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apocalypsos) wrote2007-11-06 09:06 pm
apocalypsos) wrote2007-11-06 09:06 pm
Well, that's two off my to-watch list.
Oh, Zack. Why did you have to go tell Uncle Jack about the money? *headsmack*
Oh, Jack. I know why they're not telling you about the time-travel but oh, my God, why are they not telling you about the time travel?! Seriously, how much trouble would they be sparing themselves if they just told him? And yet, there's good goddamn reasons not, and there's good reasons to tell him, and I can understand why it would be so damn hard to do it.
And I love how I like Dan with Livia and Dan with Katie. They both are good together in their own ways. But at the same time they have these huge very real problems to deal with and it just sucks all around.
As for Livia, I'm glad that we kind of get more reinforcement in the whole her-following-Dan thing. It seems to me like he's the only person she's following, considering how she's behaving. Like she's there as a guide for him, and that's what she's supposed to be doing. Hell, what she might have been doing all along. What if she had been following just him from the very beginning, like before she even met him? And then she meets him, and the traveling stops, and she thinks, "Okay, that's the end of it." Except one day she's on a plane and she gets out just before it crashes -- and you know we're totally going to end up on that plane eventually, right? -- and now what the hell does she do?
I love Dan's character to pieces, I really do, but there are sometimes I'd really just like to know what the hell is going on with Livia more. She has got to know more than she's letting on, which kind of sucks and kind of doesn't.
*****
Okay, so far this season is MUCH better than the last few, and we're only on the first episode. Only two teams I actively loathe and one is gone already? WOOT.
My assessment by team:
Azaria and Hendekea: AWESOME. I love that they seem very close, and that their intelligence isn't just lip service, that they're already doing things like pre-arranging taxis from the plane and asking people in the terminals if they can use their laptops to find out about the places they're going. They'll totally be the ones learning common phrases in foreign languages when they get to non-English-speaking countries. And so far they've been fair and friendly competitors.
Kynt and Vyxsin: There is a reason I avoid reading the pre-airing bios on the CBS website, and it's because they always just read so cheesy, which is why there was no way in Hell I was going to read up on the goths. I wanted to see them in person before making a judgment call, and I can safely say that they are most definitely one of my favorite teams. He called her his little pink kitten! Awww. And they're such perky goths. They're like Southern hospitality goths or something! :)
TK and Rachel: How cute are these two? I mean, honestly, y'all. Finally, hippies on this show that I like.
Lorena and Jason: Okay, so far these two are borderline for me. I hate when people show up all, "We're testing our commitment," on this show because, really, is there a worse way you could test your commitment? Maybe one of you could be tied to a rock and thrown in the river, and if you float you should get married? And Jason complaining about her whining was ... well, okay, that was pretty apt because it was leaning into screeching territory. But it's early yet, so. *shrugs* It could always get better, but then again with Killer Fatigue in our future, it could always get so much worse.
Nicholas and Donald: They seem very nice, and it's great that they made it to fifth place considering how well teams with older members usually fair on this show. But on the same token if they make it more than six more episodes I'll be surprised. Pleasantly so, but still.
Shana and Jennifer: Hopefully they'll keep up with what they're doing right now because I really like them a lot. They are sort of Dustin and Kandice Redux, but really, is that so much of a bad thing?
Ronald and Christina: AW. Awwwww. No, seriously, they are so sweet. And Ronald is such a good daddy. *squishes him*
Kate and Pat: Okay, married lesbian ministers? These two are SO one of my favorite teams. I fear for their future on the race but they did give me my favorite non-vindictive moment of the episode when the taller one reached out as they passed Nathan and Jennifer's donkey and gave it a friendly pet on the forehead. Oh, that poor donkey. He so needed that. :)
Marianna and Julia: I hesitantly like them so far, with the sole annoyance being that they, along with Dustin and Kandice Redux, made the mistake of making that comment about how they'd use their feminine wiles to get what they wanted. And when I say "feminine wiles," I mean "tits." Let me put it this way -- my buddy Jess has an impressive rack that's probably one of the reasons Backup Bossman's always flirting with her. (Which ... ew.) Every time I want her to tease her to get him to let us go home early, I tell her to go use her feminine wiles on him. Aaaaand sometimes when I want less falling out of her top and more thinking, I say, "Sweetie, less feminine, more wily." Why does there have to be at least one all-female team every season that I'm dying to say that to?
