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Best Amazing Race Season to Date
mswood:
See I know various cultures and have different ways of interacting, but at some level I just don't care.
I mean this does go to so many different racers throughout the various seasons. And I don't loathe Ron (or anything) but out of that season's cast he was the one who's behavior bothered me the most (there have been, far, far, far worse behaved racers), and the fact that Ron pretty much gave grief to so many didn't help.
For examples some people's conflicts are always internal between their team, nice to locals, and other racers. Some racers are great with their partner and assholes to locals, some are great with locals and their teammate but terrible with locals, ect, ect. But we have documented times of Ron being mean to his daughter, to fellow racers, to race judges (seriously at the time that was a first), to locals. And in most cases (except the race judge) it wasn't just an isolated case.
Like for example the Nathan & Jennifer had far more internal conflict, but it was almost all direct towards each other (even if it was about others).
I think its primarily the fact that its a parent child relationship, and that Christina did feel hurt by his words. If they normally talked that way without the other taking offense thats one thing. But she often commented on that it made her feel bad.
Rogue:
I am just watching season 13 for the first time and I just finished the second India leg. Unlike a couple of the other seasons when I saw bits and pieces, I had never seen any of this season until now. I know some details from this season though. I know who makes the F3 and I know who wins but out of those three teams, so far I don't really care for any of them. I don't like Tina, she is just so annoying to me. And Nick looks like a fake Ken doll. Mark and Bill seemed pretty nice but they were gone so fast they aren't that memorable. But they have a strong fan base so they're not easy to forget either. And for the most part, they're likable. I liked Aja and Ty but they aren't that memorable either. I also like Toni and Dallas. You can see that they have a very good relationship. I like Sarah but Terrence, that man is a whiner! Sarah outmanned him on the race. I'm just waiting to see him wimp out on the food challenge.
As far as the places they've been, the most memorable for me at this point is the second India leg during the Holi Festival. I saw this in a movie before and it seemed even more cool to see them be part of it on the race. What made it even more interesting was how clueless Kelly and Christy were in deciding they should take one envelope at a time instead of staying there to find the correct envelope. Maybe it's just that in the moment with everything being so busy around them they didn't get it at first.
But just where I am right now, this would definitely not be in my top of favorite seasons and it's mostly because of the cast.
connayyy:
--- Quote from: mswood on February 14, 2011, 12:49:41 AM ---See I know various cultures and have different ways of interacting, but at some level I just don't care.
I mean this does go to so many different racers throughout the various seasons. And I don't loathe Ron (or anything) but out of that season's cast he was the one who's behavior bothered me the most (there have been, far, far, far worse behaved racers), and the fact that Ron pretty much gave grief to so many didn't help.
For examples some people's conflicts are always internal between their team, nice to locals, and other racers. Some racers are great with their partner and assholes to locals, some are great with locals and their teammate but terrible with locals, ect, ect. But we have documented times of Ron being mean to his daughter, to fellow racers, to race judges (seriously at the time that was a first), to locals. And in most cases (except the race judge) it wasn't just an isolated case.
Like for example the Nathan & Jennifer had far more internal conflict, but it was almost all direct towards each other (even if it was about others).
I think its primarily the fact that its a parent child relationship, and that Christina did feel hurt by his words. If they normally talked that way without the other taking offense thats one thing. But she often commented on that it made her feel bad.
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I totally get what you're saying. And that's kind of the cultural difference I was talking about; Christina grew up in America and Ron grew up in Taiwan (I'm assuming). What I mean is that in Taiwan/China, everyone is blunt and a little bit critical, not just your parents. So when your parents do criticize you, it's not a big deal, because you know that everyone else's parents are that way too.
In America, it wasn't everyone, it was just Chris's dad, so she did get hurt by it. Since nobody else's parents were like that, it would be easy to think "maybe it's something with me." Ron just didn't realize that at first.
Just trying to explain it from my perspective since I'm Taiwanese too. :lol: I actually do agree with everything you said, though! And it was very out of line for him to be rude to other people, so that was the part that got to me. Criticizing his daughter wasn't acceptable but being rude to a race judge, that was just bizarre...
Prophet:
I hope we see a return to epicly hard and entertaining tasks like some of the stuff we saw in seasons 14 and 15.
TAR15 may have had the best tasks ever. Who can forget the haybale switchback or the dutch farmers detour or both detour options in the first Dubai leg. I could go on.
The penultimate leg that year was epic in task design but it did not stand alone, just reflected the great tasks there had been that year.
And there's always EAT THE WASABI!!!
(edit: I forgot the tiny instruments!)
AmazingRace:
Original Seasons <3!!
I demand the return of the original intro, with original theme song and the cheesy headturns! :jam:
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