Man, my RPG group is always looking for new members except the bookstore we go to has a bunch of people who played D&D and learnt that the DM is always fucking with its players and vice-versa.

Interesting perspectivehttp://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/i-FqKDx3J/0/950x10000/i-FqKDx3J-950x10000.jpg

Still haven't seen the show myself, mind.

So I caught episode two this week. Quick thoughts:
-Blue team is hemorrhaging quality members like a severed carotid artery.
-That hacker kid on Blue Team is such a dick. He spends too much time trolling his own team.
-The Blue Team girl who has no real talents other than being a "Batman Brain-Trust" simply refuses to get kicked off the show. Neither team wanted her in the first place and that bought her immunity last week. This week a lucky bad-bounce on a giant d20 keeps her from getting kicked out again.
-Orange Team seem to be getting along perfectly. They are like the Seal Team 6 of Nerds.
-When it comes to cosplay, Orange Team seems to have gotten the bulk of the talent.

Being a Batman Brain-Trust is talent enough!

...yeah I haven't seen this.

EDIT: This is on TBS? I dunno, that seems like another blow for its quality...I guess I will maybe watch one episode just to see how ridiculous it is.

Not when it's sandwiched in between non-stop self depreciation and crying because she's outclassed by every other contestant and then is punctuated by indigent profanity when she ends up on the bottom every week but miraculously manages to not get kicked off.

Seal Team Six down!
 

So, in a stunning act of production scripting going horribly wrong; blue team pulls of a ridiculously improbable come-from-behind victory in the Nerd War to force the best group of nerds ever assembled to vote against one another to fill an elimination challenge.

Sadly, the "Jack of all trades" nerd, Joshua, pulled a sneaky lie against the furious pink-haired gaming blogger, Danielle, sending her to the challenge and leaving her feeling betrayed and royally pissed off. (Previews for the next episode shows her slapping him in the face.)

Brandon, the neuroscientist, got the axe in the remote control golf cart challenge, leaving orange team to deal with a lot of drama and hurt feelings in their ranks. While this loss was a major blow to orange team, they are still head over heels more qualified in just about everything than blue team is.

Next episode looks to have a superhero game show showdown. This is the one area that dead-weight nerd, Alana, actually has an edge. My hope to see her finally getting kicked off like she should have been in the beginning seem pretty bleak this week.

I thought Josh and Danielle's drunken makeup after last week's disaster was pretty cute, and I truly do hope that this means Orange Team is back to working as a unit. Alana could have learned a thing or two about not keeping grudges too long; her nasty attitude was far more what kept her out of the loop than her 'lack of usefulness,' if you ask me. Either way, it was a relief to finally see her out, especially since her cockiness in her realm of specialty led to her downfall.

Yeah, I'm glad to see SFO back on track to being the best crack-team of nerds ever gathered in one house on television. What we learned that night was that alcohol plus violence mends all broken things (except maybe the side of Josh's face).

As much as I'm glad that Alana is finally gone, it's true that her leaving strengthens Blue Team's (their team name is dumb) core and makes them more of a challenge. I don't want to see any of SFO losing to that trio, but I'm willing to bet that if things go bad for them, Josh will be up for the chopping block.

Also, Alana lost at the challenge featuring her only marketable skill (comics). How sad is that? Then, she spent her time after losing complaining because the comic questions weren't ones she felt she should have known.

As an aside, I'm not sure how I feel about Kevin Smith making Genevieve cry. On the one hand, Blue Team did not do as well at the debate. But on the other hand, Smith basically handed SFO the win as his vote was the deciding vote all three times and he was all "I like what you've got to say Blue Team person, but I'm just gunna hand it to SFO." If he'd at least given Genevieve her credit for correcting Josh's blatant screw-up and given Blue Team at least a glimmer of a chance, I think it would have been okay. We all know Virgil would have lost it for them anyway.