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A Dying Clown		#1081	[-]
Posts: 5012 (01/16/08 5:43 AM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	My question is- has the winning team ever NOT been featured in the first promo BJ/Tyler weren't in the TAR8 preview for the following season (thought that only really showed 4 teams and only spotlighted two of them). I wouldn't think it means anything, since they weren't going to do a TV promo to highlight "Bland Dating Couple #4325".
jpsucks		#1082	[-]
Posts: 124 (01/16/08 11:28 AM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It doesn't make any sense to have a U-Turn after the Roadblock, unless the tasks are like Detour->RB->U-Turn. It will be unfair though especially if the RB is far from the Detour. Or maybe the RB area is near the U-Turn stand? Help?
oh ehm gee		#1083	[-]
Posts: 44 (01/16/08 12:08 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I think it's part of the roadblock - at RFF there are caps with Rachel and Nicolas both by different U-Turn stations, so I think that for the RB they have to put things in chronological order (U-Turns, FFs, eliminations, etc)
ProfSnarf		#1084	[-]
Posts: 149 (01/16/08 12:21 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	JT Rocks wrote: What are you talking about? Ignoring Nate and choosing to take subway wasn't unlucky. And they (sorry, she) had FULL control over that decision. That all went by pretty fast and the editing didn't really tell us much. I felt that the subway decision seemed reasonable, given the traffic conditions, but obviously it didn't pan out for reasons that were not made particularly clear. It seemed that once they reached their subway destination, they had trouble finding transportation, and at that point things got a little irrational. Your criticism is what we bridge players call "playing a result": judging a decision only on the result, without regard to the reasoning and logic that induced the decision. I believe they were already slightly behind at that point, and the subway move just seemed like an attempt to do something different from the others, hoping to get lucky. Maybe you really have to spend some time in that city to know what the best move is. In any case, I was addressing her performance in the race as a whole, not that specific case.
platinumtlc		#1085	[-]
Posts: 1116 (01/16/08 1:45 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	About the pictures, TK/Rachel also bothered to remove the backpacks from the car instead of jumping out of the backseat and running. Or at least it looks that way. And isn't TK usually in front of Rachel in terms of running? Why does it look like Rachel is 398039483 feet ahead of him while he's back at the taxi? I would assume if they were in first, they would both be running without backpacks and not bothering to open the trunk of the taxi?
April R		#1086	[-]
Posts: 3678 (01/16/08 2:46 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	ProfSnarf wrote: JT Rocks wrote: What are you talking about? Ignoring Nate and choosing to take subway wasn't unlucky. And they (sorry, she) had FULL control over that decision. That all went by pretty fast and the editing didn't really tell us much. I felt that the subway decision seemed reasonable, given the traffic conditions, but obviously it didn't pan out for reasons that were not made particularly clear. It seemed that once they reached their subway destination, they had trouble finding transportation, and at that point things got a little irrational. Your criticism is what we bridge players call "playing a result": judging a decision only on the result, without regard to the reasoning and logic that induced the decision. I believe they were already slightly behind at that point, and the subway move just seemed like an attempt to do something different from the others, hoping to get lucky. Maybe you really have to spend some time in that city to know what the best move is. In any case, I was addressing her performance in the race as a whole, not that specific case. In an interview they said that Jens dad told her if it's busy to take subways, and that in addition to the local saying it that's when Jen decided to take the subway. Also, I think they had trouble finding the subways (plural cuz I think they went to a few) and that resulted in loss of time
greenraven1		#1087	[-]
Posts: 6627 (01/16/08 3:10 PM) TAR Moderator Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	ProfSnarf wrote: Kris700: I'm replying to something you wrote a while back. Alas, I cannot deliver on the list you requested. I don't record episodes, nor do I take notes. I pretty much just take in the show as a whole and do not dwell on details. However, the wildest colts make the best horses. I find women like Jen very challenging, and my tongue is more than sharp enough to give at least as as good as I get in the repartee department. When they see that they don't win by throwing insults, they soon try something else. With that said, if you watch her performance as a whole, her little overreactive hot flashes are pretty much short term and situational. Usually she's all smiles soon thereafter when the crisis is over. ... They did a lot of good things during the game, but were very unlucky at all the wrong times. Time after time, they would build up nice advantages based on skill, but then would get screwed by circumstances over which they had no control, especially toward the end of a leg when they had no opportunity to recover or restitute. I have to totally disagree. Nate & Jen had ALL the luck this season. They were the team that got the free ride. I saw little "skill" from them the whole Race. And Kynt & Vyxsin not yielding them? No one has had that big a gift given them. And Jen just didn't act rotten when under stress. She went around in "down" moments and called people bitches. Flo at her worst never behaved that badly. Jen is the pits. Now what is this about a u turn coming from? There is no junk like that on a final leg. Forget it. And the one poster making this stuff up suggested it was after a roadblock. The u-turn is part of the detour process. It has nothing to do with a roadblock. And it won't be used on the last leg. Period. I doubt there will be a roadblock in the last leg. They had one in the first leg for a change this season. So they have had an even 10 so far with everyone in the final three performing 5 of them each except Don who only did 4 because they didn't do a roadblock in the leg that they took the FF so their team only had to go 9.
