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Monday, October 8, 2012
9:23 am
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Previously: “Sarah had her eyes on Alton,” because duh. Austin lost and San Diego won, sending in Fresh Meat, who are a dysfunctional mess and had to be told by San Diego that Big Easy and Camila were going in. In the end, Fresh Meat eliminated the remaining Austin team members.
Big Easy is showing Devyn some exercises, and tells us she’s his type. Devyn, meanwhile, refers to Easy as a “good old country boy” and herself as a “pageant princess,” whatever all that is supposed to mean.
Sarah and Alton are also doing some light exercises as Sarah insists that she would rather be comfortable than rich or filthy rich.
Well, don’t worry, Sarah. Even if you finally win one of these things, the best you can hope for from being a career Challenger is to make enough to last you until the next Challenge.
Sarah and Alton are totally crushing on each other because they apparently both like surfing and rock climbing. Alton thinks they could be BFF’s in real life. Trishelle, on the other hand, was apparently warned about the manipulative ways of Sarah before arriving in Turkey. Ummm… really? If so, she’s both so good at it that the editors don’t show it and simultaneously so bad at it that she keeps getting sent home earlier and earlier every time.
Seriously, am I missing something? Sarah of all people seems like one of the more straightforward players who manages to get by because she’s one of the stronger challengers and she’s usually good at puzzles. Trishelle must know something I don’t, though, and she’s worried Alton is being manipulated because he’s apparently an easy target.
Camila’s got a clue! “Some of you have hooked up with one another in the past. Let’s hope it doesn’t sink you at tomorrow’s challenge.”
Speaking of hooking up, these two even have matching bracelets to show for one of the most chaste Real World relationships in history.
Knight reminds us that he and his fellow New Orleans teammates are aligned with Cancun, Vegas, and San Diego. He thinks people probably consider them the weakest team (out of those four? Definitely.) so he’s hoping people will want to keep his team around until the end.
Trishelle informs us that the alliance’s plan was to get rid of Austin, then Fresh Meat and then Brooklyn, but Sarah’s flirtation with Alton is apparently screwing up that plan already, even though so far it’s working out fine. Meanwhile Sarah and Alton cuddle in bed as Sarah “reluctantly” admits to us that she’s got feeling for Alton.
Nothing to say here, just wanted to throw you guys a pretty scenery picture.
Challenge time! Devyn reminds us that she is Amateur Hour by complaining about the heights and water. It is called Hook, Line, and Sinker. Basically, the teams will have hooks above their heads connected to footholds, and they have to have a giant five-legged race by hooking their way up several bars to the top and then down several bars to the opposite platform. 20 minute time limit, fastest team is Power Couple, etc. San Diego won the last challenge and so decides the order, you all know the drill by now.
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Poor Brandon! I couldn’t agree with you more; he seems like he would be a really good competitor if they ever did challenges anymore that you weren’t stuck with partners or small teams. Also, it should just be a rule that Camilla is not to be talked to while she is drunk because she loses her ability to have any impulse or temper control. How on earth did him telling her she was a great competitor turn into such a huge fight? That girl is nuts.
I don’t think Sarah is manipulating Alton. I think she is too much of a competitive purist to try to win that way. She is the type that wants to win fair and square because she beat other good competitors and not because she manipulated. I could be wrong but that is my intial impression.
I watched this episode Thursday afternoon after getting my wisdom teeth out… I must have still been pretty drugged, because I don’t really remember much of this.
Although, I imagine none of the cast members remember much of it, either.
The rope challenge was totally edited to look close. There were a couple of quick shots of Sarah/Chet towards the end where you could see the other team just to the side of the screen out of focus, but you could still see many many lines of rope across the structure. But I do agree, that was one of the best elimination challenges they have had in a couple of seasons. It requires thinking as well as strength and endurance. I hope they bring it back for more challenge seasons.
I dislike Camila so much. I really wish they would make a rule on the challenges that if you say you are leaving and storm off, you have to leave. There is no coming back or just saying you are going to leave to get attention.
I sort of got the vibe that Trishelle was jealous of Alton liking Sarah not her. Trishelle burned a bridge there.
