Author: Shane

Beauty and the Geek 4 Episode 3

In Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 2, Sam escaped the axe, which few people were happy about. Tony and Amanda ended up getting eliminated, which was pretty much expected since Tony was so shy and didn’t seem able to overcome it.

Everybody’s happy Natalie and John escaped elimination, or so it appears. Perhaps they’re just excited to have some alcohol.

Sam says the geeks have experience with knowledge, while he has experience with the stuff they don’t know anything about, namely girls, who for some reason aren’t creeped out by his eyes. He then starts up truth or dare. Rebecca is dared to do a sexy dance for John. She dares Sam to do a stripper dance for Nicole, but she says it’s uncomfortable, so he does it for the beauties. Nicole takes truth and says she’s attracted to someone in the house but doesn’t say who. She says in her confessional she wants to meet an “alphanerd.” Dave assumes it’s him. Rebecca and Sam are obviously attracted to each other. It’s not long before they’re kissing. She says she’s concerned because she’s there to find out who she is as a person, which apparently making out with a guy for three hours who she just met will assist with.

The beauties’ task is to learn about anatomy; the geeks’ task is to learn about courtship and romance.

The geeks go first, and they must pick out gift baskets to be judged by the beauties. Nicole’s happy because she believes she’s more in touch with what girls want than the guys are. Joshua gets a pie, which pretty quickly gets destroyed, and one of the beauties bets it’s his basket. Will seemingly just grabs a bunch of stuff without really thinking but manages to pull it together somehow. Jesse gets a pink hat and unicorn stickers.

The beauties are asked whether they studied hard. Of course they didn’t. The top two are Will and Jesse, and the winner is Will. After winning, Will decides to do storytime, reading The Tell Tale Heart to a bunch of people. Somehow, the editors managed to find a correlation between this and a makeout session with Rebecca and Sam. Odder still, some of the girls take offense to him telling them a story.

Next up is the beauties’ task, identifying and drawing body parts. The geeks must get in their underwear and let the beauties draw on them with fingerpaints. Everybody gets the heart right. When asked to identify the left earlobe, Sam and Shay get the earlobe part. Too bad it’s the right earlobe. Erin does the whole ear. Those three are eliminated. Then it’s the appendix. Katie is eliminated because it’s on the wrong side (she got her appendix taken out 4 years ago, though), Hollie and Natalie were too low, and Jasmine just guessed and went overboard. It’s between Rebecca and Jen, and they must locate the nasal septum. Jen tries the neck. Surely at least some of these girls had nosejobs.

Since Rebecca won, Sam thinks he’s safe until next time, but he’s forgetting about Will. Will’s between a rock and a hard place. If he doesn’t target Sam, he’s stuck with a partner whose attention is divided (even she knows it’s a distraction). If he does target Sam, he’s stuck with a partner who may hate him. It also means they have to pick both teams, so someone’s going to be coming back and may seek revenge. Beyond that, winning that challenge made him a big threat, which puts a big target on his back when he does lose. On the whole, nothing good came out of that win. If he were truly smart, he’d have thrown the challenge and let someone else do the dirty work.

Rebecca decides to send Hollie and Josh because she feels they don’t need much more improvement. Will sends Jesse and Erin because he hasn’t seen them interacting with anyone other than their partners. Erin starts crying and doesn’t feel the assessment is correct. She calls him a hypocrite since he hasn’t been making an effort with her either. Hollie, similarly, feels Rebecca is a hypocrite, since she’s not focused on her transformation and is more concerned with Sam. These are two pretty strong teams, so at least some good will come out of it since having one of them gone will help, though whichever girl survives will be out for blood, not just because they were sent but also because they were sent against a good friend.

The girls go first. Erin gets the first question correct, as does Hollie. Erin also gets the second question correct, and so does Hollie. Jesse gets his first question correct, as does Josh. Jesse gets his second question correct, but Josh misses his. Hollie and Josh are eliminated, but they have a very classy exit. I’m sure Erin and Jesse will be happy to seek revenge for them.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Beauty and the Geek 4 episode 3, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

Survivor South Africa: Malaysia Episode 7

In Survivor South Africa: Malaysia episode 6, Iban lost immunity, and instead of trying to keep the numbers advantage, ex-Bajau voted off one of their own, Rijesh, who’s been playing too hard the whole time and hasn’t kept it as secret as he’s hoped. Whether you like each other or not, at least pretend so you don’t get Pagonged. Oh, and in case you missed it, Lisa did nothing. Again.

As they mentioned in last episode, Iban’s out of food, which is bad news with Bajau having just eaten a goat. Dyke tells Irshaad that he may not necessarily vote him off. I wouldn’t completely trust the girls either if I were him, but I don’t think he can trust Irshaad for that matter.

