October 21st's Weekly TV Thoughts

Dancing with the Stars – I don’t remember Disney night coming so early in the previous seasons, but maybe I’m just forgetting.  I get why it was this week since this is the week of Disney’s actually 100^th anniversary as a company.  And it was nice to see so many big classics back in the mix.  I get it, we’d get tired of seeing the same songs every year if they didn’t mix it up some, but these are classics for a reason.  As to the competition, I feel like we are setting those at the top now, and I don’t think things will really change.  It’s just a matter of how long the stars at the bottom will hang on before they get eliminated.

Press Your Luck – That was a crazy run there in the contest round.  I felt sorry for the third guy since he was pretty much irrelevant.  He would have had to get both of them to hit Whammys to have a chance to winning.  Somehow, I wasn’t surprised the guy went home from the bonus round without any additional money.  But it’s hard to complain after how well he did earlier.

Quantum Leap – I figured it wasn’t going to be aliens (not matter how much Ian hoped it would be), but I wasn’t sure what was going on at first.  I like how things were wrapped up.  I also like what they are doing with Ben.  That is definitely a realistic reaction for what he is going through.  It’s also what was needed for this leap.  I may not be a fan of the three year gap still, but I do like how they are handling things character wise.

Survivor – You can knock my over.  I just don’t get why Sean suddenly gave up like that.  I feel like he was in a good position.  I thought all the talk at tribal was just the normal talk leading up to a blindside and then he is asked to be voted out.  Which really confuses me since he doesn’t get to go home until the game is over either way, right?  Or has that changed somehow?  I truly do not get it.  And once again, the tribe was ready to vote out their strongest player because he may be a threat down the road.  I get that, but at least one person was saying what I’m always saying, to get down the road, you also need to avoid going to tribal in the early stages.

The Amazing Race – Not being a fish eater, I don’t know which part of the detour would have been worse.  Carrying those mattresses and going up the stairs would have been horrible.  Then, trying to match tiles in the middle of the heat.  I always hate it when a team goes from leading to elimination on a challenge like that, so I was rooting for that not to happen.  I am sorry for the team that lost, however.  They really tumbled.  At least he was the one doing the challenge.  I don’t know that he would have handled it as well as she did if things had been switched.

Loki – That was … interesting.  We’ve once again reached the part of a Disney+ show where we are expanding things just to fill some time.  This could have easily been at least 10 minutes shorter.  So much stuff that should have been shortened.  Where they left things is interesting, but it took too long to get there.

Buddy Games – That was disappointing.  I really liked the Derby Girls.  They were a fun, supportive team.  Really sorry to see them gone.

Lego Masters – Being the non-creative person that I am, I would have struggled with that challenge.  But as soon as the teams started to describe what they were building based on their sound, I couldn’t picture anything else.  They’ve got some very creative teams.  And the mother/son team that just lost the golden brick got it back again.  Not too surprised, but I do wonder if they will use it properly this time.  Wasn’t surprised that Tim and Tim left, but I am sorry to see them go.

The Challenge USA – I am so happy Chris won!  And that Bananas came in third.  His ego was driving me crazy.  As was Tori’s so the fact that she got eliminated early made me happy as well.