Whale Wars Ends With an Explosion

Whale Wars is a new reality show brought to us by Animal Planet. In addition, boy am I hooked. Whale Wars came to the end of its short season this Friday night. However, luckily for us fans out there, a new season has already been announced for 2009.

For those of you who have not yet watched, Whale Wars is about an organization named Sea Shepherd, who risk their life to protect whales. The Japanese is the Sea Shepherd biggest enemy as they hunt down and brutally kill many whales a year. The law states that certain amounts of whales are allowed to be killed each year in the name of research. The Japanese even write research on the sides of their boats to clam their innocents. However, the Sea Shepherds do not believe the Japanese. They believe the whales are killed just for the processing of their meat, which is sold to Asian markets.

Sea Shepherd does employ hands on attacks, without violence, to try to stop the Japanese from killing whales. Each whale they can stop from being killed is a victory for the Sea Shepherd, and they will risk their life protecting them.

In the finale Episode, the Sea Shepherd encounters one of the main Japanese boats. The boat they find is a processing boat for the whale meat. If they can get this boat on the run, it will stop the other Japanese boats from being able to hunt any whales. I normally do not post an entire episode of a show on this blog. However, the whole episode was exciting and I believe that if you can take the time to watch it, you will become a fan of Whale Wars. The battle scenes with the Japanese are intense and explosive. I hope you will take the time to watch theses.

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Top Chef Gets the Holiday Feeling

Wednesday’s new episode of Top Chef was a change from the norm. A top three chef get in the bottom, competitors help each other and a surprise goes home.

Top Chef’s first challenge was a good one but not as good as the judge. To judge the chefs skills of cooking a holiday meal, in 45mins and in one pot, Martha Stewart made her first guest appearance. Whatever you want to say about Martha, I think she’s great, she really knows her cooking. Martha made a great guest judge and left the viewer wishing she would come on the show more. The top three for the Quickfire Challenge was Hosea, Ariane and Jamie. The winner was Ariane, not Jamie. Poor Jamie still not able to be number one, read more about that in my other post here.



Next, the chefs started their Elimination Challenge. The challenge was to make dishes inspired by a day of the 12 Days of Christmas to feed 250 guests at a holiday fundraiser. Hosea and Radhika both had some bad luck. The refrigerator was left open so they lost their pork and duck they prepared the day before.

Next happened something I have never saw before. All the other contestants chipped in to help Hosea and Radhika fix their dishes. As Stefan said helping is the right thing to do. If he wins, he wants to beat the best, when they are at their best.

The top four were Radhika, Hosea, Stefan and Jeff. Hosea was the party guest’s favorite and the judges. The bottom three was Eugene, Mel and Jamie. Wow Jamie, I was surprised. It sure sounded like her rare scallop dish was bad, I just thought she would do better.

So who goes home? I am sitting yelling at my TV “it better not be Jamie”. “It has to be Eugene! He’s always in the bottom three.” The judges are deliberating and boy they are not happy. I can’t tell who is going home but it’s sounding like Jamie.

Then Tom joins all the contestants, something he does not normally do. He rips them all a new one saying none of it was good, not even really the top four, so know one should be proud. They had all better step up, No one is looking like a Top Chef!

Therefore, the chef packing up his or her knives and going home is… nobody. The judges have decided that since so many dishes were bad, the fridge problems and as a holiday gift, everyone is staying for another show. As a fan of Jamie’s, I really don’t think this could have come at a better time. It sounded like her dish was the worst. It saved the judges from choosing between a worse dish and a better chef(Jamie); or a so-so chef with a so-so dish(Eugene).



Who do you think should have gone home? Do you like that no one was eliminated? Please comment below, I’d love to hear your opinion. Thanks for reading. Bravo owns all Top Chef images.

MTV Keeps It Real With 8 New Reality Shows

According to K. Nordyke at THR.com, MTV has decided to bump up its original programming with eight new shows for 2009. MTV is looking to be able to fill the timeslots of 9pm-11pm on Sundays and 9pm programming for Mondays and Thursdays.
The new series include:

The Girls of Hedsor Hall: which takes unfinished, loud-mouthed girls and ships them off to an English finishing school.

An as of yet untitled series by Nick Lachey, about students from Cincinnati’s School for the Creative and Performing Arts.

Daddy’s Girls: which follows the blossoming careers of Rev Run’s two daughters Vanessa and Angela.

How’s Your News?: This follows disabled reporters going around the country interviewing people.

College Life: a series shot by students at Wisconsin University.

Nitro Circus: a series about motocross’ Travis Pastrana and his thrill-seeking friends.

The CollegeHumor Show: about the online business of College-Humor.com website.

Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory: a series about Rob from MTV’s Rob and Big show.

I like that MTV is coming up with more reality programming. As a fan of the Hills and Road Rules-Real World related shows, I am hoping to find a new show out of these that I will enjoy as much. Thanks for reading!

Bob Wins Survivor; Who Wins Second?!?!

Survivor ended this Sunday with a new winner Bob. Bob, a teacher from Maine, overcame all other contestants to be the one true Survivor.

Bob had a good report with most of the other contestants He tried to use honesty and a good-natured personality to keep his self in the game. When it did not look like that was going to work, he started winning. That was why I believe he won this season. He had a target on his back multiple times, but he kept winning so no one could vote him out. The other reason he won is Sugar, plain and simple. Sugar did most of the dirty work while Bob rode along. In addition, if it were not for Sugar voting Matty out Bob would have gone home in the last elimination.

