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"The Biggest Loser"
blacknwhitedog 6528 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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09-27-04, 11:19 AM (EST)
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"The Biggest Loser" |
Premieres on NBC Tuesday Oct 19 @ 8PMLooks like a bunch of fat people will compete for who can lose the most weight my dieting and exercise (not surgery). I think they live in a house together like Big Brother? They seem to have a big table full of sweets for temptation. I may watch out of morbid facination
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newsomewayne 9065 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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10-20-04, 10:02 AM (EST)
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While I agree the producers are preying on those unhappy with themselves, I think there are some important differences.For one, on the Big L, contestants do all the work themselves. If they lose the weight it is because of something they did and can be proud of, not because of what some doctor or dentist can do with surgery and silicone. Second, unlike considering yourself unattractive, obesity is dangerous to your health. The changes these people can make are so important on so many levels that have nothing to do with vanity. I wish them luck. It's like science. It really can't be explained.
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Estee 55195 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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10-20-04, 06:50 AM (EST)
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LAST EDITED ON 10-20-04 AT 09:26 AM (EST)Morbid fascination grabbed a few minutes away from Boston/New York, so I can say the following: 1. I tried to watch it as a pure competition/lifestyle change show, sort of like Queer Eye contestants finding out who'll go and meet the Fab Five by seeing who can do the best wardrobe change without them. Hard. Very hard. They were walking on the border between caring about their contestants and pushing them into the fat joke abyss, and there were a lot of moments when they almost fell off the line -- mostly visual. The temptation refrigerators, that first public weigh-in and putting everyone in bathing suits to start... This is going to be a hard show to make fun of as far as the players go, because I want to see them succeed, and it looks like the producers will be pushing for failure at least twice a show. 2. The production values are really, really vulnerable. Let's count off just a few of the travesties, all right? Caroline Rhea can lead off, because she seems to think she's Jiffie and she brought the Reward Challenge to prove it. 'Wanna see what you're playing for? Five pounds of lard!' And so Bubba's TV career is resumed. I have suffered more than this in watching Ms. Rhea go through the reality motions. I watched her win Celebrity Blackjack's first season and prove she could be a sore loser, a sore winner, and injure poor Billy Baldwin -- twice -- without caring in the least, because she's Caroline Rhea and above the emotions of lesser beings. But let this thing run for a while, and it'll get close by the fourth episode. With her need to Jiffie-recap the votes (the platters... I can still see the platters...), 'time to cut the fat' lines, and overall aura of 'This is the best job I could get -- whee!', she can be plowed into the ground during every episode, and no one will care beyond enjoying it a lot. Oh, and the refrigerator going dark? Priceless. We need a line for that. 'The power company has spoken.' 'Your bulb is dead to us.' 'This is the final snack of the night.' Nice scale, too. I didn't know they came in drama models that took five minutes to center on the subject's weight. And did anyone else notice the tape measure numbers scrolling by behind the contestants' names during their confessional-tells? 3. Quarter-million dollars? Cheapstakes. 4. Doctors on hand, medical supervision, carefully tailored programs, making sure no one hurts themselves doing this -- even though it's gonna inspire a thousand dieting traumas in the viewers who go to work without such safeguards (and would have anyway), just watch -- but still, everyone thinks carbs are evil. Y'know what I'm waiting for? The all-veggie, no-carb, low-protein diet. Guaranteed to work because nothing takes off weight like decomposition. 5. Okay, so it was kind of fun to see the weight loss tallies. And following up on the banished should be a weekly thing. 6. How on Earth do you vote? Survivor is 'eat the strong': is this going to be 'eat the big?' Keep the heaviest people around for the early stages, hoping their losses will be the highest and rack up your tally -- and then get rid of them as soon as possible if it somehow goes down to individual competition, so they can't lose more than you? 7. I give it three weeks before someone takes a swing at a trainer. 8. I give it five weeks before FOX rips it off.
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Estee 55195 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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10-20-04, 12:31 PM (EST)
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Ack! I violated my own personal rule and visited the message board before writing a summary. Now I am destined to ripoff some of your thoughts. I will attribute them accordingly.Err... sorry? I don't think it's much of a problem, though. As we found out during OJ, you and I sometimes think along vaugely similar lines. (This makes me feel very worried about you, but there's nothing I can do about it.) One other thought I had - the production style seemed reminiscient of the FLOM shows, especially with the way they cut before commercials and repeated the previous few seconds at the resumption, constant previews, etc. I know many shows do this, but it seemed like FLOM. That needs its own name. How about 'Idiot Edit'? I was half expecting some secret twist where one is offered money to sabotage the others. An offline correspondent asked me if any of the contestants had been caught trying to stuff food down the others' throats while they slept...
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blacknwhitedog 6528 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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10-20-04, 10:39 AM (EST)
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13. "RE: The Biggest Loser" |
I kinda liked it except that Caroline Rhea annoys the heck out of me. The two trainers have different approaches. Jillian (the red team) has them on a low-carb "eat less" diet. She believes in pushing them very hard in their workouts. She has more of a drill-sargent style. Bob (the blue team) is more laid back. He doesn't want them to get discouraged. He has them on a portion control "eat more" diet. The red team lost more weight this week even though they lost the challenge and got a 5 pound penalty. The blue team had to vote someone off and they sent 21-yr old Dana home because she has the least amount of weight to lose. Instead of extinguishing the torch of the bootee, their refigerator light is turned off- kind of cheesy!Here's the recap from the NBC website http://www.nbc.com/nbc/The_Biggest_Loser/recaps/ a Phoenix Mons creature
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Estee 55195 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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10-20-04, 12:21 PM (EST)
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16. "RE: The Biggest Loser" |
Just read the NBC summary: morbid curiosity took over. It's textbook. Unfortunately, the course is entitled 'How To Give Out Most Of The Needed Information While Boring Everyone To Sleep'. Gah.
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Smooth23 1244 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Politically Incorrect Guest"
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10-20-04, 07:28 PM (EST)
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25. "RE: The Biggest Loser" |
I loaded up on cookies and milk while watching. Am I a bad person?
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frodo2 289 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Network TV Show Guest Star"
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10-21-04, 10:18 AM (EST)
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30. "RE: The Biggest Loser" |
Not these. They're more realistic than the people on the other shows. you look at survivor and you're getting a bunch of hotties with somewhat odd character traits. with TBL, the people could be your friend or next door neighbor. It's closer reality.
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pmspml5 3192 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Car Show Celebrity"
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10-22-04, 05:02 PM (EST)
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34. "RE: The Biggest Loser" |
I agree VS - I did catch an episode of "Cold Turkey" (hey I was on pain meds ok) The one thing I liked about it is that they do challenges to earn the money. Everyone that does quit splits the prize. I kinda like that. I felt for the very big guy that ate 4 pieces of bacon - his team was all over him. If he can stop at 4 pieces I say eat away it is more likely to keep him on the diet the rest of the time - the key is stopping at 4.
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MollyTV 480 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Daytime Soap Guest Star"
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10-22-04, 03:15 PM (EST)
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i am waiting for the celebrity version coming in nov...with ralphie may.. looks good. mollytv
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