Nathan and Jennifer: Oh, my God, haaaaaaate. Calling Kate and Pat "bitches" and Kynt and Vyxsin "freaks" put the last nail in their coffin with me early on. Jesus, you didn't even make it halfway through the first leg and you're already on my shit list? Smoooooth. And they're so goddamn awful to one another. I don't want to see either one of these idiots working on their relationship issues on my TV. I think this is why I'm not all that bothered by Lorena and Jason doing it on my TV -- because they're not half as repugnant as these two. But what I absolutely adored about this episode was that the donkeys were just NOT having it. Animals know when you're an ass (no pun intended), and boy, did these donkeys have the score on these two and Ari and Staella. It was great. It was like the donkeys were channeling the audience's desire. Call me, donkeys! We'll have lunch. I'll bring carrots. :)
Ari and Staella: I can't decide who I hate more, Nathan and Jennifer or these two idiots. Thank God they're gone. Steal a cab on the first leg? Yeah, that's a dick manuever. The BEST THING EVER, and I mean possibly in the history of EVER, was that as soon as the taxi driver knew they'd stolen his cab he was like a donkey in human form -- he was not having this shit, period. "Oh, you mean this cab was for someone else? And now you want me not to let them pass me? Yeah, kiss my Blarney Stones, idiots. *hits brakes*" HA. I loved him. Can he come back next episode and drive for Nathan and Jennifer? And the way they treated that donkey was just vile.
Next week: Noooo, Ronald and Christina! Be nice to one another! And also ... okay, so maybe not six episodes. Maybe I'm an optimist.
EDIT: Okay, upon reading the TWoP recaplet again, I read the bit about "the preposterous presence of Ryan freaking Seacrest's freaking ex-freaking-girlfriend" and I blurted out, "Who, Ari?"
... well, really, can you blame me?
(So, wait, which one is Seacrest's ex?)
Oh, Jack. I know why they're not telling you about the time-travel but oh, my God, why are they not telling you about the time travel?! Seriously, how much trouble would they be sparing themselves if they just told him? And yet, there's good goddamn reasons not, and there's good reasons to tell him, and I can understand why it would be so damn hard to do it.
And I love how I like Dan with Livia and Dan with Katie. They both are good together in their own ways. But at the same time they have these huge very real problems to deal with and it just sucks all around.
As for Livia, I'm glad that we kind of get more reinforcement in the whole her-following-Dan thing. It seems to me like he's the only person she's following, considering how she's behaving. Like she's there as a guide for him, and that's what she's supposed to be doing. Hell, what she might have been doing all along. What if she had been following just him from the very beginning, like before she even met him? And then she meets him, and the traveling stops, and she thinks, "Okay, that's the end of it." Except one day she's on a plane and she gets out just before it crashes -- and you know we're totally going to end up on that plane eventually, right? -- and now what the hell does she do?
I love Dan's character to pieces, I really do, but there are sometimes I'd really just like to know what the hell is going on with Livia more. She has got to know more than she's letting on, which kind of sucks and kind of doesn't.
*****
Okay, so far this season is MUCH better than the last few, and we're only on the first episode. Only two teams I actively loathe and one is gone already? WOOT.
My assessment by team:
Azaria and Hendekea: AWESOME. I love that they seem very close, and that their intelligence isn't just lip service, that they're already doing things like pre-arranging taxis from the plane and asking people in the terminals if they can use their laptops to find out about the places they're going. They'll totally be the ones learning common phrases in foreign languages when they get to non-English-speaking countries. And so far they've been fair and friendly competitors.
