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[apocalypsos]

You know how Demian from TWoP inevitably gets on these rants during his Charmed recaps about how bad the show's gotten, and when he gets to the end, he says, "And I hate this show and want to die"?

... so I didn't plan on doing a minute-by-minute commentary of TAR tonight, because I'm splitting my time between it and Supernatural. I was completely sold on it from all the pretty already, but OMG, Jim Byrnes! EEE! Lookit! He's just a guest star, but still, WINNER!

In any event, the Weavers cornering DJ Paolo about the Fast Forward and being all, "AW, why'd you pick us? We're so sweet and gentle and WE'RE SO FUCKING GETTING YOU BACK AT THE NEXT YIELD" just pissed me right the fuck off. Enough to where thinking about them having to go to another racetrack, however small, gave me a morbid little happy.

That cornering made me feel a little sorry for DJ Paolo, too, which is sick and twisted. But stupid fucking Weavers, he's got a point, for crying out loud.

Mama Paolo wishing DJ never gets married ... yeah, lady, after the women of America see the way he treats you, I don't think that'll be a problem.

You know, any other team and I'd feel sorry for them, but the Weavers have wasted any sympathy I ever had for them. And the Pink Ladies comfort Rebecca (at least, I think that was Rebecca) and she has the balls to say she hates them? Fuck you, you insipid skank.

... erm, Tommy Linz is the hot one. Yay! I can differentiate a Linz brother!

Dear Florida Sanitation Department ... I really hope you're watching the footage of the Weavers laughing at garbagemen, and if not I'll send you a copy. Sincerely, Me.

Did Mama Weaver say "My Phil"? Oh, no, you don't. You get your cooties on Phil and women across the country have the right to tear you to shreds.

I am starting to like the Paolos more. I feel guilty about it, yeah, but on the same token, they do treat the other teams better than the Weavers ever have, and tend to restrict their nastiness to one another. It's still not pretty, but I'll put up with it. At least they give me things to laugh at once in a while. The underwear damn near killed me. And besides, most of the time, Papa Paolo's not bad, and Brian's not a bad kid. (Look at the apologies he made for that stupid joke at the airport before. They at least did good with that one.)

*snerk* I do kind of love the fact that one of the girls said "Gracias" when given money, like she forgot she wasn't in an English-speaking country.

Oh, my God, Weavers, can you stop praying for five seconds? Pretty please? I mean, I understand faith and spirituality and STOP PRAYING!

If my family had gone on this show, my father would so be doing this challenge. There's nothing my dad likes more than planes. :)

Go, Megan! Megan's awesome.

Okay, Brian and a Bransen hugging was actually kind of cute.

The gall of the Weavers bitching that another team would play dirty is revolting.

"Ding dong, the witch is dead!" *looks at icon* OMG, TELL ME THAT'S A SIGN FROM A HIGHER POWER OF WEAVER ELIMINATION.

HEE! The Linz and the Godlewski flirting was kind of adorable. It's pretty obvious at times like that the divide between the Weavers and everybody else, because like this season or not, all of the teams seem to like and have fun with one another with the exception of the Weavers. They've done a damn fine job of alienating themselves, and then they stand around and say, "Oh, why's everybody picking on us?"

"I just don't like to lose." No, really, DJ? *eye roll* I will give him credit for holding his temper in check for once and not ruining it when Mama Paolo talked about how beautiful the land was.

Oh, please let the Linzes come in first. Now that the Gaghans are gone, they're my favorite team.

This doesn't bode well for the Paolos.

A travel trailer? Meh.

I do sort of love the Linzes. I mean, yeah, they can be immature, but they're cute and they're friendly.

You know, comparing Carissa's whimpering last week to Rebecca and Rachel whining about everybody picking on them makes me want to drown the entire family in the river.

The Paolos are leaving? But ... but ... I was kind of starting to like them. Just a little. Not a whole lot or anything, but ... *is confused*

Next week: Christine Godlewski falls off a cliff, Nick Linz falls in the water, and the Weavers continue to express that oh-so-special definition of being Christian in which "Christ-like" means "behaving like a fucking martyr."

Comments

[miggy.livejournal.com]

It's the weirdest thing: when I started HATING the Weavers, I kind of started to... like the Paolos. A little bit. As characters on my television, mind, not as people I want to have around me.

