There goes every man's twin fantasy.Amanda and Michelle, the twins who made it into the final 13 "America's Next Top Model" contestants, really throw the whole validity of the competition into question - by now we should be used to "ANTM" contestants that aren't attractive in the conventional red-blooded male sense, but these two have a distinct malnourished, "just wondered off the set of a kiddie porn shoot" look.
They look very much like the kind of nerdy, bookish girl I knew in high school who wasn't asked to prom, wrote poetry and read Anne McCaffrey novels about dragons. Oh, and never, ever saw the sun. I guess there's something empowering about girls that look like these two competing for the title of "Top Model," but that doesn't mean I have to be excited about watching it.
They've nicely set up Melrose for what they call in the pro wrestling business a "face turn" - when a "heel" (bad guy wrestler) gradually wins back the fan's respect through good deeds and sorrow for their past misdeeds. Well, actually in pro wrestling it's mainly through beating up the bad guys instead of the good guys, but you know, I could see it happening either way. You really felt bad for Christian, though, because the reasons to eliminate Melrose seemed way more convincing than the case against her. But Christian, let's face it, is kinda fugly.I had a really hard time buying Tyra Banks giving people style tips at the end given the "On the Good Ship Lollypop" look she was sporting. I'll leave it to Sam to comment on how heavy she looked.
I like Brooke so far simply for being the most conventionally good looking of the group (which means she doesn't have a chance) and that is exactly how shallow I am. A.J. looks like she could have a cute, quasi-Suicide Girls (except actually attractive and not gross) thing going on but her whimpering didn't do her many favors.The biggest problem I have with this show is that at least on "American Idol," even though some of the winners turned out to be totally lame, they at least have Kelly Clarkson to look to - who do contestants have on this show? Oh right.
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Re: "They look very much like the kind of nerdy, bookish girl I knew in high school who wasn't asked to prom, wrote poetry and read Anne McCaffrey novels about dragons. Oh, and never, ever saw the sun."
I can only imagine that you were visualizing a goth version of me, and for that I thank you. Although, remember, I went to prom stoned and with my dreadlocked boyfriend--so there.
Ah, your dreadlocked boyfriend. So many memories!
great read. I would love to follow you on twitter.
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