Revolting Developments

If there's an argument against the leave-the-kids-alone mantra, though, it's Greg. We know where the cameramen were when he was rolling over young 'uns half his size, dragging one out into the middle of town — but where were the producers? When he was bullying others, cussing like an L.A. driver, and being so friggin' frightening that poor little soon-to-be-rich Mallory was cowering in her sleeping bag, where were the adults? I'm not saying they don't have a line they won't let the kids cross; I'm just saying they don't draw it where I would.

So the take-away is more kid leeway when it comes to deciding their own fate, less when it comes to letting them run roughshod over others — just like in grownupland.

If there was anything pleasant in this week of dust storms and dust-ups, it was that we got to focus on different pioneers, like the sister act of Olivia and Mallory, the younger of whom snagged a ''beautiful, gorgeous'' $20K gold birthday/charity gift (and who has an impressive way of tacking a 500 percent markup on her general-store merch). Then there was woman-after-my-own-heart Morgan, who stepped right when she gave Greg a stern but polite ''I was looking for you! Please explain to me what happened. I'm really confused.'' I suspect one of your favorites, though, might just be Cole. Yeah, the boy rewrote the Battle of Bull Run when he walked up to a male of the bovine species, looked him square in the eyes, and literally made the horned beast turn tail. He's got guts, that one. Let's hope he'll use 'em to do more than some fancy cowboyin'.

So where do you stand, TV Watchers? Glad the caste system got shaken up (though it does put PPT in with the swells)? Think Greg went too far, even if he did have a point? Would the star ceremony have gone down differently if you were on the council? And finally, which should it have been: pizza or microwave? Hit me back.