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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, March 02, 2009 - 9:35 am
True that, Sea. However, Devyn was very quick to call Scott a player (especially when he was not paying attention to her), but she seems to think what she was doing wasn't the same thing.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, March 02, 2009 - 11:37 am
I don't think Sarah gets a free pass in this either. Her "I don't like any of you well enough to make the effort" kind of goes against why you go into a situation like this in the first place IMO. What did she come to the house for? To be able to live in a strange city and do what she wants? I thought getting to know your roommates and trying to work out conflicts was part of the process. This is the first cast I've watched in years and they are living down to my expectations. Yes, I watched San Francisco too, and with the exception of Puck it was an amazing microcosm of the times it was set in. There has never been a more compelling season EVER in my opinion.
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Malaka
Member
07-05-2007
| Monday, March 02, 2009 - 1:07 pm
Roxip, I think that the Las Vegas season was also an amazing microcosm of the times.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 8:05 am
I had given up by that time. But I understand there was a lot of sex...LOL!
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 9:11 am
Not that i particulary liked Miami (its not anywhere near the top of any list) but i do think Miami was the last time they cast people who were totally normal - at least in the case of Sarah Becker - not that the following casts werent normal people (so to speak) but it seems ALMOST everyone since season 5 had "good looks" at least in terms of for TV - not saying everyone has been beautiful but i just havent seen a whole group of normal looking people since the beginning seasons...
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 11:27 am
I don't think that anybody on this cast is extremely good-looking. There are some that THINK they are good looking but none of them look like Hollywood people to me. Wannabes yet, but perhaps it is also their attitude. I'm sure Devyn is attractive to a lot of people but her ME ME ME attitude puts me off. Scott has a great body (and photographs very well) but he doesn't do anything for me.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 11:46 am
wannabes is the perfect word
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 2:35 pm
Yup. Wannabes. All of 'em. And I agree, none of 'em are really drop dead gorgeous. I think Baya and Sara are cute, but that's about it. The rest just think they are.
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Thorandtara
Member
09-15-2008
| Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 8:53 pm
I don't think it's about being gorgeous. I think it's about the early casts having thier own goals and strategies for achieving those goals, for working the opportunities. The Miami cast was a total turning point...no longer did the cast have to have thier own goals, because goals were supplied for them. I think this year, they were trying to return to New York, LA, San Francisco, where the cast would take advantage of the opportunities of their location, instead of being handed opportunities. It is sadly not working. I think we've seen a generational change...from looking for opportunities to expecting them to be handed to you. Or, maybe I am giving Real World too much credit. Back when LA was on, I remember coaching the son of a friend of mind in ski racing. He was 10ish. He had quite the crush on me, and that was OK. I was out to dinner with him and his parents and brother, and he divulged that he had this whole fantasy of being on "Real World Denver" (long before Denver had every been in anyone's thoughts) in the winter so he could teach skiing somewhere with me. I won't go into where he is today, but he's quite the intersting young man. And, he did do a stint teaching snowboarding with me. He would have been a great Real World cast member. The ones on my television are not. The connection to great televison has been lost.I just see nothing this cast is trying to accomplish other than face time on tv, which is absolutely no different from any other cast since (and starting with) Miami.
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Thorandtara
Member
09-15-2008
| Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 8:10 pm
I'm watching the end of tonight's episode, and I'm loving this season! These people all have their goals, all related to being in New York, and they are all working toward them. It is so reminding me of the early seasons! They are getting jobs or looking for jobs or trying out for jobs. I love it! The Kate arc is fascinating. And yet, they are all just immature young kids (well, to me).
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Malaka
Member
07-05-2007
| Wednesday, March 04, 2009 - 11:30 pm
They are getting jobs... With the help of MTV and the promise of publicity for the potential employers.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 8:14 am
These kids are not getting jobs on their own. Sorry, not impressed. The only difference is they are not getting jobs together.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 9:56 am
the real question is what they will do with these opportunities...
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Thursday, March 05, 2009 - 10:11 am
The only 2 that I can think of that didn't get jobs bythemselves is Dvonne and Chet. Kate is volunteering and the Gay & Lesbian center, Sarah is working w/ art therapy and the Iraqui guy (sorry, I can never remember what his name is) is taking an intensive course on filmaking. I assume Scott was already modeling before he got on this show, so I don't know if this show should really count or not. JD, I have no clue as to what he is doing, and the blonde girl is taking dance classes.
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Sportygirl
Member
06-14-2005
| Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 9:51 am
Enough already with these cleaning fights in the house. I think they are editing the show to make it seem like the roommates have a stupid little clean the house fight every week but that probably only happened during the first week or two. I thought it was a really generous thing for Scott to offer up $1500 so Katelynn could stay in the house. It reminded me of fighting with my brother and sister but then if they really needed me or someone was picking on them, I was right there for them.
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Malaka
Member
07-05-2007
| Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 12:43 pm
The $1500 that Scott offered Kate was mouse nuts to him. He is a model making big bucks. It does not make up for all his whinging, "She did not come to my birthday party."