Like Ian at the end of TAR3, and how he started to amuse me around the time that Flo went batshit insane.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Seconded, and a lot of it is because they are a hell of a lot nicer to the other teams than the Weavers have ever been. Look at what they just did for the Bransens. I mean, would the Weavers have told them to go put on clothes if it had been them? Hell, no.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

Well, to be fair, it may be because the Bransens are so totally not a threat in any way, shape or form. Plus, they're not the Weavers. :-p

[miggy.livejournal.com]

(Since I'm in Mountain Time...)

"Dad, don't drown. Come on!"

Ha ha ha. I should not be amused, but I still very much am.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

(Ah. Oops. *zips lips from now on* :))

I'll give them credit, because this is a pretty amusing episode.

[miggy.livejournal.com]

I don't care about being spoiled. :) Come halfway through the final episodes, I'm always darting in to check my flist so I can watch the last hour without being insanely tense.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Okay. :)

I'm actually feeling a little bit of the love tonight, because aside from when the Weavers are behaving like the repellent loons that they are, it's not half bad, especially since the rest of them teams seem to be having a nice subdued lovefest.

[miggy.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm only 45 minutes in, but this feels like a real episode! Wow. Who would have thought?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I know! It's shocking the hell out of me, because I'm almost at the end and I'm feeling this vaguely familiar sensation that, if I remember correctly, means I give a crap who gets eliminated.

[miggy.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha.

Phil: "You've won a [model name]."
Godlewskis: *all tilt their heads to one side like confused puppies*

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

*snickers* That was pretty much what I did, too, I'll admit.

I was killing time at the TWoP forums and died laughing when I saw this quote:

As much as I hate the Weavers, I wish they would have thrown dummies on the track for the racers to have to avoid.

It's so very wrong, and yet I laughed. I'd worry about going to Hell for that, but if the Weavers aren't going there, I think Hell's the better place.

And somebody on the forums pointed out something that struck me -- the Weavers and Jonathan both behave like assholes, but at least Jonathan knew he was an asshole. Which doesn't make his behavior any better, but still. The Weavers act like jerks and then stand around with wide, innocent eyes all, "Why does everybody hate us?" Because you're dicks, Weevils. Knock it off.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

It's a contrast thing, I think. The Weavers are so bad that the Paolos look good in comparison.

Also, as bad as the Paolos are to each other, they seem to interact fairly well with the rest of the teams.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Is there some sort of rule that the small blond Weaver boy isn't allowed to talk? Because I watched this show for the first time last week and don't remember noticing him the entire episode. It wasn't until we were about 45 minutes in this week that I noticed him, and did a double-take. I supposed the compleat evil being spewed by the chick Weavers may have obscured my vision.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's allowed to talk, but last week the audience discovered that all he's allowed to do is call people retards. *eyeroll*

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute...it's taken you this long to watch SN, or have you been watching all along?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's taken me this long to watch more than five seconds at a time. I couldn't help it -- it was scheduled opposite TAR. *sheepish grin*

There's a spot on the curve of Jensen Ackles's jaw that I want to spend five minutes with. Oh, yes. ;)

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

When does TAR end? Because SN is right up your alley, chick. And yes, that curve is very inticing.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It should end in a few weeks, although why I'm still watching at this point is beyond me. The only team left for me to like is the three very hot yet childishly humorous brothers with pretty smiles and their plucky sister.

I am definitely switching over to SN when I'm done, though. And luckily, TWoP's started up with the recaps, so I can catch up on the episodes I've missed as they do. :)

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

You'll be sucked in. I'm warning ya. ;)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Sucked in. Jensen Ackles.

*daydreams for a minute*

... okay, I'm back. :)

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

*LOL*

[valerie]

No, no, no... Nick is the hot one. With the shortness and the muscles and the just enough body hair to make me happy.

And dammit, I was really starting to like the Paolos, and I think DJ can take a lot from this experience.

GODDAMMIT WEAVERS, GET OFF MY TV. Of course, it doesn't help that they're pretty much setting up a Linz/Weaver/Godlewski final three... probably with a Linz/Weaver race to the mat.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Tell you what. I'll keep Tommy, you keep Nick, and we'll keep the other one just in case we need a spare. :) I can get past the occasional immaturity just fine, because they seem like they'd be fun to hang out with and they're awfully cute.

As for the Paolos, I can't believe I'm actually going to miss them. A month ago, if you'd told me I'd miss them when they got elimination, I would have been all, "Yeah, right," but they really aren't as bad as they were.

