Damn You, Recap Episodes!!

Nothing gets me shaking my fist at the TV harder and going "noooooooo" for longer than when I tune in for some show I've been looking forward to for days only to discover that for whatever stupid reason this week is the recap episode! Booooo recap episodes. It's like, hello, I've been watching this show weekly like its pumping crystal meth into my eyeballs. Just because you're plying me with maybe 8 minutes tops of "new" material on top of rehashing the last 8 weeks of new shows doesn't mean that this episode counts as "new". So stop billing episodes as "all new this week!" when what you really mean is "roughly 9% of this week's episode is new!"

Although I shouldn't complain because while I have already had to waste one Wednesday night hour on Next Top Model's recap show (the only memorable "new" scene that I can think of was Bianca running face-first into a glass door, which, OK, was kind of hilarious), I lucked out last night in that Survivor's recap show conveniently aired as I was dozing off into a turkey-stuffing-potato-pie tryptophan-induced coma in the car on the way home. So at least there's that.

I still lament the loss of Frosti from Survivor; he seemed like he would be genuinely awesome to watch in immunity challenges and all in all probably a cool dude to hang out with. Plus Courtney will probably shrivel up and freeze to death without being able to huddle against him for warmth now. I predit Peh-Gei going next week unless she scores immunity again, and I see a plans-blowing-up-in-your-face moment in the near future for our little gay-mormon-stewardess friend Todd.

Are you watching Survivor: China? Did I miss anything great in the recap? Who are your picks for final three?