I want comments on this one, people...
For this season's Real World, I tried to pick out the character stereotypes and my favorite and least favorite roommates. It was fairly easy to do, but its changed up quite a bit since episode one. I want to do a recap and see if you all agree with me/your comments.
First off, I'll rate the roommates in order of attractiveness.
McKenzie>Sahar>Jemmye>Ashlee
[Sahar needs some Sudafed.... badly]
Alrighty, folks. Episode by episode. I'll list the Wikipedia generated episode guide to refresh your memory and then I'll rank characters from favorite to least favorite after each episode.
Episode 1: Welcome to New Orleans
The roommates meet and move into their the house. Knight reveals he is recovering from painkiller addiction following shoulder surgery, and Ryan mentions he used to use Xanax for his depression, though they exchange heated words when Knight questions Ryan's manhood. Eric is attracted to Sahar, while Ryan's attraction to McKenzie leads to irritation when older men flirt with her, and protectiveness when he sees her drinking. He also makes comments that offend Jemmye and Preston, leading to a heated argument, though he and Preston make amends.[35][36]
Eric = Sahar = Jemmye > McKenzie = Ashlee = Knight > Preston > Ryan
[Eric seemed pretty cool here. And I guess at the time, I liked Sahar because she's low key bad. This was also before I noticed Jemmye's grill. Yikes.]
Episode 2: Knight Fights Love Bites
Ryan and Preston become close, as do Eric and Sahar, though Eric perceives mixed signals. Preston reveals his mother's addiction to crack cocaine, Ryan reveals that he is a virgin and Jemmye reveals that she has never been with a Caucasian man, which inspires Knight. Knight's skepticism of a shoulder injury Ryan incurs after a climb over the house's front gate leads to a heated argument between the two.[39][40]=
Knight = Eric = Jemmye > Ashlee = McKenzie = Sahar > Preston > Ryan
[Knight keeps it a hundred all of the time without being obnoxious, so he gets bumped up. Sahar gets bumped down for semi-playing Eric's life after coming on to him. Preston whines too much and Ryan is bitchmade and creepy.]
Episode 3: Jemmye's White Knight
As the cast enjoys Mardi Gras, Ryan and McKenzie become close, but after he becomes romantic with her visiting friend, Suze, she feels betrayed. Preston juggles multiple men. McKenzie believes that sex should be based on love, in contrast to Knight, who hopes to be the first Caucasian man Jemmye sleeps with. After that wish is fulfilled after a night out of heavy drinking for Jemmye, McKenzie worries about problems on the horizon for them.[42][43]
Knight > Jemmye = Preston > Eric = Ashlee = Sahar > McKenzie > Ryan
[Knight is that dude. He should win some sort of award for how he went about pulling Jemmye. McKenzie shows her first signs of bitchassness/whackness. Preston begins to show that he is not whiny all the time and he knows how to have a good time. Jemmye seems down as hell. {I still have not noticed her grill at this point}]
Episode 4: Superbrawl 2010
Knight and Jemmye's sexual relationship continues, leading to complaints on the part of their roommates, and conflict over another woman. Ashlee and Preston record material for WWOZ to further their career, with some difficulty. After participating in the Barkus Day Parade, the cast enjoys Super Bowl XLIV at a bar, leading to an emotional but temporary expulsion for Preston, and worry over McKenzie's drinking. Preston, Knight and McKenzie discuss Preston's coming out, his relationships, and questions about Ryan's sexuality, much to Ryan's irritation. This, along with Ryan's use of homophobic slurs, leads to recurring conflict between him and Preston, including their secretly soiling each other's belongings with their own bodily orifices and fluids.[45][46]
Knight = Eric > Ashlee = Sahar> Preston > Jemmye > McKenzie > Ryan
[Jemmye starts cock blocking even though she claims not to be in a serious relationship with Knight, so she gets bumped down. Knight continues to be that dude. Preston gets bumped down for handling the bar situation like a bitch {note: bitch as in bitch, not bitch as in female}. Ryan continues to be a weirdo. Ashlee continues to be irrelevant. Eric gets bumped up for the scene during which EVERYONE else is fighting and he is chillin silently w/ his chicken and fries]
Episode 5: Confused and Abuse
The cast gets to ride in a Tucks Parade float, while Preston and Ashlee continue their work for WWOZ. Preston and Ryan's mutual animus continues, though they form an uneasy truce. The cast's worries over McKenzie's drinking persists, until she meets a man named Travis who prefers to talk instead of drink. Jemmye and Knight begin to question their relationship, in light of Jemmye's boyfriend, Mississippi State[24] and the revelation by Jemmye about abuse on the part of the man she dated prior to him.[23][48] basketball player Kodi Augustus,
Knight > Preston = Eric = Ashlee = Sahar > Jemmye > McKenzie > Ryan
[McKenzie is the annoying drunk friend that you have to take care of. She is rather annoying usually, but she went out of her way in this episode. Dude she was talking to was also a bitch nigga. {note: nigga, in this context, describes a white man}. Jemmye continues to be a thirsty cockblocker. Preston gets bumped down for easing off on Ryan and Ryan is still... whack]
Episode 6: Sing out, Cop Out
Ryan and Preston's conflict comes to a head, with their cast mates caught in the middle, after their mutual soiling of each other's belongings is revealed. As Sahar pursues her musical aspirations, she meets local musician Theresa Andersson, who mentors her. Jemmye and Ryan enjoys a visit from Jemmye's mother, Alice. Seeking retribution, Ryan summons the police to complain about Preston's urination on his toothbrush, much to the surprise of the rest of the cast, who see this as an overreaction on Ryan's part. After the cast volunteers at a local soup kitchen, Preston and Ryan exchange apologies in order to put their conflict behind him, though Ryan later reveals that he tore up Preston's debit card.[50][51]
Knight > Ashlee = Jemmye = McKenzie > Preston > Eric = Sahar> Ryan
[Ryan has sunken so low into the abyss of whackness that it is nearly impossible to return at this point. Eric gets demoted for snitching. Its one thing to say you know about something so you don't catch heat for someone else's shenanigans and another entirely to give every detail of said shenanigans. Preston would be down with Eric for hugging it out with Ryan at the end of the episode if he wasn't such a G with the cops. And again, Knight gets promoted to number one for secretly egging both Ryan and Preston on just so he could see a fight. Sahar gets demoted for being ridiculously thirsty and annoying.]
