America's Most Smartest Model

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Thanks for the info, aibohphobia!!!! So there was a show on Sunday night? Frickin' iTunes. HURRY UP!!!

I think Mary Alice is hilarious. She's drunk on power. Which is absurd considering this is a VH1 reality show. Some of these people must go home and just die of embarrassment when their show airs. Oy.

[Spinderella]

UGH!!! I so hate VJ.

[aibohphobia]

spinderella said:

UGH!!! I so hate VJ.

Yes, I didn't even watch the finale last night because someone had a link to the last few minutes showing VJ winning on Saturday, and I didn't want to waste my time watching the whole show. I guess he was "street smart", but he just doesn't look like he'll be a successful model to me even with the lifts that it was so obvious that he got later on. I think he could do some fitness magazines, which is only a step up above Mandy Lynn, imo, but he'll never be as successful as Brett, Andre, or some of the others.

I think Mary Alice is hilarious. She's drunk on power. Which is absurd considering this is a VH1 reality show. Some of these people must go home and just die of embarrassment when their show airs. Oy.

If she becomes the laughingstock at her job and within the fashion industry because her VJ bias overruled her knowledge about modeling, I would find that hilarious. I just couldn't find it that funny now even though she obviously was drunk with power from the start because I expected it to be like it was the first few episodes where it poked a lot of fun at the models, but the show wasn't too cruel or too serious yet, imo. Then, midway through while there was still some humor, Mary Alice's biases and hypocrisy began sucking all the fun out of the show. I'm not sure if it's because if I started to emphathize with the models more since I had got to know them, or if it was that and because her power trip got to the point where it wasn't funny to watch anymore because VJ was probably the worst of the models left.

[kathy1977]

I was never the biggest Andre fan. But holy SHIT he looked delicious in the final episode. I can't believe that Monique person said she would rather see VJ in her clothes. Andre may be an ass, but he's a drop dead gorgeous one. He's got charisma.

[clementine74]

Yes, that dude was dead on when he said that Andre had that "edge". Put him in a nice suit and he'll look better than the average model, IMO, because he doesn't look like a standard mannequin.
The show ceased to be entertaining and/or legitimate when the challenges stopped having anything to do with intelligence or strategy. If the show were actually anything it claimed to be, the Final 2 would have been Aussie Rachel and Brett.
oh!! And I can't believe that I almost forgot to mention this! The woman fitting them for their suits?? Michael J. Fox's girlfriend from the original Back to the Future? Jennifer? She looked AWFUL! A scary, over plastic-surgeried MESS! and her slobbering all over VJ didn't help her case.

ETA: Were we supposed to believe that VJ got "excited" by "1st Jennifer (LOL)" touching him even though there wasn't another penis in the room? Puh-lease.

[Spinderella]

OMG! Yes! The BTTF "1st Jennifer" woman was looking ROUGH, yo.

And Andre was so genius with bringing in Pickel. Even the "smart judges" were saying so. I thought this was America's MOST SMARTEST model? How was cheating/lying VJ the smartest? He was the most ANNOYING and DECEPTIVE.

Hate. Mary-Alice obviously wanted to hook up with VJ.

[sardonictart]

I only started watching this because of the occasional work with Mary Alice that my company does, and I didn't see that many episodes, unfortunately. From what I did see I absolutely loved Brett and wished he had won. As for Mary Alice being drunk with power, well...I don't know quite how to put this, but she is somewhat powerful in that industry. I'm not sure how she got that way, but I can tell you that she's actually a decent person that can get even the most famous models to show up somewhere for her.

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It's nice to hear that about Mary Alice STEPHENSON.

We finally caught up and watched the whole thing over the holidays and I really am astounded that VJ's sensible, motivated behaviour was considered cheating by the other contestants. This show hit a new low-water mark in reality-TV by presenting a group of contestants in which every single one of them was odious and really fucking stupid. But VJ was actually the least-stupid of them all and if I had to choose one of them to work with, he'd be the one.

And that's really what it came down to -- if you had to work with one of them, and needed to depend on them to bring a scintilla of intelligence and innovation (as well as looks), and if you wanted to work with someone who knew something about the business of modeling and its place in the marketing of products, well, the choice was obvious, even though he could be a total dick: VJ.

I think the thing that kept me hooked was how this show, oddly enough, managed to highlight how utterly oblivious most people are to the actual business of their business. Pretty mannequins and spokesmodels are hired to sell a product or service for a client. It's really simple. And yet... only one of them got it: VJ. The rest of them couldn't see past their egos to the whole reason they'd be hired. "Because I'm a smart model?" No, dummy, because we think we could sell our product using your look. Period.

Though, in fairness, they're not much more oblivious than the people I work with, so there ya go.

I could very easily see many of the contestants -- Brett and Pickel and Andre and Aussie Rachael -- doing fine work. Pickel in gay porn, especially the gay porn inside my head when he was onscreen.

Andre only made it to the end for the pumped-up, reality-TV drama. He certainly looks good on film but, seriously, would you work with him? A whiny, belligerent asshat with, basically, only two "looks"? The most delicious moment in the whole season was when Mr. Soviet Russian Soviet!-Soviet! Comrade was revealed to not be able to speak Russian. And he moved from Russia, what, 6 years ago? Jeepers.

I know, I know... language skills are the first to fall away when you don't use them. IF YOU'RE AN IDIOT! The man can't open his mouth without mentioning Russia, you'd think he'd have, oh, retained some knowledge of Russia more than just the words "Russia" and "Soviet".

One thing that amazed me: how any of the judges could call Andre getting Pickel to do his presentation a coup. Yes, I want to hire a model for a job and then have him show up with someone else who he thinks should do it. Right. In the Universe of Belligerent Stupid inside Andre's head, that was a brilliant move. In the mind of someone who hired him... WTF?!?!

Also? How many times did you imagine Pickel and Brett making out together? Me: 8500.