Last week we lost Ebony, but the girls seemed to get over it pretty well. During dinner in Hollywood (they are spending a lot of time there so far this year), Diane talks about being up there with the judges. Yeah, it's tough to go up there and get criticized, but if you are one of the final two and survive, there is a lot you can learn from their comments. I am not sure if Diane was intimidated by all of the other girls, but she really has no sass anymore, and her attitude is one of the reasons the judges picked her in the first place.

Tyra makes a surprise visit to discuss the judging. As expected, the girls are always excited to see her. Each time she makes a visit, they act like she was lost and they didn't expect her to come back, like some lost cat they had spent hours making posters for and putting up all over the neighborhood. Kim said that it was such a boost to see Tyra, and I am sure it was a boost for Tyra to see that Kim had actually started to put on some makeup and act like a model, even though she had a long way to go. Jayla decided to ask what is probably on the minds of a lot of girls. Basically, she said that she was trying to do her best with the pictures, but it's not like she could take herself out of her own body to look at how she was doing. True, that may be impossible; generally people are able to tell in the mirror if they look good. It's like all those American Idol contestants who really have no idea how awful they are. Come to think of it, a lot of Idol contestants don't know how bad they look either. At that moment, Tyra goes all Zen on them. You see, when you perfect your style, you will be able to do that. Sort of like an athlete in the zone, the game will slow down all around you. And if you have trouble getting to that point, your photographer probably has enough of a pharmacy with him to convince you that you are floating anyway.

The girls returned to their house and learned from Tyra Mail that they would be swimming with the sharks the next day. Swimming with sharks is a game that a lot of people in this town know very well. It seems like the entire population between the ages of 18 and 25 in this town are doing it, and they even made a movie about it. Were they going to bring Janice back and have her yell at people until they cried? Would they learn how to fend off agents who tell them they can get them auditions but are only interested in getting in their pants? And why didn't Tyra just tell them what was going on when she was at the restaurant an hour earlier? I guess we'll find out the next day.

The big theme for much of this episode however was the budding relationship between Sarah and Kim. I think that Sarah is generally interested in getting to know Kim, but I think it is just curiosity at this point. She's from Missouri, and she's 18, and she is naive enough to have paid people to give her modeling lessons. Now, I am certainly not an authority on whether Sarah's sapphic desires are the real thing or not, but Kim probably is, and when she was talking about Sarah, she said that she has dealt with straight girls for a long time and knew them like the back of her hand. This tells me that she might think Sarah is going through a phase, although if I were Sarah's boyfriend and was watching this episode I don't think I would be happy seeing her discussing with another person (boy or girl) whether she had met the right person or not. Then again, maybe he would be more disappointed that this conversation took place on a couple of lounge chairs while smoking some cigarettes and not while they were on the bed in their bra and panties painting each other's toenails. Not that it would bother anybody if that's how the scenario worked out, I'm just sayin, you know?

Posted by J-Unit on October 10, 2005 12:55 PM