Therefore, the second place had to go to Sugar right. Sugar, the person who found the hidden Immunity Idol and never had to use it on herself. Sugar the person who was responsible for almost all of the people going home because of her awesome strategic mind. Sugar was the best “game player” this season so she had to come in second right.
Wrong! Sue came in second with three votes almost winning the whole game and Sugar did not receive a single vote.

I almost fell out of my chair! Instead, the other so-called Survivors decided the best game player deserved no votes. Have these people never watched previous seasons of Survivor or Big Brother? Big Brother, where Dr. Will Kirby told everyone he is going to lie right to there faces. He did lie of course and they voted him as the Big Brother winner. As a jury participant, you have to put bad feeling aside and vote for who played the best game, not who floated along doing nothing.

I know Bob rode others coattails, especially Sugar, but at least he won challenges. Sue did nothing but run her mouth, and for her to be one vote away from winning, I am sorry angers me. Well here is to Super Sugar the real winner or at least runner up in my eyes.

Thanks for reading. Do you agree or disagree with my rant? Please comment below. Getty Images owns the picture of Survivor’s finale three.

Survivor’s Super Sugar

Thursday’s episode of Survivor, the last episode before the big finale, was one of the best all season because of Sugar. Sugar looks like an innocent, young woman but she is a master strategist in disguise. She has been a part of almost ever jury members ousting, while staying off the chopping block and holding onto the hidden immunity idol.

The episode started with Matty upset with Kenny for writing his name down. Read my last Survivor post to learn more, about why, here. Even Crystal was worried and went so far as to say; not voting out Matty was the worst move she made in the game. There is more on Crystal later.

Kenny shifted his attention to Bob asking why he not used the idol to save Corinne. Bob confessed it was a fake idol. Kenny let Bob know her ruined Kenny’s game. After feeling very bad, Bob promised he would give Kenny his Idol if he won immunity.

After the reward challenge, Bob was standing with a win and a choice of what two people should he bring along. Bob picked Kenny and Crystal, a move to try to smooth things over and make a solid alliance. They got a helicopter ride, food, shower and clean clothes. While they were breaking bread, negotiations started about if Bob won the idol. He now had to give it to Kenny if Kenny felt in danger, if not Bob could keep it.

When the entire Survivor’s were back at camp, a bit of a rift began to evolve between Kenny, Crystal and Matty. It came to a point where Sugar was angry that Matty was being ganged up on and realized Crystal needed to go.

Bob won immunity for the fourth time in a row, and the wheels started to turn. Kenny decides to come up with a plan to tell Bob he feels unsafe. After Bob gives him the idol, everyone will vote Bob off instead. Matty would be Kenny’s back up if something goes wrong. This is where Super Sugar comes in to power.

Sugar wants to go to the end with Bob and Matty, so how can she save both and protect herself. First part of Sugars plan is to make sure every one knows she is playing the hidden immunity idol for herself. This keeps anyone from even considering herself. Next, she tells Bob the truth, Kenny is going to have Bob give him the idol then vote him out of the game. Sugar tells Bob to stick with her, keep the idol and vote out Crystal. Sugar then tells Matty just enough info that he will be safe and not to worry.

Please watch these two videos to see Sugar’s plan unfold. I believe you will agree with me that Sugar had one heck of a strategy.





Thank you for reading and watching. Thanks to exileslander for the Youtube video. CBS owns all footage of Survivor.

Top Chef Jamie is a Bridesmaid Again!

Who was the best chef on last night’s episode? Jamie. Did she win? No. Top Chef contestant Jamie seems to be a bridesmaid but never a bride. She has been a runner up in numerous Quickfire and Elimination challenges but winning seems to elude her. I’ve talked about Jamie, in a post before, as a possible winner of Top Chef. You can read that post here.

Wednesday’s Top Chef started with the Quickfire challenge. The chefs had to taste dishes and identify the different ingredients in them. Stefan and Hosea blew past the competition to become the final two. And in head to head battle, Hosea won, much to the dismay of competitor Stefan.

The Elimination challenge was a good one. The chef’s had to design dishes for Gayle Simmons’ Bridal shower. A good challenge, that ended up putting a little added pressure on the chefs. They did not want to mess up such an important day for a judge.

The team that preformed the worst was Eugene, Carla and Daniel. Daniel was by far the worst offender according to the judges, almost as if he had no taste buds. He even added badly flavored mushrooms to his teammate’s dish, Carla, with out her Okaying it. I agree with Daniel going home, he was by far the weakest chef in this challenge and was not very good in others.

What I did not agree with was the judge’s choice for winner. They picked the team of Radhika, Jamie and Carla as the best. The team was lead by Jamie, the concept of the dishes were her idea and the judges lover her dish. So the winner was Jamie right? Wrong, the winner was Carla for her well cooked lamb. What makes this even more surprising is she missed judged the cook time of the lamb. She caused her well oiled team to scurry around and have little time to plate. Yet she still took home the win.

Now I am not saying that I don’t like Carla. She has already improved in the few weeks the show has been on. I’m sure her lamb was well cooked, even though it almost was served raw. I am just feeling bad for Jamie. She keeps coming so close to a win, but the bullpen keeps blowing her lead. It will be interesting to see, in the following weeks, if she can start closing out her wins. Thanks for reading and please comment below if you have any opinions of the show. Top Chef and Images are owned by Bravo.