The Duel 2: Episode 9 - Discussion

[quote=Debut Album;80583]That was my point. You said that EVERYONE has to go into the Duel and I was pointing out that Mark has never been in The Duel ONCE so that statement wasn't true.[/quote] And your missing my point but whatever.

[quote=Famous.;80589]Rachel has not been in a Duel either. Why is no one calling in Brittini? She only beat Brooke. Lol[/quote] Rachel won 4 missions. Brittini won 3. That show's alot and both of these woman has won challenges without there partners.

If your not winning, expect to go into the Duel, and thats that.

Yay, its posted on MTV. Time to watch!

"I am feeling great. It's the one time Landon doesn't get to climb anything, so I might actually have a chance". ROFL. Oh Evan.

I have to wait to watch tonight. Sounds good, and I'm a geek and love spelling.

[quote=313Mary;80656]I have to wait to watch tonight. Sounds good, and I'm a geek and love spelling.[/quote] These people are ********. Who cannot spell throne or extremely first round? Brad and Landon, lol. And Diem, Aneesa, and Britt should be ashamed of themselves..lol. And all that dry heaving and freaking out for nothing Tor Tor.

Just finished watching. Thoughts on episode.. 1. MJ was actually funny with his commentary on his spelling versus donkey noises. I felt like he made the best Duel pick and am happy to see someone is finally using their brain. However, if it will be enough for MJ to beat Brad, we shall see. I don't feel MJ is as good as Brad, period. 2. Evan = lol. Happy he won, happy he provided us some laughs and one cute dance. 3. The challenge was hysterical. Brad and Landon are NOT smarter than 5th graders. 4. Mark's fashion show voice was cute, almost as cute as Keegal's bum bum. 5. Tori annoyed me, greatly. She is such a pretty strong girl who I feel COULD take out any of the remaining ladies, but I feel her emotional state puts her at a handicap. 6. I am truly beginning to like Aneesa...she didn't complain and whine about being picked, and she was honest about it. 7. Tori talking some trash is not going to work in her favor, and I am surprised she made the whole "I don't like drama, Aneesa does" comment because the entire episode showed an emotional, dramatic, Tori. Even getting picked she had to stir up the drama sauce. It got spicy. 8. I dislike Rachel, she is so manipulative. Funny how the Aneesa-Brit-Rachel friendship is now in high gear. She befriends all her competition and uses them to eliminate those she is threatened by. Just go in the Duel and win and maybe people will actually believe your the "best", Rachel. I cannot wait for next's week episode!

[quote=LCbaby;80668]Just finished watching. Thoughts on episode.. 1. MJ was actually funny with his commentary on his spelling versus donkey noises. I felt like he made the best Duel pick and am happy to see someone is finally using their brain. However, if it will be enough for MJ to beat Brad, we shall see. I don't feel MJ is as good as Brad, period. 2. Evan = lol. Happy he won, happy he provided us some laughs and one cute dance. 3. The challenge was hysterical. Brad and Landon are NOT smarter than 5th graders. 4. Mark's fashion show voice was cute, almost as cute as Keegal's bum bum. 5. Tori annoyed me, greatly. She is such a pretty strong girl who I feel COULD take out any of the remaining ladies, but I feel her emotional state puts her at a handicap. 6. I am truly beginning to like Aneesa...[B]she didn't complain and whine about being picked[/B], and she was honest about it. 7. Tori talking some trash is not going to work in her favor, and I am surprised she made the whole "I don't like drama, Aneesa does" comment because the entire episode showed an emotional, dramatic, Tori. Even getting picked she had to stir up the drama sauce. It got spicy. 8. I dislike Rachel, she is so manipulative. Funny how the Aneesa-Brit-Rachel friendship is now in high gear. She befriends all her competition and uses them to eliminate those she is threatened by. Just go in the Duel and win and maybe people will actually believe your the "best", Rachel. I cannot wait for next's week episode![/quote] I thought Aneesa was left last, and she picked Tori?

I thought it was pretty hilarious when Mark asked MJ to spell "gnarly" before the challenge and MJ said it was an easy one, and then proceeded to spell it horribly wrong 3 or 4 times. Anyways, I've never really liked Aneesa that much, she comes off as very two-faced and phony and she seems like quite a hypocrite. She was gossiping and talking about Jenn behind her back quite a bit about a situation that was none of her business, and then gets mad when Tori makes a little comment out in the open. I also thought it was kind of shady of her to lie to Diem about not picking her for the duel on the Duel 1 too, her justification was just lame and didn't make any sense.

