The Biggest Loser

The Biggest Loser has been getting over a million viewers each night this week, so by our standards, it's a pretty big show. It has had an impact and people are learning from it. I wonder what the lessons are. I still keep hearing Wal and his "This show is about the Biggest Loser and not the biggest backstabber", but I am thinking, well, it's exactly what is occurring because of the game aspect. I can see how all the contestants except Kristie will have made friends after the show is finished.Not sure about Jo either , really, because she does seems to grate even on the audience. I didn't mind her strong views but she could go on.I think she said what she thought. Kristie is often described as focussed but no one ever says what she is focussed on. The money. The win. Since she was guaranteed a place in the final she has jsut cruised it and simply said the right things and done enough not to be criticised, but she really couldn't care about the others or how anything affects them. There were no tears for Shane and none at all for Adro..just laughter and joy at her own success. She is focussed and doing whatever it takes to win.What seems to be smugness has become very unfortunate. Voting off whom she needs to and water loading until they were told not to and just saying the polite and appropriate thing to smooth it all over.It's all a bit empty really. She hasn't really had to be a part of it except to ensure she votes the right person off. That is not about weight loss. Her own numbers are quite small and by contrast Fiona has done remarkably well. Fiona could do with at least another couple of months in that environment but she, too, has proven that the la-la , ditzy approach works. She has ridden in on the crest of the game and has just had to plant the odd thought and take some risks and there she is in the final. She is happy to let others take the responsibility for her weightloss and makes them make her do what has to be done. Should Harry have got back? Well, he was voted off very unfairly.He was the biggest loser, I believe. Either he or Wal. It was the alliance which skewed the whole show and weightloss objective. Some of them deserved the right to try again I suppose. Ruth, Cat and Dave could never really be a part of the challenges and team work since their first objective was to get those big bodies moving. As such they were always victims of the game,alliances and always at a disadvantage. The dunes challenge showed just how far they had all come, and the calorie thing at least gave Cat time in the house only to become the game victim again. There was talk about Harry water loading but he wasn't on the show to hear that was no longer allowed. 10 kilos was a lot in one week. A massive amount. Mind you, one of the women got 8 in the week after water loading. So I come to Adro as my natural winner along with Wal. Both of them were team players. Both of them helped others. Both stayed true to their word and Adro is going to be far less trusting now. He wanted to learn about the asian exercise routines at Camp Eden, he took his speech to the invited audience extremely seriously, he tried to train Bob and Jillian properly , he listened carefully to Jeff Pfennig and he cared about what happened to Dave and Ruth. I was even more cynical than he was that he was voted off. The game just backed up on him and all he was and all he had done was reduced to a few trite words and whoops of laughter after. Yes, it really is about the Biggest Losers.