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My thoughts on The Amazing Race
I've never watched TAR until this year, although I have seen the finales of a few of the past ones.
Well, this year has sucked me in.
I don't like the Twins.
I don't have feelings either way for the Bowling Moms.
On some weird level I like Brandon and Nicole. Yes, they're both fairly brainless, but they amuse me because their "fighting" is so innocuous. I could see them living a long, happy, blissful life.
I really like Chip and Kim. While they started off rocky (like when Chip got into it with the twins over the cab), but they've altered their playing style and are by far the most entertaining, least offensive couple. Because they're also fiesty.
Here's my thing...I'm really hoping that if any of the contestants takes a swing at Colin, they won't get kicked off.
I have an absolute loathing for Colin. He's psycho. Well, not psycho in the technical sense, but abusive, despicable, and generally a pitiful excuse for a human being with extreme control and anger management issues? Yeah, that would describe him.
He's an alpha male to the core. I have to say, halfway through last night I was sitting with my mouth open and just staring in shock. He is going to hit Christie at some point. Maybe not on the show, but at some point down the road. He is truly frightening.
And he's delusional on a grand scale. He has Christie so brow-beaten that she actually *believes* that she was harping on him. Hi, Colin, harping isn't harping WHEN SHE'S TRYING TO KEEP YOU FROM BEING ARRESTED IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY! She in NO way was making things worse. He was doing splendidly all by himself with his jackass attitude. Would I have tried to get out of paying the full fare? Yes, because of the guy riding on a doughnut. That in and of itself was the fault of the taxi driver, even if he *did* want to make some money and possibly couldn't have afforded a new tire. But Colin wasn't going to win that argument because of the way he handled it (by screaming and yelling and being belligerent) and because he wanted to only pay half (when he should have gone from $100 to $80, or something far more reasonable).
But then again, Colin is apparently not in touch with reality.
That leads me to Charla and Mirna. I liked Charla. Mirna...definitely not. Mirna was a straight up bitch. But at this point, I think Mirna's bitchiness, combined with Colin's control issues, were a recipe for disaster. She was a very strong-willed female using very female wiles to get ahead of him in a game. Whereas other teams just didn't like Mirna and avoided her, Colin went out of his way to be as in-your-face with her as possible (and thereby making her even bitchier...boy, they sure brought out the "best" in each other).
I have high hopes for next week based on the previews. I can't help but hope that Colin does something so bad that he'll be kicked off, or that Christie will just flat out quit the game.
Well, this year has sucked me in.
I don't like the Twins.
I don't have feelings either way for the Bowling Moms.
On some weird level I like Brandon and Nicole. Yes, they're both fairly brainless, but they amuse me because their "fighting" is so innocuous. I could see them living a long, happy, blissful life.
I really like Chip and Kim. While they started off rocky (like when Chip got into it with the twins over the cab), but they've altered their playing style and are by far the most entertaining, least offensive couple. Because they're also fiesty.
Here's my thing...I'm really hoping that if any of the contestants takes a swing at Colin, they won't get kicked off.
I have an absolute loathing for Colin. He's psycho. Well, not psycho in the technical sense, but abusive, despicable, and generally a pitiful excuse for a human being with extreme control and anger management issues? Yeah, that would describe him.
He's an alpha male to the core. I have to say, halfway through last night I was sitting with my mouth open and just staring in shock. He is going to hit Christie at some point. Maybe not on the show, but at some point down the road. He is truly frightening.
And he's delusional on a grand scale. He has Christie so brow-beaten that she actually *believes* that she was harping on him. Hi, Colin, harping isn't harping WHEN SHE'S TRYING TO KEEP YOU FROM BEING ARRESTED IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY! She in NO way was making things worse. He was doing splendidly all by himself with his jackass attitude. Would I have tried to get out of paying the full fare? Yes, because of the guy riding on a doughnut. That in and of itself was the fault of the taxi driver, even if he *did* want to make some money and possibly couldn't have afforded a new tire. But Colin wasn't going to win that argument because of the way he handled it (by screaming and yelling and being belligerent) and because he wanted to only pay half (when he should have gone from $100 to $80, or something far more reasonable).
But then again, Colin is apparently not in touch with reality.
That leads me to Charla and Mirna. I liked Charla. Mirna...definitely not. Mirna was a straight up bitch. But at this point, I think Mirna's bitchiness, combined with Colin's control issues, were a recipe for disaster. She was a very strong-willed female using very female wiles to get ahead of him in a game. Whereas other teams just didn't like Mirna and avoided her, Colin went out of his way to be as in-your-face with her as possible (and thereby making her even bitchier...boy, they sure brought out the "best" in each other).
I have high hopes for next week based on the previews. I can't help but hope that Colin does something so bad that he'll be kicked off, or that Christie will just flat out quit the game.
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