The Weavers suck hardcore, and I swear to God, if they win, I'm complaining to CBS. I don't care if the race is over, that they'll already have their money, that it won't help, and that all they'll do is trash whatever I send them. I just want it known that those sanctimonious bastards don't deserve a damn thing.

[valerie]

OK, fair deals. Alex (is that what the other one's named) isn't bad looking, but he's got crazy eyes. We can work out an alternating days schedule for him :P

And the Weavers... I don't think I've ever hated a team this much since Jonathan and Victoria.

Hell, I might hate them MORE. There's FOUR of them. I'm just taking solace in the fact that all the "God as a crutch" teams never won when it really counted.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I really want the Weavers to end up on the morning show so very, very badly, because if I'm remembering correctly, they didn't exactly pull any punches on Jonathan for his behavior when he and Victoria were on and I'm really hoping that Harry Smith says the polite equivalent of, "Bitch, you didn't honestly think your behavior was acceptable, did you?"

I keep hoping in a perverse part of my mind that at least one of the Weavers is computer literate enough to go to some place like the TWoP forums or something and really see what people thought of their behavior. Because honestly, what they need is a big slap of reality and a healthy dose of "Huh. Maybe we WERE acting like assholes."

[thebitterguy]

The weird thing, I think DJ is the devil for the way he treats his mom (HIS MOM!). I was so hoping to see him get a backhand. Talk about suffering parents.

I also have never noticed why the Weaver's get all this poop dumped on them. They're really no more neurotic than any other team, to be honest. I guess I just see dead family members as forgiving a lot.

And who the hell was that kid with Phil at the checkpoint? How is he indicative of local culture?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't like DJ at all, but I would have sympathized with anybody who'd gotten cornered by the Weavers.

I think the main reason I'm so anti-Weaver isn't because of any sort of neurosis, but because they're sanctimonious and hypocritical. It's one thing to be a jerk -- I can stand jerks, especially on this show. I mean, Ray, Boston Rob, the Guidos ... I might not like them, but I can put up with them.

But the thing with the Weavers is that they call the other teams nasty names, throw trash at the other cars, constantly expect an overexcessive amount of sympathy (I understand that their father died, but when they spazz out on a go-kart track after going eighty or so on a highway, that's a bit much), whine that nobody likes them even though they earlier said they don't give a damn if anyone does, and are generally just mean and spiteful, but during all of this bad behavior, they have the gall to act like they're the nicest people on the race and they're being persecuted because they're Christians and don't cuss (apparently "retard" is not a cuss word).

And maybe I'll get flack for this, but I would be willing to give them more sympathy about their father's death if they seemed genuinely sorry about it. I'm not saying that they're not sorry about it, but after weeks of seeing them freak out about racetracks and other things, I get the impression that they're playing up the cameras a LOT and it's coming across as false to me. (Someone on the TWoP boards mentioned that they might be playing it up because they still have a pending lawsuit against the racetrack where their dad died for pain and suffering, and, well ... *points*) It's not that I don't think they're saddened by his death, but they've been using it either as a tool to try and get things from people during the race ("Coddle MEEE! My husband diiiiiiiied at a racetrack!" "... uh, okay, this way to the go-karts.") or as a weapon to try to make the other teams look bad, from their point of view. Last night when the one Weaver girl was being comforted by the Godlewskis, I could swear that she was doing it specifically so that she could turn around and go, "See? See? I told you! They're totally lying about feeling sorry for me!" I had sympathy for them about their dad in the beginning, but they're using as collateral to get what they want, and I hate that.

[iphignia939.livejournal.com]

I knew I was in the fifth level of hell when I turned to my mom and said, "I kind of like the Paolos now" and I meant it.

Seriously, if the Weavers win, I will break down crying. I honestly cannot pick one single thing that was the worst out of everything last night, although I'm torn between the "history lesson" and throwing things at the Pink Ladies.

"Why is everyone so rude?" They're not rude, honey; that's just what it looks like behind your rude-colored glasses, you HATEFUL LITTLE WEASELS.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

That speech at the Bathmat made me want to fucking smack the lot of them. "They hate us because we're Christians and don't cuss! WAAAH!" Okay ...

1. You were the ones who said you didn't care if no one liked you, Weevils.
2. The Bransens are Christians, you isolated fucks. Two of the girls are going to Hope College.
3. So, "retard" is not a cuss, then?
4. They don't hate you because you're Christian, they hate you because you're assholes.