Team Swap Twist – Have Your Say

February 23rd, 2007 |

Author: Mythor

The World Wide Intertubes are abuzz tonight with discussion about the results of The Walk from the latest episode – the Team Swap Twist.

Many are saying that this latest twist is turning the show into a fatties version of Big Brother, with not many people saying this is a good thing for the show.

What do you think?

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Personally, I’m a bit on the fence on this one. On the one hand, I hate that they set the teams up to try and work together towards the common good and send them off on exercises to emphasise that team based approach and then turn around and force people to swap teams once they’ve got a good rapport going.

On the other hand, I can’t help feeling that this is the best thing that could happen for Laura, who is most in need of this opportunity, with the worst chance of getting to stick around long enough to take advantage of it. Now that she’s with the much more nurturing Blue team, along with her mate P’eta, I’m hoping she’ll get a chance to come out of her shell and kick some arse.

I realise it’s a TV show and that they therefore need it to be Must See TV, but I just wonder if maybe this sort of thing is better left to shows that’re more manipulative in nature by design. All this backstabbing and conniving is really detracting from the otherwise very positive message the show has.

Do you think this is an instance where the demands of TV should take precedence? Vote now!

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Posted in Discussion, The Biggest Loser |

Tags: controversy, season 2, the walk

Mythor

Why would it be illegal?
David is David Hilyander, from the first series of The Biggest Loser. He got given moderator powers early on because there was stacks of bad messages being left etc.
Maggy K.

Who's david ?!!!!--no, no. don't answer if it is illegal !!

I LIKE YOUR SUMMARIES AND RELY ON THEM IN CASE I HAVE TO MISS ONE .

CHEERS TO YOU.
Mythor

I only ever posted in my own thread, or when someone had specifically said they'd missed an episode. I don't consider that spamming but it's not a question of spam/not-spam anymore, it's just any external link at all...
susanjacobs

So just telling people where they can catch up with eps if they missed them is against the rules??? That sucks. I can see why the "no link" rule would be there for things like spam. Are your links consider spam? If it is, I can kinda see that, but for the most part, I would think it would be okay.
Mythor

My guess is around early-to-mid March. It's about 12 weeks at the mansion and if it started mid-November that should be about right.
It's a guess, though. They may keep them more or less time depending on how events have been unfolding. Maybe someone else knows more details though?
Lesley

Hey does anyone know roughly when the contesents should come home....
I know that they have been gone since mid november ??
They shouldn't be to far away if they made it close to the end ??
Louise

I have to say that I like most of the people in the Blue team (except Gerard), and only Marty and Greg on the red team... oh and Mel. I really didn't like the team swapping thing, but it also had it's good point that Laura will do much better on the blue team. I think Shannan will be fantastic for her. Michelle seems to be a bit soft. I thought it was so sad that the blue team were depressed cos Mel had gone, but the red team didn't give two hoots that Laura was gone, Laura must feel like crap being shunted around the way she is, once again the outsider, for someone with really low self esteem, it's gonna be tough.
Mythor

Well, I'm sure he'd say it's for content, but it'd be a very weak justification, since I didn't break any rules and didn't attack anyone or post any links or anything like that...
Lisa

If your posts arent being approved based on you rather than content, obviously someone, not mentioning anyones name- David, has decided to make it personal. How unprofessional.
Mythor

I see a lot of Kristie because she's in the Fernwood ads that run before all the videos on the official site. ARGH!
And a fair bit of Adro due to his Subway ads.
Adro was around on the official site for a while but I think he got jack of it and left pretty early on.

It's looking like I have no choice but to give the official forums away, since my posts aren't being approved which means no one can see what I'm saying anyway which makes it pointless! Hooray! :)