The Apprentice L.A. - Aired Jan. 14 - Commentary
So I'm thinking these dainty little flowers should get over being forced to live in tents and be grateful for the fact that they're in Los Angeles. If there's an earthquake, having collapse on you won't be nearly as painful as having an entire mansion fall down on your head.
But before I go on any further, there is a question that's nagging me. If I were to base everything I know on reality television, I would be under the impression that all gay African-American men shave their heads. First there was the original, the most memorable, and friend to Realivision - Marcellas Reynolds from Big Brother 3. Following him on Big Brother 6 was Marcellas wannabe, Beau Beasley. Now we have Carey on The Apprentice. All I'm asking for is a little hair.
Okay, is that everything off my chest? Good.
This was a fine episode. It certainly gave us some fine lines and some very memorable images. Like Carey squeezing into swimwear he obviously sized for a child. Damn, that suite was small and tight! What was even better about it is that it gave Trump a chance to brag about his own body (I swoon just thinking about it, including the potential for combed-over back hair).
The thing is, if Carey's team reigned him in and they designed better suits for men, they would have won that challenge. Arrow Corporation certain had the better women's line, and they had a lot more in the way of patterned material and colour. If you look at the amount Kinetic won by (I believe it was only by about $1000, give or take), a better mens line would have had Arrow winning handily. Considering that their mens line only got just over $300 in orders, their women's suits must have slaughtered Kinetic's by a landslide.
Now note that I'm using the names "Arrow" and "Kinetic". We've been denied the classic "name your corporation" scenes and seeing them explain the names to The Donald! I know they're trying to shake things up a little this season, but some things need to stay the same.
Even worse than this, not only are they shaking things up from previous seasons, they're doing it from previous episodes this season! The snooty European butler from the premiere is gone, only to be replaced by some blonde executive assistant and possible Trump's fourth wife once Melania starts showing a line or two in her face.
To help you out with the corporations, Arrow is the team that keeps losing, Kinetic keeps winning. Thanks to this latest win, Kinetic doesn't have to compete in the next challenge. That means we won't see them possibly lose until the week after next. That's actually a bit of a shame, because the losing team always gets the most screen time in an episode, and that gives you more of a look into how the team works and who is really deserving to stay or go. I'm liking Heidi so far, but we really haven't seen much of her and her team so that like could well go away by the next episode. At least she's still doing well in the boardroom. Some people don't like the way she's handling herself there, but oh well. She's asking the right questions, making the right statements, not overplaying or underplaying her role, and sucking up just enough to the boss that it makes him happy without making her look like a toady in his eyes.
It looks like there is some discontent stirring in Kinetic Corporation though. We've already heard from one member who isn't happy that Heidi's been project manager two tasks in a row. Aaaaah, this is what I've been waiting for with this particular twist! What do you do? If you keep winning, she stays as project manager and the further that goes on, the harder she will be to beat at the end. But if you deliberately lose, that means you have to throw a task, and if you do that, fingers will be pointing at you in the boardroom and your butt may just be on its way out the door. What do you do? I really hope someone is stupid enough to try and throw the task, or is smart enough to throw it without looking like they did. Either way would be fun to watch.
Finally, should Carey have been fired? No. Nicole should be gone. She was the project manager, and even if Carey was forcing his ideas on everyone, as the leader she should have been able to say no to the itsy bitsy teeny weeny pink paisley banana hammock. This wasn't one of those tasks that required different team members to be doing different things. All they had to do was design swimwear, so she can't reasonably make the argument that this function was assigned to Carey and he screwed it up. She let him take over the design and she should have signed off on the final product. Michelle (you know, the one who looks like My Name Is Earl's Jaime Pressly) shouldn't have really been there either, but what are you going to do? The PM is allowed to take two people in with them, and Michelle rubbed enough people the wrong way that she was the best chance for Carey and Nicole to make it safely through the boardroom.
I don't know if Heidi honestly thought that Michelle shouldn't have been there, or if she saw that the argument to fire her was just weak enough to give her room to talk Trump into keeping Michelle around and did so in hopes that Michelle returning will keep Arrow's morale down and losing streak continuing. Either way, good job keeping the focus on Nicole and Carey, Heidi.
After the losers were sent back to their tents, I got to see my favourite visual so far, and if you weren't looking, it was brief enough that it would have been very easy to miss. Nicole and Michelle were wheeling their luggage back to the tents when we saw Nicole just running with hers. I hope we see more of that next week, and I'd love to see the reason why, even if it's just something so boring as "I was cold."
A note concerning something new to Realivision: This is my first post using the new version of Blogger, and as you can see below this there are labels. It's pointless clicking on them now because this is the first post that has labels. I've no idea how I'm going to incorporate them yet, so for now I'm going to keep them pretty simple. As the number of posts that have them grows, I may expand the labels used, and if I find the time, I may even go back and edit older posts so they'll have labels too.
