The mole...

So the mole is now over... I am not the world's biggest fan of television... I admit though that I did grow up on Gameshows... Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, Press Your Luck, What's My Line... The list goes on... Now adays though TV has gone decidely downhill... Both in character and mentality... Then along comes a gem... The Mole...

A show where the audience actually participated without actually affecting the show... 12 people competeing in varying competitions to add money to a prize pot that only 1 was going to win with a cap of 500,000 dollars... The catch... One of the 12 is actually working for the Producers of the show to sabotage the missions, and keep money from the pot while staying under the radar of the other players... The Mole...

The single best part of this is that no one but a select few actually know who the mole is... Not the players, the host, most of the crew, and especially us at home... We got to play along and scrounge through the editing to try and answer that question... Who is the Mole?

Then in a stroke of brilliance, the players were eliminated based upon themselves... It is not a vote, or physical test... They all simply take a quiz that culminates in that question... The lowest scorer is executed and sent home...

So what now that it is over? I guess the ratings were low for this show at the beginning, and several people on the message boards started a few petitions to try and save this show... Some are even sending lemonheads to the executive offices of ABC (I probably will too)... There is even a website coming up soon called www.abcsavethemole.com ...

So in conclusion, in an age of trashy television and "mental taffy," as one influential person in my life puts it, it was great to get a show that made ya think, even if it was at 10 o'clock at night...