I also think that Trishelle has always been a shit stirring mean girl but she’s used to being on challenges where she had friends who would side with her, but here she’s been out of the loop for so long that I think they only person she even knows or has competed with is Alton. The new people are unimpressed with her and probably consider her old and she certainly isn’t winning people over with her charm. Nany and Dustin are only siding with her by default so it should be interesting to see how it pans out.
Ohhh @carol. You just saved me from writing a post and you also gained a co-sign!
I wonder who told Trishelle that Sarah was a sneaky user who will do what it takes to get ahead??????? I think I like Sarah. I def. don’t like Trishelle. She isn’t even one of the fun, old Real Worlders.
Good for Big E and Devyn! Never would’ve put those two together, but so far, it works.
And praise the Lord we didn’t have a Zach and Jonna story line this week!
Brandon going home was what I was alluding to last week when I commented that others always pay the price for Easy’s mistakes. I love Brandon. Le sigh….Camila flips out every season. The wrong Fresh Meat team entirely went home this episode, as much as Cara Maria is recently annoying me. Bad form.
Easy always rears his ugly (not literally, just the phrase) head, challenge after challenge, waxing poetic about how much better he is physically, I am lion, hear me roar, etc etc, and then fails again….and again….and again. It would be easy to attach it to his physicality but honestly at this point I feel it’s more mental than anything else. Either way, he’s gotta go, and just be done for good.
I also think Sarah’s honest. And this is coming from DEFINITELY not her biggest fan because I’m now convinced she’s one of those that keeps coming back because real life doesn’t hack it. But Trishelle was being paranoid.
I definitely think Trishelle came off as super-paranoid. Sarah isn’t using Alton, she’s just thanking her lucky stars that his fine hunky self fell into lap. No ulterior motive needed to hit that! (have I mentioned I have had a thing for Alton ever since the first Vegas season :p) Seriously though, she went from pining away for the likes of Kenny Santucci for a whole season, to getting with one of the strongest competitors (and seemingly nicest guys) on these shows. That is one GIANT step up
And, yea so glad not to hear from Zach and Jonna. Also, wondering if St. Thomas is getting so little air time because the producers figure we’re sick of them. We did just watch a whole long boring season of them.
@jerseyj….I have talked with a fan of this site that doesn’t post here but reads… we’ve come up with a theory that those who get the talking head interviews early and often get sent home by the end of the epi or are in jeapordy for the next one. And the ones who don’t tend to last the longest. (Re: no St. Thomas airtime)
I have no proof but if you care to, next time the Challenge is on see if you notice that happening as well.
I can’t tell if we’ve convinced outselves they all get a swan song before the bite the big one or not.
Just my $.02
Jersey – I have St. Thomas fatigue. They didn’t really have anyone awesome in their cast like Sam or MikeRoy. Latoya was cool and I liked her best, but her and MoRum could be annoying together and there was the whole Toya/Swift drama that got superrrrrrrr annoying.
Gyp – Like your theory. The first few eps, we were getting a lot of Wes/Danny/Melinda time.
Also, I feel like this is the first season where they aren’t really delegating screen time. Has Robb had a line since the first episode?? VA – I know you have mentioned this before, but it seems like it’s getting worse.
For me, Trishelle was the tipping point where RW turned from interesting pseudo-social commentary to drunken frat party. She was such a drunken whore, my gag reflex kicked into overdrive. I would have stopped watching had it not been for hotter-than-hot Alton! I am glad he is back and it’s too bad, he is stuck with a whining, bitching Albatross.
I’ve always liked Sarah as well. Although, I do wish she would lose the blonde. she was way prettier as a brunette.
I hope Jemmye (sp.?) and Knight go next. They are ridiculous as a couple and really not even great as singles. blech.
Is it wrong that I sometimes miss Coral?
This challenge is so fun. I love watching the “vets” struggling for survival as a new crew of challengers take over. My personal favorite thing is Camilla, so used to being under the wing of Bananas (aka CT’s custom Johnny Bananas backpack….best elimination ever) bitching about how different and hard this challenge is. Yes, her, and Cara Maria, and Trichelle are decent female competitors but they always cling to a strong male to keep them out of eliminations, feeling like they just deserve to get to the finals because they’re part of the cool crew. They’re usually so sanctimonious and shitty to rookies while they do nothing and let the big strong boys do all the politic-ing and heavy lifting, it’s been pretty amazing to watch them scramble. I adore the fact that so far no rookies have been sent into the eliminations.
