apprentice, week 3

dude, i like this set of contestants less each week.

i had guessed from the ads that verna would be the one to quit -- she walked off the job in last week's episode, and still seemed a little restless during her team's reward.

danny meant well by trying to be all supportive and "it's ok if you don't have the energy to help us on this task", but in some ways i think he's too much in "make sure everybody feels good and the results don't so much matter land" sometimes... erin was right to bring up objections, and verna was right to withdraw if she wasn't feeling up to it. but seriously -- we've seen 2 seasons of this show, verna's survived a decent amount of school etc., they should have some idea that the projects aren't all fun and games and people are working all hours of the night and day to pull things off.

this street smarts versus book smarts is interesting, but i don't think conclusive. if anything, i think it illustrates that both experience and education are necessary, but for different reasons. the people who have spent more of their time earning degrees necessarily don't have as much field experience, and they think more abstractly... both times i've seen danny working on advertising, he's waiting for his big brilliant thesis idea, and when it doesn't come he half-asses the job... the ipod idea was a good idea, but when that was their only selling point, and they emphasized "hey, free stuff!" and by the way, here's some coffee, that really didn't work -- networth on the other hand, the cold coffee vs. hot coffee debate was very fun :-)

michael was a complete jerk this episode, i hope he's gone soon, but danny was still too much in college dorm mode to really listen to criticisms of himself, and probably needed to go this time... i was amused that he just sang to the camera on the taxi ride away from trump tower, but then again it wasn't unexpected.

random: what is this "be martha stewart's apprentice" deal they were advertising this week... is she not still in prison? oi...

anyhow: hoping michael leaves soon... really interested to be following chris, kendra, and stephanie in future episodes.