But before I go on any further, there is a question that's nagging me. If I were to base everything I know on reality television, I would be under the impression that all gay African-American men shave their heads. First there was the original, the most memorable, and friend to Realivision - Marcellas Reynolds from Big Brother 3. Following him on Big Brother 6 was Marcellas wannabe, Beau Beasley. Now we have Carey on The Apprentice. All I'm asking for is a little hair.
Okay, is that everything off my chest? Good.
This was a fine episode. It certainly gave us some fine lines and some very memorable images. Like Carey squeezing into swimwear he obviously sized for a child. Damn, that suite was small and tight! What was even better about it is that it gave Trump a chance to brag about his own body (I swoon just thinking about it, including the potential for combed-over back hair).
The thing is, if Carey's team reigned him in and they designed better suits for men, they would have won that challenge. Arrow Corporation certain had the better women's line, and they had a lot more in the way of patterned material and colour. If you look at the amount Kinetic won by (I believe it was only by about $1000, give or take), a better mens line would have had Arrow winning handily. Considering that their mens line only got just over $300 in orders, their women's suits must have slaughtered Kinetic's by a landslide.
Now note that I'm using the names "Arrow" and "Kinetic". We've been denied the classic "name your corporation" scenes and seeing them explain the names to The Donald! I know they're trying to shake things up a little this season, but some things need to stay the same.
Even worse than this, not only are they shaking things up from previous seasons, they're doing it from previous episodes this season! The snooty European butler from the premiere is gone, only to be replaced by some blonde executive assistant and possible Trump's fourth wife once Melania starts showing a line or two in her face.
To help you out with the corporations, Arrow is the team that keeps losing, Kinetic keeps winning. Thanks to this latest win, Kinetic doesn't have to compete in the next challenge. That means we won't see them possibly lose until the week after next. That's actually a bit of a shame, because the losing team always gets the most screen time in an episode, and that gives you more of a look into how the team works and who is really deserving to stay or go. I'm liking Heidi so far, but we really haven't seen much of her and her team so that like could well go away by the next episode. At least she's still doing well in the boardroom. Some people don't like the way she's handling herself there, but oh well. She's asking the right questions, making the right statements, not overplaying or underplaying her role, and sucking up just enough to the boss that it makes him happy without making her look like a toady in his eyes.
It looks like there is some discontent stirring in Kinetic Corporation though. We've already heard from one member who isn't happy that Heidi's been project manager two tasks in a row. Aaaaah, this is what I've been waiting for with this particular twist! What do you do? If you keep winning, she stays as project manager and the further that goes on, the harder she will be to beat at the end. But if you deliberately lose, that means you have to throw a task, and if you do that, fingers will be pointing at you in the boardroom and your butt may just be on its way out the door. What do you do? I really hope someone is stupid enough to try and throw the task, or is smart enough to throw it without looking like they did. Either way would be fun to watch.
Finally, should Carey have been fired? No. Nicole should be gone. She was the project manager, and even if Carey was forcing his ideas on everyone, as the leader she should have been able to say no to the itsy bitsy teeny weeny pink paisley banana hammock. This wasn't one of those tasks that required different team members to be doing different things. All they had to do was design swimwear, so she can't reasonably make the argument that this function was assigned to Carey and he screwed it up. She let him take over the design and she should have signed off on the final product. Michelle (you know, the one who looks like My Name Is Earl's Jaime Pressly) shouldn't have really been there either, but what are you going to do? The PM is allowed to take two people in with them, and Michelle rubbed enough people the wrong way that she was the best chance for Carey and Nicole to make it safely through the boardroom.
I don't know if Heidi honestly thought that Michelle shouldn't have been there, or if she saw that the argument to fire her was just weak enough to give her room to talk Trump into keeping Michelle around and did so in hopes that Michelle returning will keep Arrow's morale down and losing streak continuing. Either way, good job keeping the focus on Nicole and Carey, Heidi.
After the losers were sent back to their tents, I got to see my favourite visual so far, and if you weren't looking, it was brief enough that it would have been very easy to miss. Nicole and Michelle were wheeling their luggage back to the tents when we saw Nicole just running with hers. I hope we see more of that next week, and I'd love to see the reason why, even if it's just something so boring as "I was cold."
A note concerning something new to Realivision: This is my first post using the new version of Blogger, and as you can see below this there are labels. It's pointless clicking on them now because this is the first post that has labels. I've no idea how I'm going to incorporate them yet, so for now I'm going to keep them pretty simple. As the number of posts that have them grows, I may expand the labels used, and if I find the time, I may even go back and edit older posts so they'll have labels too.
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