I like the idea of an interview round, but since each season they chopped up the interviews so much and didn't show nearly enough of them--I support giving them the heave ho. [/quote]
I agree. The concept is great and it did give us a couple of fun snippets over the seasons, but I was always left feeling gypped at how little of the interviews were shown.

About the much-debated question of Rebecca's lack of discernable emotion towards her boyfriend, I'll throw in my two cents: Remember how Rebecca acted with Toral? She felt loyal enough to Toral to put herself in serious jeopardy in one boardroom, and in the next boardroom she found it difficult to say that Toral should be fired, but I don't recall her ever being very demonstratively affectionate with Toral outside the boardroom. And yet we do know the loyalty and friendship was there. I think Rebecca's just a very reserved person by nature, and reinforced by her face seeming to be one that doesn't give much away - not even by conscious effort on Rebecca's part, but just by itself. I may be projecting because I have the same type of face - if I'm angry, you'll never know it unless I start yelling - but that's how Rebecca seems to me.

I loved Felisha's cute, wry smile in the cab at the end of Alla's remarks. Poor Felisha - I felt bad for her. She knew she was going to be fired if they lost, and I think Trump and the viceroys went into the boardroom fully expecting that Felisha would indeed be fired, and so that's why they were so much more interested in raking Alla over the coals to see how she would respond. It's the same thing they did to Felisha last week; no need to do it again this week because Felisha had already flunked. I think the game plan was just to poke at Alla and then fire Felisha, but Alla, instead of realizing it's just part of the game Trump and the viceroys play in the boardroom, went into real panic mode. Probably partly because she didn't have someone else in the boardroom to manipulate into saying the negative stuff (as we saw her do to great effect in the past), probably partly because she was so close to final three that even the possibility that she'd be fired unhinged her. And so she went completely overboard in demolishing a candidate that everyone, including the other candidate, already knew was dead woman walking. It was a little too brutal even for Trump. Alla could have gotten away with it if it'd been another candidate - say, Rebecca - but with Felisha, it was just like kicking a puppy repeatedly.

I really would have preferred an Alla/Randal finale because I think she could kick his ass straight-up in a scenario of two PMs going head-to-head, but I like Rebecca, so I'm okay with the Randal/Rebecca finale. I do feel a little sorry that for me, Randal's inevitable coronation will always be tainted by the fact he didn't go up against the best competitor. I also feel a little sorry that Alla didn't make it to the final three because I really, really wanted to see a boardroom duel between Alla and Rebecca. That would have been great fun.