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March 29, 2006

MTV's Guantlet 2 . Why I Hated This Show

I've been a fan of MTV's Real World & Road Rules since the beginning of TV time but this most recent season of The Challenege: Gauntlet 2 ended up being as much of a waste of time as it was watching Danny & Melinda fall in love in Austin.

Quitters: Why does everyone have the option to quit? The producers need to put it out there and make it known that if a player quits [thus leaving] at any point during the challenge, the entire team loses money from their growing pot... or from the grand prize total at the end. How about a 5,000 dollar penalty? These players will forever be remembered as quitting a particular season because it cost the remaining players their next payment [on their used car]. Quitters are reason number 1.

Kina, Kina, Kina: This season's mega bitch was Kina from the Rookies team. Her apparent dislike for team member Cara was obsessively humurous to watch play out week after week. The unneeded disrespect even continued through to the cast reunion! I will say Cara is a trooper when it comes to cat fights and rabid bitches mouthing off because every time when Kina verbally attackes Cara [on camera], Cara just lets Kina unleash thus making Kina look like a complete fool. Cara even continued this wonderful tactic at the cast reunion show where Kina continued to verbally insult Cara but if you noticed, no one from the cast joined in [on camera] to back up Kina's statements and no one from the audience applauded Kina's useless efforts to discredit Cara.

Kina was a riot to watch as she somewhat damamged herself publicly for those fans of these types of programs. I'm so on team Cara [if one exists] and could give 2 shits about Kina on her next challenge and welcome the future episode when it's Kina's time to pack up and leave the challenge. Kina is reason number 2, 3 and 4 why I hated this season. You know, I'm betting when Cara is chattin' with all those other Playboy models, they taught her how to silently win against vindictive, jealous bitches who feel the need to insult these beautiful women to better themselves. Yeah, I'm talking about you Queen Bitch Kina.

Grand Loss: It's funny because I didn't want the Rookies to win [mostly because of Kina] but after they did I realized that each only gets less than 26,000 bucks and this is not including how much the government takes off after taxes. What a waste of a season grand prize but I understand the reasoning behind it.

If these cast members rip through this money, and most of them will, they will need more money for whatever future endeavors they seek to pursue... so they most likely will come back for another challenge to get more money. I'd rather invest in a challenge where there is only one winner from each side. A challenge that has each team fighting for the last spot and fight the last person on the other team to win an actual GRAND PRIZE of 200 and something thousands dollars. This outcome was reason number 5. [Derrick never making the finale Guantlet was actually the biggest grand loss but oh well, he'll come back for the next challenge, shirtless and drunk as expected. Yeah!]

Friendship Alliances: I'm so sick of alliances on reality tv programs. Yes I understand that for some it's the only way to stay "alive" on a challenge but don't point fingers at someone trying to start an alliance when you've already got one going that consists of your friends and fuck buddies. LANDON. KINA. I mean for those 2 to direct complete attention on one alliance off of their own was in fact brilliant.

Most fans of these shows don't realize that a large majority of these cast members see each other in Los Angeles and party and spend much of their time together during their off challenge seasons creating damaged relationships and drunken friendships. So when MTV starts calling them up for a show, some do talk and try to make sure they are there in the end for the grand prize. Newbies from newer seasons of both The Real World and Road Rules most likely don't have a chance. The hidden friendship alliance is reason number 6.

Danny's Inability To Return An Email: I been trying to contact Danny, the gay one, from this current season for a blog interview because he feels like the show protrayed a different side of him and that he says he's really not like the person as seen on tv. I just wanted to ask him questions about the show and his everyday life. But he has yet to respond to me.

I also noticed that his MySpace profile has been updated repeatedly since I sent him 2 email inquiries. Lately he's added an image where he boasts that he's "best friends" with Kina... yuck. So his inability to return an email is reason number 7.

But I did find this great YouTube video on his profile that I thought many would enjoy. TV is just so fun.

Alton's Bullshit: I mean every time he chose someone to go into the Guantlet he never gave them an honest answer as to why they were going in. Basically he should have said that he's not best friends with them, that he's looking out for other people [meaning not you because you're not important enough to keep around] in the end and that sorry man, you should have made a friendship alliance because you're going into the guantlet and more than likely going home. Buh Bye.

My stomach turned every time Alton came up with more bullshit reasons as to why Jeremy was going into the Gauntlet or why Adam was sent into the Gauntlet. They all knew the real reasons but Alton was too much of a pussy to just say what it was really going on. Alton's bullshit Gauntlet speeches are reason number 8. I can't wait for someone to give him a bullshit reason as to why they're sending him home in a future challenge.

What The Hell Happened To Jisela & Katie: During their past seasons on either Road Rules or the challenges, these 2 girls were over powering cast members and did wonderfully memorable antics to capture tv audiences worldwide. This season Jisela basically quit and was quiet [on camera], had no fights and just basically became normal... just like the rest of us. I don't want to watch normal people! I want to fucking watch Real World & Road Rules personalities!

And Katie, what the fuck, she just sat back and kept quiet. Well she wsan't exactly quiet because most of the time she was wasted off her smokin' ass. Somehow she made it to the end without having a single fight or drama filled moment, I just don't know what happened to her.

I remember Katie and Veronica making the first Inferno challenge amazing with their epic cat fight and I remember Jisela confronting that road rules married couple about their alliance during that one season where that one road ruler brought her baby... fuck.. what's the name of that season [oh yes Battle of the Seasons]... anyways she was so explosive with her confrontation "Do you or do you not have an alliance- That's It!" She was emotionally pissed off and was so angry someone left earlier in the show.

These were just simple moments that led to great MTV reality memories. Jisela and Katie pulling back their crazy antics and growing up normal is reason number 9 and 10.

Fuck this season. Gooo Team Cara!

Now I can't wait for the next challenge! I hear Coral returns and she gets into it with Melinda from the Austin season... and I can't wait to see Danny and his Ben Affleck ego explode to the next level while Coral verbally breaks down Melinda. And there's also the epic return of Trishelle.

Posted by guytvblog at March 29, 2006 12:43 AM

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