Kynt and Vyxsin: There is a reason I avoid reading the pre-airing bios on the CBS website, and it's because they always just read so cheesy, which is why there was no way in Hell I was going to read up on the goths. I wanted to see them in person before making a judgment call, and I can safely say that they are most definitely one of my favorite teams. He called her his little pink kitten! Awww. And they're such perky goths. They're like Southern hospitality goths or something! :)
TK and Rachel: How cute are these two? I mean, honestly, y'all. Finally, hippies on this show that I like.
Lorena and Jason: Okay, so far these two are borderline for me. I hate when people show up all, "We're testing our commitment," on this show because, really, is there a worse way you could test your commitment? Maybe one of you could be tied to a rock and thrown in the river, and if you float you should get married? And Jason complaining about her whining was ... well, okay, that was pretty apt because it was leaning into screeching territory. But it's early yet, so. *shrugs* It could always get better, but then again with Killer Fatigue in our future, it could always get so much worse.
Nicholas and Donald: They seem very nice, and it's great that they made it to fifth place considering how well teams with older members usually fair on this show. But on the same token if they make it more than six more episodes I'll be surprised. Pleasantly so, but still.
Shana and Jennifer: Hopefully they'll keep up with what they're doing right now because I really like them a lot. They are sort of Dustin and Kandice Redux, but really, is that so much of a bad thing?
Ronald and Christina: AW. Awwwww. No, seriously, they are so sweet. And Ronald is such a good daddy. *squishes him*
Kate and Pat: Okay, married lesbian ministers? These two are SO one of my favorite teams. I fear for their future on the race but they did give me my favorite non-vindictive moment of the episode when the taller one reached out as they passed Nathan and Jennifer's donkey and gave it a friendly pet on the forehead. Oh, that poor donkey. He so needed that. :)
Marianna and Julia: I hesitantly like them so far, with the sole annoyance being that they, along with Dustin and Kandice Redux, made the mistake of making that comment about how they'd use their feminine wiles to get what they wanted. And when I say "feminine wiles," I mean "tits." Let me put it this way -- my buddy Jess has an impressive rack that's probably one of the reasons Backup Bossman's always flirting with her. (Which ... ew.) Every time I want her to tease her to get him to let us go home early, I tell her to go use her feminine wiles on him. Aaaaand sometimes when I want less falling out of her top and more thinking, I say, "Sweetie, less feminine, more wily." Why does there have to be at least one all-female team every season that I'm dying to say that to?
Nathan and Jennifer: Oh, my God, haaaaaaate. Calling Kate and Pat "bitches" and Kynt and Vyxsin "freaks" put the last nail in their coffin with me early on. Jesus, you didn't even make it halfway through the first leg and you're already on my shit list? Smoooooth. And they're so goddamn awful to one another. I don't want to see either one of these idiots working on their relationship issues on my TV. I think this is why I'm not all that bothered by Lorena and Jason doing it on my TV -- because they're not half as repugnant as these two. But what I absolutely adored about this episode was that the donkeys were just NOT having it. Animals know when you're an ass (no pun intended), and boy, did these donkeys have the score on these two and Ari and Staella. It was great. It was like the donkeys were channeling the audience's desire. Call me, donkeys! We'll have lunch. I'll bring carrots. :)
Ari and Staella: I can't decide who I hate more, Nathan and Jennifer or these two idiots. Thank God they're gone. Steal a cab on the first leg? Yeah, that's a dick manuever. The BEST THING EVER, and I mean possibly in the history of EVER, was that as soon as the taxi driver knew they'd stolen his cab he was like a donkey in human form -- he was not having this shit, period. "Oh, you mean this cab was for someone else? And now you want me not to let them pass me? Yeah, kiss my Blarney Stones, idiots. *hits brakes*" HA. I loved him. Can he come back next episode and drive for Nathan and Jennifer? And the way they treated that donkey was just vile.
Next week: Noooo, Ronald and Christina! Be nice to one another! And also ... okay, so maybe not six episodes. Maybe I'm an optimist.
EDIT: Okay, upon reading the TWoP recaplet again, I read the bit about "the preposterous presence of Ryan freaking Seacrest's freaking ex-freaking-girlfriend" and I blurted out, "Who, Ari?"
... well, really, can you blame me?
(So, wait, which one is Seacrest's ex?)