[drewprops]

this is for those of you who watch this show, if you don't like reality TV could you just PM me with your withering comments? Note that I haven't cluttered the hockey threads...

DAMMIT!!!!
I didn't know that a BRAND NEW season of The Amazing Race was starting tonight... I wandered onto it by accident, 30 minutes into the Season Premiere. Can somebody catch me up on what happened in the first 30 minutes and why there was a team eliminated so early on?

[Kickaha]

They got the teams together, and had a problem. Rules aren't exactly clear on the matter, but there was some argument over whether or not teams *HAD* to wear clothes.

I guess they didn't read Team Nudity USA's application too closely...

[MCQ]

Originally Posted by drewprops Can somebody catch me up on what happened in the first 30 minutes and why there was a team eliminated so early on?

Don't know if I remember the right order on what happened, but the standard introduction... Teams caught a flight to Beijing, I think the first task was to find a restaurant and eat some fish eyes, then make it to one of the mid-point locations where they had to wait until the morning (not a pit stop though).

The last team that made it to that point was eliminated... it was part of their "some new surprises" for this season of the show.

[drewprops]

Thanks!
I hope that they haven't jazzed it up too much this year. I know that they change things up from year to year to try to keep people from gaming it...

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Ran into Phil at work about a month ago as he is a good NZ boy, who comes back to NZ for motivational speeches regarding kids.

Got the feeling he gets asked about the AR too much, and is almost on auto-pilot if you ask him about it.

Likes a good pinot though.

[scratt]

Sweet! It's on tonight over here.. Can't wait to see the first 30 minutes!!

[drewprops]

Holy CRAP!!!
I really do hate to see teams fall completely apart, especially...

Like tonight when Sarah had to do the ascenders then rappel down and then... well, hell, just everything that they did... her boyfriend Peter is a douchebag. Mr. Whiney asshole who lets his bionic girlfriend do all the hard shit. Man that just pissed me off. And what's the guy's name who was in the team that finished first tonight? Going through the race having a nonstop tantrum is SO charming, hello Mr. Ugly American.

[drewprops]

hoooooo......

Well the only team that I can even remotely cheer for now is Tyler and James, with the Cho brothers having been eliminated. Cheering against the girls is the best reason to watch now....

[NosferaDrew]

Do you really think that reality shows like this are "as they happen" and completely free-form?

[drewprops]

Not at all, I work(ed) in the 'biz too long

[NosferaDrew]

Me too.
I know a writer on the show.

[drewprops]

I'm assuming that a lot of the interviews and congregational situations are prey to scripted elements... not so much during the insanity of driving all over Helsinki and back. The consideration given to the locations and the tasks must be fun, at times there's obvious intent with some of the tasks...

Regardless of the degree of tweakage, it's still a lot of fun to watch, especially the little captions when people are unintelligible but say something especially stupid... and the edits to show the stupid things that people say in the heat of the race... the Ugly Americanisms that make you wince... the times that they walk past a marker, etc, etc.

[drewprops]

Holy crap!
Scratt, get 'hold of the finale to this season's AR - there's a bit of skydiving in the first hour... very cool!! ::currenly watching the finale::

[scratt]

Thanks for the heads up...

I always wondered if they would let me do a skydive myself if I was on the amazing race, or whether I would have to do a Tandem. *shudders*

[drewprops]

Have to say that a 1 Hour finale was kind of unexpected...