I’m watching it right now!
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Surprise, surprise. ALL 3 teams demonstrate their utter inability to pronounce “Qantas” correctly. Morons. :rolleyes:
So am I…
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Where are David and Jeff??? Oh… Crap
that sucks…
What a disappointing end. That is all I have to say.
(Qantas us prouncouned CON-TAS, not Quuuaaaantus. You’d think the gay guys, being the “experienced world travelers” they claimed to be, would know this.)
Hmm…that’s interesting. My dad’s from Australia and I’ve never heard him say anything but “Kwantus” (not “Contas”). My family in Australia says “Kwantus” also, I’m pretty sure.
Any Australians care to step in and clear this up?
Oh, and about the winners? I couldn’t be happier. 
Trigonal Planar, “prouncouned”?
It started as the Queensland and Northern Territories Aerial Service; who gets to decide the correct pronunciation of an acronym?
I didn’t care much for them barging through the terminal saying it was an “emergency” and “a matter of life and death”. A million buck is a lot of money, but it ain’t life and death.
Hey! Go ahead and be disappointed if you want. I’m $12 richer! Way to go, Reichen and Chip! Great last episode!
Poor Goats!
It was a horrible, horrible last episode!
Why did that team have to win??
duuhhhh lets go to Cans duuh cuz we’re in france yup yup, Cans duhhh
Sorry, the gay guys are just plain blockheads. And we know you’re gay. Why, exactly, do you need to point that out every chance you get?
As for the Goats, once again they demonstrated their airport moronism. You’d think they’d learn by then. Too bad. So sad.
K&J should’ve won.
well it’s been two seasons of TAR straight that people who I wanted to lose won…
i guess I should’ve cheered for Chip and Reichen to win. But I can’t for the life of me understand how anyone could cheer for them with that (possibly) racist smack they talked to the Korean cabbie in of all places KOREA. Why don’t they f*cking learn korean? assholes. They will be remembered for a long time in my amazing race memory as the assholes who won over my favourite team of Jon and Kelly.
Here’s to hoping that more Amazing Races are lurking in the future. One of the best reality shows out there. Now it’s time to wait for the next installment of Survivor. See you guys in those threads.
I said this in the other TAR finale thread…
Noooooooo!
I can’t believe they won. NoNoNoNoNo. This is as bad as when Jenna won Survivor last season. Okay not quite.
First of all, Jeff and Dave (the Goats) died like they lived – leaping before they looked. They got themselves stranded in Sydney by not taking their time to look where they were going. Still, at the very end, I was hoping that somehow miraculously they had snuck ahead of everyone while we weren’t looking. It wasn’t to be.
It really all came down to one thing – Chip and Riechen got the address of the anchor in Phoenix, and J&K didn’t. J&K actually seemed to do the stadium thing much faster, but they had fallen too far behind.
Oh, by the way, did Chip and Reichen happen to mention that they’re gay? I don’t know, you might have missed it the first fifteen or sixteen times.
Chip is the worst. driver. ever. He wrecks the buggy last week and then spins off the road this week.
I’m totally depressed.
By the way, did they happen mention that they’re gay? Because they are; they’re a couple. They’re a gay couple. Not sure if they mentioned it.
I just can’t get over their complete inability to pronounce place names.
“Okay, so we have to get to Moo-Loo-Alba”
How sickening that Jon and Kelly were engaged. And it would always say, “Engaged” under their names. Like, do we need to know again that they’re engaged? OK, they’re engaged, we get it. They don’t have to flaunt it. Gawd.
:rolleyes:
I just can’t get over their complete inability to pronounce place names.
“Okay, so we have to get to Moo-Loo-Alba”
Yeah, but they didn’t go on and on about being engaged, did they, scott evil? They weren’t constantly saying annoying crap, “We’re engaged, but we can do this stuff the same as any un-engaged couple can, and we hope people learn that from our example.” (I’m disabled. I’m not going to stand on a soapbox and proclaim myself as a great example of a person with my medical problems, just because I HAVE THEM.) Being gay does not make you better or worse than anybody else.
