The Apprentice 2

[valkyrie]

NOOOOOOOOO!!! Not Raj!!!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by valkyrie
NOOOOOOOOO!!! Not Raj!!!!!!!!!!

Donald's an idiot. I can't believe he fired Raj.

And why the fcuk is Ivana still on there?

Loved seeing Stacey back on last night! Could have done without Jen C., but interesting dramatic twist!

[valkyrie]

Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool to bring them back like that. Stacey is fun.

Ivana hasn't done squat but argue with people. So Raj made some mistakes -- at least he did something. It's easy to never make mistakes when you don't take charge and don't do much.

[CutiePie2000]

Raj was great...I was so choked that he got canned. But going from 4 bedrooms to 3 was a dumb mistake. Given that Real Estate is his bag, he should have known better.

Will Maria please get fired soon? I cannot take her blinkety-blink blink for one more second! ARGGGHH!!!

[wrigley]

What was with Ivana slamming Stacey then trying to turn it into a backhanded compliment? I thought it was great when Donald and all called her on it. Bitterness is an accessory that's never in style.

I was sorry to see Raj go. He shows great integrity by accepting responsibility for his team's loss unlike some other project managers who tried to pass the buck.

How convenient was it for the other team to have an additional contractor "driving by" to offer his services and save the day.?

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by valkyrie
Ivana hasn't done squat but argue with people. So Raj made some mistakes -- at least he did something. It's easy to never make mistakes when you don't take charge and don't do much.

Ivana needs to be fired (and so do Maria and Chris), but Raj needed to be fired as well. Raj has been a problem for a number of weeks. Remember Carolyn telling them in the boardroom after the fashion fiasco that the designer and models said they couldn't get their work done because Raj was driving them crazy? Trump thought Raj is hitting on women all the time (Robin might agree with him) -- who needs a candidate for a sexual harassment target.

Last week, Raj may have owned up that the terrible military themed ad was his idea, and he may have defended it because it was "the only vision on the table," but it was a vision directly contrary to what Deutch told them he wanted to see. While someone on the team (other than the completely ineffectual Elizabeth) should have caught that, Raj should have been able to follow simple directions.

This week, Raj did a terrible job as PM. 4 bedrooms to 3? What was he thinking? And yes, Kevin may have found and recommended the contractor, but Raj totally failed to supervise the contractor or take action when it became obvious that the contractor wasn't going to deliver in time. (Contrast that with Andy, who wasn't even PM). Again, being in real estate, Raj should have had a better clue.

Then he didn't bring Chris into the boardroom when Trump practically told him to. Instead, he brought Ivana because he and Jen decided she was the weakest link and needed to go. Problem was, though, that he couldn't point to a specific reason for bringing Ivana into the boardroom and had to rest on "she doesn't add anything." Guess he didn't take into account that Carolyn and Matt (?) had been observing and might tell Trump that Ivana worked hard in this task (which they did), making Raj look petty for bringing her in.

Go Andy!

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by wrigley
How convenient was it for the other team to have an additional contractor "driving by" to offer his services and save the day.?

Amazing what a few TV cameras will draw out. Amazing what producers can do, as well.

I'd be interested to know if any contractors "drove by" the other house.

[CutiePie2000]

Thank Goodness that Maria bit the biscuit tonight...she is SO RUDE! If she'd been on Apprentice I, it would have been nice to seen Omarosa backhand her.

[smiley21]

I HATED Maria. I am so happy she is fired. I cannot believe she actually said, "I am not a control freak." Yeah right. She is a control dictator. She was so snotty and mean and so phony when she started to cry I wanted to slap Wes for letting her do whatever she wanted. He did not have much of a backbone.

I am waiting for Jennifer to get fired. She does not get what is going on with the plans, then we she does, she takes all the credit That ticked me off when the Levi president and Donald told her what a good job she did. She just stood there like everything was her idea. She needs to go. She does not have what it takes to run a company. I think that Kelly is going to win the game.

[valkyrie]

Maria is like a sinister muppet who just won't shut up, and what's with the constant blinking? HOOO puppies that woman is going to snap one day. It's too bad Wes didn't stand up to her, but oh well.

I like Kevin, and Ivana has really improved -- or at least she did really well this time. Jen only gets credit for stuff and avoids the boardroom because people think she's hot.

[smiley21]

I would like to see Kevin, Ivana, and Kelly as the final three

[tunatartare]

I was really glad that Maria got fired. I still vote that Ivana should be next to go. After her, Jen. She doesn't do much, and she just completely took credit for Ivana's idea.

[polarpi]

I was NOT expecting the double-firing (which I guess is a good thing). It will be interesting to see next week if there will be another team shake-up (with a member of Apex becoming part of Mosaic - and if so, will it be Kelly?) and how it'll work. The promos about a person being guaranteed a place in the final 4, if they don't "screw it up" (my understanding), makes it seem almost as if someone is dumb enough to possibly give up their immunity (a la Bradford) ~ what do you all think?

[CutiePie2000]

I think that Kelly will win, but that Kevin will be a contender.

Wouldn't you just die if Sandy won the whole thing? I think it would be shocking but kind of hilarious. The way things are looking, Sandy might be the last of the women to go...that would make her the "Amy" of Season 2.

[VIOLETGRL24]

If Kevin is fired before Ivana, I will be pissed.