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Through five episodes, it's almost hard to believe we're almost at the halfway point through Real World Ex-Plosion. So many things have happened from Hurricane Ashley and Jay's emotional moment, to the romances of Jamie & Tom and Jenny & Cory, and, of course, the exes moving in, time has flown by very fast since the premiere on early January. And there's plenty more to come. But for a moment, let's take a trip down twitter memory lane and look back at the beginning.
Since I've joined twitter on the night of Real World St. Thomas premiering, social media has allowed me to be more engaged in the one show & TV franchise I'm more passionate about. And it has turned the people who I've watched on these shows into almost exactly many of those who I talk to on Facebook: my good virtual friends. And I've also had my share of moments on here relating to this show: talking to the cast, live tweeting episodes, talking to fans.
But the buzz for every season of The Real World, The Challenge, and every other MTV show for that matter, begins for real when the trailer is released as early as a month before the show or season premieres on the tube. For those we've seen before on a previous MTV show, this has become old hat for them to see themselves on TV once again. But for those who are about to make their MTV debut, it's the very moment that they are about to become TV stars, and about to become known more than just to family and friends. There's nothing like the feeling of seeing yourself on television, about to expose what you have and your emotions with the rest of the world.
While I was in the beginning stages of tweeting during the first few months in the summer of 2012, it was during that time of Real World St. Thomas taking place and my first Challenge, BOTSeasons, where I started taking the MTV/BMP franchise for granted in the social world. And that included a ton of live tweeting of episodes, especially the latter, both when I got to watch the episodes live for the first time with the cast, and the infamous late night live PBP when I watch them again online (yep, filling up everyone's timeline). Since then out of respect for my followers, I've started to limit my tweeting to just the show day and airing, and now to just RT'ing important tweets during the show's PT airing and compiling a timeline for my SocialPulse posts.
But I always reserve the first live tweet session for a season for when I watch the trailer for the first time. Since I didn't get to live tweet the BOTS trailer as I was in my twitter infancy back then, I was well established in live tweeting by the time the Portland season came calling. And ever since it has become my tradition to live tweet the trailer for a Real World or Challenge when I watch it for the very first time. And in all instances for a guy who loves hoops as much as these shows, I've saved watching the trailer for Real World Portland & Ex-Plosion, and The Challenge: Rivals II until I wrapped up watching an NBA game. For Portland, I waited until after the All-Star Game to watch the trailer; for Rivals II, I saw it after Game 2 of the NBA Finals; and for Ex-Plosion, in between watching a Heat and Warriors doubleheader the day it premiered.
Here now is my commentary on those three trailers, and to mark one year since it dropped, albeit being leaked, on February 16th of last year, we start with Real World Portland.