[quote=TheQuietOne;80671]I thought Aneesa was left last, and she picked Tori?[/quote] She was last, I meant to say 'left last' instead of 'picked'. She didn't complain and whine and worry and do ten confessionals of crying about it, so I can appreciate that.

The finally is going to be great. It seems like Rachel will have smooth sailing as the women are quite incapable of challenging her. As well as Tori saying dirty work that is sad because in this challenge she has [B][U]done nothing[/U][/B] to deserve to get a free ride. As with MJ calling Brad it was an odvious choice as in only a moron would have picked Landon or Mark in this stage of the game if other options were avaialabe. The facts are the facts there is nothing that can change that.

[quote=Buck05;80401]My thoughts on Episode 9: 1. Brad and Tori are too cute together to be fighting like that. I'm glad they made up. [B]2. I personally think MJ made the best decision for the Duel, even though I like Brad the most out of the guys. Brad hadn't gone into the Duel yet and probably is the most beatable for MJ.[/B] 3. I don't care what anyone says, Rachel put Aneesa in the Duel to send home Tori. Period. She said so herself in a confessional. 4. Tori was right when saying Aneesa was doing Rachel's dirty work so I don't understand why Aneesa got so upset about it. 5. Once again, Aneesa blew a small situation up into a bigger one. Tori was only happy because she didn't have to wrestle Aneesa. What's wrong with that? Aneesa took that as Tori being overconfident--- or she saw it as another pathetic attempt for camera time. The only people I really like that are left are Brad, Tori, and Diem. I despise Aneesa and Rachel. The others are just bleh.[/quote] I could see why he was having trouble picking between Landon and Brad. Brad is more of a guaranteed win because I think MJ would easily take him in half of the Duels based on size; unfortunately he got a Duel that isn't really catered to size or strength. With Landon, I think he was thinking on the same grounds as Evan was when he picked CT on the first one: better chance at beating him in a Duel where anything can happen as opposed to a final. Landon is a beast as far as stamina and endurance go, MJ knows he'd have little to no chance competing with him in a final. I could see why he'd want to take him out before the final to improve his own chances of winning more money.

Tori looked so legit hot during the Fashion show. I can't get over Britt though she is so ridiculously gorgeous. But yeah haha I'm confused as to how Brad injures Landon in a Duel if next week is the finale/final episode.

I like Tori alot she seems sweet and has done decent in the challenges. However, it's only fair that she atleast goes in one duel. Every other girl left has been in atleast one duel except Rachel.

Thoughts on this episode: Tori and Brad -- When Brad was talking to the guys in their room I felt so bad for him, he looked so upset and at one point I really thought that he was going to cry. Brad is probably my favorite guy out of everyone on these challenges and I love what he and Tori have together (even though I may be a bit jealous of her :blush:). Like I said, I love Tori, but there was one point where I was kind of annoyed with her during this episode. That may only be because of my love for Brad, but from the edit of the show I do think that she over reacted a little. I agree with Brad when he said that this deffinetly wasn't the time or place for them to be talking about something like that. But I also know that it isn't easy to hold something in (for who knows how long), especially to someone so important to you. Regardless of whether their fight was about Brad getting a job or something much bigger than that, I think it would have been better for them to wait until after the challenge. I'm happy that they seemed to have solved their problem, and are okay now. I'm also intrested to see what they have to say about it at the reunion. The Challenge -- I really liked this challenge, and usually I'm one to like the more physical competitions. But really Brad... throne? That was extremely shocking to me, but I'm sure the height may have had something to do with it, even though they weren't as open about it as the girls were. Was it just me or did it seem like people were falling at different speeds. I'm not sure if it was Aneesa or Brittini but one of them seemed to be falling very slow compared to everyone else. I'm happy that someone other than Landon and Mark won for the guys, and I did enjoy Evan's "Happy Dance". Duels -- I was expecting MJ and Aneesa to be at the bottom but I was very surprised at their choices, from the dailies I thought for sure that MJ was going to pick either Landon or Evan, Brad was deffinetly a surprise. But it will be intresting to see how he does in a duel. MJ is a bigger guy but I think that people underestimate Brad, they are playing Duel Pole Dancing, but I think that Brad could take MJ in a few of the other games too. I really don't understand where the fight between Aneesa and Tori came from. I comepletely agreed with Tori's comment of Aneesa "Doing Rachel's dirty work.", because she is, and Rachel pretty much said that she is. Also, I don't think that Tori being excited about their duel being Elevator meant that she thought she had it won, just what she said and that she didn't want to have to go up against Aneesa like Shavoun had to. "Do you want a hug Aneesa?" really had me laughing and I am completely on Tori's side in this. Overall this was my favorite episode so far, and it was nice to see so much of Brad for once... even though it didn't seem like a very happy time for him or Tori. :(

