Wednesday, December 5, 2007
The Only Thing it Proves is How She is Awful (aka another reason I'm anti-sophia)
Kid Nation is an experiment to test the ability of kids to run a "nation". It is not Sophia's laboratory for her Psych 101 class. She's always pulling this "my theory" crap. Remember the kettle of goopy stuff with some nickels at the bottom? That was to test one of her brilliant theories (ie people will do anything for money). Reaching your hand into a sloppy mess isn't that outlandish. If I recall, it was all food in the kettle--nothing that vile. And after kids reach in for the dough, she gets that smug-ass look on her face as though she knew it all along. And tonight she blocks off a piece of land to test her theory that, if they can't have it, kids will want to have it even more. And when kids get pissed [Note: I'm a little sketchy here. The power went out and my dvr missed approx 2 min of footage] she, in a mighty self-satisfactory maner, believes it proves her theory. Yet, it's only because the kids legit think she's being awful. And they are not alone. I join them in this camp.
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I guess you're eating your words right now, since Sophia proved she alone is a better leader than any one of the 3 different councils. She was clear and firm, but positive and supportive. And even though the kids resisted the idea of her being in charge, they came to respect her. Why can't you?
She's alarmingly bright for someone her age. Then again, so are lots of the kids on the show. Why are you so threatened by her?
Her little sociological studies happen to be brilliant ideas, IMO. I loved her busking for nickels, too. Again, why are YOU so threatened by her?
Your comments are hilarious! I suppose I need to spell it out for some people. This blog is, in large part, a joke. I only posted this to get a rise out of Becky.
Note also, that although I am not threatened by Sophia, I probably should be threatened by you because I'm not sure what either "IMO" or "busking" mean.
I haven't even watched this episode yet (i know! embarrassment!) but I will say this: I like Sophia and i love that she makes fun of dumb people, but her studies are lame and I don't think she's "alarmingly bright" so no words need to be eaten. no one tell me who won the gold star (last week I got two text messages about it before I watched!) but if she banished the yellow team to that cave, I would like to know asap. Also, maybe my favorite commenter (the one who defended me by pointing out that greg's letter wasn't typed) can chime in here and defend us again because I am kinda busy with work stuff.
I agree with Jana. Sophia, take that patronizing, shit-eating grin of your face. It's clear you were made sheriff by the producers, not Bill and Ted and and Ted's little brother and "Holy anger management issues" DK. Like they ever would have put a girl in a position of power. How easily you forget the sexual harassment of Natasha.
Personally, I think one reason Sophia was such a good "sheriff" was that she was allowed to use a little common sense...whereas the council had been required to "advance the narrative" via that journal. In the recent TWOP interview, Sophia complains that there were lots of things the kids had wanted to do all along...but were not allowed to.
I do think she's very intelligent, though her little "social experiments" do disappoint me a bit. For one thing, she's not just conducting them on miscellaneous "dumb people"...she's conducting them on her friends who care for her, respect her, and admire her. And it does bother me a little that she's so willing to look down condescendingly on them for being human. (I do like Sophia...and it bothers me a little that she's going to be the runaway favorite among all the old bitter, cynical women out there who have no friends and live with a dozen cats.)
I'd be willing to bet you anything that if anyone else had pulled that little "homestead" experiment (Mike, let's say)...that Sophia would be one of the first ones to challenge him. I can just see her stomping down that street with steam coming out of her ears...and if Mike confronted her and demanded a nickel to step in his "claim", then fifty years later people would still be talking about the day "Hurrican Sophia" blew threw. And that means that she's only human, too. (Almost hate to point that out...gracious, what a disappointment that must be to her.)
I sure hope she outgrows that jaded, cynical aspect of an otherwise wonderful character. She's really something...
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