Geek On The Mountain

Sci Fi’s Mad Mad House wrapped up last night. This is a reality show that started off with 10 people living in a house with 5 “Alts” (a witch, a voodoo priestess, a modern primitive, a naturist, and a vampire), who were charged with putting the guests through a spiritual awakening as they competed for $100,000.

I have to say that it was definitely entertaining. I have to also say that it didn’t seem genuine to me at all until the last two episodes (or the last one 2 hour episode, as it was aired), which was rather disappointing. It’s not to be entirely unexpected, but I don’t think they really captured what was going on very well. They started off with 10 people who were basically told they could compete for $100,000, but not what they’d be doing. As such, they ended up with a bunch of people who were totally unfit to experience what was going on. There were some obvious people who just weren’t cut out that were tossed right away, but there was one person who suprised me, and that was Lonna. She basically didn’t participate in anything that was going on for the first couple of weeks. She would have surely been cut if there weren’t some others who were even more unfit. Everything seemed to conflict with her religion. She did open up. She changed a lot, although at the end she didn’t participate in a wiccan ritual, which was a showing that she wasn’t really changed. At any rate, she was a genuine suprise, but she was cut.

Going into the last two episodes, I didn’t feel like any of the three people were really much in the way of what they were looking for. The person who actually won, Jamie, didn’t really show much in the way of changing (at least to what I had saw on camera). Another person was an out and out fake who took every chance during “confessionals” to talk about what strategy he was using so he could get the money. It was pretty funny. This guy even had the alts fooled for the most part (particularly the gullible witch). The last person seemed somewhat fake, but she was a strong competitor and hence had done well. We didn’t really know much about what was going on inside of her head (and I don’t think anyone else did either). That all changed. I think in the end we really saw that a change had taken place, particularly in the last two (but perhaps in the third fake person as well) people. I suppose it hit close to home for me in some ways, but I’ll talk more of that at a later date.

It was generally funny watching the alts get duped by the guests. Like I said, the witch was terribly gullible and she has a weird attitude/temper/bitchiness about her, which even extends to annoy the other alts at times. Some of them were also dumb enough to listen to the guests. One guy got eliminated for his “addiction” to cold medicine. It was his own fault really. One of the alts approached him and accused him of this. He said he really didn’t have any addiction, but he played along because it would look good if he were able to overcome this “addiction.” It would show he was changing. It worked out great for him. For all of a week or two. Then another guest told that same alt that he was still using (though he claims he wasn’t). Suddenly he was a liar and he was booted. It was great. Not only did he bring it all upon himself (I love irony), but like I said before, the alt was dumb enough to trust the guests. As if they wouldn’t just make something up to get someone eliminated. Duh.

At any rate, I think it could have been better throughout, but it certainly ended well and it was entertaining throughout. I hope they come back with another one.

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