1) Tara
2) Dane
3) Blaine
4) Sione
5) Shannon
6) Cathy
7) Kristen
8) Laura
9) Helen
10) Mike
11) Ron
12) Aubrey
13) Mandi
14) Felipe
So, here's to hoping they either a) Go to singles and Felipe somehow goes home or b) Yellow team goes home.

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I feel like an individual ranking is in order:
1) Tara 2) Dane 3) Blaine 4) Sione 5) Shannon 6) Cathy 7) Kristen 8) Laura 9) Helen 10) Mike 11) Ron 12) Aubrey 13) Mandi 14) Felipe So, here's to hoping they either a) Go to singles and Felipe somehow goes home or b) Yellow team goes home. |
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Thanks to NBC Universal Media Village
Couples are stronger, and pushed further: Couples finds the players struggling through a "pop" challenge that forces them to balance on one foot atop a wooden block. Whoever pushes through the pain and stands the longest wins a 24-hour visit with a loved one from home. Now that the players are hitting a stride, feeling the benefits of five weeks of strength training, testing their endurance becomes the big theme this week. The physical challenge again combines balance and endurance as partners compete to see who can hold a bar overhead the longest. Two teams last into the night! Trainer Bob Harper focuses on the Brown Team's Mike during the last-chance workout. Bob knows Mike and his father Ron can't afford to fall below the yellow line for the third week in a row. The weigh-in presents a major twist in the game that leaves no one happy. At elimination, players are at odds. One group struggles with its trainer's wishes to send home the stronger competitor. Don't miss the action! Thanks to TBL Newsletter It sounds like they'll do the twist of sending a person home from a team, but everyone decides, not the team. I'm guessing it's one of Jill's teams because the whole "trainer commands their group to send the stronger person home!" Since season 4, we haven't seen Jill get involved much with the teams. My guess though is that it's Brown below (again) and they pick between the Dad or the Son. Based on how they ALWAYS focus on the fucking son on the previews despite him being mute, they send the dad home. Just a guess. That or they decide between the black guys. [/Spoiler] |
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If they are voting one partner off, I think pink, black, blue, and brown are probably safe since there isn't one person on any of those teams that could be
considered markedly stronger than their partner. I was thinking maybe it was green or yellow. For example, Jillian may want Mandi to go home instead of
Aubrey because she sucked and only lost like 2 lbs at home. I don't think this is the twist though.
The weigh-in presents a major twist in the game that leaves no one happy. At elimination, players are at odds. One group struggles with its trainer's wishes to send home the stronger competitor. Don't miss the action!It says a major twist leaves no one happy. I don't think voting off one half of a couple would qualify as a major twist. If they were just splitting into black and blue teams and they all kept the same trainer, I doubt everyone would be upset about it. It also says "one group" which would imply that there is another group. [theory] I think they will split up all the couples - a major twist that leaves no one happy. Both teams would have four of Bob's people and three of Jillian's people on them - players are at odds. Bob would obviously want his people to get rid of Jillian's people - trainer wishes to send home stronger competitor. When they go to singles, Jill's originals are all gone, Bob's originals all go back to be trained by Bob with their partners, and Bob finally "wins". [/theory] I really hope I'm wrong. If Bob wins, he'll be all smug at the finale and then media whore all over the place like he did with that fat slob Erik when he beat Kim in the third season. |
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YemaGrl1988 wrote: Two words: Fatter fatties. |
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Former Angel Gabriel |
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I think the fatties work harder now. The trainers have probably learned tricks to make them lose weight faster too. I remember when Jillian said she was
experimenting a new diet with Brittany and it didn't work.
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Or maybe, no probably, she's just a fat pig that doesn't want to work as hard as the rest of the fat pigs. Wow, what a concept. That can't be it.
There must be another excuse that will stick. Let's keep pondering.
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Former Angel Gabriel |
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Did you even read the post above mine? Shut the fuck up about Joelle. We get it. You don't like her.
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Former Angel Gabriel |
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Spoiler for next episode's SHOCKING TWIST:
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albertjoseph |
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I'll never understand why NBC insists on spoiling their own show by sending those e-mails. There were a few last season that made it pretty clear who was
up for elimination.
BTW, is anyone else feeling burned out on this show? I feel like they're just running these seasons too close together. |
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itsfriday |
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I'm not burned out watching this show - they just need to replace Bob.
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CatNamedRudy |
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I'm not burned out either. And I don't want them to replace Bob. I want to watch him go ape shit some more.
I just wish they would go back to singles. I really am tired of this couples crap. |
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albertjoseph |
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I'd like to see more specifics about their workout regimens and diet, and less drama and product placement. But that'll never happen, unfortunately.
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CatNamedRudy |
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All this constant bitching about product placement in shows cracks me up. Does it honestly take away from your viewing pleasure? Jillian telling the fatties
to eat some gum or a Nabisco 100 calorie pack really has no bearing on how I feel about a certain contestant.
I think they focus enough on the workout stuff. I do wish they would go a little more into the diet and really work with the contestants on how to control themselves in the real world. The majority of people cannot and will not workout 4-5 hours a day. It's just not feasible.
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albertjoseph |
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Does it honestly take away from your viewing pleasure?
Frankly, since I DVR it, it shortens the show for me. But that doesn't mean it isn't an assinine exercise in manufactured "reality" that I could do without altogether. For me, simply seeing the trainers yelling at the contestants in the gym, or having them do things like try to hurl their 300+ lb bodies up onto 12 - 18 inch high platforms (which is probably hugely unsafe for some people of that size to try at home), is pointless. I'd like to see the trainers working with the contestants to set up their workout regimen (i.e. what body parts to hit, how many sets in general, the rep-range, etc.) Especially if this season they're trying to cram a "you can do this at home too" theme down our throats. But the reality is that if they really discussed what they put these people through on campus, viewers would realize they'd never have the time to do those workouts, and they'd realized how far removed from the on-campus regimen the videos and memberships they're hawking really are. |
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They purposely don't tell the audience about diet and workout specifics so that we'll go and buy their books, DVD's and products. They even have
Ali on QVC selling "biggest loser" brand products like blenders, food processors and food scales.
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CatNamedRudy wrote: X! And I want to see the fatties have to pass up ice cream and pizza that is sitting all over the house. I want to see them tormented. I want to see late-night footage of Joelle downing a bag of chips while everyone else is sleeping. I know it exists. |
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