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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]


sumi - Dec 02, 2007 6:12:37 pm PST #2752 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

I love how they promoed it as though Azaria losing patience with his sister was news.

I am really enjoying the Goths and also TK and Rachel. I'm so happy that the blondes are gone. Well-deserved Philimination. Did you notice how he paused? As if he were trying to make them think it was a non-E leg?


Theodosia - Dec 03, 2007 2:22:49 am PST #2753 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"

The blondes really lost it, in the emotional, and then the Philimination sense, so I'm not sorry to see them go. (I hope they can patch up their friendship, though.)

Ronald is one stubborn dude, isn't he? Christina seems to be managing him better.

I absolutely adore Nicolas and Donald (grandson and grampa). How smart and resourceful is it, when you realize that you've been counting in stuff that you shouldn't, to finish the count and go back and uncount from that total AND GET IT RIGHT?


lisah - Dec 03, 2007 5:02:43 am PST #2754 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

ARGH I can't believe I forgot about TAR AGAIN! I was looking forward to seeing the Blondes losing it. And I was home moping. I could have totally watched it and I'm sure it would have brightened my mood.


Jessica - Dec 03, 2007 5:15:02 am PST #2755 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I'm really bummed I missed last week's because it sounds like the U-Turn dealie was a pretty big deal. Anyone want to fill me in on exactly what went down?


Jesse - Dec 03, 2007 5:24:20 am PST #2756 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Ronald is one stubborn dude, isn't he? Christina seems to be managing him better.

I absolutely adore Nicolas and Donald (grandson and grampa).

I'm pretty impressed with both of those teams.

Actually, at this point, I like a lot of the teams (including the Goths and TK and Rachel)! Team Trainwreck, OTOH, can't crash and burn soon enough for me. I hate the couples that just yell at each other.


Jesse - Dec 03, 2007 5:26:09 am PST #2757 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Anyone want to fill me in on exactly what went down?

Oh, um, the blondes thought they were in second-to-last (they weren't), and one of them pushed to U-Turn what's their names, who the blondes thought they saw coming up behind them (it wasn't them). At the time, I don't think it seemed like such a steamroller, but I guess the other one didn't like the negative reactions of the other teams? I could be wrong about any or all of this.


Jessica - Dec 03, 2007 5:27:45 am PST #2758 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

And what does the U-Turn entail? How is it different from a Yield?


lisah - Dec 03, 2007 5:29:29 am PST #2759 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

And what does the U-Turn entail? How is it different from a Yield?

The team that is U-Turned has to complete both Detour tasks. And they don't find out until they have completed one and gone to get the next clue.


lisah - Dec 03, 2007 5:30:12 am PST #2760 of 23273
Punishingly Intricate

So it's actually much more interesting than the Yield where a team is just sitting around for half an hour.


SuziQ - Dec 03, 2007 5:30:49 am PST #2761 of 23273
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Perzactly. Though I don't recall them showing them actually DOING the second task - just turning around to go do it. But I could be misremembering.