Wednesday, February 22, 2012

"No excuses", episode 8

Two words: Oy. Vey.

The stupid was out in force this week, boy howdy!

I missed the first ten minutes or so of the episode, so I didn't see the lead-in to the temptation, but I think that what Daphne did was pure dumbass. She's just coming off a week where she was the team hero, and Chris has isolated herself from the rest of the Black team. Daphne would have been totally safe this week if she'd just kept her head down and been a team player! Instead, she decided to go for revenge, which is stupid anyway, because in a lot of ways, Adrian brought his being voted out down on his own self.

(And apparently his sister also inherited this ability.)

So in retaliation for the Jeremy/Conda team switching and the lying about it, most of Black throws the weigh-in to get rid of Daphne. (And they went about it really stupidly, too - they should have made sure they kept at least one or two people back and doing their best so as to make sure Daphne wasn't the biggest loser on the team. Luckily for them, though, the stress evidently did Daphne in.)

Except that from Emily's interview, it sounds like Conda was the one who came up with this strategy and persuaded almost everyone to throw the weigh-in. Interesting. So not only is Conda mean, she's manipulative and (evidently) charismatic. Ouch. We're never going to see the end of her, are we?

Sigh. At least she's nice to look at. Anyone else see a little bit of Kaley Cuoco in her?

Next week: I bet Black will kick ass on the scale.

Milestones achieved:

  • Kim and Chris dropped under 200lbs (as predicted)
  • Jeremy and Buddy hit the 75lb mark of total loss (as predicted)
  • Mark (as predicted), Jeremy and Buddy (as predicted) hit the 20% mark of total loss
  • Chris moved from clinically obese to obese (as predicted)

Potential milestones for next week:

  • Mark could drop under 225lbs
  • Emily and Conda could hit the 50lb mark of total loss (originally predicted for this week)
  • Chism could hit the 75lb mark of total loss
  • Kimmy, Emily, Chris and Chism could hit the 20% mark of total loss
  • Kim could hit the 25% mark of total loss
  • Chism could move from morbidly obese to clinically obese
  • Mark and Kim could move from obese to overweight

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

"No excuses", episode 7

So we start off getting completely Jerry Springer between Daphne and Conda, while the rest of the house looks on with serious "holy crap" looks on their faces. Awkward!

So I guess it's pretty clear who is going to be the target of Conda's hatred this week. Personally, I think there's fault on both sides. Daphne's smoking crack if she thinks not liking someone isn't a good enough reason to vote them off. And Conda's smoking crack if she thinks for one second that denying they voted Adrian out because they didn't like him is even marginally believable.

As much as it ended up working out well, I think the trainers' decisions were pretty dumb. For Red, I totally would have chosen Buddy. He's got a NEWBORN, for crying out loud, so he should be going home to see the baby. Also, he's a consistent loser, plus he's already proven that he can do really well at home. But instead, Dolvett chooses the person who just had a kick-ass week and likely doesn't have much left in the tank for the next weigh-in. As for Daphne, Chris is right - she's already been home. She's also not as much of a proven entity as, say, Cassandra, who's the biggest loser in the entire house! Hello?!?

I found it was good to hear more about Conda's story. But on the other side, I was seriously annoyed that Bob wanted Daphne's motivation to be hatred, anger and revenge. The hell?!? How is that psychologically healthy?

I think it was quite the triumph for Daphne to overcome a two-pound disadvantage and kick ass for her team. Add Chris' generally poor attitude annoying her teammates, and she's quite safe not to be voted off for a while, I should think.

Bonus nice thing this week: Kim's looking like she's getting abs!

Milestones achieved:

  • Chism dropped under 300lbs (as predicted)
  • Conda dropped under 250lbs (as predicted)
  • Daphne dropped under 225lbs
  • Roy (as predicted), Mark (as predicted), Kim (better than expected) and Cassandra (as predicted) hit the 50lb mark of total loss
  • Roy, Megan, Kimmy, Daphne, Conda and Chris hit the 15% mark of total loss
  • Kim and Cassandra hit the 20% mark of total loss
  • Daphne moved from morbidly obese to clinically obese (as predicted)
  • Roy moved from clinically obese to obese (as predicted)

Potential milestones for next week:

  • Kim and Chris could drop under 200lbs
  • Emily, Daphne and Conda could hit the 50lb mark of total loss
  • Jeremy and Buddy (originally predicted for this week) could hit the 75lb mark of total loss
  • Mark, Daphne and Buddy could hit the 20% mark of total loss
  • Conda could move from morbidly obese to clinically obese
  • Chris could move from clinically obese to obese

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

No excuses", episode 6

I think Chism summed up Adrian's problems the best not four minutes into the show: "Adrian, stop talking!!! This isn't your moment, this isn't The Adrian Show, this is The Biggest Loser! All you're doing is making trouble for yourself. It's like you're saying everything wrong, and you're just not thinking, and what you should do is step back, and listen to what's going on around you before you start trying to make a scene about every little thing that happens." That right there is everything you need to know about how Adrian's been behaving for the past two shows.

And honestly, serious kudos to Chism for being firm to Adrian and bringing the focus back to Cassandra's sadness. I wouldn't have had the cojones to do that to an adult many years my senior when I was nineteen.

At any rate, although I do think Adrian has a point that he wasn't given much of a chance, I also have to say that his complete inability to SHUT THE EFF UP was very annoying; divisive for the house in general; and definitely something I'm glad I won't have to see every week anymore. Now if we can just give Conda the boot, things would be great.

And about Conda: my kids play Webkinz Junior, and there's a video section in there which runs lessons about good behaviour and bad behaviour, and one of the videos is about "Tattling". In this video, a character named Earthworm starts telling her teacher all about what everybody else is doing: "Miss Lily, Honeydew is looking out the window!"; "Miss Lily, Clover is reading a book!"; "Miss Lily, Hazel is touching the science centre!"; etc. Finally, it's "Miss Lily, everyone is talking!" and the entire class yells out, "Stop it, Earthworm!!!" Miss Lily then sits down with Earthworm to explain that it's not Earthworm's job to make sure other people are following the rules; the only person whose behaviour Earthworm is responsible for is Earthworm herself.

Yeah.

I think Conda seriously needs to see that video.

Milestones achieved:

  • Mark dropped below 250lbs (predicted)
  • Megan and Emily dropped below 225lbs (predicted)
  • Cassandra dropped below 200lbs (predicted)
  • Chism hit the 50lb mark of total loss (predicted)
  • Daphne and Adrian hit the 10% mark of total loss (predicted)
  • Mark (predicted), Kim (predicted), Jeremy (predicted), Emily (predicted), Chism (better than predicted) and Buddy (predicted) hit the 15% mark of total loss
  • Jeremy moved from super-obese to morbidly obese (better than predicted)
  • Cassandra moved from clinically obese to obese (predicted)

Potential milestones for next week:

  • Conda could drop below 250lbs
  • Chism could drop below 300lbs
  • Roy, Mark and Cassandra could hit the 50lb mark of total loss
  • Buddy could hit the 75lb mark of total loss
  • Daphne could move from morbidly obese to clinically obese
  • Roy could move from clinically obese to obese