The challenges in previous seasons were better tailored to the aims of the show. Beauty challenges would usually be mentally stimulating or involve approaching a situation without beauty. Previous challenges include teaching grade school subjects and getting the most phone numbers after a "make-under". Geek challenges were generally social skill challenges and learning to deal with the fairer sex challenges. Former challenges include getting the highest score on a blind date and giving the best massage.
This season's challenges cannot hope to help the participants much if they continue to be Beauty vs. Geek. The first one was a contest for which team could get the most phone numbers. The handicap was that the girls received "make-unders". That was a successful enough challenge with good lessons for both sides, but this week's was a talent show and next week's is a game of flag football. The geeks performed admirably in the talent show, but I'm sorry, that does not make you any less geeky. It might make you geekier in fact. The girls may have learned an important lesson from their failure, but it does not look like it. After Amber was eliminated she said she was not going to change. She was a beauty and going to use that for as long as she had that and that she was still going to be bitch. It is clear this experience really helped her — helped her enforce all the stereotypes she was already living with.
Previews for next week promise yet another change to the game. I hope that it will be something to put the show back on track.
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1 - Russ Evenhuis
Totally agree!
This was one of the few reality shows I liked because it was more about personal growth than money or winning. The twist this time seems to have killed the show for me.