Thursday, May 08, 2008
The Apprentice - Episode 7
Warning - This blog entry contains spoilers of this episode!
Last night's episode of The Apprentice was again totally riveting TV as the task for this week saw the remaining contestants being sent out to Marakesh where they had to barter with the local market dealers to get 10 items for cheap prices. This certainly doesn't sound easy as a task and it proved a real challenge for both teams, but they both got there in the end.
Along the way though I was quite shocked by the cheap manipulative and under-handed tactics of Jenny who deliberately tried to sabotage the efforts of the other team when they both ended up in a sports shop to purchase 2 tennis rackets. Jenny tried to bribe the shop assistants into delaying the production of the rackets so that way they wouldn't get them in time. This was really a low display from a low character, as Jenny went even further down in my estimation than before after that. Michael was no better who guilt-free went along with Jenny on this act of sabotage, in fact going back to my dislike for Michael, he proved it even more in another piece to the camera when he said "People say "you are arrogant" and I say "yes I'm a 100% arrogant! What are you going to do about it?". Shouldn't people really go up to him and say "yes and you are also a total asshole, what are you going to do about that?!".
Moving on to the outcome of the task, delightfully it was good to see the good team win, i.e. Lee's team consisting of Lucina, Sara, Helenne and Raef, all of whom performed very well under pressure, even though Lee kept repeating the same phrase "That's what I'm talking about!!" a 100 times. They also didn't subscribe to the same pathetic underhanded tactics of the other team, but it was revealed that Jenny and Michael never told the other team mates or Jennifer their project leader (i.e. cold but foxy Dubliner) about the incident either.
In the boardroom Sir Alan let rip on the losing team and much to my delight he overruled the decision of the team leader bringing 2 people back into the boardroom, he brought them all back in where they all had to state their case. And thankfully and finally Jenny was fired for her insubordinate act of trying to stall the rackets from being made for the other team as well as not purchasing a "Kosher" chicken (cos she didn't know what Kosher meant!). It was about time this snakey manipulative bitch got her commupence. Sir Alan accused her again of shifting the blame onto others which she once too often did throughout this contest, but even after she was fired, driving away in the taxi she still denied being in the wrong, as she lied about not knowing what Kosher meant and tried to blame Michael. Jennifer came the next victim of Sir Alan, which I think was fair because she really did struggle and fumble around as project manager. Ironically Lucinda actually turned out to be a far more effective project manager than Jennifer did after Jennifer berated her in week five!! Jennifer also tried to argue her case while spitting out venom at the other contestants and even at Sir Alan. Jennifer claimed to be honest and not a cheat but she was too much of an ice queen and a snake to work in that line of business.
I was kind of dissapointed though to see Michael get spared, as Sir Alan obviously has a soft spot for this boy, as he said he saw himself in him, imagining himself at his age of 25 being that arrogant and over-enthusiastic. But to be honest I sincerely hope this boy doesn't win The Apprentice as it would be a real travesty if he did, and it would also mean that Sir Alan would have too much of a sentimental streak for people who mirror his personality. At that point I think Nick and Margaret should take him into a white room and beat him up. But speaking of Margaret I was also rather annoyed at her comment about Edinburgh, as Nick said Michael's an educated boy from Edinburgh Uni and he should know what kosher means to which Mags said: "I don't think Edinburgh is what it used to be!". Cheeky bitch! Anyway that's quite enough for now.
Last night's episode of The Apprentice was again totally riveting TV as the task for this week saw the remaining contestants being sent out to Marakesh where they had to barter with the local market dealers to get 10 items for cheap prices. This certainly doesn't sound easy as a task and it proved a real challenge for both teams, but they both got there in the end.
Along the way though I was quite shocked by the cheap manipulative and under-handed tactics of Jenny who deliberately tried to sabotage the efforts of the other team when they both ended up in a sports shop to purchase 2 tennis rackets. Jenny tried to bribe the shop assistants into delaying the production of the rackets so that way they wouldn't get them in time. This was really a low display from a low character, as Jenny went even further down in my estimation than before after that. Michael was no better who guilt-free went along with Jenny on this act of sabotage, in fact going back to my dislike for Michael, he proved it even more in another piece to the camera when he said "People say "you are arrogant" and I say "yes I'm a 100% arrogant! What are you going to do about it?". Shouldn't people really go up to him and say "yes and you are also a total asshole, what are you going to do about that?!".
Moving on to the outcome of the task, delightfully it was good to see the good team win, i.e. Lee's team consisting of Lucina, Sara, Helenne and Raef, all of whom performed very well under pressure, even though Lee kept repeating the same phrase "That's what I'm talking about!!" a 100 times. They also didn't subscribe to the same pathetic underhanded tactics of the other team, but it was revealed that Jenny and Michael never told the other team mates or Jennifer their project leader (i.e. cold but foxy Dubliner) about the incident either.
In the boardroom Sir Alan let rip on the losing team and much to my delight he overruled the decision of the team leader bringing 2 people back into the boardroom, he brought them all back in where they all had to state their case. And thankfully and finally Jenny was fired for her insubordinate act of trying to stall the rackets from being made for the other team as well as not purchasing a "Kosher" chicken (cos she didn't know what Kosher meant!). It was about time this snakey manipulative bitch got her commupence. Sir Alan accused her again of shifting the blame onto others which she once too often did throughout this contest, but even after she was fired, driving away in the taxi she still denied being in the wrong, as she lied about not knowing what Kosher meant and tried to blame Michael. Jennifer came the next victim of Sir Alan, which I think was fair because she really did struggle and fumble around as project manager. Ironically Lucinda actually turned out to be a far more effective project manager than Jennifer did after Jennifer berated her in week five!! Jennifer also tried to argue her case while spitting out venom at the other contestants and even at Sir Alan. Jennifer claimed to be honest and not a cheat but she was too much of an ice queen and a snake to work in that line of business.
I was kind of dissapointed though to see Michael get spared, as Sir Alan obviously has a soft spot for this boy, as he said he saw himself in him, imagining himself at his age of 25 being that arrogant and over-enthusiastic. But to be honest I sincerely hope this boy doesn't win The Apprentice as it would be a real travesty if he did, and it would also mean that Sir Alan would have too much of a sentimental streak for people who mirror his personality. At that point I think Nick and Margaret should take him into a white room and beat him up. But speaking of Margaret I was also rather annoyed at her comment about Edinburgh, as Nick said Michael's an educated boy from Edinburgh Uni and he should know what kosher means to which Mags said: "I don't think Edinburgh is what it used to be!". Cheeky bitch! Anyway that's quite enough for now.
# posted by kenny @ 5:47 pm 