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Jodie75
Member
08-26-2004
| Thursday, March 12, 2009 - 8:43 pm
It looks like I'm a week behind (as usual, me being a lowly Canadian) - don't know when that happened, because we were even just three weeks ago. Last week's episode (the show that aired March 4th in Toronto, anyway) made me dislike Chet even more than I thought I could. I was very upset with his mocking and "kidding" about Katelynn's medical devices. He kept grilling her and bothering her when it was quite clear to me that she didn't think it was funny. Medical dialators are not "medical dildos" as Chet was saying (and laughing about). They are not only used by post-op transgenders...they are also used by many people with a multitude of birth defects. I was disgusted that he kept pressing Kate on it and wanting to have them to play another "fun" prank. Even if he didn't really mean it (that he didn't really wanted the dialtors, but was just pushing her buttons). Kate's example of someone wanting to "play" with a diabetic's medical supplies was absolutely correct, and it was ridiculous that Chet took such offense to it. He reacted more strongly (and nastily, not to mention defensively) to her example than Kate reacted to his infantile behaviour. That moment, right there, solidifies the disliking I've had for Chet all along. And then, last night's episode, which I've just finished watching, had me shaking my head. Chet was so "hurt" that nobody thought he should be a host for Pedro's film. Chet has already displayed to me his utter lack of compassion for people in the incident with Katelynn; I didn't even agree with the thought that he shouldn't be a host for a film about AIDS because he hasn't had sex...it was his treatment of Kate that made me feel he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near these subjects. If Chet actually DOES get a job with MTV, I can promise you this: I will never, EVER watch him, even if he's interviewing an artist(s) I like.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Friday, March 13, 2009 - 6:21 am
Why did Katelynn need $1500?
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Sportygirl
Member
06-14-2005
| Friday, March 13, 2009 - 11:45 am
Katelynn figured her monthly bills at home were $1500 and since she wasn't making any money in NYC (she lost her job as a go-go dancer), she couldn't afford stay and was thinking about moving back home. Scott offered her the money so that she could stay the rest of the time in the house.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Friday, March 13, 2009 - 3:19 pm
Katelynn had been bouncing checks and was offered a job at a club and would get to dance (which she loves) and get free drinks and $75 (or $100.. both numbers were thrown around). Scott really had NO concept of someone actually needing money and was angry and petulant about her going to work insttead of to his 24th birthday party. He also equated his "worth" as a person with having "50" people show up for his party and told Katelynn she was basically worthless. Of course it was nice to see that Scott was willing to make an effort to keep Katelynn there and that says something good about him. The money itself seemed easily available to him. And his cleaning fetish.. his reaction to cards being left on a table and the chairs not being neatly pushed in was ridiculous. It isn't that there is anything wrong about being that neat, but imposing it on all around you and treating them badly over it, is so controlling! I couldn't believe (well I COULD) all the pouting by Chet when he wasn't just handed the job of MC ing the Pedro film.. and the way 6 of the 8 rejected the opportunity to show the film at a free venue the GLBT center in NY, instead paying for another venue and then playing to a half empty house.. really too bad. But of course MTV will be able to promote the film itself.. the idea was to outreach in their area. Chet was just so entitled.. but I like doing that.. certainly he's been doing interviews and getting plenty of time in the spotlight already. The way he acted about the dilator with Katelynn.. all I could think was there was NO way for her to feel safe in that place with a couple of them, especially Chet, around. He has already proven time and again that he will not respect her or her possessions and I think he thinks (from the intro he does) that by acting as he does that he makes people like Mormons better (not so straight laced.. ) when all it does is make me dislike HIM. Oh.. I just looked up.. what Jodie said.. if Chet gets a spot on MTV I won't be watching it and will be telling them why (LOL.. not that I'm even remotely in their demographic target group) Jodie, you watched the same new episode I watched last night. and the sad sad thing is that I fear that Chet will be the one hired by MTV Looks like next week the army guy gets orders to go back on active duty. AND.. They did promo bot a new duel season, shot in New Zealand and the airing of the Pedro film, too. It will be interesting to see the Pedro film, but I suspect, from what we saw, it will be a little unsettling to those of us who watched that season and the special about Pedro later and saw the real SF roomies and the real Pedro in action.
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Malaka
Member
07-05-2007
| Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 4:51 pm
Malaka likes Seamonkey's post.
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Countrydaze
Member
11-07-2003
| Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 6:05 pm
They seem to be a bit childish in their behavior. Locking up the dishes and moving the furniture into the girls room. And Chet has no respect for anyone. Seamonkey I so agree with what you said about Chet and Scott. This season there is no one that I really like, but I seem to dislike the guys much more than the girls.
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Jodie75
Member
08-26-2004
| Saturday, March 14, 2009 - 10:20 pm
Seamonkey, if only I had your gift for writing. What you said about Chet: "He has already proven time and again that he will not respect her or her possessions and I think he thinks (from the intro he does) that by acting as he does that he makes people like Mormons better (not so straight laced.. ) when all it does is make me dislike HIM." ...is EXACTLY what I wish I'd had said. I feel the exact same way as you. One thing about Ryan...it's strange, the first impression I had of him was that he instigated stuff; now I feel like he clings on to whatever drama is occuring to liven it up.
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 1:01 pm
I'm just now getting caught up with the show. I love Katelynn! I've never heard her mention her family. Do we know her relationship with her siblings or parents?? 
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 5:19 pm
Nic, she was talking to her mother on the phone on the latest episode, but I know she went alone to Thailand for her "reassignment" surgery.
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