Saying at the beginning of the race, “Hey, we’re the gay guys, we’re married,” is cool. Saying, “Oh, by the way, we’re gay,” EVERY TIME they open their mouth is what’s bugged people. Isn’t there anything, oh, INTERESTING about them?
There’s this straight woman’s perspective, anyway. But I didn’t like them much because of some jerkishness which is totally unrelated to their sexuality. I’m ticked off that they won. Oh well.
scott evil: Scammer was not referring to the captions. Did you watch the show?
Having posted before figuring out what I was trying to say, I will add this: in the context of the race, being gay is not a handicap. They tried to make it out to be one, with the “We can do this even though we’re gay,” crap. And THAT’S what I found annoying.
I don’t think it was so much that they saw being gay as a handicap. I think they just wanted to prove that they were like everyone else.
Americans tend to take a Calvinistic approach to winning; If you win, you are “good”; because only “good” people win. If someone sees gay people as “bad”, just for being gay, maybe they will be challenged into seeing them as “good”, for being winners.
I think that’s why they said “We’re Americans” as well, so that American viewers would see Chip and Reichen as being like them, and not “the other”.
I’ve only seen the last 4 or so episodes, so apparently I missed the episodes which would explain why everyone seems to hate Chip and Reichen. I was actually happy to see them win. Although Chip demonstated some ugly flaws, and did lose it when he got angry at the cab driver (who was supposed to be able to speak English?), I hardly thought it was much worse than the behaviors and comments on some of the other teams.
Personally, I think that the reason Reichen and Chip often mentioned they are gay is because, like it or not, they think they are doing something important for gay visibility and equality. Gay kids have few real images of gay people on tv, and especially of couples with a relationship like Reichen and Chip have. And believe me, it is important to see that. Because I entered the show late, I was never able to tell whether Jon’s homophobic comments were done in jest or if he’s really like that? In any case, Chip and Reichen weren’t the only ones making their sexuality an issue.
It seems to me that they could have proven that without being annoying about it. Actions speak louder than words, and their behavior was far from stellar on more than one occasion. Seems to me they made a pretty poor pair of role models.
Their announcing their anniversary part way through the race was very sweet, BTW, except that they must be very naive if they think nobody had noticed they were a couple before then. The rings alone would have been a major hint.
Over on the Television Without Pity boards, where there are some SERIOUS TAR fans, a surprisingly large number of gay members have complained about Chip and Reichen (a) still feeling like they’re so special they’re entitled to everything, and this win just reinforces that, (b) apparently having some unresolved feelings about their sexuality since they have to drag it into everything they do, and © trying to set themselves up as gay role models when their behavior as human beings was pretty despicable at times. Or Chip’s, at least; I didn’t see Reichen do anything truly obnoxious – except get married to Chip, obviously.
In their case, it seemed to me like their being a gay male couple was actually an advantage in the race, as compared to a mixed-sex couple – they were both big strong guys with lots of those testorone-aided muscles. Certainly they were up to any physical challenges that came along. Their constant references to being gay was almost as annoying as Monica and Sheree’s reminding us every time they opened their mouths that they were married to professional athletes. And about as relevant to the race.
Kelly, on the other hand, is a wisp of a woman who nevertheless managed to do an awful lot of stuff that she was sure was beyond her abilities. I was really proud of her tonight in particular, even though I hated her until about halfway around the world, and I must say that the race certainly did one thing to improve her chances of a happy life with Jon – it taught him to be supportive of her when she was toughing out something that scared her to death or really upset her, instead of aggravating it like he did when he pinched her bottom on the train in India.
Poor David and Jeff. Lost till the end. At least they went out with a smile. I kinda liked them, although I’m still not sure why…