What Nora said!
Gotta love Cochran's crack about "middle-aged Ozzy" too - he's what, 30?
Xander: Hey, Red. What you got in the basket, little girl? Buffy: Weapons.
Xander/Buffy ,'Help'
Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
Jessica - Oct 13, 2011 5:03:48 am PDT #18253 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
megan walker - Oct 13, 2011 6:45:00 am PDT #18254 of 23273
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Work of Art: Love the first challenge. And I'm liking this group of artists way better than last year. But sacré bleu! No more Ugo? That's a tragedy for my eyes and ears. Speaking French with Simon no less! Of course, the minute Simon said he was derivative, I didn't think he would be there long.
Scrappy - Oct 13, 2011 6:58:42 am PDT #18255 of 23273
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Ozzy got knocked right the hell off his high horse at that tribal, huh?
le nubian - Oct 13, 2011 7:56:58 am PDT #18256 of 23273
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
megan,
I agree! I thought that was a shame.
Vortex - Oct 14, 2011 12:25:28 pm PDT #18257 of 23273
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Theodosia - Oct 17, 2011 6:37:48 am PDT #18258 of 23273
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Go pro snowboarders! Sometimes laid-back actually means preternaturally calm.
brenda m - Oct 17, 2011 6:44:01 am PDT #18259 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I loved them, after the WTF of not booking all the way through to Thailand in the opening scene.
It looked to me like they got lucky again on the challenge, since it seemed like the wind picked up as the day went on making both challenge options a lot harder. I mean, the fact that they knew what to do and got it done fast was on them, but it also helped them get lucky by avoiding additional complications.
I'm glad the grandparents are still in it, and hope they can pull off a few more legs. They're highly entertaining and I love their attitude.
Theodosia - Oct 17, 2011 7:00:00 am PDT #18260 of 23273
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Not for the first time the twins got severely flustered, which had to detract-- looks like they started early enough and couldn't find their marked materials.
Agreed the grandparents rock hard.
Jessica - Oct 17, 2011 8:04:49 am PDT #18261 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I loved them, after the WTF of not booking all the way through to Thailand in the opening scene.
That made no sense - even if you think you'll be able to get a better flight once you get there, wouldn't you book all the way through just in case? Their budget for plane tickets seems to be pretty much unlimited.
I'm ready for the twins to go now. Not paying their cab driver because they forgot to change money? REALLY not cool. And they seem to have no capacity for dealing with stressful challenges - they go off the rails almost immediately every time.
Liese S. - Oct 17, 2011 2:22:22 pm PDT #18262 of 23273
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
So! I just started TAR! Which is just called TAR this year I note, so theoretically this Tivo season pass should now hold. But anyway. So who do we like? The snowboarders? I liked them. I was thinking it was just because they weren't under stress, but they were, coming from first to last to first in the pack. Lots of things were fortunate for them, but honestly, they did put their heads down and work. I think their skillset had a lot to do with their success with the coral. Their rig was sturdier to begin with. They did get thrown off by the current, but then knew how to compensate both with the rack and the kayak.
I was glad the twins were able to turn their attitude around facing elimination and appreciate the surrounding beauty. It's kinda a shame they couldn't actually go out like that.
I would have chosen the coral task even though I can't dive and then struggled with it. But that stuff matters to me. I didn't love the shots of the teams just leaving shit on the bottom of the ocean (in an area ecologically sensitive enough to need coral nurseries). Basically all the work they did was useless, so I hope it's not too much to hope the show cleaned up after itself.