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sgn43 · 05-10-2005, 04:56 PM

I am so unbelievably disappointed with this season. Like I mentioned before, only one of the hopefuls even seemed competent, and all the others were blatantly useless and unqualified. I'll more than likely watch the finale only because at this point, I feel stupid for having watched so many episodes that I'm going to just go all the way through so I feel at least a false sense of accomplishment :\

Also, with the teams set up for the final task, does anyone get a feeling that the producers have lost all faith in making someone seem qualified and competent? It seems like they just gave up and decided to make it as interesting, in a drama-riddled, shouting match-laden, idiotfest, reality tv way. The past two seasons, the final two were given some of the better people to help them with their final task, but this time around they picked the worst of the worst, AND THEY ARE STRESSING THIS ANGLE! One team is full of the irrational hotheads who are prone to go into psychotic screaming fits for no apparent reason, and the other team was made up of three people who proved to be borderline retarded. I get nothing but a sense of "Well, the ship is sinking, let's at least have fun and be entertained on the way down."

Is there a fourth season in the wings? If so, I think this season has been so terrible that I don't even feel like watching another installment of Trump and friends. Though I'll admit, I still have a thing for Carolyn. Maybe it's just her being a woman in power, or the fact that I'm sadistic and would enjoy sleeping with her just to hear her tell me how horrible I am during it. Who knows. Either way, I've lost faith in the Apprentice.

Derwood · 05-11-2005, 04:42 AM

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Originally Posted by sgn43

The past two seasons, the final two were given some of the better people to help them with their final task, but this time around they picked the worst of the worst, AND THEY ARE STRESSING THIS ANGLE! One team is full of the irrational hotheads who are prone to go into psychotic screaming fits for no apparent reason, and the other team was made up of three people who proved to be borderline retarded. I get nothing but a sense of "Well, the ship is sinking, let's at least have fun and be entertained on the way down."

I have a different take on this. I think that they are trying to see if Kendra and Tana can work around their weaknesses. Kendra has been portrayed as having strong ideas but lacking focus, so they gave her a team of people who are hard to keep in line to see if she can keep everyone on task. In the meantime, Tana is the "nice" one who avoids conflict and always has that fake sweet smile on her face. So, they give her the team of assholes to see if she can keep them in line.

Delirious · 05-13-2005, 04:52 AM

Kendra actually seemed competent in the final compared to the previous tasks where I thought she was a total airhead.. However Tana who I thought had it made seemed like a retard when they told her the governor was waiting and she was like "ok thats fine!" and the guy was like "no it's not fine" then unbelievably she blurted "What should i do?!??!"

Derwood · 05-13-2005, 01:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Delirious

Kendra actually seemed competent in the final compared to the previous tasks where I thought she was a total airhead.. However Tana who I thought had it made seemed like a retard when they told her the governor was waiting and she was like "ok thats fine!" and the guy was like "no it's not fine" then unbelievably she blurted "What should i do?!??!"

I never thought Kendra was an airhead. She single-handedly won th Pontiac task (while Tana slept) and beat Tana head to head on the t-shirt task.

Tana showed a bad side this week. If that's how she handles pressure, yikes! She seemed to piss everyone off that had any contact with hwe the whole time. I knew that fake Mary Kay smile would falter at some point.

You wonder if Tana's employees will stand up for her or throw her under the bus. Kendra's are clearly going to praise her. I hope they kill Tana in the board room.

Trump would be an idiot to hire Tana at this point.

sgn43 · 05-16-2005, 01:19 AM

Tana was just destroyed this past week. I can't possibly see her winning now, unless Kendra has some enormous meltdown and totally screws up in the boardroom.

And those are some really good points, Derwood. I suppose I've just become overly critical of the show because of what I perceive as a HUGE dip in quality.

Derwood · 05-16-2005, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by sgn43

Tana was just destroyed this past week. I can't possibly see her winning now, unless Kendra has some enormous meltdown and totally screws up in the boardroom.

And those are some really good points, Derwood. I suppose I've just become overly critical of the show because of what I perceive as a HUGE dip in quality.

Well, the show DOES deserve criticism. I think the producers had a much bigger hand in who was fired each week. It seemed clear to me, especially when it was down to 6 or so, that the producers REALLY wanted the final two to be women, and they nearly insisted on a "Book Smarts vs. Street Smarts" finale. The reason I say this is that Trump's reasons for firing people became more and more absurd; definitely not the decision making of a successful business man. Alex was fired because he couldn't remember his record as project manager? C'mon!

n0nsensical · 05-16-2005, 07:51 AM

I thought Trump's firings seemed a lot more rational this season than last. Though it could be a trick of editing to make certain candidates look good or bad, I don't know.

sgn43 · 05-16-2005, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Derwood

Well, the show DOES deserve criticism. I think the producers had a much bigger hand in who was fired each week. It seemed clear to me, especially when it was down to 6 or so, that the producers REALLY wanted the final two to be women, and they nearly insisted on a "Book Smarts vs. Street Smarts" finale. The reason I say this is that Trump's reasons for firing people became more and more absurd; definitely not the decision making of a successful business man. Alex was fired because he couldn't remember his record as project manager? C'mon!

