The Amazing Race (Fall 2010)

[MTM]

This seem like the year an all-female team will win.

They no longer bring on teams of two alpha males and most of the men this year seem incapable of winning.

My money is on the volleyball players. I like the doctors, too.

 

[MTM]

The lack of activity on this thread shows how bland the contestants are this season.

Was that the lamest speed bump ever? Sitting on ice chairs for 10 minutes at the same place they picked up the clue? Please.

At least in the past team's have had some travel time surrounding their unchallenging speed bump.

Let me get this right, you finish last by two hours, are sent to the airport at the same time as every other team, and are penalized a whole 10 minutes?

Way too easy.

 

[Oz]

Well, if I remember right, they had an easier speed bump last season (or was it the season before?) when the tattooed kid and his dad sat and drank in a massage bus/sauna for 15 minutes with Scandinavian women.

 

[Wenders]

Yeah, they definitely used to have much more difficult penalties on non-elim legs...like when they used to take ALL of your possessions, except your passport and Amazing Fanny Pack.

I was sad to see the Princeton boys go. They were really amusing.

Also Stupid Moment of the Night last night goes to Nick, who asked his Ghanaian taxi driver to drive him to the Arctic Circle. These two never played Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego? did they?

I thought it was interesting seeing what happens to the Ice Hotel during the summer. They went there before in midwinter and the contestants had to slide a shotglass (made out of ice) to a certain place on the bar.

 

[Pancamo]

The Princeton boys were annoying as hell. The singing at the end was terminal. Good riddance.

 

[nietsroob17]

I may be the only one watching the show, but why were the tatooed pair not required to perform the Speed Bump task? Or why was it edited out of the show without explanation?

 

[Wenders]

I may be the only one watching the show, but why were the tatooed pair not required to perform the Speed Bump task? Or why was it edited out of the show without explanation?

I'm still watching. From what I saw on another forum, someone who is FB friends with Nick said he said that they determined that one of their previous attempts on the detour was correct, so they were given a time credit and not required to perform a Speed Bump.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I may be the only one watching the show, but why were the tatooed pair not required to perform the Speed Bump task? Or why was it edited out of the show without explanation?

I'm still watching. From what I saw on another forum, someone who is FB friends with Nick said he said that they determined that one of their previous attempts on the detour was correct, so they were given a time credit and not required to perform a Speed Bump.

But why wasn't that explained on last night's show? Very odd.

 

[Twoback]

How many Emmys does this show need to win before the cheapskate producers will show us the world in HD?
Even Rick Steves is shot in HD, for goodness sakes.
And they're still paying $1 million?
Cheap, cheap, cheap.

 

[Twoback]

Let me rephrase, if you will....

I have a hard time understanding how anyone my age (or their parents for that matter) have never driven a stick shift. Then again, maybe I'm overestimating how many cars were stick shift during the 80s. Perhaps because I grew up surrounded by people whose cars were manual. My parents always had manual transmission cars. My first car was a stick shift. All my friends and relatives drove stick shifts when I was growing up.

I'm sure that tints my view on the subject.

I am 50 years old.
The closest I ever came to driving a stick was in a "celebrity" race at a local dirt track.
(The clutch burned out before I left the starting line on the first car I was given. Still not sure if that was my fault).
So, effectively, I've never driven a stick on the street.

 

[JayFarrar]

My understanding is that the HD isn't because of the cost but the camera guy flies solo with each team and you need two people to run them or something like that.

And many thanks to Oakland going into OT. Even with the show set to record for two hours, we still missed the final five minutes. Had to find an online recap last night to see who got tossed.

I think Kat and Nat win. They're smart, they're athletic and they seem to be willing to do anything. Even a vegetarian eating meat.

 

[Wenders]

My understanding is that the HD isn't because of the cost but the camera guy flies solo with each team and you need two people to run them or something like that.

That makes sense. Especially if you're in a tuk-tuk, there ain't a lot of extra space for passengers and equipment.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

HD is coming ...

http://tv.ign.com/articles/113/1131632p1.html

 

[Wenders]

I'm so glad Nat and Kat won. It was easily one of the most solid legs they ran. (How did no one know that Sancho Panza was Don Quixote's sidekick?!)

Really excited for TAR All-Stars. I don't know who I want to win more: the Cowboys, the Globetrotters or Mike and Mel White.

 

[imjustagirl]

I had never heard of Sancho Panza. Course, I've never read Don Quixote.

I kind of wanted the HSN/QVC/whatever girls to win. Their annoyingness grew on me.

 

[Point of Order]

I was rooting for the home shopping hosts, but more importantly, that had to be the most boring finale in TAR history. The challenges were ridiculously easy for a final leg and none were anywhere close to tough enough to allow one group even a chance to catch up and pass another. It was pretty much all about cab rides. They should be embarrassed that after the float decorating none of the teams ever saw each other again until the finish line.

This was a very boring season. I probably saw less than half of the episodes. The casting was horrible. Brooke was the only memorable character the whole season, and in other years should would have been reduced to a bit part.

 

[Iron_chet]

The final was crazy boring, also agree that there were not a lot of memorable contestants however I don't watch for the characters but for the locales and challenges.

It was nice to see them back in Africa and venture in to Bangladesh.

 

[TigerVols]

I'm looking forward to the All-Stars edition next; the Cowboys are back!

If I'm the EP of the revamped CBS Morning Show, I sign the Home Shopping Girls to a contract, pronto. They have great chemistry together and are sure-fire TV hits in the making.

As for this season, I thought it sucked ass. About the only interesting thing was at the school in Africa, when all the teams kept walking past the clue on the wall. Last night's epi was very lame, especially the crane jump -- which had no tension whatsoever.

 

[zebracoy]

I was thinking last night about how the final leg used to involve challenge after challenge after challenge, and the teams would think they were done, only to end up somewhere else and having to do something else. There would be about five obstacles in a normal episode, but eight or nine in the final leg.

Then they just went to trying to have people remember where they've been and it softened up.

For the All-Stars, they should really throw the book at 'em. I'm still waiting for a trip to Antarctica. Can't be that hard, can it?

 

[JackReacher]

You know how lots of people on this board hope Athlete A tears his ACL, gets AIDS, or something else equally awful? Typically, I roll my eyes at that, but I found myself feeling that way for the home shopping whores. Especially the blonde. My God. That ***** never STFU. I even skipped a few episodes in the middle because of those two. And now they're going to be on the All Star season? Wonderful.

I could watch the watermelon-to-the-face scene all day. I wish it would have happened to the blonde, but I'll take it.