CJinSD

This is two weeks in a row that the show relied on easter eggs for the hardcore fans to carry episodes. I gave up on the 4th season after two episodes. This time I made it through seven.

This crew is losing me. I was at a point where I still enjoyed watching the adventures of Natalya, Storm, Mzi, and Courtney. Then Natalya seemed to absurdly over-react to Storm talking to Mzi about his concerns relating to his work. Now, I'm down to...wondering why I'm watching. At least the guests have been pleasant and patient these past two episodes, but the previews indicate that the respite from insufferable Bravoesque guests is over next week. Dave is hard to watch. You never know what you're going to get, and he clearly has only the most tenuous command of his emotions. It seems like Jason's greatest strength was having Ragan to make him look like a victim. The less said about Natasha and Kyle the better.

She's responsible for cheating on her boyfriend with a pathetic and insecure guy who she thought she could manipulate into keeping her secrets. She's responsible for lying to the pathetic and insecure guy by saying that their relationship would soon be public after she arranged to room with him so she could have convenient sex. She had previous experience with him. Did he never exhibit any of the sad behavior he displayed on the show? If the genders were reversed, the guy would be the talk of all the BD boards as the worst human being yet to be cast on one of the shows. If a guy had tricked a girl into rooming with him so he could bang her while forcing her to tell everyone else they were just friends so he could pursue other opportunities on the crew and back home, then people would be calling for his head. For some reason, treating women like adults who are responsible for their actions isn't something I see much of on reality tv boards. Malia seems like the only exception to the rule.

Not that I want to defend Sandy, but stopping a 30-foot boat isn't an instantaneous act. Stopping one the size of a hotel? It isn't like you can just ease off the throttle, or shift the propeller into neutral. You need to reverse the propellers thrust, at which point they're on the wrong end of the boat and the wrong side of the rudders for good control. Chances are the boat will move laterally proportionately to how quickly you try to execute an unplanned stop. Dave is broken and his actions are incorrect, but Natasha broke him. Nothing he texted her would have made a bit of difference if she didn't have some hint of self-awareness when she said things like that she was keeping their relationship secret because 'some people' would have judged her for cheating on her boyfriend.