holyphuk		#1088	[-]
Posts: 78 (01/16/08 3:43 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	It's possible that the scene where Christina & Ron discuss yielding Nick & Don was put in there as foreshadowing. The remaining three teams might not know what happened at that U-turn. Thank god Nate & Jen are gone because they are the only ones who did.
Annoying Tool Fanboy		#1089	[-]
Posts: 1690 (01/16/08 4:06 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Now what is this about a u turn coming from? There is no junk like that on a final leg. Forget it. And the one poster making this stuff up suggested it was after a roadblock. The u-turn is part of the detour process. It has nothing to do with a roadblock. And it won't be used on the last leg. Period. Then what the fuck is this?
bumlets1		#1090	[-]
Posts: 493 (01/16/08 4:19 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	To me it doesn't look like she's waiting- it looks like she's thinking. Also that looks like the same building Nick is by in the promo where he's talking about not being able to figure something out. I'd say it's the roadblock.
Annoying Tool Fanboy		#1091	[-]
Posts: 1691 (01/16/08 4:22 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Could be. But to completely discount the possibility of a U-Turn when we see one in the preview is pretty dumb.
bumlets1		#1092	[-]
Posts: 495 (01/16/08 4:25 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	I just think that they would have mentioned the U-turn in the preview if there was one, they always mention the Uturn or the Yield when it is used. I think that image was released to fool us.
speedyforme		#1093	[-]
Posts: 6110 (01/16/08 4:32 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	also, are we assuming that they blacked out the team that was uturned or am I blind at where the pictures are posted when someone is uturned?
maldoror122		#1094	[-]
Posts: 11 (01/16/08 4:36 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Also, maybe the U-turn is there as part of a memory challenge? i.e maybe racers have to pinpoint on a globe (and in one of the pictures you can kinda see one) different tasks and where they were completed, and the racers would have to indicate who u-turned who at what leg.
rbk32		#1095	[-]
Posts: 138 (01/16/08 4:45 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	c/p rff
bumlets1		#1096	[-]
Posts: 500 (01/16/08 4:47 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Using my 500th post to pray that Ron and Chris win!
Kris700		#1097	[-]
Posts: 212 (01/16/08 5:28 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	ProfSnarf wrote: Kris700: I'm replying to something you wrote a while back. Alas, I cannot deliver on the list you requested. I don't record episodes, nor do I take notes. I pretty much just take in the show as a whole and do not dwell on details. In other words, you are unable to give examples of times when Jenn was fun because there aren't any! I don't record shows or take notes, but I would have no problem giving examples of times that Ron or Donald did or said something funny. If a person is actually funny or fun, then a viewer could easily give examples without recording the show or taking notes.
LKMOSCAR		#1098	[-]
Posts: 1082 (01/16/08 5:31 PM) Registered user Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	LKMOSCAR wrote: I don't get the editing at all. A Rona/Cristina win to me seems very obvious. I believe that I was the one to say this on January 06, 2008. GIVE IT UP TO ME!!!!
kingmichael15		#1099	[-]
Posts: 3300 (01/16/08 5:47 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	it DID seem that Ron and Christina were going to be in the f3 but a lot of us just couldn't look past the stupid Taipei 101 spoiler (which turned out to be false btw, apparently a racer has said that they never went there).
mikeonfilm		#1100	[-]
Posts: 1190 (01/16/08 9:18 PM) Registered User Reply Quote More Recent Posts Message Connection Block Invite	Well, if TK and Rachel win, despite a mellow harshing iron deficiency, or Ron and Christina win then the editors did a good job of letting us get to know the winners. If Gramps and Dork win then it was not so good. They had their share of moments sure, but they disappeared for stretches too. Mostly I just remember them both calling themselves "bitches" (endearing) and Gramps having twenty pounds of mud hanging off his nutsack. Either way, with Nate and Jen gone, the only real stars of the season left are R&C.

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