They believe the communique is about a food eating challenge. Bajau is afraid because, beyond the fact that food challenges are always gross, they’re all completely full. Mandla doesn’t have a problem with Hein but continues to be frustrated by Angela being what Mandla considers Hein’s right hand woman. Hein and Angela come up with the concept of giving a gift of food to the other tribe. Makes more sense than throwing it away because the meat’s shelf life with no storage is quite limited. Then again, it may also give the other tribe a boost in the immunity challenge, which is most dangerous for Angela and Lisa.

Reward is a bunch of items to get clean (portable shower, soap, body lotion, etc.) or a wok and rice. As expected, it’s a gross eating challenge. Grant and Dyke are up first, who must eat a dried frog, fried cockroaches, and dried beetles. Dyke wins pretty easily. Angie and Hein must eat a raw baby squid, hardly a fair matchup. Hein obviously wins to tie it 1-1. Irshaad then goes against Angela, and they must eat fish eyes. Irshaad easily wins to retake the lead. Amanda and Lorette are up next, and they must eat live prawns. Amanda wins. Iban wins reward. They’ll take the food. After that, Angela goes up and gives them the goat meat they brought with them. Grant is displeased with this gift and lets it be known.

Angie’s slowly getting tired of her tribe, most notably Irshaad. If they lose immunity, it’s going to come down to a choice between the two.

While he’s out fishing, Hein catches a shark. Not the first shark we’ve seen in Survivor, but always a welcome sight.

The immunity challenge has runners on a balance beam trying to get torches past people throwing sandbags at them, light the torches, then run back with them still lit and without falling in the water. Lisa, who originally was supposedly being kept around because she was good at challenges, sits out again. Dyke takes a 1-0 lead over Mandla. Mandla ties it, but Dyke scores again for a 2-1 lead. Dyke’s strategy proves very effective, and he returns his third and final torch to give Iban the immunity win.

After the win, Angie seems unimpressed because she would have liked to be able to vote off Irshaad.

Grant, who’s been the reason Lisa’s made it this far, as he’s been dragging her instead of just dropping her when he should have, now says he feels like she’s joined up with Hein and Angela, leaving himself somewhere in the middle. When making his case, he refuses to give out a name and says he needs to be told who Hein and Angela want to vote for first.

The two names that keep coming up are Angela and Lisa. Everybody else is safe. Tribal council is mostly a debate over why Lisa’s sitting out of challenges, whether she’s volunteering or being forced.

Votes:
Lisa
Lisa
Hein
Lisa
Lisa

Lisa votes for Hein to be an asshat, but she finally gets voted out after hanging on for about 4 episodes too long. This makes the numbers 5-4 in favor of ex-Iban, but with loyalties being questioned and changed, it’s still anybody’s game.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor South Africa: Malaysia Episode 8, and don’t forget the live recaps of Survivor: China.

The Race 2 Episode 3

The Race 2 is a production of ICTV that’s structured similarly to The Amazing Race. Watch The Race 2 online.

In The Race 2 episode 2, Dave & Matt continued their dastardly ways but put up another strong performance, while Hal & Matilda and Daniel & Jeff continued to sink to the bottom. But in the end, obsessed with Dave & Matt, Kristiyan & Nick fell into last place and were eliminated.

Teams depart in the order in which they arrived:

First: Jon & Jenna
Second: Dave & Matt
Third: Ginalola & Sadie
Fourth: Drew & Vanessa
Fifth: Daniel & Jeff
Sixth: Hal & Matilda

In the first challenge, teams must find cans and bottles and bring them to The Can Man redemption center. Teams were able to utilize whatever means they could think of to obtain cans. Jon & Jenna as the first to depart have a big advantage. They just ask for cans at the Park Diner, the pitstop for the last leg of the race, and take everything they have, which is more than they need. Dave & Matt just buy their cans, and the clowns that they are, they empty them while driving (but do at least slow down, if that earns them any points). Sadie & Ginalola head to bars and restaurants. Drew & Vanessa dig through the trash, and Hal & Matilda follow their lead. Daniel & Jeff head to their dorms at the University of Binghamton after also digging through the trash. Having no luck with the trash, Hal & Matilda also happen upon the strategy of just buying the cans, after much debate over the subject. Drew & Vanessa are struggling coming up with either a strategy or how to get anywhere, but they eventually start visiting restaurants, then Drew eventually suggests looking through dumpsters again, then they switch to buying the cans, then back to dumpsters… make a decision already.

The next challenge is to drive to Ostiningo Park and look for a man named Gordy, based on the color zipper and shoes he’s wearing. Jon & Jenna are obviously first to arrive, even before Gordy does. Dave & Matt are in second and get pulled over by security for driving in an area clearly marked not to. But it’s just park security, so I can’t imagine anything too bad happens to them, even if it is just a big waste of time. Sadie & Ginalola arrive in third, after Jon & Jenna leave, but they’re able to leave before the boys because the security guy is stupid and pulls them over again because they supposedly fit the description of someone from last week. Once they’re done dealing with the security guy and making fun of him, Dave & Matt leave in third, and Hal & Matilda arrive within seconds of that to leave in fourth. Daniel & Jeff are fifth, and by the time Drew and Vanessa show up, he tells them “It took you long enough.”

