"This is the true story of seven exhibitionists, picked to pose around in a house, work together, and have their puerile attention-starved lives taped by sleazy MTV producers... So find out what happens when seven me-me-me individuals (well
six plus Jose) stop being even half-way likable
and start embarrassing the hell out of their parents and friends with their drunken orgies and fortune-cookie wisdom... The Real World."
In descending IQ order:
John. You know that the IQ situation isn't too promising with John topping this list: after all, this is the man who calls women "dude". Still, next to the four girls, he is practically Einstein, Hawking, and Churchill rolled into one. At first, I tended to agree with Tyler's initial appraisal of John as "a meat-head ready to smash a beer-can against his forehead". However, one of the true surprises of the KW season is that John turns out to be far more sensible than most people here. The other surprise is that he was, along with the other two guys, the least annoying.
Which brings me to Zach. One would expect that a former fat-nerdy-kid-turned-tall-slim-stud would be far more in-your-face – as a way of dealing with insecurities of the past. However, Zach isn't Tyler. Mellow, PC to a fault, never raising his voice, it was evident early on that Zach would NOT be the "star" of the show. After all, the camera – and the average viewer – will take a train-wreck over a nice guy/gal any time.
Apropos nice. Jose, "the invisible guy", is ridiculously patient, low-key, and forgiving. He oftentimes seemed to be the Latino version of Zach. No temper tantrums, no scandals, no over-the-top posing for the cameras. In short, no proper TRW personality, hence a baffling choice by the producers. I'm pretty sure they were scratching their heads just weeks into this "Why the hell did we pick this guy?" Most of his roommates kept waiting for him to show "his true self". What those dolts failed to understand was that not everyone is as messed up and unstable as themselves. There actually ARE laid-back/unproblematic people out there. Not everyone is a Travis Bickle ready to explode. Janelle thought it was impossible for a person not to be bitchy, and Paula thought that everyone must have a side to them that was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Svetlana, the household's Jewish princess, doesn't like being called Russian because "Russians are Roman Catholic or something". She loves money and hates Tyler (but then, who doesn't). A confused young brain nesting comfortable north of her vast chestal area. And that's the upside: she has large – real – breasts (something which made Janelle secretly very jealous). A cute face too, in spite of the slight asymmetry in the nostril and chin departments It was a mystery to me why Tyler found her so annoying. She has a pleasant voice: that's got to count for something. As for her supposed low intelligence, notice that Tyler's profile is below Svetlana's
Tyler considers himself "very intelligent", yet he believes in ghosts and "the Olympic spirit". (So much for intellectual brilliance.) He gets extremely upset when someone else – and not him – is at the center of attention; so diseased is this aspect of his personality that I half-expected him to vomit every time there was a situation in which he wasn't the absolute center of the known universe. Talk about megalomania rising out of the vast oceans of Tyler's insecurity. And yet he had the audacity to call out John for being a spotlight-seeker. Next to Tyler, John is a shy little bespectacled middle-aged female librarian, in this regard. He's witty but insecure, a backstabber, very animated, and an egotist to boot He is apparently aware of his negative character traits, but seems to revel in them (or does he?). As a typical coward, he picks out the weakest link – i.e. the young, spoiled, somewhat childish Svetlana - for easy target practice. He could have just as easily, and more logically, chosen to vent all his personal frustrations on John – because John presented the more logical enemy in Tyler's natural habitat – but John would have bit back with vengeance, and Tyler knew this.
My first impression of Paula was that she was Tonya Harding. Later, I had entertained the possibility that it was Jim Carey in drag, preparing for a role. The season's token cook, an anorexic, which pretty much says it all. She is disgusted at the site of John eating a pizza slice – much the way any normal viewer must have been disgusted by her anti-social behaviour. (We're even; that pizza slice has been avenged.) Paula claims that her ex-boyfriend, trailer-trash called Keith, put her in the hospital. But perhaps the poor guy merely hugged her hence unintentionally broke several of her ribs that way. How hard can it be to put a woman like Paula in a hospital? How can you NOT put her in a hospital, if you so much as touch those vitamin-starved bones with your little finger? Behind that tearful, physically/emotionally fragile exterior hides a rather nasty woman. Alcohol tends to speak louder than 1000 words.
Janelle. A make-up artist. She believes in ghosts. Paula: "She may seem like a diva, but on the inside she is beautiful." Wrong! Tyler: "Janelle is a diva like Beyonce or Mariah Carey, but without the talent." That's a lot closer to the mark. Janelle says with conviction and a tinge of a fool's pride that she has "never lost an argument" in her life. I guess that might be true - provided she only includes discussions about mascara with 20 year-old bimbos...
