i agree, he's silly, sweet and not a little broken. i've found him quite sympathetic since he blustered his way out the limo on the first night. he presumably had no small amount of trouble in the dorms as a lad, and appears to make up for his omega status as a child with a child's signifiers of adult status and success - the gold, the cigars, the chops and the hat. there does come a point where i think grown men should be able to control their tempers if all that's frustrating them is absence or otherwise of cocoa. his behaviour towards the other housemates was extremely rude given what they'd all been through, but not unforgivably so. i think your smooth observations explain many of his, ah, idiosyncratic reactions to some things, but don't necessarily excuse them.
i liked kenzie getting the hess last night 'i ain't a kid', well, someone should have said, you're acting like one now.
the funny (i.e frighteningly and gently fascist) thing about this show is just how much better it makes celebrities seem than yr proles. they're just coping, being respectful of each others' boundaries, forming quite an effective little team dynamic. even lisa i'anson seems quite cool, i like the way she talks like a dj the whole time, commenting inanely or insightfully as subjects demand. when you've got like jason's kilt and that emma girl as the comparisons, they seem like a higher class of species entirely.
germaine, who's coping very well, (i don't think i'm being ageist by suggesting that getting very dizzy and walking through an assault course of dirt and meat might be a far less good idea for a sixty-five year old than an eighteen-thirty year old though) is good with john. she's smart enough to know that buffalo-talk like his is never as serious or harmful as it might seem, and together the old-uns are handling themselves with much more freedom, insight, and simple aplomb than any of their sexlyer companions. |
