Television
Amazing Race 7 brings out the funny in people. The team of brothers Brian and Greg bring their humor to the show. I chose them to win this race, but it looks as if they may have run out of laughs.
Update: And they escape again in a thrilling footrace against this year’s J-Vic team! Yes!
Today, my predictions have gone to pot. It’s just like the NCAA tournament. My brackets have been blown apart. First, those I chose to be last won the latest round, the team I had picked second has been eliminated, and Rob and Amber are making me hate them.
I think that there shouldn’t be scheming and playing in the Amazing Race. The first couple of times was cute but the latest (quitting a roadblock because it was too hard) was sucky. It’s a terrible ploy. This is a race and it should be won by the soles of your feet not by your brains. This is why the eating roadblocks where they eat more than ever should be thought over.
TV shows on DVD. I bought the first tv show that came out on DVD, The X-Files, season 1. It was expensive compared to how much they cost nowadays, $129.00. And I have bought through season 6. Other TV shows I am amassing are Red Dwarf, Northern Exposure, The Simpsons and Futurama. I am really waiting for these shows to come out on DVD, Undeclared and News Radio. And once I get that News Radio disc, I’ll start up News Radio Quote Month again.
My predications have so far been correct. Okay. I am one for one so far, but still I got this week’s eliminated team correct. My choice of winner came dangerously close to losing today. Why did I choose these fools? Damn Will Farrells! Damn! And the preview looks as if they’re out. Why did I choose these fools? And the Rob and Amber team looks to be a juggernaut.
Okay. The three weeks are up and the Amazing Race has started its world wide tour in a new season with 12 new contestant teams. This is the seventh season. I have seen three through six loving each one, but after the bicker-fest of last season the show has gotten a bit trying to watch. In fact a lot of the same stuff happened in this first episode that happened in the first episode of last season. The teams did a zip wire. They camped outside. Perhaps having the seasons back-to-back immediately is detrimental to enjoying the race, because you can remember all the ins and outs so readily. Absence does make the heart grow fonder. Hopefully, things will go smoothly as there seems to be a lack of a Victoria and Jonathons going around. Perhaps the editors are trying to make it more nice.
Anyway, back to this leg. I immediately am rooting for Rob and Amber to make it far, but not win it all. They act as if they don’t need the money, which they don’t as they have already won Survivor. They dawdled at the start, but meandered into a 3rd place finish this leg. I like that they don’t seem to be in a hurry. I also am rooting for the mom and son team more for the mom to give it her all. I was rooting for the rednecks from South Carolina, but (sorry to spoil it for you) they were eliminated this leg, in a footrace. The others I don’t have a feeling for just yet.
Here’s my prediction for the outcome of the race. Don’t hold me to it.
11 – Ryan and Chuck
10 – Megan and Heidi
9 — Lynn and Alex
8 — Meredeth and Gretchen
7 — Ron and Kelly
6 — Susan and Patrick
5 — Uchenna and Joyce
4 — Ray and Deanna
3 — Rob and Amber
2 — Debbie and Bianca
1 — Brian and Greg (The Will Ferrells!)
The end of Amazing Race 6 was incredible. I know I said that I wasn’t excited, but damn if it didn’t turn out that way. I was jumping up and down as the end drew near hoping that Kris and John could pull it off. Sadly, no. They trusted the American Airlines guy who gave them bad advice arriving in Chicago, the final city, 15 minutes later than Freddy and Kendra. I love that this show makes me agitated when watching it. My prediction came true and Freddy and Kendra won the million dollars. Congrats to them. I am especially enamoured of Kris who was a total trooper and proved that she can keep up with the big boys. Kris and John was a total team and there was no weak link in it. Kris never seemed to not be up in doing a roadblock. She was fearless. I would say that if I had a girlfriend I would like her to be just like Kris. Amazing.
See you in three weeks when Amazing Race 7 starts up.
Okay, I haven’t been posting about the Amazing Race lately, because it just hasn’t excitetd me this time around. I think that it is because I don’t like any of the final contestants left. Plus, their bickering has put a damper on the contest that it is hard to be excited about it. That said, tonight is the season finale. I’ll be watching, and like the rest of those interested, I’ll be rooting for Kris and Jon. It will probably be Freddy and Kendra who win it though.
Finally, after making the latest version of the Amazing Race close to unbearable to watch, Jonathan and Victoria have been eliminated.
I started out enthusiastic about the Amazing Race, but lately it has been a pain to watch. I think that it is because there are not many likeable teams left. It’s been since Thanksgiving that the hotties have not been around. Even the old couple were fun to watch, but now there is no team that makes me want to root for them. There are even no teams that make me want to root against them. They’re all either boring or bickering. I can’t stand the fact that the majority of teams are quarreling. It is a turn off when every one of them yell at each other. It is tough to watch.
Last year, I had TiVo’d the miniseries well ahead of its broadcast on NBC last week. At that time, I did not like the touches they had done. Starbuck a girl! Boomer an asian girl! Cylons as humans clones even?! Hrmph! Not to my liking.
Well, this year it has become a full blown TV series. From the first two episodes, I like it better. I had seen some of the orignal series and now beginning to understand why they set up the story line like this. The original was one long story arc: find Earth and the lost tribe of space humans. This one tries to do the same. I must stay tuned to see if they can do it. Set Tivo.
If you had been reading my blog, you know of my devotion to the Amazing Race, and you know of my love for the already eliminated team of hotties, Lena and Kristy. Well, look what I found, Lena’s website. Yowza! Still a hottie. Although, I think Kristy is more to my liking. These are Mormon’s?
