A Surviving Apprentice Lost in the West Wing

Okay, so we now have four TV shows to cover for this week.

Lost - Lost was pretty good this week, although it dragged in a few points. The primary focus of this episode was to tell us that Jin is actually a nice guy who is trying to hide aspects of the world from his wife. Now that his wife's English has been exposed, he might be given broader storylines from which to be used as he learns English. Of course, the other two main points were to free up Sun so she can develop a relationship with Michael, and to go ahead and destroy the boat so no one will be leaving anytime soon. That Walt was the one who destroyed the boat was predicted by Mrs. X and lends itself to my theory that Walt has very little objection to using others and his apparent powers to get what he wants. Very dangerous combination. Next week we get Hurley's story and hopefully an explanation of how he does Korean car commercials.

West Wing - One of those confusing episodes that tells you something at the start and doesn't explain it until the end, where you then spend the next 15 minutes sorting out the storyline in your head. This week was also the "please give Richard Schiff the Emmy" episode of the season. While I can say that Toby's storyline was somewhat compelling, the fight was very out of place. Josh acted totally out of character and the fight made very little sense in my and Mrs. X's mind. At least we have this article from MSNBC that indicates that they have signed Martin Sheen for next season and that its still "up in the air" as to whether or not Smits will win. I think they've already made up their mind about Smits, unless Bradley Whitford suddenly decides that he doesn't want to play Josh anymore.

Survivor - After an interesting opening, Mark Burnett is returning to the safe ground and making Survivor 10 just like every other season. I will say that there is a bit of improvement this season in the engagability of the people. Kuror is clearly the favored tribe, with Tom and Ian being set up as people to root for, at least initially. Most of the development on Ulong has been negative with only the tattoo girl getting some positive spin. Mrs. X has read a rumor that Kuror will dominate for a while, losing only one member before going into either a tribal shuffle or a straight on merge. So the negative spin for Kuror may not come until a bit later.

Apprentice - Mrs. X and I were shocked again by Trump's ability to actually fire the person who deserved it this season. Tara just immediately jumped in the wrong direction and pulled the whole team with her. As such, I am forced to make my first amendment to my final four prediction. I was first thinking that it would be Jon, Tara, and Craig from Net Worth and Alex from Magna. Now I have to pull off Tara and maybe Craig as well. We've seen mostly just flying under the radar from him and he will need to make an impact soon to save his skin. I expect Audrey's blowup next week to either bring success or to get her fired. Either way, she's on the hot seat.