March 4th, A Date to Mark in your Calendar?

There is a little more than three weeks until the premiere of the new season of America's Next Top Model, but the question is, will the season be fresh and exciting or one cycle too many? As many might know this new season will be cycle 12. We will see if Tyra and the other judges can pull together some new ideas and make the everlasting battle of the models a season to look forward to. March 4th marks the new cycle, which some are anxiously awaiting for, but others stay skeptical.

Last season was full of tackiness and repetition. Even though it was clear Tyra's efforts and attempts were to make the season like nothing else before, she clearly fell in an act that was, at times, comical.

From the second episode the models arrived to find Mr. and Mrs. Jay wearing futuristic outfits, and that is where the weirdness began. They both explained to the models that this cycle's theme was going into the future. As the models entered a building, they went through many futuristic, but clearly fake machines. The machines were said to make them better models. Then they arrived at another machine that was malfunctioning and this was where Tyra made her big entrance. Tyra appeared from out of the machine acting like a robot. The models didn't seem to mind, they were, as always, star struck by the sight of Tyra, that they didn't even care, even if she was acting like a robot. The special effects also added to the tackiness of this season. Once "robot" Tyra was finished talking to the girls she "disappeared" out of thin air! The models all looked really surprised (they might be good models, but they weren't too great at acting). The season lacked freshness and was weird at times to say the least.

In the early cycles of America's Next Top Model, each and every episode was marked with a kind of new experience or challenge. The competition seemed genuine and the judges promised a mix of humor and advice for the models. The freshness of the competition seemed to die away after the seventh cycle and even though fans might stay faithful to the series, it never could live up to its early days.

The last season never provided the audience with anything it had in the beginning. The photo shoots became boring because they couldn’t come up with new ideas. The judges, with new judge, Paulina Porizkova, seemed to try and add humor to the show, when it wasn't funny. They just tried too hard to make the challenges fun and exciting when, in the end, they were really repetitive of what had happened previously in earlier seasons. So I don't totally bash on Tyra, last season did, however, have some things that were amusing. The first photo shoot was based on voting, which encouraged young voters to vote. On the upside of this competition, Tyra always seems to make at least one photo shoot based on some sort of cause.

So should you tune in for this premiere or not? This season could be promising, but most likely it is just going to be a repeat of last season. Once again there will be efforts to make the competition more interesting, but they will fail to do so. Consequently, the audiences will not want to tune in for more. There might be a few surprises this season, and new challenges, or new photo shoots, but overall this season won’t live up to the previous expectations, or the earlier seasons of ANTM. If you lack some humor in your life you might want to tune in purely for some comedic relief, at what the models have to go through or anything Tyra will say this season. Cycle 12 is most likely going to fail, and it wouldn’t be surprising if this was the last season ever to air.

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