At exactly what point did he cry or suck his thumb? He successfully completed the task. I think you’re being too hard on him. If he were my kid, I’d be really proud.
Tantrum? What tantrum? Are we talking about Victoria? Have you seen the scenes for next week?
[QUOTE=jsc1953He reminded me of the little brother in the snowsuit in A Christmas Story. [/QUOTE]
Adam lay on his back, like a slug. It was his only defense.
Very nice job clearing that spout, *. Other teams came, finished, and went in the time it took you.
Hayden has deteriorated steadily with every leg, and she’s too bony anyway. The usual cleavage shots weren’t there last night, either.
Down to only 2 non-hateable teams now, and I’m out of the predicting business but will still express the hope for a Kris/John, Lori/Bolo finish. The wrestlers have grown on me.
What’s the deal next week? Looks like they’re in Survivor: Africa territory. Is it possible that */Victimia will have to drop out for medical reasons? Will that be the reason for her offering to commit suicide? Will the producers put her and Adam together in Team Despondency? Stay tuned …
The thing that bothers me about Rebecca is that, yes ADam is wuss and all that, then why did she agre to race with him? I don’t necessarily tink she is a bitch, because quite honestly I can see how Adam would be too much drama to handle. But then don’t enter a competition where you are tied to the guy for a month. Sheesh.
Was I the only one who felt that Victoria yelling as they ran to the pit stop “Hayden and Aaron are right behind us!” didn’t seem genuine. Like either it was dut in post production. They never showed her actually saying it and there was no video (or at least that I recall) of them looking like they were very close at all. I guess when we see the departure times next week we’ll know.
IMO, Adam was thisclose to throwing a three-year-old’s tantrum when Rebecca was making the flight arrangements at the airport. Perhaps she was being a bitch and not letting him do it, although I did think I caught her saying something about them agreeing in the past to let her handle reservations and tickets. His response was to push her and when she didn’t budge, he went and sulked.
I personally don’t think I could have much respect for someone whose response to arguments was “Do you want me to jump off the boat? I’ll jump off the boat. Do you want me to throw myself on the train tracks? Because I’ll throw myself on the train tracks.”
And yes, Adam did complete the Fast Forward, for which I’ll give him a little credit. But Jesus, his reaction to any sort of challenging or adversarial situation seems to be a Grade-A Hissy Fit.
I’m hesitant to pass any judgement on what seems to happen in the next episode, based on the previews. There honestly seems to be something very wrong with Victoria, although I’ve been led astray before.
Yeah, no fooling. I understand why bunching is a good thing (because, honestly, having a couple teams three days ahead of the others – or three days behind – kind of destroys any tension), but cripe, at least keep the first part of the leg meaningful. I though that the bungee-shot roadblock a few weeks ago (which had a sign-up sheet) or the lay-a-flower task before that (where the teams entered the building one-at-a-time) were good compromises: all the teams stayed bunched within a pretty tight window, but the order in which the teams arrived determined the order in which they performed the task. I don’t see why the producers couldn’t have used the same idea last week at the railyard or this week at Napoleon’s house.
Oh, c’mon. My young female companion says “can I try making the reservations 'cause I haven’t don’t it before” and I say, “shut up dummy. You’re stupid and I make the reservations around here, just go sit over there and look pretty”, and you’re not going to come after me as a deservedly first class asshole?
This isn’t two equals, one of whom happens to suck at making reservations. This is someone who thinks she’s better and he should just shut up. I kinda have a problem with that.
You never saw Gus telling his daughter to shup up because he has more life experience and she just sucks.
Forgive me a small bit of hyperbole for humourous effect. And actually, I think he was crying when they fished him out after the first attempt.
I’d be proud too, if he was an 8 year old. Grown ups to do not cry for mommy every time they face a challenge, they don’t shriek like a sissified 5 year old girl every time they face any physical hardship (“I GOT SALT IN MY EYES!!!”, “EEEEE! I CAN’T REACH THE “DEFLATE” BUTTON! EEEEEEKK!”, ← hyperbole! 
) and they don’t threaten suicide every time that things don’t go exactly the way they’ve planned.
