There are three major reasons why I hate Justin & Diana.
ONE. The key to a good Amazing Race team is to enjoy the experience.Justin enjoyed it, sure, but he seems so FORCED when he's enjoying. Justin "enjoying" the Race is like a kid disappointed with a Happy Meal toy but still flaunts it around irritatingly and acting like it's the best thing ever. I literally cringe every time he yells or dances.
All of the teams say: "I love The Amazing Race!". Justin does it with Caps Lock and multiple exclamation points for emphasis along with overused smileys. That's how my metaphor is basically.
TWO. The show literally overfocuses on him.I wouldn't mind Justin if he popped out only once in a while, but when he pops out MORE THAN TEN TIMES IN BARELY FIVE MINUTES IN THE SHOW ITS IRRITATING. Not only that, watch the previews for each week at the end of the episode.
Episode Two: "The tension between JUSTIN and Team Texas..."
Episode Three: "It's between Team Texas and JUSTIN AND DIANA..."
Episode Four: "JUSTIN AND DIANA walk with royalty..."
Episode Five: "JUSTIN flips out..."
Episode Six: "The tension escalates with JUSTIN AND DIANA..."
Episode Seven: "It's a hard day's work for JUSTIN AND DIANA..."
Episode Eight: Nothing but they end it with Justin laughing
Episode Nine: The first episode this season where they DO NOT show up, but other teams have not gotten the same editing experience? Really gross.
Episode Ten: Nothing because NO TEAM was mentioned but they focus on Justin crying
Even the recaps are now affected.
On Episode Ten, Phil's recaps have: "At the Detour... Justin & Diana stacked it up. While the OTHERS cut it up." So they mention only THEM and ignore the OTHERS? They couldn't selectively use at least ONE other team to say in the other Detour?
They are so forced down our throats that it's really bad. I (as part of my project) have been analysing these episodes. In TEN episodes there is a total of ONE AND A HALF HOURS OF JUST JUSTIN.
Considering there are a total of at least 450 minutes of the show by now, that means Justin has ONE FIFTH of the screen time. Like.... wow
To further give proof that he is obviously production's number one fave:
-On Leg 6, on the bungee jumping Roadblock, they only showed Denise & James-Earl and Tanner & Josh reading the "Fly to Paris" clue. After third place (THEM) got it, they IMMEDIATELY just super-cut EVERYONE doing it and cut to the airport without them reading the clue.
This is also self-explanatory.
NEARLY HALF OF THE QUOTES ARE FROM HIM. HALF! ONE AWAY FROM SIX!
Plus, the edit has already omitted ENTIRE STORY ARCS AND RECURRING JOKES in the favour of MORE of these two
We never got:
-Kelsey & Joey bickering and not being 100000% PERFECT COUPLE (Leg 2)
-Tiffany & Krista running out of money but Texas gave them (Leg 3), thus giving them a reason to work together and how LEG 8-9 IS INFINITELY SADDER AS A RESULT and PLUS they had like a LOT of scenes where they talk about each other that are only dumped to secrets
-Denise ALWAYS celebrating and singing and dancing in the Taxi when James-Earl completes a Roadblock successfully
-Alex & Adam's entire elimination story arc which was them getting dropped at a wrong place
-Jazmine & Danielle running past an Hours of Operation board FOUR times (In Africa)
-Not showing teams crying about being concerned for their team member (on the bungee Roadblock in Africa before flying to France)
-Teams running past the Detour clue and getting lost for finding the WRONG clue-giver (In France)
-A full explanation of how Denise & James-Earl did so bad in France (they went to a restaurant with the SAME name but no Detour)
-Extended Pit Stop chats are omitted (all with many fun extras!)
-NO. PHIL. CALLING. TEAM. PLACEMENTS.
-NO. FULL. INTRO. WTF? (The TAR24 days are OVER. No NEED FOR A SHORT INTRO!)
And for what? Just so we can see another confessional on how happy Justin is to be on the Race, how EXCITED he is to do a task, how HAPPY he is to be in first, and ANOTHER laugh or dance or boastful comment. And not only that, this season GEOBLOCKS EVERYTHING.
Here is my final point in regards to this:
You can never blame just the edit. Justin makes the content. Do the math.Considering how this cast is my favourite since TAR17, it's very heartbreaking to see the other teams not get the justice and screen-time they need. Almost everyone is so one-dimensional except these two. These two are like Jeremy and Tasha on this season of Cambodia:
They are IRRELEVANT to the week's story but they are STILL SO CP (Complex Personalities via Editing)
THREE: HE. IS. COCKY. AS. F***.On the first leg, he was more concerned about not coming in first than being eliminated.
He has had multiple confessionals and statements of: "ANOTHER FIRST PLACE IN THE BAG!"
"HAHAHA WERE FIRST"
"If we get there and there are other teams there, we're leaving in first"
"HE SAID NO HE MEANS NO" (in response to Tanner & Josh failing the meat Roadblock)
"HAHAHA I COULD DO IT BETTER THAN HIM" (in response to Tanner/Josh failing the first Argentina Roadblock)
He LITERALLY assumes they will GET TO U-TURN the MINUTE they start the 10th leg. How confident is he that he already ASSUMES he will get first?
He is also frustrated the minute things do not go his way. Look at how he reacted during the Amsterdam Roadblock. He was more concerned with not getting first instead of avoiding elimination when Diana failed a little. In the Secret Scenes, Tiffany said it best: "Everytime something doesn't go his way, he just frowns, grabs his hat, and starts huffing and puffing." He wants everything to be in his control and the minute it does not, he is more pissed at NOT WINNING than NOT BEING LAST.
If you've read this far, then I'm sorry for being over-negative. But I just had to get this out of my system. I've never had this much hatred for a team since Dave & Connor or the Hippies. *sighs*
