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It's time for Black vs. Blue on "The Biggest Loser". Prepare for all the lovely melodrama that comes with splitting up teammates and trainers.Right off the bat, Alison Sweeney presents the contestants with a temptation challenge. But this one's kind of special. Imagine a giant wheel with 36 silver platters. We lovingly refer to it as the Wheel of Fat. Here's the deal: one platter has a Golden Ticket which gives someone the power to choose Black and Blue teams. There are also various dollar amounts and thousands of calories worth of scrumptious treats. Everyone but Abby chooses to play for the chance at the almighty power.
The first few people up to bat don't have very good luck. They get some delicious-looking cupcakes and donuts (along with a 1000-calorie slice of cake for Rudy) but no money and no almighty power. Then it's Tracey's turn. The skies turn black, the lightning bolts strike, and the animals scamper to shelter. Somehow, Tracey was filled with the power of an Egyptian Pharaoh and willed the Golden Ticket to land in front of her. Seriously, you guys, this is getting freaky.
And because we all know how Tracey thinks, she decides to split up almost every team and put all the big strong guys on her team and everyone else can suck it. The new Blue Team is: Tracey, Mo, Allen, Liz, Rudy, and Rebecca. The new Black Team is: Daniel, Shay, Abby, Danny, Amanda, and Dina. So... yeah. Tracey's digging herself a nice little hole here.
Liz is now on a war path. Tracey has taken away her support system (Danny) and therefore must die a violent death. Or at least get kicked off the show. She decides to take out her frustration in the gym. Jillian Michaels is also taking advantage of her new Black Team by pretty much working them out to the point of upchucking. Bob Harper is pretty much business as usual. We also take a break to laugh at Dina as she tries over and over to jump up on a little stool. I'm sorry, but this was funny. Rudy tries to help his old teammate, but eventually he was like "F this, I'm going to eat."
This week's challenge was pretty boring. Each team had to carry one teammate on a platform up a hill and through some mud. First team across the finish line wins. *yawn* Anyway, we all knew how this would end. The Blue Team, with all their big burly men and whatnot, school the Black Team's tushies. It didn't help matters that Amanda lost a shoe in the mud, Shay had no strength, and Daniel lacks coordination. The winners all get videos from home. Cue the tears.
Now that the teams are divided up into Black vs. Blue, the yellow line is gone and is replaced by a percentage. The team with the lowest percentage goes to elimination. Pretty simple. Because Tracey won the almighty power (again) this week, she goes first. And apparently the gods are still pleased with her, because he lost another 7 pounds despite lack of intense exercise. Allen, Rudy, and Rebecca all post decent numbers as well. But it's Mo who falls short with only 6 pounds, and Liz whose taste for vengeance has helped her lose the most weight on her team with a 10 pound loss. Then it's Black's turn. We all know what Jillian can accomplish, so naturally we expect some big numbers. Abby, Dina, and Amanda do just OK, but Danny and Daniel each post double digits that bring their score up even higher. It all falls onto Shay's shoulders. She has to lose 8 pounds to keep her team safe, but Shay decides to just impress the heck out of everyone and lose a whopping 16 pounds instead. That works too. Black wins this round with 3.05% weight loss, while Blue only had 2.56%.
This is the point in the show in which America starts rejoicing. Why? Because Tracey's team is going to elimination! And since Liz has immunity for losing the most weight on her team, Tracey's got a red laser beam pointed directly at her forehead. But then... disaster strikes. Mo wants to go home. He gives a big speech about how he lost the least amount of weight, yada yada yada. But no one goes home willingly on The Biggest Loser unless they want to. With gritted teeth (and more sobbing fits from Tracey) the Blue Team actually honors his wishes and sends him home. What. Just. Happened?
Next week, everybody goes home! And from the looks of things, somebody totally binges on a Rooty Tooty Fresh 'N Fruity or a birthday cake from the grocery store deli. Someone will totally gain weight. Any guesses who?
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For the record, Liz lost 8 pounds, not 10. I just watched the episode over on my VCR, and she went from 240 last week to 232.
VCR? People still have those things? Use them even?
Yes, SGM...people DO own VCR's and DO use them. You seem to have a problem with that. I have a record player too. Wanna grinch about that as well?
As for the show.....Liz sure talked a good game. Too bad she didn't follow through with her "threat" of sending Tracey (Sybil) home. That will probably bite her on the a** later. She better watch her back.
Congrats to Shay :)
Did anyone else notice that the show's producers re-recorded the lost percentage per team screen shot? Those screens retain their impressions, and from the start of the close-up on the monitors, you could see the last impression (Black wins this round with 3.05% weight loss, while Blue only had 2.56%.) Kind of disappointing from the start, since we all knew how the weigh-in would end.
I think it is horrbile that Mo got sent home. He has such a good heart - God bless him. He was thinking of others - including Tracey over his thoughts.
I think Tracey will bring down the team emotionally and psychologically and continue to enforce a negative and depressing enviroment. Having those feelings inside will definitely be more harmful.
I think Mo really wanted to go home. Boot camp work-outs and wacky challenges are a young peoples game. I'm not taking anything away from Coach Mo. I think he is a wonderful caring man. I do think he is happier now. He's out there helping young people, as he always did, and now helping himself. God bless you Coach Mo.
I think it is sad that Bob gets the "villain" again this season. I would have enjoyed seeing Jillian take her to task in the gym for sure. Does anyone else wonder if the producers said "hey look, if you send Tracey this will be one boring show so don't send her home".I just couldn't figure any other reason out - she's dropping lots of weight, she is driving people nuts, and she will have the least weight to lose later. I did enjoy her husband's video though - semper fi to him! (sorry if I spelled it wrong)
Tracy reminds me of those 2 evil witches from a few seasons ago, Vicky and Heba. Couldn't stand either one of them. And even though I keep trying to remind myself that there IS a game element to this show....people like Tracy fry my butt. There always has to be one two-faced runt on the show. Makes for good TV. But it still annoys the heck out of me!
I didn't necessarily like Tracy prior to last night, but I didn't despise her, either. After last night I despise her. I hated how she made the decision to break everyone up and then CRIED about it. If you're going to be a cold hearted game player than just PLAY the game and stop crying about it and expecting sympathy from the people you just back stabbed. SHE made the decision to break everyone up in order to help herself (stack her team with the big guys). No one made her do it (unless there was producer influence- which there really easily could have been). Well, that didn't really help her in the end anyway, did it?
Having said all of that- I also was annoyed at all the crying hysterics from everyone else. It's not like anyone was taking these people in the back and shooting them. It's not like you still aren't living in the same house and still can't give each other support. I was so annoyed with all the waterworks!
I always respect players on these types of reality shows (I only really watch this, Surviver & Amazing Race) who honor people when they say "send me home". Granted Mo was asking to be sent home as the honorable thing to do, but I agree with Joe Schmoe. There was definitly a part of him that just wanted to go home. I hate when players on reality shows DON'T send a person home who wants to go for game play purposes only. In that regard I think they made the best choice. Hopefully Tracy can get booted next week.
What made me cry was hearing one of the women talking about "laying" on the platform. It's LYING, not laying. When did these two words become interchangeable?
You lay a sweater on the bed, but you lie down. It's not that hard a concept.
I cry for America's loss of grammar...