Apprenticed
I watched Apprentice last night. I hadn’t watched the first two, but there are too many people to care about at the beginning, anyhow.
A few comments on clothing: bowties aren’t cool. Ever. At all. The women seem to have learned to bring longer skirts (and even pants), even though they’ll be on TV, which is a big plus.
A few comments on why I don’t know I’ll be watching this season: Omarosa was a little crazy, yes. However, you didn’t need to choose Omarosa-lite (coincidentally the only black woman, just like Omarosa the first) to make the show “interesting”, especially when something (I was unclear on what, except that it had to do with a magic 8 ball) will make you fire her within weeks. Yet again, TheDonald, you seem to be showing your racism (two token blacks? one Asian? And that’s *it*? Hundreds of thousands of people applied, and all the good ones were attractive and white?) though the sexism seems to be a little less, for now. I’d like to see how he deals with men in the boardroom, because that was where it was evident last season. Except then I’d need to watch it again, and I’m not convinced.
Update: TWoP says this
Trump claims that these people are “the best and the brightest of what America has to offer.” America cringes. Canada? In hysterics. They’re like, “Oh, my God, now I get why that one guy is President.”
September 26th, 2004 at 12:25 pm
I can’t help watching The Apprentice…I lurve it! I’m with you about the bowties, and you’re quite right that there must be a lot of smart businesspeople who aren’t attractive. At the same time, it seems to me that the contestants aren’t as attractive as last season’s, especially the men.
September 26th, 2004 at 1:02 pm
The men, maybe; I don’t find the women any less attractive, overall. They’re less charming, or less friendly, perhaps, which might make them seem less attractive — but I actually find they’re more just plain physically attractive than last season. But I found most of the friendliness came off as smarm last time anyhow.
I can accept the attractiveness, vaguely (although if it’s unnecessary on Survivor — not that they’re all unattractive, but they’re not all attractive — I submit it’s probably unnecessary here too), but not grouped with (almost) everyone being white. I have this disturbing feeling that it will come down to “white guys, token minority, token woman”, with “white guy” winning again. Yes, I know that Carolyn’s existence suggests he thinks highly of at least one woman, but . . . I don’t know. I’m just suspicious.