Beauty and the Geek Breaks Some Bones
First, the good news: Beauty and the Geek returns to its regular format this week, with Beauties and Geeks pairing up to take on the world. Whew – the Beauties vs. Geeks format had some high points, but we felt it messed with the premise of the show too much. We’re glad they’re going back to their roots.
Now, the bad news: The show decided to leave us with a superfluous cliffhanger, which annoys us to no end. The show already has plenty of drama – why manufacture fake drama with the “to be continued…” ending?
But first, the challenge. One member of each team had to go over to the enemy camp – where they discovered if their adopted team lost, they’d be out. This took Chris and Jillian aback, and made the Geeks really sad that one of their more effective members had gone to the other side. Jillian? She seems sweet, but wasn’t much of an asset. Even perpetually sunny Greggie couldn’t think of anything positive to say about her.
The two teams competed at flag football, and boy, did we find a lot to annoy! First off, the Geeks got all cocky – we’re competing against a bunch of girls! It’ll be easy! Yeah, guys – gender doesn’t count as much as skill, and some of those girls have skill in spades, while some of you guys… not so much. Sure, Tommy was unstoppable, but poor Jim had no idea what he was doing.
And then there was Joe… Cowboy Joe, you annoyed the crap out of us this week. He seemed to think because he knew football terminology, he should be in charge. No one cares what the words mean -- they just want to play the game! Then he turned into a raging diva, ordering Jillian around, ignoring her when she did what he asked, and then yelling at her when his improvised play didn’t work. Finally, he got frustrated when others stepped in to take control -- “What about the chain of command?” he yells. Joe, your way isn’t working. Let someone else try.
We were amazed at how physical this game of flag football got -- people were shoving, tackling, and dropping like flies! Poor Matt -- Tiffany tripped him up, and he ended up breaking his shoulder! Everyone felt awful, but he came back to applause and vowed, “Break my bone, but you’re sure as hell not going to break my spirit.” Awwww.
In the end, the Geeks lost, and Jillian was sent packing. Plus, one more Geek would be gone – but not in the usual rapid-fire elimination challenge. Nope, it was time for the Beauties to pick the Geeks they wanted to partner with, and the last one standing would be out. We were left with overbearing Joe and creepy Jonathan standing alone. Which one will stay? We’ll find out next week!
Comments
Leticia is my favorite. I'm happy her and Matt were paired together. She seems like the only Beauty who might have the most effect from being on the show.
Tara has to go! I don't like her attitude about everything.
Posted by: Corinne | March 29, 2008 8:39 PM