, not theirs), when the former Bob team nearly decided to collectively quit the show, and when the new Bob team decided to quit the show by voting off their biggest asset (Dane) and keeping their biggest asshat (Ron).
He didnt even finish the marathon and he was on pace for over 6 hours.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/02/danes-marathon.html
1. I can barely understand that the pansies who used to be with Bob thought the world was ending when they switched to Jillian. They generally go for emotionally weak people on the show to spice things up. The real problem was that Bob gave in instead of being the adult and telling them, "Listen, I will miss working with you guys, but Jillian knows her stuff. Go bust your ass for her and listen to what she tells you." In summary, Bob is gay.
2. On the other hand, Bob is going to go nuclear when he finds out his team dumped their only heavy hitter in favor of keeping the albatross. I hope they enjoy being up for elimination for the next 4 weeks, because it's coming. It's too bad that Ron can't do much, but the point is that this IS about gameplay at this point. Dane was 100% correct that they needed to keep him around to compete. So what's left? Four chicks (none of whom are Tara, the only heavy hitter on the show among the women) and a uselss injured old man. Nice work and see you at the finale competing for the consolation prize.
I miss the CVD blog. :tear:
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