Episode Report Card Potes: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Goddesses and Monsters
By Potes | Season 12 | Episode 1 | Aired on 03.04.2009
Back at the house there is more Tyra Mail. Someone is going to be sent packing. London hopes that someone had a worse shoot than her, which doesn't seem very Christ-like at all. Still, she thinks that being eliminated because she fell in mud would be a punk-ass way to go out. Sandra says that she's good in photo shoots, and the key to success is just staying focused. Natalie, however, tells Sandra that she's likely to get it in panel because of her runway snafu. Sandra doesn't think this will be enough to get her eliminated, and adds that she never makes mistakes when it comes to modeling. Except, as we've seen, when she does. And then they're really big and obvious. Tahlia is terrified that she'll be eliminated by virtue of her stiff neck and crippling insecurities. She's hoping that the judges will give her one more chance to feel bad about herself. With that, we head to commercials.
We enter panel with a video of Tyra posing with an adorable little girl. Tyra narrates: "Once, there lived a supermodel who wanted to guide future girls. So she broke out the rules to owning your inner fierceness." My takeaways from this are that Tyra wants to: 1) write a self-help book; 2) be cryogenically frozen. Tyra welcomes the girls and goes over the prizes: a contract with Elite model management, a six-page spread and a cover of Seventeen, and a $100,000 contract with Cover Girl. Tyra then introduces the judges. There is, of course, Nigel. Next to him is Miss J. Alexander, who is rocking the bowl cut. Then there's Paulina, who has finally achieved her goal of having hair taller than Tyra's.
Sandra is up first for evaluation. Miss J. tells her that she was broke down in the fashion show, and not in a good way. Sandra says that she thought she stopped at the right place on the runway, but apparently she didn't. Miss J. notes that the audience didn't get a chance to appreciate how fantasticals she looked. Tyra is about to have everyone take a look at Sandra's photo, but first must speechify. She says that the topic of the photo shoot is important to her -- the issue of teen girls being what Tyra calls "out of control." My, how did she come up with that clever descriptor? Tyra did a survey on her talk show website and discovered that one in five girls that she surveyed actually wanted to be a teen mom. Frankly, I think that speaks more to the demographic of The Tyra Banks Show than anything. Tyra wants to bring purity and innocence back. Maybe this is just so she can make it seem like her recent years of celibacy were voluntary. Sandra's hide and go seek photo is a disappointment. Paulina thinks she looks lost, while Tyra thinks she might have squatted down or peeked around the tree behind which she was hiding. Nigel thinks that Sandra looks scared now, was obviously nervous on the runway, and was confused by the hide and go seek concept. He hates her instantly, which I think speaks highly of his instincts.
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