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Your first TAR season
slayton:
There's an old thread with a poll about this same subject:
http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,21053.0/all.html
Like some others, I was only going to watch "Lost" or TAR back in 2001, and not both. Because "Lost" was an hour earlier, I sampled it for 20 minutes and stopped because it didn't resonate with me. I watched TAR 40 minutes later and I'm still watching as the show is going through this current stretch of bad seasons.
bc922:
My first full TAR season was TAR 11: All Stars. The first time I started lurking at RFF for spoilers was season 13. I had previously saw bits and pieces of the season 9 finale but the show, or any reality show for that matter, had never caught my interest back then.
Cocoa:
My brother was the one who introduced me to the Race. I remember watching the Bollywood studio in the earlier TAR years and the rape train in India. I was interested, but not addicted. I remember seeing Charla and Mirna, and people wrestling in the snow.
The time I got really addicted to the show was TAR8 (but we do watch TAR7 in length, I just don't remember some of it). Gaghan <33 Weaver <33 Paolo <33 Godlewskis <33 Epic season for me (ya ya, Americans hate seeing America. Us Asians love it <3)
I never missed a primetime airing of the show since TAR 9 up to this moment <33
I still have to watch TAR1-7 so that I could remember them fully
theschnauzers:
What a lot of people don't realize now is that TAR wasn't originally scheduled for the fall of 2001; it had originally been conceived to air as a series in the summer of 2001. However, Les Moonves and the CBS honchos were so thrilled with the first episodes that TAR was delayed to be a "full" series and not a summer series as Big Brother was.
The first commercials? Actually were for casting in the winter of 2000-01; I was in the hospital at the time being treated for a near-deathly illness that required a lot of surgery and spent over a month in the hospital. That's when I first read about TAR in the Atlanta Journal Constitution and saw those initial commercials (which at the time were mentioning it as a summer series, even though the name hadn't been settled.)
It wasn't long after filming commenced in February of 2001 that CBS started promoting the show for the following fall, as it was an early pick up for a new series.
The only people who I think can trump that are the season one Racers. :)
redwings8831:
TAR 1, Leg 11 (China) and every episode live since. On the other hand, I've watched probably 3 full episodes of Survivor and 0 of Big Brother.
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