[QUOTE=trees12;80705]I like Tori alot she seems sweet and has done decent in the challenges. However, it's only fair that she atleast goes in one duel. Every other girl left has been in atleast one duel except Rachel.[/QUOTE] Totally agree and I think if if Rachel where ever to go into a duel, I'd love to see her go against Brittny(sp).

I am not really a Brad fan whatsoever but this episode makes it so hard NOT to like him. He was so caring, genuine, considerate, and respectful when handling the "Dramatic Issue" between him and Tori. I admire the way he was speaking and his choice words, and felt what he was saying and doing was entirely justified. When work and the economy became a topic of interest, I genuinely felt bad that he had to even talk about this on national TV. He handled the situation like a true champ, so I really have to give him kudos for that. He is obviously head over heels for Tori. I want to like her so bad because I think she is a strong competitor and she is definitely beautiful - I really wish she demonstrated her fire and physical capabilities instead of her emotional, crybaby weakness (hey, we all have the ability to be a basketcase). Thankfully, she has a great guy to go home to and a happy life. Their age difference most definitely is obvious. And since I am negative by nature, my negative remark this post is that the "Baby" name-calling makes me want to copy Tori and dry heave. Sweetie, Toots, Pookie, Darling...anything but baby 2371 times in three minutes. They are cute though, and make a beautiful pair.

[QUOTE=LCbaby;80733]anything but baby 2371 times in three minutes. [/QUOTE] The editors no doubt thank you for noticing how nicely they put those together for you...

I have to side with Aneesa because the Tori I saw tonite is the Tori I disliked on RR:VR and half of G3.

Did anyone notice Aneesa was gone for the first half hour of the episode? lol

The Brad/Tori drama was interesting. A nice break from goofy love triangles. I do agree that the "babies" got to be a bit too much. The challenge was hilarious. I nearly threw up when Evan won, though. :puke: Aneesa is in denial if she doesn't think Rachel encouraged her to call out Tori so that Rachel could avoid doing it herself. I think Aneesa might have wanted to bring in Tori anyway, but Rachel's intentions are very clear. I'm interested in seeing the outcomes of the duels. I think Tori would quit if she won and Brad lost.

[quote=Watson;80784]The Brad/Tori drama was interesting. A nice break from goofy love triangles. I do agree that the "babies" got to be a bit too much. The challenge was hilarious. I nearly threw up when Evan won, though. :puke: Aneesa is in denial if she doesn't think Rachel encouraged her to call out Tori so that Rachel could avoid doing it herself. I think Aneesa might have wanted to bring in Tori anyway, but Rachel's intentions are very clear. I'm interested in seeing the outcomes of the duels. [B]I think Tori would quit if she won and Brad los[/B]t.[/quote] I don't think Brad would let her LOL.

My take on the episode: Best one yet without a doubt. The mission was great, because it had nothing to do with strength or anything. I like those missions. The Brad/Tori drama was hard to watch, even if it wasn't edited correctly, or even right. The Tori/Aneesa drama was interesting, and I love Tori, but I side with Aneesa on this one.

I didn't think MJ falling could be that funny. One of the funniest epsidoes no doubt.

MJ falling was priceless, as well as his way of spelling "Gnarly."

V1 was right, the last episodes, are the best yet. I'm sure the finale will be great as well. The boys practicing before the challenge was priceless. Mark and Evan are hilarious.

I had a question to anyone is this MJ's last challenge. I sure hope not because his commentary is some of the best especially his comments about Evan

I wouldn't know if this is MJ's last Challenge or not. I really had to laugh at his donkey noise.

[quote=Dartagnan;80841]I really had to laugh at his donkey noise.[/quote] This is like the third time I've seen this lol. Did I miss something? What donkey noise?