Tent City Metaphor or Misnomer?
Tent City Metaphor or Misnomer? by Roxanne McDonald
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Contestants are not the only ones who still hate the whole Tent City twist. |
Maybe I am the first and only one to bitch about it, but the first Tent City element I would like to take issue with is the audience contest. Either Mr. Donald or Mz. Ivanka Trump announces during commercial breaks that we have a chance to win $10,000. We just text or lock in online our votes for who should go to Tent City.
Now, first, you get one choice. Well, a whole group—either Kinetic or Arrow—actually gets sent to Tent City, so voting for one person does not seem accurate or fair.
Second, the one person of focus and at the hands of our vengeance or disgust is the one who will hear the words “You’re fired,” not “You are exiled to Tent City.” So again, the voting we do is really inaccurate. Are we voting for anyone to be a part of his or her group when they get demoted to Tent City? Or are we voting for who we think should be fired, who should get the metaphorical eviction from the show altogether—a.k.a. Tent City of life outside “The Apprentice”?
Maybe I am over-thinking this whole segment of “The Apprentice: Los Angeles.” I’m sure, though, I am under-reacting, as this whole concept is not all that “must see”.
And while I may be alone in my splitting of camel hairs, others join me in general disdain for the twist of having and not having being represented by outhouses and ranch hand style dining versus the luxuries of indoor lighting and plumbing, protection from the (oooh) weather, and haute cuisine.
Besides the contestants disdain for what one contestant calls Trump Trailer Park (as cited by Maureen Ryan of The Chicago Tribune), the “Apprentice” audience is losing, if not respect, desire for the show: as Ryan also notes, “Only 11 million viewers tuned in for the most recent finale of the show in June — that’s a far cry from the 28 million who breathlessly watched the end of the first ‘Apprentice’.”
Maybe the “Survivor” angle should be left to “Survivor”.
Update: As I was searching the net for images of Tent City, I came across another writer’s discontent over the misapplication/misrepresentation of the “Get Rich with Trump” contest: You can check out Sarah Kickler Kelber’s points (and agreement with me) in her “Reality Check” column, “The Apprentice Again,” on The Baltimore Sun’s website. I knew I wasn’t completely crazy. Thanks, Sarah!
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