On my mind

1. Channel Ten is pissing me off. They were advertising a new House ep all week, the one where he's stalking his favorite actor- and KIDNAPS him, wtf?! I was looking forward to seeing him be a fanboy and all cute and obsessed...then suddenly they pull the shiny new ep and replace it with two frakking REPEATS. 

Apparently the reasoning is that the other channels were airing sports and old movies whereas next week, the new seasons of Criminal Minds and Cold Case begin so they wanted to hold back the House ep to air when there was worthy competition. I know that the industry is all about winning in the ratings and making a profit, but this is so disrespectful to the audience. They're not even pretending to care about us anymore. 

2. And Australia's Next Top Model is disgraceful. 

Alamela gets bullied- what was aired was bad enough, but she and Bel both said in later interviews that it was so much worse than what was shown. The girls taunt her for being 'different', they throw water bombs at her and put condoms in her bed and spicy crap in her cereal. I know Top Model contestants tend to cry at the drop of a hat, but Alamela is a composed elegant person, she's very refined and restrained, not all giggly and hyper like the other girls- making her lose control is a big thing

The judges yell at them- but none of the culprits are sent home because they all took pretty pictures. Lesson here is- if you look good, the rules don't apply to you.

The following week, in the 'previously on' flashbacks, the voice-over goes 'Alamela spat the dummy'. OMFG. The insinuation is that she was overreacting, that she was being childish, having a hissy fit over nothing serious when in reality, she was having a perfectly natural breakdown in reaction to the constant harassment by the other girls! I hate that they're trying to reconstruct history to make this controversy go away by painting it as something of little importance that was blown out of proportion, just because all the negative publicity hurts their show. Talk about making her a victim twice. That makes me sick- the girls behaved appallingly, but they're shallow and immature, and even if it's not an excuse, I can understand that. I don't, however, accept TPTB trying to act like nothing bad happened and subtly pinning it all on Alamela.

Then Jodhi turns up in her 'I'm not a judge, I'm your sister, I'm your best friend' guise and tells the girls that since they had a rough week, she was going to spoil them because they deserved a treat. *headdesk* YES, teach the bullying bitches that viciously ganging up on one girl and doing their best to break her will be REWARDED. Care packages from home. Pfft. Usually I'm all 'aww, how sweet- let's wait and see who starts snivelling first' but I was fuming that she acted like THEY'D been traumatized by some tragedy that cruel life had visited upon them, rather than the reality that most of the girls had behaved in a disgusting and unjustifiable manner.

I have the feeling the judges booted Alamela because her presence would continue to fan the flames of controversy. Sure, she sucked at the challenge, but so did others- and she pulled off great shots in the previous challenges. It's such a set-up.