Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone who visits "What I'm Watching". It wasn't until I added the counter at the bottom of the site that I realized there might be a few more people reading than I thought... Or one or two people who come here way too often. Either way, thank you. :)
Survivor: Nicaragua (Season Finale)
So after screwing over a lot of people, instead of trying to earn the jury's respect by keeping people who deserve to be there, all season all anyone kept talking about was bringing people the jury hates to the finals. However, Fabio somehow managed to do both because Dan and Holly didn't deserve to stay and the jury was pissed at Chase and Sash (though Chase did collect a surprising four votes). Chase is dumb; Marty's question about a "dumber than a bag of hammers" award was not "BS". I understand that he was trying to complain about the bias of not being able to choose Marty, but that is an irrelevant bias since Marty was far from the dumbest player. I do call BS on Naonka's question, though. It seems like something the producers told her to ask in order to get an emotional reaction out of Fabio, because it otherwise served no purpose whatsoever, and while Naonka is certainly not above stupid and pointless, I don't buy that she would want to ask whether Fabio loves his mother. But it was funny how Fabio laughed every time the jury attacked Chase and Sash. He knew he had it in the bag, and I have to take my hat off to him because at the beginning I thought he was just a dumb, shallow meathead who wouldn't make it to the end and now I actually have some respect for him and am glad he won. Didn't realize he was 21 though; that makes me feel old somehow, and I'm only three years older than he is. For once I was glad for Jeff Probst's douchiness when he cut off Shannon at the reunion, even though it sort of sounded like he was going to admit that Sash was not gay because he had met his girlfriend. Saw it coming that Jane would win player of the season. I was surprised at the number of former Survivors in the audience though, because there was really no reason for them to come except to keep their faces in the spotlight (though I heard a rumour that Boston Rob and Russell Hantz are returning next season for a showdown that involves them having automatic immunity until the merge).
Kenny vs. Spenny (Series Finale Christmas Special)
That...wasn't what I was expecting. It was almost like an Americanized version of what the show has become: a showcase for Kenny and his weird characters while Spenny tries to be taken seriously from the background. This was the apex of what Kenny vs. Spenny has been turning into. If you're a loyal enough fan to remember season one, you'll remember that it was a show about competitions that happened to be funny, as opposed to a show that is about crazy, raunchy humour and happens to have competitions. There was a competition here (who can stay in a pine tree the longest?), but it was shown in snippets between sketches with humour so distinct that you could tell, for example, that "Silencio vs. Goldar" was written by Kenny and the Santa sketch with the corny, vaudevillian style jokes was written by Spenny. Not the best send-off for a show that started in a completely different fashion, but the reappearances of several Kenny characters was, at best, appropriately nostalgic. The only thing I laughed at (and fairly hard, too) was the actor playing Spenny. Everything he did was hilarious and at first it actually took me a moment to figure out that it wasn't Spenny. But the bottom line is that Kenny vs. Spenny was supposed to be a reality show, and while there were certainly numerous moments throughout the series that felt fake and scripted, this one was the most fake of all. None of it felt sincere until the final moment in the end credits: the guys hugging while Spenny apologizes for destroying the set and Kenny responds with "Nah, I thought it was funny." I guess they are friends after all.
Hero of the Week: Whoever that guy was playing Spenny on Kenny vs. Spenny. The one brilliant part of an otherwise mediocre Christmas special.
Douchebag of the Week: Shannon from Survivor. Voted off months ago and only spoke for another few seconds this week; still a dick.
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