So once again tonight we were treated to an “Instant Elimination” of a contestant through what amounted to a roll of the dice. Kirsten was selected to make this decision through luck of the draw, then she had to select which three would be able to be eliminated and finally had to choose among them which made the most sense to send home.
This, to me, is not what The Biggest Loser is supposed to be about. This sort of thing belongs on shows like Big Brother, where the whole thing is just a game and nobody’s future is riding on the success or failure of their time in the house.
The show is supposed to be about a bunch of regular folks trying to get their lives and their bodies back into shape and come out the other end a healthier, happier person. To unceremoniously dump someone for the sake of adding drama to the show is unnecessary. The show already has enough inbuilt drama with injuries, health scares, challenges, temptations and the regular eliminations.
And more importantly, I thought the public had spoken on the matter of “Instant Eliminations” last season - we don’t like them.
The ads for this week’s Biggest Loser contain a wee bit of a spoiler for something that is going to happen this week. If you enjoy knowing such things, read on and I’ll tell you what the ad reveals!
Well, tonight’s episode certainly was one of the more dramatic in Fatties history. One contestant was instantly eliminated with no vote and no option for a lesser evil than elimination.
To me, this seems quite unfair to all involved. What do you guys think?
(Poll has been removed due to incompatibility with new version of the blog. Sorry!)
Even leaving aside that it was P’eta, perhaps my current favourite competitor, this really seems to go against the grain of the entire competition. The voting off of contestants is sort of counter to the whole weightloss ethos, but it’s “necessary” for the show, so it’s accepted to some degree.
But giving one contestant the power to just evict one other player from the game? Especially when the power to do so was granted via pigging out on food during a Temptation? It sets an ugly precedent.
I don’t think this is where The Biggest Loser should be going.
Due to the rather large, rather scary, rather noisy storm that passed over my house during tonight’s show, the full recap of Episode 23 will be running a little late.
I’ll post what I got before the storm and will update it later with the full recap. Full recap is now up!
Is it still a “surprise elimination” if there’s an ad for it every 5 minutes and they’ve teased it all week long? Methinks not!
If you’d just like to know who was eliminated, if anyone, it’ll be right after the break. For more details, check back in around an hour. :-)
Beware! TV Guides on various websites (and probably offline) currently have a whopping great big spoiler listed for this Thursday night’s episode. If you don’t want to know, don’t look!
If you’re wondering if the Thursday episode is another one hour version - yes it is.
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!
“A new force arrived in the game…” Mr Voiceover Man in relation to Commando Steve. Is he going to be a regular feature of the show? Because I think that’d be cool!
Unfortunately, we don’t find out tonight… Because much of the special one hour length episode is taken up by the drama surrounding The Walk once again… And this time it’s perhaps even more drama-y than last time!
Yes, it’s another Vile and Jackie Ho show audio clip, but this time it’s with Ajay Rochester, discussing Sarah’s departure from the show.
Be warned though, there are spoilers for the show. Nothing you couldn’t guess, but if you’re vehemently opposed to spoilers of any kind, you have been warned! The spoiler deals with the fate of Sarah, so if you don’t want to know… Don’t listen. If you do?
Third episode of the season deals primarily with the fallout from the challenge on Monday night. This episode is very heavy on talking, not a lot of weightloss going on this time around, which may come back to bite them on the arse come weigh-in day.
Want to know who was under the blanket and who is leaving the show? Read on…
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