Real World Sydney

I just got around to watching the hour-long premiere of the Real World Sydney, and I'm kind of excited about this season. It promises to be very watchable because a) the girls are all lookers and b) none of the guys seem like jerkoffs. I can watch girls be bitchy or stuck-up, but I can't stand watching guys act like douchebags. It seems like a miscarriage of justice when they still get what they want regardless of how much of a crappy person they are. Don't think that I'm implying that I'm such a great guy who should be the one getting who are what I want. I know perfectly well I get what I deserve, and I want others to as well. I'd like to believe that you can tell you're a good person by how well-liked you are, but... ehh I need to give up rationalizing how bitter I am (Bitterness! It tastes so sweet).

Along those lines, the girls really did get off to a catty start. There are four of them, though some of their names escape me because two are blonde. I felt an immediate kinship with Parisa, the Iranian girl, when she was the first to split from the club on the roommates' first night out because she wasn't having any fun standing in the corner judging everyone else. One of the guy roommates also called her a "Debbie Downer." I was all ready to be in her corner for the rest of the show, but the next day, she starting disparaging another girl, Kelly Anne, behind her back for being too drunk at the club, for Parisa didn't want to have to babysit her. It was the kind of passive-aggressive loud way of talking behind someone's back where you mean for them to hear what you're saying but are not courageous enough to say it to their face. When Kelly Anne confronted Parisa, she weakly justified herself with "how can i talk to you if you don't listen?" Kelly Anne stormed back to her bedroom and exclaimed, "God, what a bitch!" Totally!

I was very happy to see the girls get past their initial animosity. It was looking like the four were going to establish separate blocs of two that would never interact with eachother. This is after the second day! Thankfully, one of the blondes took the laudable step of reaching out to Kelly Anne on the other side and saying that she wanted to be able to talk with her and that there was no need for anyone to whisper behind another's back. Kelly Anne was very amenable, so she then had a productive talk with Parisa about how her feelings, and everyone felt a huge weight lift. It's strange how quickly the girls then decided to be kind to one another, for if blondie hadn't made that peaceful overture to Kelly, they would've been perfectly content to let the silent hostility between them solidify for good. It must be a girl thing - as well as something I might do.

The first episode concerned itself with enough girl drama that the jury's still out for me with the guys, but for now they seem like honorable, upright gentlemen to me. They're being smart and not initially passing judgment on anyone during the first week. Before a week has passed, the sample size of time spent with anyone is too short to make an accurate determination of their character, am I right?

I just remembered the blondes' names: Trisha and Shauvon. They cute.