Congrats to Models who won Amazing Race!
Congrats to the dude model boys who won Amazing Race! By Mike
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Congrats model boys! You deserve the first place and the million bucks for winning the Amazing Race! |
It just goes to show that you CAN experiment with DRUGS and get off track so long as you reign yourself back in and get back to the good way of life!
These 2 boys deserve the big prize! Rob and Kimberly would have been deserving as well but I am glad the boys won.
As for Alabama finishing 3rd - they should be proud. They had the most challenging time!
The season finale was fun to watch. The end was a slight bit anti-climatic as they did not play up the race to the finish but despite that it was still satsifying to see all the racers applaud them as the finished first!
Coming soon is Amazing Race All Stars! I wonder who will be on that? Rob and Amber???
Amazing Race Finalists: Tyler and James Win the Cash, but “Bama” Takes the Tears and Testament to True Grit
Amazing Race Finalists: Tyler and James Win the Cash, but “Bama” Takes the Tears and Testament to True Grit by Roxanne McDonald
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Despite how disappointed some of us were to lose the boys or how others will miss the girls, there were still some favorites competing in the final three spots. And despite the jubilee or disappointment at the outcome, the finalists were both humble and profound. |
I don’t know about you, but as I watched this season’s “Amazing Race,” I became attached to the cooler, kinder, more humble participants.
I loved Sarah for her grit in spite of her “handicap” and equally respected her partner Peter for cheering her on with such love and encouragement. I also had a fondness for Erwin and Godwin, who seemed to have the kindest spirits and the most stable approaches to the challenges and legs of the race as well as to each other. Notice how their dynamics never included sniping at each other to the point of mania or hysterics…as did those of Rob and Kim take us behind doors of their relationship we maybe didn’t need to witness.
While I wasn’t at first all that impressed with Team Alabama, though, the final leg of “Amazing Race” showed me (and probably many other viewers) what real loser mentality is made of. As Oscar Dahl of Buddy TV and other critics have characterized Team Alabama all along, they had every week of the show “succeeded against all odds,” being “physically inferior by leaps and bounds to the remaining teams,” but staying in the game “on the basis of their calmness and ability to step back and think before acting.” (more…)
Good Locations in this Amazing Race
Where will Amazing Race 10 take us next???
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This season’s episodes of Amazing Race 10 are much more enjoyable than last season. Maybe it is the locations that make it better??? Maybe it is the contestants? |
Viet Nam, Kuwait, India have been very interesting…
Amazing Race did a great job with casting this go round!
Whatever the reason I am enjoying Amazing Race 10 far more than ever.
I do wish sometimes they’d back off a notch on the frenetic pace, but I guess that is what makes the show tick.
Amazing Race 10 is definitely at the top of my Tivo list and it looks like it will be staying there!
Amazing Race 10 Participants Big on Sharing – Yay Teams!
Amazing Race Participants Big on Sharing – Yay Teams! by Roxanne McDonald
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One of the coolest behaviors on The Amazing Race is how some of the teams share information and tasking. |
The concept of kindness was lost last season on The Amazing Race when Rob and Amber (who up until then I was all gung ho in favor of winning the race) passed by fellow competitors who had gotten into a wreck in their matching jeep. Turns out the camera man was “only” severely injured, but most of the teams behind the Brian and Greg team at least stopped, for God’s sake. I mean the jeep was upturned, bodies were flung about….
This season, either the producers and cast of Amazing Race coached and admonished the new pairs ahead of time…or this bunch is of a much more beneficent sort: in episode 4, teams shared. In episode 5 (which aired Oct. 15th), teams shared.
The NA/AA boys, Tyler and James, for example, admit that it is the right thing to do to share info about flights and such with Sarah and Peter and the “queens”
(if I heard that right!). Kentucky, Erwin and Godwin, and another team also trade vital information, as well.
But then, sigh, you have the selfish bitchy ones. For instance, in episode 4 in Vietnam, the Lyn team (Lyn and Karlyn) just finish saying how great it is to be given a break [by some total non-English-speaking stranger], and then refuse to get involved when a team comes along in hopes of getting a little bit of a leg up.
Amazing Race 10 wins a Tivo Time Slot!
OK, I have said it before but I may have to eat my words that Amazing Race is the Amazing Bore!
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Why? Because this season each episode has turned out to be quite entertaining. Also I have hardly ever FAST FORWARDED with Tivo! |
HARDLY doesn’t exactly make the Amazing Race 10 worthy of a top spot on my TIVO season pass, but assuming I still have room after adding all those new network premeiere series that the Amizing Race 10 will stay on the list.
So, what do I like about it? Well, this season the casting is excellent! The people are all pretty likeable and I am am actually rooting for a few of them! Of course I realize that the attractive babes are soon to start getting knocked up, er knocked off the race, but hopefully it will keep entertaining us!
So for now Phil, you’ve got my loyalty - but you guys better keep the race fun and exciting!
Amazing Race, Amazing Support
Amazing Race, Amazing Support by Roxanne McDonald
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Jesus, Louisus, you know you’re watching Amazing Race when your heart starts pounding, you begin cheering as if you had bet money down on one of the teams, and you have stopped doing whatever alternative TV-watching activity in which you usually partake. |
Then, you start getting emotionally involved. Already, you are crying when, in this season, for example, the best friend team of Bilal and Sa’eed was booted on the very first leg of the race for a surprise, unidentified Pit Stop. (They were supposed to make it to the Meridian Gate in The Forbidden City, and get schedule of buses for the following morning. No one was told, however, that there were only twenty-two seats and that the last team to arrive at the gate would be eliminated.)
Or, you get choked up as you witness the remarkable support of a partner for his “handicapped” mate – in this case, as Peter cheers on Sarah with her hydraulic prosthetic leg and foot (which is leaking hydraulic fluid), as they have to hike the Great Wall in China, their first destination country of the season. Peter yells out prompts like, “You can do it,” and “You are an All-American superstar.”