Episode 7: Building and Breaking
The cast chafes against Knight's homophobic comments about Preston, and his disrespectful behavior towards Jemmye. After Sahar confides in Jemmye about her boyfriend, Pablo's infidelity, a taunt Knight makes during an exchange of insults with Sahar results in Sahar's irritation with Jemmye. After touring parts of the city still devastated by Hurricane Katrina, the cast helps to rebuild houses with Habitat for Humanity, except for Ryan, who says he doesn't feel like building houses, and fears interacting with the group will lead to further conflict. After a talk with Knight, Preston comes to see his more sensitive side, and Knight makes amends with him and Sahar, but his continued abuse of Jemmye leads her to seek help at a battered woman's shelter, where she comes to realize that she has not fully dealt with her tendency to gravitate toward the wrong men.[53][54]
Knight > Ashlee = McKenzie = Eric > Preston > Jemmye > Sahar > Ryan
[This episode pissed me off hardcore. Knight has had Jemmye's back from episode 2, but the girls decide that he is abusive towards her and start getting her crazy ass {note: by this point, I have noticed her grill} riled up for no reason. The problem with Knight could have very easily been defused by her either A.) Not making the same teasing jokes Knight was making or responding positively to them or B.) Simply telling him she was offended by them. He repeatedly said that if she came to him and said that if she was bothered, he would stop and they made him out to be some kind of bad guy in this episode. Same with him and Preston. You can't pick and choose when to be sensitive to the same kind of comment. He didn't get mad when Knight made joking gay jokes toward him earlier, but he does get mad when he expresses his distaste for dressing in drag?
Anyways, Knight gets the #1 spot for handling that situation well. Left unchecked, it could have caused serious problem. I'll explain the other reason in a sec.
Preston gets bumped down for whining in addition to everything else I just wrote. Jemmye gets bumped down for being a thirsty, cockblocking, weirdo. Sahar gets knocked down extra extra for starting a fight and then crying when the Knight finished it. Weak. And Ryan is Ryan.]
Episode 8: Saint Patrick's Secrets
The cast works at the mission on Saint Patrick's Day, during which Ryan talks with a 22-year-old homeless man, but Knight, Jemmye and McKenzie go drinking instead. McKenzie meets a man named Grant, with whom she becomes romantically affectionate back at the mansion. Jemmye, however, gets drunk, and acts irrationally depressed and angry back at the mansion, attempting at one point to walk out to return back to Mississippi. After a sympathetic Knight talks to her, Jemmye realizes that she has not confronted the issue of her past abuse, and decides to see Dale, a social worker at the women's shelter, on a weekly basis. She also confides in her mother about her past abusive relationship for the first time.[56][57]
{Note: All I remember about this episode is that it was boring. Next}
Episode 9: Fired
As Ryan's erratic behavior disturbs the the rest of the cast, he confides to Sahar that he suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder, which has been worsening. Suspicion falls on Knight after Ashlee discovers her Percosetstandup comedy act to take the stage herself. Though she forgets the words to her song, Eric's support lifts her spirits.[59][60] is missing, fueling conflict between Jemmye and Ryan, and between Sahar and Knight. After Knight is apparently exonerated by a drug test, the cast begins to suspect Ryan. The under-confident Sahar is spurred by a visit from her best friend, Lila, and seeing Eric's standup comedy act to take the stage herself. Though she forgets the words to her song, Eric's support lifts her spirits.[59][60]
Knight = Eric = Preston > Jemmye > McKenzie = Ashlee > Sahar > Ryan
[Eric and Preston struck me as cool in this episode, but I don't quite remember why. Knight handled the drug situation really well. Ashlee was a bit annoying with how she confronted Knight about the situation, but she didn't seem to think he really did anything. Jemmye gets bumped up for coming at Ryan's life for lying but bumped down for going about it irrationally.
Sahar is now down with Ryan for me as far as least favorite characters go. She is: thirsty (look at how she interacts with her friend), whiny, and gets excitable about dumb shit. Worst of all, she came at Knight on the subject of his drug problem then decided she would freak out when he claimed she couldn't sing. Princess mentality?
Ryan is a nutcase.]
What do you guys think? I'm interested to see how the season unfolds.
