Spoiler Alert!
Hello everyone!
That's right, I'm back from my hiatus and with which series? The Challenge, of course. Actually, this season took longer to come out then previous seasons because, usually, once one ends, two weeks after a new one begins and this one took 3 months so... I can't say that it wasn't nice, because it was, to have a bit of a break, but I do like the show so I was also missing it a little bit.
However, I have to say, this is the season where I least knew about. I wasn't particularly pumped (I still am not as pumped as before) and I haven't really been following all the details and everything. Also, I guess, because this took longer to come out, I kind of lost the 'magic' a little bit?! I don't know... This season looks pretty cool though so I'm excited to talk about it.
First of all, I love the concept - UK vs USA. It was basically that last season, but this season is for real and it's two teams instead of a bunch of duos and, from what I can remember, there hasn't really been teams against each other since Invasion of the Champs, which was an huge season, in my opinion, so this season they went in a different direction and I liked it.
From the looks of it, the UK is in a bit of a disadvantage because in the USA Team everyone is pretty experienced in The Challenge world and the UK have a lot of rookies so, in that department, they should've gone with a few rookies on the USA side but again, that 'disadvantage' kind of makes everything more interesting - to see if the vets can beat the 'not so well experienced' team.
In terms of competitors, obviously you know that I'm rooting for Bananas (even though I'm well aware that he's not going to win this season because a month into filming this, he was already going to the TCA and all that stuff so... Yeah, I don't have my hopes too high) but that's basically it from the USA team. The thing with this season is that I hate basically everyone in the USA team, so I'm kind of rooting for the UK team (and also because I love underdogs). No, but seriously, the UK have a lot more 'friendlier' people than the USA so... Yeah, I'm kind of conflicted. Plus, in this first challenge, the USA just made the biggest mistake ever by not choosing CT to go into their team so, I can't help but be a little bit 'against' them.
There's not much else I can say about this first episode. The first challenge looked cool, we had a few different rules for the nominations and tribunal and all that, which is nice, and we got to see the first elimination, which was a Brits elimination. I was kind of sad that Sean lost, he looked like a nice guy, but I didn't know him that well, so I guess it's kind of fine.
Well, I guess that's pretty much it for this first rant after hiatus. I know I didn't get into much detail about the challenge or the elimination, I just wanted to talk a bit about the feel of this new season. Also, I might still be a little rusty so, please give me a little break.
I'll see you guys next week with a new one!
Love,
Daniela.
