I get your point, Wacko, but following your logic, Andy should never have been fired in the Kelley season. There were loads of people who thought that Kelley and another older contestant were not as qualified as Andy, and that the two of them tried to steamroll Andy in a number of tasks and public presentations (by ignoring or stealing his ideas or by trying to keep him down).

Some people thought that in spite of Andy's youth, he was simply better than some of the older candidates. (At least that is a strongly stated opinion that I saw on these boards.)

I also noted that in that situation, few people, Kelley-supporters in particular, suggested that Kelley, at 37, was far too old to be an apprentice. People said he was boring, but I did not recall seeing any arguments that suggested that his age should eliminate him from being The Donald's apprentice.

The Donald's son ended up hiring Andy post-season. This suggests that Andy was pretty good at something...I admit that I could see Burnett and The Donald giving Andy the job, because, apparently, he is a bright, productive young person--even compared to his main competition (Kelley).

My comments (here and in earlier notes to you from last season) go to the way that Burnett skewed the editing to create a fiction that Randal was incompetent. That season was a low point for me, because the idea that someone of Randal's background could be less good than the Rebecca that they showed us on television was quite frankly, ludicrous. It simply does not compute. (Of course, that's my position, and I respect your completely different take on this.)

I was also struck by any arguments that Randal's age should disqualify him from being The Apprentice, especially given the analyses that I read about why it was a good thing that Robot Kelley became The Apprentice in his season. He was, during his competition, older than Randal.

It is for these reasons that, at least for me, last season was a low point, and this season, while definitely bad, is not as bad as that. But Mark Burnett may throw another curve ball and end up treating other candidates as horribly as he treated Brent in the editing process. His shallow editing process is destroying what once was a pretty good show.

--Singer