Beauty and the Geek 02-04
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This week’s episode of Beauty and the Geek offered my favorite type of challenge. Instead of the girls and the guys having separate tasks which are graded separately, they work together using their strengths to win one task. The beauties were tasked with giving their geeks a makeover. The geeks then had to go speed dating, which I actually think is a great idea for a task on this show.
Chris was being his typical jerky self when he told one of his speed dates that he was thankful for some intelligent conversation after being paired with his beauty for weeks. This, needless to say, greatly upset Tristin who up until that point was feeling very good about all her accomplishments thusfar. Tristin let Chris know she wasn’t stupid and didn’t appreciate Chris constantly telling her she was in so many words. I think their conversation got through to Chris. It isn’t that he’s really a jerk deep down inside, he’s just has a huge ego. He apologized to Tristin with one of his custom greeting cards.
It was no surprise that Tristin and Chris were chosen to go into the elimination room. Unfortunately they weren’t able to survive their third journey to the room and were sent home. Chris seemed to walk away understanding that there’s more intelligence in the world than what can come from a book. Hopefully Tristin gained enough confidence in her ability to tackle the unknown that she’ll crack open a book and figure out the sun isn’t just a really big planet that’s way too hot to visit.
