It was a bitch of a season, no?
If you’re under the age of thirty, or if you don’t have years of experience, why bother going on this show? You’ll never win…
If it was like every other week, when you fire someone from the losing team, Lee would have gone.
Incompetent planning, poor execution, on so many aspects. (In truth, he lost the moment he picked his team: Sean picked at least two members for competence, Lee just picked the ones that sucked up to him (and/or Lenny) the best.)
Really telling moment: Trump arrives at the hockey venue and looks around: no Lee or any member of the team there to greet him. Trump has reamed final two candidates out for that in the past, several times. As he said, “They never learn.”
Learn what? Rule one is to keep in mind who you are auditioning for. Keep Trump happy. Make Trump the center of as much attention and praise as humanly possible. Which is what Sean did: first he greeted Trump personally and then he literally put him center stage by having Trump drive the car onto the stage.
I feel cheated that they didn’t tell us the outcome of the two events, given that they said the gauge of raising the most money would be used to determine the winner. What we say was one of the Gold Rush Pontiac’s being sold for 35 thou and in contrast, one of the Synnergy Pontiac’s with the bidding still proceeding in the 40 thousands.
So, in my scorecard: Sean won the final event in raising money. Sean picked the better team. Sean got the vote of Carolyn, and none of Trump’s inner circle picked Lee. The audience by a great margin (per Trump) preferred Sean to Lee the politician.
Lotsa "W"s in Sean’s column, none for Lee.
Lee, you’re fired.
Told ya last week that Andrea’s medical emergency would turn out to be a big nothing!!! Still can’t stand her!
I thought it was odd that Trump never really addressed the outcomes of the two final tasks. They happened. . . and then there was the boardroom, but it seemed to be just general “why are you better than your competitor” conversation. It certainly looked like Sean would have been the winner based on the $40,000 winning bid for one of the Pontiacs. . . but, we just don’t know that. Lee might have pulled some rabbits out of hockey helmets, but we didn’t get to see it.
This really WAS a dull season. I don’t think Trump made the right choice, but he’s the one who has to live with it! Amen!
Bring on the summer junk shows!
Yeah, Sean’s a wanker – but I totally don’t get the Lee love. His performance on the final task was soooooooooo lame – because of the choices he made in picking his team. And the way he went about choosing his team made it clear in and of itself that he didn’t deserve to win. Loyalty is good – getting along with your coworkers is good – but competence has to be your starting point.
And as Trump said – WTF, Pepe, what the hell kind of bond could the two of you have developed in a week and a half?
There was one other guy fired very early…Bryce? that I thought should have been brought back. If I remember right, he did great at his task, but failed, and got fired, though at the time it seemed so unfair.
I fell asleep before the big moment, but I kind of liked the two women…Liz and the dark-haired one…getting tough with Lee. He obviously hadn’t thought through on details and they weren’t willing to let things slide and just hope for the best. They were forcing him to work on logistics instead of “the Big Idea” and it really showed how his youth and lack of experience in the world could work against him. The details of the “Shirt Off His Back” auction, for one, and lining up the players on the blue line. Liz finally came around and was all smiley and “Lee did a good job”, but I’m sure the groundwork she and her team had done prior to the apprentices showing up had a lot to do with any success Lee had.
And did the whole Tammy and Sean thing get resolved? It seemed in every encounter they had, Tammy was doing her best to be boring and avoid actually looking at Sean. Even when he hugged her, she seemed distant. It would appear that her feelings for Sean are not the same as his feelings for her, or maybe she’s just better at maintaing a professional distance in public.
So I’m assuming here that Sean won?
Oh, yeah, he won. And he announced to Trump and the World that he and Tammy were going to get married. Oy!
Whereas all Tammy would commit to is, “We’re dating.” Looking extremely embarrassed at even saying that much. I didn’t blame her; gads, Sean was embarrassing the way he was all over her so constantly.
My favorite moment of the whole show? When Jamie Pressley, about to go out and do the auction, turned on her Joy character full force and said, “No, you don’t, Apprentice Boy!” We about fell off our chairs at that one.
My wife and I greatly preferred Sean. Sean seemed qualified while Lee just seemed like a boyish politician.
Lee is worse than most other final 2 “losers” as well. He’s not a horrible contestant, but much worse than some of the other contestants this year(and other years).
Is that what she said? I thought it contained a swear, and I also wondered if it was her, not the Joy character shining through.
I didn’t even bother to stay awake to see who won, because I just knew it could not possibly have been Lee. And the fact that I am writing the 28th post in this thread proves to me that most people care about as little as I do.
No, she said "this shit’s not together Apprentice Boy!!!
It was awesome.