old-skool TAR

[jaina]

sirrogue and I love The Amazing Race. It's the only reality show we'll willingly watch, cause it's awesome, and Phil kicks all kinds of ass. But we only started on TAR6, and then we caught TAR4 in reruns. We just started netflixing the very first season. It's fascinating, how different some things were, and they really hadn't got the hang of the editing thing yet. More narration now = more Phil = all to the good.

What I find really interesting, though, is that I remember during TAR7 people were bitching nonstop about Boston Rob and how he was introducing a "new" level of backstabbing and Survivor-esque manipulating, and people were longing for "the good old days." But we've now had six episodes of Team Guido, and oh my God. Rob was practically a saint compared to these guys! I mean, deliberately causing a scene at customs to try and keep other teams from making their flight? And then lying about it later? God, at least Rob admitted he was playing people! *misses Boston Rob* (Hey, he had the sense to know he didn't want to eat five pounds of nasty meat!)

Er, and I don't actually know who wins this one, so don't spoil me, please?

Comments

[donnafantastico.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, Team Guido and their matching outfits!! I loathed them! And you're so right; they backstabbed before backstabbing was cool. Boston Rob was waaaaaaaay more likable! I totally forget who won, so I won't be spoiling. I actually can't even remember any of the other teams... all the seasons run together. But yeah, it was way different back then. They've changed things pretty slowly, so it always seems like things stayed the same, I think.

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they've made really incremental changes, so you don't really notice it season to season, but then when you go all the way back it's like WHOA! It's been very entertaining though!

[miana-dude.livejournal.com]

Offtopic: when are you on campus so I can get the DVDs back to you?

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Yikes, sorry! Same as before, lunchtime (1-1:45) is the best time to find me. :)

[miana-dude.livejournal.com]

Is any day okay?

[jainamsolo.livejournal.com]

Er, James, are you joking, or did you completely miss this part of my post?

Er, and I don't actually know who wins this one, so don't spoil me, please?

[jawajames.livejournal.com]

shit. doh. for some reason i thought you were talking about season 4 at that point, and not season 1.

crap. my bad =(

umm. i'm joking?