"Viva la Revolucion!"
It's about time the kids of Bonanza City got the chance to change the leadership of this city. We've been clamoring for this for weeks now. I have to admit that I was disappointed that each group only got to vote for their own leader. It makes sense in a way, but it would have been nice to see how the vote went if everyone voted for one person per team color. Bad for TV, good for Bonanza. At the same time, though, the elections went pretty well overall.
For Green, Laurel has been a good leader and the team was probably correct in leaving her in power. The only thing wrong with her this entire time was the lip thing. But nasty lips never prevented anyone from getting elected (or so I have to assume).
The Blue team reelected Anjay. He's been decent as a leader but he needs to grow a thicker skin. Personally, I'm excited that Olivia didn't get elected. Not only is she a pain in the rear but that face scares the daylights out of me. She was really on Anjay's butt about a lot of things, and it really has affected the way he acts. I know he's only a kid, but he needs to grow a pair. And Olivia needs a muzzle.
It seems a lot of you thought Mike should remain the leader, and I don't really agree with that. I disliked the way he kept telling everyone to shut up. The kid just seemed a little too full of himself. I didn't expect that he would only get one vote, though. Guylan made a good speech but really hadn't got enough air time yet for me to seriously think he had a chance. Actually, I'm not even sure I knew he was a boy up until this point. Guylan certainly sounds kind of masculine, but I can't be the only one that wondered that at some point. With all the crazy names going around these days, who knows? I mean,
Apple Martin?
And then of course there's the ousting of Taylor! Hooray! I have to admit, that after realizing that all the girls might vote for Taylor, I was kind of worried that Zach had no shot. But they showed that little confessional-type thing for one of the girls on Yellow at the end where she mentioned it was time for Taylor to move on. I'm impressed that being lazy didn't trump being productive yet again. Zach made quite a speech. That kid has a future as some kind of public speaker. We'll have to see if he can be a leader though. The magic 8-ball says, "All signs point to yes" for this one, but I have a slight bit of doubt. His statement at the end about making everyone's idea a reality seems nice right now, but I just wonder if he'll try to incorporate so many ideas that he'll forget that he needs to reject bad ones as a leader. Still, it's got to be better than Taylor.
My biggest question about all of this is: Do the kids on the council make any money? I mean, Laurel has no chance of winning a gold star and Zach just had his last chance to win one unless he gets voted out at some point. Maybe some of these kids are in it because they truly want to be leaders and make the town better, but then maybe kids like Greg didn't run because they realized they couldn't win $20,000 anymore. I wonder if during the final episode they'll announce that for every section of time they were on the council they'd earned a certain amount of money. I don't think I missed them saying this at some point, but if they did, please let me know.
The challenge tonight was pretty cool, too. Break open the piñatas and grab the presidential cards and put them in order from when they were president. I'm shocked the yellow team won this one, since they were the youngest kids and I figured they would have the hardest time putting the presidents in order. Then again, I have no idea when they teach kids the presidents these days. I'm also shocked the blue team had so many kids that just couldn't crack open the piñatas. They did seem to have some bad luck in that the ones they did get open didn't have any cards, but I would have thought the little girls on the yellow team would have had the biggest problems with that, too. It's fitting, though, that Little Miss Prissy gets ousted from office and gets to finally be in the upper-class on the same day.
The one thing about this episode that really made my jaw drop is that these kids didn't have toothbrushes or toothpaste. That might be even worse than giving them shot glasses. You're telling me this entire time they haven't brushed their teeth? So not only are their teeth rotting but their breath smells like the inside of a fake leg? How did Miss Diva deal with this one for so long?
And what, they don't even bother asking if anyone wants to go home now?
Until next week, friends.
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