For my extensive list (with comments and photos) of all 84 TRW women: http://rapidshare.com/files/438088396/RW_Women.rar
In descending IQ order:
John. You know that the IQ situation isn't too promising with John topping this list: after all, this is the man who calls women "dude". Still, next to the four girls, he is practically Einstein, Hawking, and Churchill rolled into one. At first, I tended to agree with Tyler's initial appraisal of John as "a meat-head ready to smash a beer-can against his forehead". However, one of the true surprises of the KW season is that John turns out to be far more sensible than most people here. The other surprise is that he was, along with the other two guys, the least annoying.
Which brings me to Zach. One would expect that a former fat-nerdy-kid-turned-tall-slim-stud would be far more in-your-face – as a way of dealing with insecurities of the past. However, Zach isn't Tyler. Mellow, PC to a fault, never raising his voice, it was evident early on that Zach would NOT be the "star" of the show. After all, the camera – and the average viewer – will take a train-wreck over a nice guy/gal any time.
Apropos nice. Jose, "the invisible guy", is ridiculously patient, low-key, and forgiving. He oftentimes seemed to be the Latino version of Zach. No temper tantrums, no scandals, no over-the-top posing for the cameras. In short, no proper TRW personality, hence a baffling choice by the producers. I'm pretty sure they were scratching their heads just weeks into this "Why the hell did we pick this guy?" Most of his roommates kept waiting for him to show "his true self". What those dolts failed to understand was that not everyone is as messed up and unstable as themselves. There actually ARE laid-back/unproblematic people out there. Not everyone is a Travis Bickle ready to explode. Janelle thought it was impossible for a person not to be bitchy, and Paula thought that everyone must have a side to them that was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Svetlana, the household's Jewish princess, doesn't like being called Russian because "Russians are Roman Catholic or something". She loves money and hates Tyler (but then, who doesn't). A confused young brain nesting comfortable north of her vast chestal area. And that's the upside: she has large – real – breasts (something which made Janelle secretly very jealous). A cute face too, in spite of the slight asymmetry in the nostril and chin departments It was a mystery to me why Tyler found her so annoying. She has a pleasant voice: that's got to count for something. As for her supposed low intelligence, notice that Tyler's profile is below Svetlana's
Tyler considers himself "very intelligent", yet he believes in ghosts and "the Olympic spirit". (So much for intellectual brilliance.) He gets extremely upset when someone else – and not him – is at the center of attention; so diseased is this aspect of his personality that I half-expected him to vomit every time there was a situation in which he wasn't the absolute center of the known universe. Talk about megalomania rising out of the vast oceans of Tyler's insecurity. And yet he had the audacity to call out John for being a spotlight-seeker. Next to Tyler, John is a shy little bespectacled middle-aged female librarian, in this regard. He's witty but insecure, a backstabber, very animated, and an egotist to boot He is apparently aware of his negative character traits, but seems to revel in them (or does he?). As a typical coward, he picks out the weakest link – i.e. the young, spoiled, somewhat childish Svetlana - for easy target practice. He could have just as easily, and more logically, chosen to vent all his personal frustrations on John – because John presented the more logical enemy in Tyler's natural habitat – but John would have bit back with vengeance, and Tyler knew this.
My first impression of Paula was that she was Tonya Harding. Later, I had entertained the possibility that it was Jim Carey in drag, preparing for a role. The season's token cook, an anorexic, which pretty much says it all. She is disgusted at the site of John eating a pizza slice – much the way any normal viewer must have been disgusted by her anti-social behaviour. (We're even; that pizza slice has been avenged.) Paula claims that her ex-boyfriend, trailer-trash called Keith, put her in the hospital. But perhaps the poor guy merely hugged her hence unintentionally broke several of her ribs that way. How hard can it be to put a woman like Paula in a hospital? How can you NOT put her in a hospital, if you so much as touch those vitamin-starved bones with your little finger? Behind that tearful, physically/emotionally fragile exterior hides a rather nasty woman. Alcohol tends to speak louder than 1000 words.
Janelle. A make-up artist. She believes in ghosts. Paula: "She may seem like a diva, but on the inside she is beautiful." Wrong! Tyler: "Janelle is a diva like Beyonce or Mariah Carey, but without the talent." That's a lot closer to the mark. Janelle says with conviction and a tinge of a fool's pride that she has "never lost an argument" in her life. I guess that might be true - provided she only includes discussions about mascara with 20 year-old bimbos...
For my extensive list (with comments and photos) of all 84 TRW women: http://rapidshare.com/files/438088396/RW_Women.rar