User blog:FloridaMan/BS Eliminations

Over the course of the series, there have been eliminations that have been completely unfair. I'm talking about eliminations which, while occasionally necessary for the plot, are done in far-fetched ways which completely stretch our disbelief as viewers. Here are perhaps the most bogus eliminations over the show's history.

Beth's elimination in ''If You Can't Take The Heat... ''- There was never any evidence at all that the curse even existed in the first place and Beth herself didn't screw up during the challenge any more than most of her other teammates did. Owen unquestionably should have gone home here. He was single-handily the biggest contributer to the Gopher's loss. But because the writers love Owen so much and have to keep him around, they dumb his teammates down into buying some superstituous nonsense instead of voting off the guy who, you know, clearly ruined the meal they spent time and effort making. Look, I'm fine with Owen winning TDI, but I prefer not to have him avoid elimination in ways that completely insult my intelligence.

Leshawna's elimination in Super Hero-ld - I can't buy that Harold would vote off his love interest, even with the trust issues he was having with her, instead of the guy who was relentlessly bullying him for the past two seasons.

Lindsay's elimination in Rock n' Rule - Geez, the writers made a lot of asspulls with Duncan in TDA. Even they realized that it didn't make the least amount of sense that a guy who had made enemies with virtually all the other contestants would not have been eliminated by this point. This was his THIRD straight time in the bottom two of an elimination ceremony and this was easily the most intelligence-insulting way he escaped getting kicked off.

Noah's elimination in I See London... - I've railed about this many times before. Obviously, the main problem here is that Team Chris should not have had an elimination ceremony in the first place since Owen and Noah won the challenge. They did exactly what Chris told them to do. It also seriously irritates me that Chris let Duncan get a vote when he had just gotten back and didn't even participate in the challenge. This is easily the most BS elimination in the entire series to me.

Tyler's elimination in The EX-FIles - From a strategic standpoint, it makes zero sense for Alejandro to get rid of Tyler instead of Duncan. Tyler was loyal to him, whereas Duncan was an all around pain in the butt. Aside from that, Duncan is generally seen as one of the stronger contestants in the game while Tyler is looked at as one of the weaker ones. What sense does it make not to get rid of a threatening competitor when you have the opportunity? Who said he had to follow that stupid agreement he made with Duncan earlier in the episode? No one.

What do you think? Any I forget? And, yeah, I know most of these involve Duncan. Blame the writers for this, not me.