Yeah, maybe these people aren’t quite as entertaining to watch as the normal challenge crew, but I’m just so glad to see some of these vet hangers-on having to work for their spots. It’s about fricking time…
I agree with everyone about Easy. I wanna like him, and props to him and all that, but for reals, he gotta go.
Ugh, seriously, why does Camila suck so much? I think it’s ridic that she was giving Cara shit for not wanting to go in, when I’ve never seen her volunteer herself. And, how come in her drunken fight she decided only Brandon was to blame? Also – poor Brandon.
I actually thought the Trishelle/Sarah thing felt weird and manufactured. Like, neither of them seemed as upset as their words were about it. And then Trishelle so easily being like “now I have to eat my words!” Like, since when have challengers been so quick to accept that they were wrong (see previous paragraph re: Camila)? I dunno, just my two cents.
I couldn’t believe Camila expected CaraMaria to volunteer herself after her drunken scene either…seriously? Why would she? You’re screaming that you want to go home. She is grating my every nerve this challenge.
As for the Trishelle/Sarah thing, I don’t know…Trishelle has known Alton for what, 10 years now? You would think they’d have more of a brother/sister type bond. Maybe she was just worried. Chet’s conspiracy theorist statement was on point…even if she had heard things, she was spiraling it into so much more than it was.
A lot of the cast members have been very vocal about how much they hate Alton after this season…apparently he is getting a ‘good edit’, so it’s hard to tell what the situation really was. We haven’t seen a bad side to Alton at all yet, so that could have been a factor too? Just a theory haha.
Alton is probably the best looking guy on the challenge, has a decent personality and is a good competitor. Why would Sarah need an ulterior motive to go after that? I think Trishelle was hoping Alton would be under her thumb throughout the competition and is just jelly that his loyalty seems to be re-aligning. And Easy and Devyn are cute as a couple, although I don’t really care for either of them on their own.
I really hope to see the Knot again because as other people noted, it’s just a really good all-around challenge and requires the players to use their mental AND physical skills to win.
And another thing, where is Sarah’s reputation of being some femme fatale heartbreaker coming from anyway? Isn’t this the same girl who spent several ENTIRE challenges following Kenny “the Toothbrush Rapist” around like a puppy dog? SMH.
Oh, and why is Zach so extra thirsty? Someone get your boy a Gatorade. He gets played once and dives back into the same petri dish looking for a girlfriend again, this time with a girl KNOWN for playing dudes on national TV. The smarter challengers find a nice loyal SO at home, break up during filming to slut around, and then get back together when the show wraps. He’s doing it wrong. None of these skanky fame whores rank higher than jumpoff status, least of all Jonna. Good grief.
I’m sorry. I can’t get on the Alton band wagon. I don’t find him that attractive and I think he is kind of feminine.
@Plock, LOL that is awesome. I think the opposite but I do think Zach is pretty femme. he gets more and more unattractive each episode.
I too am thankful to the SDS2 break this week.
@Pumpkins – “CT’s custom Johnny Bananas backpack….best elimination ever” – HAHAHAHA!!!
THAT was the best elimination ever, second was Big Easy using Wes’s head to ring the bell.
I have sorta always liked Sarah. She seems pretty harmless, and for the most part pretty normal. Trashell on the other hand I have never liked (her and Tonya). I think she just freaked out the moment she saw Alton getting close to someone not in their alliance. I call BS that someone told her anything. The fact that she used “I’m a poker player, I read people for a living” is just proof of how full of shit she really is.
I do appreciate that the vets are outwitted and out-numbered. Camilla and Cara Maria just suck. Camilla can’t do anything without Johnny, and Cara Maria can’t do anything without her ego being constantly stroked. She had Abraham first and then Laurel second, personalities like hers are just draining.
The only paegent Devyn/Kevin is participatng in is hosted by RuPaul. Big Easy will be in for a big surprise if this goes any further!
Thanks to Honeybee, I vote that Trishelle should be forever know as Trashelle.
Has Alton had major facial plastic surgury? I would love to see side by side pics of before and after Alton’s.
