On their "list of reasons to be happy summer's over":
10. The Mole can be officially retired until Anderson Cooper decides he wants to come back.
Ahh, the revamped Mole. And by "revamped," ABC forgot to tell you they meant boring, terribly cast, and dumbed-down considerably. Bring back Anderson Cooper and the rest of the things that made the original Mole great and we'll get interested.
Uh, okay. Boring? Not for this viewer, and quite a few others. Terribly cast? Fuck, no. I don't wanna hear "but Paul and Nicole were annoying!" Compared to other reality TV bitches, they were far more entertaining, and they both have huge fanbases, actually. Dumbed down? Uh, how? Because they had one challenge where they had to walk around in their underwear? Oh my God, the show's gone the way of I Love New York! CANCEL IT!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and hey TWOP, if you didn't like this season of The Mole so much, why'd you give every single episode an A or A-, hmmm?
Oh, and I'm the biggest fan of Anderson Cooper alive, probably, but: he's not coming back, get the fuck over it! Jon Kelley was a robot in the very first part of the very first episode, but he got to be nearly as awesome (not as awesome, because A-Coops is the best reality TV show host of all time). Ugh. At least the people over on TWoP's boards seem similarly disgusted by this part of the article...
What made the original Mole so great, anyway? Anderson Cooper, surely, yes. But like I said: Not. Coming. Back. Ever. Maybe the biggest factor in making the show so great, though, was the cool spy-like feeling of the show, and the gleeful paranoia involved in arguing passionately for a certain _____FOMO camp. None of that went away. In conclusion, again, screw you, TWoP. Your recaps kind of suck, too (though I like whoever does the ones for The Mole, the ones for, say, Survivor are repulsively negative toward anyone on the show [if you hate everyone so much, why are you bothering to watch?], and the ones for The Office S2 are so ridiculously overanalytical it's almost torture to slag through them, sorry to whoever wrote those).