The fact that other contestants are also having tantrums does not invalidate Adam’s tantrums. The “I’m gonna go sit ‘n’ pout 'cause you’re being MEAN to me.” thing in the airport*, the repeated suicide threats, plus the hissy fit where the 70 year old grandma toughed it out better than Adam pretty much define “tantrums”. Note that Rebecca didn’t actually start taunting Adam until after he started having a tantrum (this does not excuse her from the charge of being a bitch for taunting him–but I’m not sure I wouldn’t have done the same thing.) The misbehavior of other players (and I’ll grant that it exists) is irrelevant.
(on preview)
No problem with the concept that Rebecca is a mega-bitch. Allegedly she was rejected for the last TAR because her boyfriend was too boring so she got back together with Adam simply so she could get on–if true, this is vile–I mean, Jonathon-level vile. But that said and even granting her uber-bitchy vile-ness, it doesn’t change that he’s still a sissy-wimp momma’s boy.
Fenris
*And, hint for Adam: The middle of the Amazing Frigging Race is not the time to learn to make airplane reservations–you play to your strengths–he said he’s never made an airline reservation before, IIRC.
This is a contest to win $1,000,000.00, not a way for you to actualize your oneness holistically with your self-esteem. The better contestant should do the tasks they’re best suited for–if my best friend and I ever went on the show, I’d drive, he’d navigate–we’ve done it that way that across 3 continents, dozens of countries/states/cities over a 20 year period. I would be stunned if he said, in the middle of TAR “I wanna learn how drive to your navigation and you can learn to navigate for me–it’ll make me feel more validated. Let’s switch!” And further, if one really does want to learn, one shouldn’t go sit in a corner and sulk when one could learn by watching even if your companion treats you with contempt.
OK, is it just me, or does this particular Race sort of, you know, suck compared to prior Races? What’s with all the bunching? Why put the two FF’s on back to back legs? Did they not do a trial run or something before they started? Don’t get me wrong, I still <heart> Phil and all, and I am still watching, but this season doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of fun. I mean, I loved to hate Colin & Christie last time 'round. Not so much with Jonathan & Victoria – I don’t want to give them the satisfaction, you know? Is there something wrong with me?
I got into TAR late. I watched last time and am watching this one. I can tell you that I would love to see Bolo (or anyone else) punch Johnathan in the face and turn it inside out when he lets out one of those “Victoriaaaaaaaa!s.” I loathe his whiny behind like no other. I want him to finish second…one step behind the winner so I can watch him explode.
It’s as if they had a leg in another country lined up but had to cancel during the race for some reason, and then thrashed made up some new things to do in Hungary on the fly.
Nope-It’s not just you:
The route seems poorly planned. Iceland (great choice)->Europe->Africa->Europe?->Africa AGAIN???
Their casting decisions sucked this time 'round. Colin and Christie were fun to watch: they overall got along well (with some explosive! meltdowns granted, but without the creepy “he’s beating her” vibe) And Colin and Christie were competent. They may, excluding their personal issues, may have been the best racers we’ve ever seen. * and Victoria? Sorry, CBS: dysfunctional=entertaining. Abusive? Not so much. I wonder if they were going for a Frank/Margarita vibe with * and V where Frank/Margarita healed their relationship–remember Frank started out as bad as * but Frank learned better. And the other issue with the contestants is that in previous shows, there’ve been one, maybe two or three bad-guys. This time round? From the opening group, there may have been four good-guys. Maybe. (I’m giving the “We’re cutsie and Jewish” team the benefit of the doubt.) and they’re all gone but one. After Kris/Jon go, there’s no-one who’s racing well enough to deserve to win. They made a bunch of bad casting choices. I’m not into watching TAR for the interpersonal drama. A race of “all nice” teams would be interesting (and a pleasant change)–and it’d be more dramatic: watching a team you like melt down is far more dramatic than this season’s “Ok, what’ll *, KKKendra, Hayden and Adam do this time :rolleyes:”
The challenges have been bad. Very few “brains over brawn” challenges (the pyramid one from last race is an example of a great challenge) and they’ve continued last show’s “Fear Factor” challenges. Plus some very bad “dumb luck” challenges. The stoopid haystack one and the Russian Roulette with the two known, bad cars (notice that TAR had two in reserve in the parking lot?). I want challenges of brains, strength or courage. Not “strong stomach” and “dumb luck” challenges
Cheating on the editing. It was more exciting when we knew we could trust the editing, not less
The f*cking bottlenecks. Too damned many, too damned often.