Consider – I googled Alton and plastic surgery and didn’t find anything. I did find this though and I thought it was interesting, especially since a lot of y’all said you wanted Isaac back. It’s from Celeb Dirty Laundry. Never heard of the site, so I don’t know if it’s reliable. Can you shed any light on it, Captain? Also, I don’t really consider this a spoiler, but read at your own risk…
“According to sources, all cast members from The Real World: Sydney were eliminated the first challenge, which are Ashli Robson, Dunbar Merrill, Isaac Stout and KellyAnne Judd. For unknown reasons, all four of them apparently went home all at once, which does not follow the format for the rest of the eliminations.”
I had heard that Sydney was supposed to be on, as it was confirmed that Dunbar and KellyAnn were returning. But the details of why they aren’t on the show have not been disclosed.
And yes, that should be her name forevermore. For the record I have known 5 “professional” pokers players. They are living day to day; make the money spend all of the money, hustle to pay the bills…rinse repeat. The idea is that they live this high-roller lifestyle when in actuality it’s more like a high end bartender (wage wise).
@plock, wow that’s crazy if that’s true. Wonder what they possibly could have done to all get kicked off that early AND for MTV not to show it to us. I mean, even when Adam Royer went nuts and got kicked off the first episode of Rivals, they showed us what had happened and the introduction of MikeRoy as LeRoy’s new partner. Must have been pretty crazy.
Any inside info on that @captain?
Since they didn’t show it or even mention it, I’m guessing it was drug-related or something similar where MTV wanted to disavow any responsibility.
So, it looks like one person from the Sydney team (still trying to find out what and who) screwed up, but because of the season format, they all got eliminated.
Ok last post as I’m getting waaay too wrapped up in this! I found a tweet from CaraMaria where someone asked her what happened with team Sydney. She replied that they had all made it to Turkey and that rumor had it “something” was found on one of them that shouldn’t have been, so they were all sent home. They never even made it to the house. So yeah, I’m sticking with drugs. What a dumbass whoever it was. It’s fucking Turkey!
My money’s on Isaac. He seems like the type to recreational drugs…in fact I’m pretty sure he talked about having acid flashbacks on his season. Either that or Dunbar was caught with the ‘roids.
Isaac freely admitted to doing drugs previous to his season. Hell he had hallucinations involving black crowns and swam in the fish tank. Still heart him the best though. F#ck Dunbar.
I also thoughI saw Shivoan, not Kelly so maybe we’re seeing more than one attempt to pull Sydney crew together and maybe the wrong gender on those accusations…
Adam was one of the few to get kicked off.. as did CT & it seems the @toofbrushgate crue for fighting/detnal raping…I would guess it’s drugs.
Wowza I love the n00b dramz. (of couse hoping they are all ok)
Re: Trashelle, that bitch will NEVAH be no Ginger Rothstein…remember Trash, the eye in the sky watches everyone else. Even on The Challenge. And Alton is NOT your new sponsor.
Trishelle and Alton are NOT close. Never have been. When they had that Vegas reunion, she said she had never been friendly with him or Arissa and she did not care to change that.
I Rember a couple challenges go, maybe the last Kelly Ann was on, there was outside trash talking from other cast members about her taking some kind of steroid. It was so long ago though that I have no details or evidence, just a Bell that went off in my head. Wondr if something like that caused an austrailia elimination? I’ll try googling it.
http://forums.projectcovo.com/showthread.php?p=1088567421
Here’s a thread. I didn’t look through the whole thing
Thanks for the link Catherine. Here’s the only mention I saw. The dude didn’t spell “challenges” right, so probably take it w/ a grain of salt…
“kelly anne and wes were both usin steroids to supposedly bulk up for this seasons challenegs.”
^I saw the same allegation on vevmo back when that challenge was running.
Yes @plockness I went back and read through them after posting and it was a abomination to proper grammar. But that’s not where I heard it from initially, it was just the first google hit! I guess I’m looking for any excuse to vindicate the real worlder of my dreams Isaac, bc if it was a drug thing he’d def be the first suspect!
I stand with you Catherine. I would love to see Issac on a Challenge.
And on that point how much smaller DID Wes appear this season, no?
@gypsy I knew we were soul sisters just from your avatar and awesome realworld gossip. I think my idea of heaven would be drinking that champagne watching the challenge