Apprentice 2

I had watched the show on Thursday. My wife had missed it, so she wanted to catch today's re-run. Except that she had to work again today, so she asked me to tape it. Okay, fine..except one minor caveat. Our old VCR had konked out.

Well, not to be outwitted, I came up with a solution. I have a camcorder pointed at the TV right now, taping the show on the TV screen. The quality may not be great, but it has to do.

Thoughts on the show: the people competing are actually pretty talented (judging by the resumes posted on the NBC website). I liked the first job assigned of designing a toy: the engineer (and kid) in me would have loved to do this. Hey, the entire prototyping staff of Mattel is at your command...what else do you want? And all the guy's team came up with was a lame "Crustacean-nation"!! (This was truly dissapointing). The women's team did a better job of creating a "design-build your own toy car" type of concept. They definitely deserved to win.

One more thing: any apprehensions that this show is NOT rigged were dispelled after watching some team's comments on a kid's hairstyle in front of the MATTEL team. Comon, these people have worked in corporations, started businesses, went to best schools, and they willingly do something that asinine, in a setting which is judging their entire personality. The show is rigged people,.. so lay back and enjoy the show for what its worth: ENTERTAINMENT. Please, do not confuse this with BUSINESS!! My 2 cents :)