I’m really unhappy with this season.
Fenris
The trip to Senegal has all the earmarks of a last-minute schedule change. That they were planning to go there later in the show, but something came up and the site wouldn’t be available for filming on the scheduled date…or something like that. So they went Sweden - Senegal - Berlin, instead of Sweden - Berlin - Budapest…Senegal.
I’d love to see a behind-the-scenes on this show.
The rush to get this one in the lineup within two months of the end of TAR V shows. I’m more than happy with waiting a year between starts if it means less of the haphazardness of this season and more of the good stuff of last season.
I wished for this last time, with Colin & Christie. Alas, when they edit the final leg, all they show is the Winning Team arriving at the mat, and not the First Losers. Big disappointment, that – because an Exploding Colin Head would have been A-W-E-S-O-M-E. (Granted, C&C were a few minutes behind Chip & Kim last time, but still.)
Anyway … (I cannot believe I am actually typing this, but) … I actually kind of miss Colin. And his intensity. And his broken ox. Sigh.
Okay, after two more classic Jon moments – yelling at V that it was her fault that they weren’t first at the Fast Forward, followed by him yelling at her that she couldn’t make up her mind over which detour task…and then changing his mind again for fear that the couldn’t do the climbing easily and would ‘look bad’ on tv…
Okay, after that, he decides to be the one on the raft thingy while she’s the spotter…was anyone else pulling for V to choose not to spot ANY buoys? Direct the pilot to run around in circles and zigzags on and on, for no reason at all, dragging J around in the bay endlessly, bouncing and sliding on that raft, until he couldn’t hold on any longer…and then leaving him to drown?
That’s what I would have done.
Just when you think you’ve reached the lowest of the low, the greatest hatred you’ve ever had for any human being ever, the universe shows you just how good you had it by exposing you to something even worse…
Just in case anyone feels the need to hate Kendra and Freddy more, they should watch the insider videos.
In the videos they complain about Lori. They mentions Lori’s looks specifically her face, how she dresses and how the show should have a “dress code”, and how she “just wants attention; good or bad.” Then she says how Lori and Bolo are “couthless and classless”.
I really hate them.
I’m a bit tired of how just plain mean these people are to each-other. I think that Kris and Jon would be a ho-hum team were it not for how hateful the other teams are. These people don’t even seem to like each-other. The name calling (immediately followed by “baby”) is really wearing thin. It’s not charming, and it’s not interesting to watch. It’s annoying. * Do you hear me CBS? It’s not interesting, it’s just annoying! * I think there are just too many models in this episode. Narcissists all of them.
BTW–I don’t watch SURVIVOR, so I’m not sure of the implications of this, but next season of TAR will feature something called “Boston Rob” and another woman who’s also from SURVIVOR as a team. I despise this on general principals–I want to see “normal” people, not models/actors/professional reality show contestants (this seems incestuous, somehow), but I’ve been getting a “horrified” vibe from some friends who’ve seen SURVIVOR.
Can anyone give me the 411 on “Boston Rob and squeeze”? Will I hate them? Will I hate them Myrna level? Blue-Lagoon Lad (“I won’t shave my head 'cause the Lord doesn’t want me to!” :rolleyes: ) level? * level?
Thanks!
Fenris
Are you effing kidding me? I’m very, very disappointed. This is Boston Rob and Amber Brkich, who got married after Survivor All Stars? I always thought that her feelings for Rob were totally predicated on forming an alliance that would get her to the final two. Anyway, posthumous Survivor prevaricating aside, I think this stinks. This is stuntcasting, plain and simple.
Good lord no! “Boston Rob”, and Amber are apparently now professional “reality actors” They were both on Survivor twice. Thsy shouldn’t be too annoying, as they really do seem to have a pretty strong relationship, that’s already been tried under difficult times.
However, that said. They have already won a million dollars. Let someone else get on for a change.