I am with Joanna this week, didn’t Terrell know when he signed up for this show that he might make it until the end? So either the Bills made him leave, he spread himself too thin with this show and the one on VH1, or he just decided that this year he may want to start working out with his team like all the other receivers do? Regardless it made him look pretty bad because no explanation was really given and it seemed like he just copped out. Without Terrell Owens and Joanna Krupa I will be true to my word, this will be the last review of The Superstars from me, and I really do not think I will end up watching it next week either. With Terrell leaving this meant that Ali Landry and Jeff Kent are back in the mix, at least for the time being.
On to the events of the week though, which were also a downer. A relay race around the golf course and bowling? You are at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas and a relay race and bowling is the best you can come up with? I would have rather seen the golf course portion actually involve golf, go figure.
The relay race was setup like a circle where one contestant would start running to the right and the other start running to the left, when they met they would hand off the baton and go back the way they came. I guess that gave it a bit of strategy in that one runner could run more than a half circle if they were faster and the slower runner would then not have to run as much. Kristi Leskinen and Maksim Chmerkovskiy win this event with Brandi Chastain and Julio Iglesias, Jr coming in second. The only interesting part was the stupid strategy or lack of strategy that Bode Miller and Paige Hemmis employed. They decided that they would not try at the running event because the felt the most they could hope for would be a third or fourth place, so they half-assed it. The plan was that saving all that energy would allow them to really do well and take first place on the event the next day. Does anyone after watching this show really not understand why this guy looked like an ass at the Olympics now? It is called “no heart” on the playground Bode. Thank goodness they saved their energy for the next day for bowling.
While the golf relay race was not that exciting, bowling was not really a step up. Now I do not mind bowling, but for a show like this I would like to think they could have a bit more imagination. Brandi is some self proclaimed bowling savant, telling the audience she bowled a 200 game when she was 8 years old. Do not know if I believe that, but she did do pretty good out there. Julio is just a jack of all trades and does a decent job at bowling as well, so team Brandi/Julio takes the prize for this event. Each contestant got to bowl one ball of the frame and then their partner the other. A rubber match ensues to see who will go to the obstacle course and who is safe between team Bode/Paige and David/Lisa. Whoever can throw the first strike wins, well unless you are the first team, then team two has a chance to match you. Well thank goodness for all that rest, Bode throws a strike and it looks like they will be safe. Wait, David Charvet comes through in the clutch and gets a strike to match Bode. Guess what, David foot fouls and will have to run the obstacle course after all. It actually brought a bit of drama to an otherwise boring event.
The obstacle course has a new piece the balance beam, but other than that same stuff. Ali Landry and Jeff Kent are the ones that go home . . . again. Who knows someone may leave again before the start of the next events and they could be back. The last note I have about this show is they should have just kept it to atheletes. Let me see some basketball, football, hockey, and baseball atheletes all compete against each other. In the days of these crazy contracts though, no one wants to get hurt I guess.
Even though I have been pretty happy with the hosting team, John Saunders really laid some eggs on the jokes tonight. Even the contestants cringed on some of the badly laid puns. Warren Sapp is still holding it down, but seriously I do not even remember Jenn Brown on the last two episodes. I mean I think she is still there, but she is that forgettable.
Quote of the Night: “T.O. has a reputation of not being a good teammate, and I guess I’m just another teammate.” – Joanna
Hi Damon,
Though The Superstars hasn’t been pulling in the viewing figures, many are unhappy that ABC have decided to bump the finale to next week.
What’s your thoughts?
I was very unhappy, it was still listed on the FIOS guide for me so I had planned to watch it on Tuesday. Then I sit down and the Bachlorette or something like that is on. I know I said I would not review the rest of the episodes with JOanna and T.O. gone, but I still would have liked to watch it. I guess and experiment they will not try again, even though I had some good ideas to make it better so people would watch. Go for the ESPN crowd is what I say.
And my word, when ABC did show the finale, it turned out to be the most tepid episode of the series.
Glad that Kristi and Maks won, though – if it had been Lisa and David, I’d have thrown the TV out the window. They were tremendously lucky to reach the last three.
Yeah it was a little unfair though as Maks was an athlete in his own right. I was surprised that Lisa and David even made it as far as they did. Bode was a beast though if he has someone decent they would have won it. Paige was just super slow. I said I wouldnt write about them but I did at least watch the rest of them and stand by the fact it should be all atheletes
Yeah, I too think that it should go back to being athletes only in future series. And athletes who are pretty decent at a good number of events, at that – all Lisa was really good at (besides basketball) was the obstacle course.