The pitstop is the Oswego fire department.

First: Jon & Jenna
Second: Dave & Matt
Third: Sadie & Ginalola
Fourth: Hal & Matilda
Fifth: Daniel & Jeff
Sixth: Drew & Vanessa (eliminated)

Jon & Jenna had a pretty easy first place. Dave & Matt take second after cutting off Sadie & Ginalola, who get a bit lost anyway. Showing up in last are Drew & Vanessa, which I was expecting last time. With no real direction or plan, it was just a matter of how far behind the others they would finish this leg. I do like the concept of people who don’t know each other teaming up, even if it didn’t go so well in practice.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of The Race 2 episode 4, which airs Wednesday at 9:30/8:30c on ICTV and via live webstream, with the video on demand version available on Thursday.

Reaper Episode 2

In Reaper episode 1, Sam found out his parents had sold his soul to the devil. So basically just a normal 21st birthday. When all was said and done, though, he seemed happy to be on this new path where he had some direction and responsibility.

Until he had some time to sleep on it anyway, so now he’s back to avoiding the issue. The problem is the issue refuses to avoid him. The vessel the Devil gave him keeps following him around wherever he goes. For some reason, leaving the box in the woods and running away from it doesn’t trick it.

Andi and Sam end up on cart duty, which means wandering the neighborhood to find missing shopping carts. She sees this as an opportunity to goof off and invites him along for the ride. He’s happy about this, but the Devil shows up wanting him to open the vessel. This happens while Sam and Sock are stocking shelves, which in Bert’s mind includes throwing merchandise. Because he’s distracted, Sam misses, and it knocks out a customer. The boss informs them a bloodied customer is not a happy customer. As punishment, they’re put on the night shift until they inventory the whole store, which he suggests will take a year.

Sam brings Bert home for dinner and tells him not to blow his secret because Sam already told his mom that the thing with the Devil was done. He says no problem and the secret’s safe with him, so obviously it takes all of two seconds for him to blow it.

The Devil transports Sam to the top of the building, where Sam again tries to back out of the deal. Yeah, that’ll go over well. There are no threats this time, however. Instead, just a guilt trip about innocents dying.

The next morning, Sam finally breaks down and opens the vessel. It’s an RC car. Of course, he’s not provided with any instructions as to how to actually use it. After that, his father gives him a brand new car in an effort to buy him off, so he doesn’t tell his mom that he’s working for the Devil.

The demon they’re after is using lightning strikes to cause blackouts. One blackout is at a hospital, and they just so happen to order generators from Sam’s store, so he volunteers to take them down there. They find out that the hospital used to be the medical wing for a guy who got arrested. On his way back to the store, Sam checks out a guy whose car got struck by lightning, and while there, he sees the soul he’s chasing.

Back at home, the Devil shows up and asks Sam if he’s having problems at home. Sam says he’s the problem, but the Devil responds that Sam’s the problem because he lied to his mother. He advises him that lying never solves anything. Shouldn’t the Devil encourage lying?

Sam asks Josie what she knows about Arthur Ferry, and she tells him about how he stole energy and sold it to other states, causing rolling blackouts and people to die. The news is on the radio, and they hear a report about problems at the dam, so they drive up there to find out what’s going on. They find Arthur and try to send the RC car after him, but the minor glitch in the plan is that it gets run over by a truck. Even without the vessel, Sam’s not intimidated by the soul and stands up to him. He escapes, but at least Sam and his friends aren’t dead.

They take the RC car back to work, where they “repair” it with duct tape, unsure whether or not it will actually work, but then again, they still don’t even know how it works to begin with. The really bad news is they work at a store with a lot of power tools, all of which can be easily turned against them in a scenario such as this. The vessel then falls apart, but Sam’s not concerned because he has other plans.

He goes into the parking lot and yells for Arthur, who’s upset because they took away his name on the building, which is hiding the good he did. Sam figures out that the car was just for show and that it was the controller that was actually the vessel. It turns into a lightning rod, which allows him to capture Arthur. When they bring the vessel to Gladys at the DMV, she’s pleasant as always, telling them the fact that they haven’t been killed yet astonishes her.

Sam goes home and tells his mother the truth. She’s okay with it and says no more secrets… except they’re not going to tell Sam’s brother. Then at work, he’s pulled off the midnight shift and put on garbage duty, since the store looks like a bomb went off and all, but the Devil pulls some strings and gets him into the garden center, where he can now shovel manure instead. But the Devil’s not so bad after all, as Andi’s also working in the garden center.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Reaper episode 3 All Mine, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on The CW.

