ANTM: 9.1
Because the powers that be had already released the names of the final thirteen model wannabes this episode was like watching a movie where you already know the ending. It did, however, give us a chance to see these ladies in action and interacting with the ones who didn’t make the grade. And straw pole anyone feel like booking a cruise by the end of it?
In the opening credits Tyra has gone all Star Trek and has a mission to find the future America’s Next Top Model. They will, one imagines, boldly go where no supermodel has gone before. Thirty-three wannabes are sent to the Caribbean, and end up on a cruise ship with Miss J. Alexander (I guess this is slightly better than the model boot camp from Cycle 8). There are way too many tall, skinny girls to really be able to tell them apart and I wished I had a print out of the final thirteen and then I could play ANTM bingo! Any how, the first challenge is an ad hoc fashion show with the girls having to strut their stuff in what they are wearing PLUS a life jacket. Miss J makes is the first one to draw tears. The girls are gathered and Tyra welcomes HER CHOICES of potential models, and tries to justify why they are on a cruise ship. Too much screaming.
Next we are treated to series of painful one on ones with Tyra and the Js. Tyra is on top form channeling her inner talk show host, and getting to the bottom of these girls problems. Highlights included a girl in a denim mini skirt with the bottom part of a pair of jeans as leg warmers, one who was slightly more literal than figurative (when Tyra says walk like a butterfly you don’t have to flap your arms like wings she means BE GRACEFUL), a hunchy nerd who has worse posture than me, a Yale student and finally, a waxer who simulates a Brazilian with Miss T.
I cannot wait to get off the boat and into the house with these girls. When Victoria (Miss Yale) gets sick survival of the fittest instinct kicks in and they all get that hungry look in their eyes. The final elimination of the episode was just cruel as we all knew that Lisa had made it but she cried all the way through it.
So that’s it - better than model boot camp but can’t we just start the season off in the house? Jump straight into cat fights and mascara battles?
CW, America’s Next Top Model, ANTM, Tyra, Cycle 9
September 20th, 2007 at 7:33 am
just wanted to let you know, there’s an open thread every wednesday over at http://www.mamapop.com where we talk all about what’s happening on the show as it’s happening! it’s super fun to be catty online while the girls are fighting and crying!