Apparently, the 20th season of the Amazing Race started this weekend. There is some really horrible casting news, which would be a spoiler, so…
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It looks like one team was easily identified as the teams took off from LAX. It appears that Brendon and Rachel from Big Brother will be in this next season of TAR. Prepare for epic levels of whining, condescension, bad behavior and relationship drama.
ARGH!!!
Yikes! I guess CBS hasn’t had enough of them.
Having never watched Big Brother, I am as yet blissfully unaware of how horrible it’s going to be. And I’m not yet tired of seeing them (since I haven’t seen them at all yet)…so perhaps it’s people like me who are to blame for this sort of thing.
Sorry…
I will also be experiencing them for the first time. Most of the stunt-cast teams flame out horribly (Ethan and Jenna) or are awesome and fun and stick around a while (Globetrotters). So hopefully, if they’re awful, they won’t last long.
What so you’re telling me that the next Amazing Race will feature a couple with “whining, condescension, bad behavior and relationship drama?”
Just one?
Brendon and Rachel will take whining, condescension, bad behavior and relationship drama to a whole new level.
This, enalzi. Rachel is an incredibly (in the original sense of the word) insecure woman who tries to hide that behind brassy and completely inappropriate bravado. Brendon is a pseudo-intellectual, passive-aggressive douche with very large ego issues and the demeanor of a serial abuser. They’re like the bastard love-children of Jonathan/Victoria and Kynt/Vixzen, but amped up to 11.
I can almost guarantee (assuming they make it as far as the halfway point) that there will be interteam drama in this season that will break records for this show.
Together, they fight crime.
I’d bet big money there’s a bikini-based challenge in the first episode.
But since I never watch Big Brother (and I have a feeling the audiences of the two shows rarely overlap), I don’t really care that CBS does this stunt casting. Most of these teams are pretty entertaining (Rob and Ambuh 4ever!) or pretty DOA (Ethan and Jenna).
A new season of Amazing Race began while the current one is still running?
“Began” as in “they started actually DOING the Race”. Usually the actual racing of a post-New Year’s season of TAR will begin within a few weeks of the end of the airing of the fall season. The season that will air in January began last weekend and will probably end sometime in mid-December. Then they take a few weeks to edit the footage and the season should start airing sometime in January or early February.
Could be worse - it could be Russel Hantz.
I have no idea who these people are, so it’s hard to get too worked up. That other BB couple – I’ve forgotten their names already? – weren’t too bad; Rob/Amber were enjoyable and Ethan/Jenna were not even around long enough to make an impression. So I’ll keep an eye on them but I’m not worried yet.
Sunday, not Monday.
Yes, Thank you. I knew it was Sunday. Apparently my fingers did not. :eek:
Ah, it’s almost that wonderful week when both Survivor and TAR start again. It’s almost as good as Christmas!
The teams look physically fit and strong for the most part (the clowns might be an exception, but perhaps they make up with it in agility, e.g. juggling skills)
I am hoping to see some physically demanding tasks this season. Instead of Survivor’s Phillip the Federal Agent (?), we get a team of actual federal agents and a team of border agents.
I find cops and such always seems to have the biggest egos on the Race, so I’m interested to see how two teams will work out. I wonder if they will work together or specifically compete against each other.
Huh–they’re shaking up the casting formula. I’m not thrilled at their choices, but at least they’re shaking things up.
We’re missing:
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[li]Parent/child team who have something to prove to each other.[/li][li]Gay couple (who’s only “gimmick” is gay couple)[/li][li]Old people team[/li][li]Person with a disability who’s trying to prove to the world that having, say, a deformed little toe doesn’t make you less of a person. (My favorite was the momma’s boy deaf kid who was talking about how he was going to prove that deaf people could race too. Because there’s that huge, crushing anti-deaf prejudice in marathons and such.)[/li][li]Pre-married couple who’s using the race to “test” their relationship.[/li][li]Gimmick team (nerds, glee club singers, firefighters (immediately post 9/11), etc)[/li][li]The no-other hook except that they’re a minority team (devout Muslims, Koreans(?), etc)[/li][/ul]
On the other hand, at least the casting shows they may have realized that if the choice is to dumb down the Race to make “quota” teams who are losers but fill the slot, competitive, or to just pick a bunch of young hardbodies and have a tough race, the second option is the better one.