Yeah, that's another really big complaint of mine. It seems a bit silly to say this, but one of the reasons I'm getting more annoyed with the show is it's really beginning to look like a tv show than the "job interview" it passed off as in its first season. At least back in season one, it really seemed like people were advancing due to their abilities (aside from Omarosa, who seemed to be the only person kept around for "good tv" purposes).

And you're right about Trump getting more and more ridiculous. When he kept harping on Chris because of the chewing tobacco habit, I almost threw a chair at the TV. Sure, it was inappropriate when he'd do it during tasks, especially when he was dressed like a clown at a miniature golf course. But, there were a few slightly more pressing issues like the total incompetence of some of the other people that were still in the running.

Derwood · 05-17-2005, 05:39 AM

I'm thinking that this new show on CBS called "The Cut" will be interesting. It's basically "The Apprentice" for designers. 16 designers get a chance to work for Tommy Hilfiger, and they design everything from Billboards to clothing to cars.

I'm a designer, and watching lawyers and real estate brokers try to design stuff on The Apprentice is SOOOO frustrating. Could be interesting to see people with actual visual design skills go at it.

spongy · 05-17-2005, 07:22 PM

Did anyone else notice the disparity in difficulty between the two tasks? I mean cmon!! Kendra had a relatively small area and few people to work with and Tana was unbelievably huge and tons of people to deal with to boot.

Derwood · 05-20-2005, 05:32 AM

Well that was the least climactic finale ever. Tana never had a chance. And what was with commercials every 45 seconds?

crossova · 05-20-2005, 07:26 AM

I missed the finale, so i presume the college kid won it all? So what tasks/job were available for Kendra to pick from?

I actually saw the entire lot of the Apprentice hopefuls on Wednesda night here in the city (on 72nd st and 11th ave). They were attending a party at a small restaurant.

dirtyrascal7 · 05-20-2005, 10:05 AM

I completely agree with you, Derwood. Trump already knew he was going to hire Kendra before the finale even started. What a complete waste of time... especially since Trump wouldn't even let people give complete responses, I think he interrupted every single person to say "okay, time for a commercial". Lame!!

crossova - the two jobs were... 1. to help choose the host country/city for the Miss Universe pagent (which Tana said she'd choose) and 2. to oversee the renevation to Trump's $100 million Palm Beach, FL mansion (which Kendra chose).

The weird thing about the two jobs were that the Miss Universe job was more of an assistant job... Trump already has someone in charge of running it. And as for the renevation, they kept showing clips of people working on the mansion... which implies that its already underway, so someone is obviously already in charge of that as well.

sgn43 · 05-20-2005, 12:17 PM

Haha. This season was so sad. Like Derwood said, that was incredibly anticlimactic. There was no doubt that Kendra had the job in hand before she even came out, and the only thing Trump really had on her was that she cried. Yet, he kept nullifying it immediately after saying, "Well, it was a nice/beautiful cry," or, "Well, there's nothing wrong with crying."

I almost felt bad for Tana, who was just getting trashed the entire time, which was about 10 minutes of show because of the overextended montages and nonstop commercials. All of the empathy dissappeared when she tried to get the crowd to go crazy after announcing that she was the one behind the Pontiac brochure's success because she was the one who suggested it should be round.

And the choice of jobs (which dirtyrascal mentioned right before me) ended up being almost as hilarious as the potential jobs I kept joking were going to be offered. I kept saying to my brother that Trump was going to give the winner a choice of either managing a Burger King that Donald bought for fun, training under under Robin to become head receptionist in Trump Tower, housekeeping at one of Trump's palatial estates, or being Bill Rancic's girlfriend/assistant. Looks like my predictions of them working under someone in his organization and housekeeping weren't too far off.

05-10-2005, 04:56 PM	#41 (permalink)
sgn43 Insane Location: Los Angeles	I am so unbelievably disappointed with this season. Like I mentioned before, only one of the hopefuls even seemed competent, and all the others were blatantly useless and unqualified. I'll more than likely watch the finale only because at this point, I feel stupid for having watched so many episodes that I'm going to just go all the way through so I feel at least a false sense of accomplishment :\ Also, with the teams set up for the final task, does anyone get a feeling that the producers have lost all faith in making someone seem qualified and competent? It seems like they just gave up and decided to make it as interesting, in a drama-riddled, shouting match-laden, idiotfest, reality tv way. The past two seasons, the final two were given some of the better people to help them with their final task, but this time around they picked the worst of the worst, AND THEY ARE STRESSING THIS ANGLE! One team is full of the irrational hotheads who are prone to go into psychotic screaming fits for no apparent reason, and the other team was made up of three people who proved to be borderline retarded. I get nothing but a sense of "Well, the ship is sinking, let's at least have fun and be entertained on the way down." Is there a fourth season in the wings? If so, I think this season has been so terrible that I don't even feel like watching another installment of Trump and friends. Though I'll admit, I still have a thing for Carolyn. Maybe it's just her being a woman in power, or the fact that I'm sadistic and would enjoy sleeping with her just to hear her tell me how horrible I am during it. Who knows. Either way, I've lost faith in the Apprentice. __________________ To be great is to be misunderstood. -Emerson

