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                          MTV's The Real World: “Work”
                                        
In this week's episode [1] of MTV [2]'s The Real World [3] “Work” we find
Devyn [4] (and to a small degree, Sarah [5]) working for Jovani [6], Chet [7]
working as an interviewer and an interviewee, Baya [8] (and to a small
degree, Sarah) working out at dancing, Katelynn [9] working to launch a
website for a local commuity outreach center, Ryan [10] working the guitar,
JD [11] working the camera for Chet, and Scott [12] working hard to avoid any
camera time whatsoever. 

I think this episode answered my question temporal changes in editing [13] as
an incident that “happened” a month and a half ago [14]—Baya turned down a
chance to work with a hiphop dance troop and only now did someone ask her
about it. So to me, it's clear that each episode of the show is “scripted”
around a person (or persons) or a theme (as this week it seems to be “work”).


Katelynn, for the most part, is portrayed much better in this episode than
last week [15], explaining more about the transgendered process she's going
through. And Chet was quite likeable (and he pulls off wearing a bowtie for
not being an economist), although his taunting of Kayelynn bugged me. 

[1] http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/real_world_brooklyn/episode/episode.jhtml?episodeId=148948
[2] http://www.mtv.com/
[3] http://realworld.mtv.com/
[4] http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/real_world_brooklyn/cast_member/cast_member.jhtml?personalityId=10598
[5] http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/real_world_brooklyn/cast_member/cast_member.jhtml?personalityId=10600
[6] http://www.jovani.com/
[7] http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/real_world_brooklyn/cast_member/cast_member.jhtml?personalityId=10597
[8] http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/real_world_brooklyn/cast_member/cast_member.jhtml?personalityId=10596
[9] http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/real_world_brooklyn/cast_member/cast_member.jhtml?personalityId=10603
[10] http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/real_world_brooklyn/cast_member/cast_member.jhtml?personalityId=10601
[11] http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/real_world_brooklyn/cast_member/cast_member.jhtml?personalityId=10599
[12] http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/real_world_brooklyn/cast_member/cast_member.jhtml?personalityId=10602
[13] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2009/01/28.2
[14] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2009/01/14.2
[15] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2009/02/18.1

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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