The Amazing Race Asia 2 Teams Revealed

Update: check out the Racers Revealed recap, which gets more in depth into the teams, and don’t forget to check out our weekly recaps.

Malaysia Star revealed the identities of the cast of The Amazing Race Asia 2. Season 2 follows on the heels of a highly successful run last year and will premiere November 22, 2007, meaning it will probably end shortly after The Amazing Race 12 begins in the US. The executive producer promised an expanded season, with visits to 4 continents. Allan Wu will return as host.

The 10 teams of 2 who will be running the race are:

Ann Tan & Diane Douglas
Dancing moms
Malaysia

Aurelia Chenat & Sophie Teng
Ex-roommates
Hong Kong

Colin Low & Adrian Yap
Gym buddies
Singapore

Daichi & Sawaka Kawashima
Siblings
Japan

Henry & Terri Reed
Married
Philippines

Kinaryosih & Brett Money
Dating
Indonesia

Monica Lo & Edwin Lo
Dating
Hong Kong

Paula Taylor & Natasha Monks
Friends
Thailand

Rovilson Fernandez & Marc Nelson
Best friends
Philippines

Vanessa & Pamela Chong
Sisters
Malaysia

Survivor South Africa: Malaysia Episode 6

In Survivor South Africa: Malaysia episode 5, lazy Lisa somehow avoided being eliminated. Again. She’s one of the luckier Survivors ever. Instead, they voted out Nichal. I don’t know how she’ll continue to hang in there, as the alternatives are getting fewer.

The next day, Lisa discusses what happened at tribal council. Her concern is working on alliances and agreements. She makes no mention of what’s been the sore spot since day one: the fact that she does nothing.

On the other tribe, Irshaad talking too much is starting to get on the girls’ nerves. He tries to not get into an argument with them for strategic reasons. He does have a potential ally in Rijesh, who’s getting tired of Amanda.

At the reward challenge, Dyke’s not happy to hear Nichal is gone. The challenge is a tug of war. Tribes must pull against each other to reach three sections of a totem pole. Reward is a live goat, giving them a choice between milk or meat. Right away, half the people are grossed out. I’d think milk would probably be better just for storage reasons, though having to watch the goat for a few weeks may be a pain. Iban does what one would expect in a tug of war, putting their strongest at the back. Bajau puts the strongest in the middle. Not that it matters since Bajau is overwhelmingly stronger, making the challenge nothing more than just for show. Toward the end of the complete blowout, Irshaad is disqualified for grabbing Hein rather than the rope, and Bajau wins as expected.

With ex-Iban now up in numbers 4-2 at Bajau, Grant continues to try to do whatever he can to make sure Lisa is safe. Lorette is (still) fed up with her, as is Mandla, though he’s concerned about Hein, who is untouchable no matter what Grant thinks unless they’re all just idiots, and his relationship with Angela. He also, however, says he’s concerned about Angela and Lisa getting close, but I don’t see why Hein would tolerate Lisa any more than anyone else wants to. Next time they go to tribal, the two targets will probably be Lisa (as usual) and Angela.

Iban’s concerned they’re running low on food. The potato source is only enough for one more meal.

When Bajau gets the communique about how to care for the goat, it makes the decision a lot easier. They decide it sounds like too much work, so they’re just going to use it for meat.

Immunity is a relay rope obstacle course. Since it’s more about speed and thought rather than just brute force, Iban actually has a prayer. Lorette gets off to an early lead. Grant extends this lead, finishing as Amanda finally completes the first obstacle for Iban. Hein retains a slight lead at the third obstacle, but Dyke quickly hooks the chest to almost catch up. It’s dead even heading into the fourth obstacle. It comes down to the final obstacle, where Mandla easily beats Rijesh, and Bajau wins immunity.

When they get back, the tribe prepares the goat to be cooked. Well, the tribe minus Lisa, who does nothing.

Despite her pitiful challenge performance, Amanda should be safe, though that doesn’t prevent Rijesh from trying to boot her. Likewise, she wants to get rid of him as well. Angie says they’re stupid if they don’t vote Angie off. Oddly enough, she’s the only person to mention voting out an ex-Iban member. One thing we know for sure is that Dyke’s not going anywhere any time soon.

Votes:
Rijesh
Amanda
Rijesh
Rijesh

Rijesh finally played himself out of the game by being stupid. By voting out one of their own, ex-Bajau has shifted the numbers in ex-Iban’s favor, 6-4. While I do believe there’s a lot of potential for voting across tribal lines post-merger, it’s still a foolish move to be eating their own this early.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Survivor South Africa: Malaysia Episode 7, and don’t forget the live recaps of Survivor: China.