05-16-2005, 01:19 AM	#45 (permalink)
sgn43 Insane Location: Los Angeles	Tana was just destroyed this past week. I can't possibly see her winning now, unless Kendra has some enormous meltdown and totally screws up in the boardroom. And those are some really good points, Derwood. I suppose I've just become overly critical of the show because of what I perceive as a HUGE dip in quality. __________________ To be great is to be misunderstood. -Emerson

05-16-2005, 07:51 AM	#47 (permalink)
n0nsensical Junkie Location: San Francisco	I thought Trump's firings seemed a lot more rational this season than last. Though it could be a trick of editing to make certain candidates look good or bad, I don't know. __________________ "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." --Abraham Lincoln

05-17-2005, 05:39 AM	#49 (permalink)
Derwood Who You Crappin? Location: Everywhere and Nowhere	I'm thinking that this new show on CBS called "The Cut" will be interesting. It's basically "The Apprentice" for designers. 16 designers get a chance to work for Tommy Hilfiger, and they design everything from Billboards to clothing to cars. I'm a designer, and watching lawyers and real estate brokers try to design stuff on The Apprentice is SOOOO frustrating. Could be interesting to see people with actual visual design skills go at it. __________________ "You can't shoot a country until it becomes a democracy." - Willravel

05-17-2005, 07:22 PM	#50 (permalink)
spongy Psycho	Did anyone else notice the disparity in difficulty between the two tasks? I mean cmon!! Kendra had a relatively small area and few people to work with and Tana was unbelievably huge and tons of people to deal with to boot. __________________ The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. Stephen King

05-13-2005, 04:52 AM	#43 (permalink)
Delirious Crazy Location: Queens, NY	Kendra actually seemed competent in the final compared to the previous tasks where I thought she was a total airhead.. However Tana who I thought had it made seemed like a retard when they told her the governor was waiting and she was like "ok thats fine!" and the guy was like "no it's not fine" then unbelievably she blurted "What should i do?!??!"

05-20-2005, 05:32 AM	#51 (permalink)
Derwood Who You Crappin? Location: Everywhere and Nowhere	Well that was the least climactic finale ever. Tana never had a chance. And what was with commercials every 45 seconds? __________________ "You can't shoot a country until it becomes a democracy." - Willravel

05-20-2005, 07:26 AM	#52 (permalink)
crossova Psycho Location: new york	I missed the finale, so i presume the college kid won it all? So what tasks/job were available for Kendra to pick from? I actually saw the entire lot of the Apprentice hopefuls on Wednesda night here in the city (on 72nd st and 11th ave). They were attending a party at a small restaurant.

05-20-2005, 10:05 AM	#53 (permalink)
dirtyrascal7 That's what she said	I completely agree with you, Derwood. Trump already knew he was going to hire Kendra before the finale even started. What a complete waste of time... especially since Trump wouldn't even let people give complete responses, I think he interrupted every single person to say "okay, time for a commercial". Lame!! crossova - the two jobs were... 1. to help choose the host country/city for the Miss Universe pagent (which Tana said she'd choose) and 2. to oversee the renevation to Trump's $100 million Palm Beach, FL mansion (which Kendra chose). The weird thing about the two jobs were that the Miss Universe job was more of an assistant job... Trump already has someone in charge of running it. And as for the renevation, they kept showing clips of people working on the mansion... which implies that its already underway, so someone is obviously already in charge of that as well.

05-20-2005, 12:17 PM	#54 (permalink)
sgn43 Insane Location: Los Angeles	Haha. This season was so sad. Like Derwood said, that was incredibly anticlimactic. There was no doubt that Kendra had the job in hand before she even came out, and the only thing Trump really had on her was that she cried. Yet, he kept nullifying it immediately after saying, "Well, it was a nice/beautiful cry," or, "Well, there's nothing wrong with crying." I almost felt bad for Tana, who was just getting trashed the entire time, which was about 10 minutes of show because of the overextended montages and nonstop commercials. All of the empathy dissappeared when she tried to get the crowd to go crazy after announcing that she was the one behind the Pontiac brochure's success because she was the one who suggested it should be round. And the choice of jobs (which dirtyrascal mentioned right before me) ended up being almost as hilarious as the potential jobs I kept joking were going to be offered. I kept saying to my brother that Trump was going to give the winner a choice of either managing a Burger King that Donald bought for fun, training under under Robin to become head receptionist in Trump Tower, housekeeping at one of Trump's palatial estates, or being Bill Rancic's girlfriend/assistant. Looks like my predictions of them working under someone in his organization and housekeeping weren't too far off. __________________ To be great is to be misunderstood. -Emerson