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Raenstorm
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07-16-2004

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hehe, Abby, my news station just told me it was indeed Meredith and Gretchen who own a home here. :-)

They winter here and summer elsewhere. (The Mere/Gret fans here don't like Rob and Amber, though.)

Ok, really off now.

Abby7
Member

07-17-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
thanks Sea....will do!

Cousin_jake
Member

07-04-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The plane thing also happened earlier in the show when other teams were on the plane with the doors closed and they held the plane for Rob and Amber and reopened the doors to let them on. I guess their luck ran out.

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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Joyce and Uch are on the evening news next. seems like there was some big party in NY for the finale show.

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't recall that ever happening at a major airport with a major airline.

Maybe they do things differently down there, but under normal circumstances if someone tried getting them to re-open a plane that has pulled away from a gate at a major international airport in Canada, they'd laugh in their face (politely of course).

Nickovtyme
Member

07-29-2004

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just had a wickedly delightful thought and I wouldn't put it past Boston Rob to come up with it...I'm not really a conspiracy buff and if Rob thinks he was robbed we will soon enough hear about it, as he won't go out gracefully...but what if when Rob & Amber came to TAR and said, "Look, we'll be on your show, give everybody a run for their money and make it a great season...heck, we don't even have to win; we'll make it close..all the way...with some planted help and make this season fun to watch...but here's the ticket...every time we finish first, we get something." Has there ever been a team that has come in first more often than them?

Ok, maybe not, but I could see it happening and I think I read someone else speculate on this before tonight.

But I'm positive R/A got gold out of this...

Maris
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03-28-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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Joyce and Uch look great. Her hair has gro wn back but it is short. She looks beautiful. They are going to give in vitro another round they have family they want to help. It was much harder than they thought it would be and she said they get no help. They love NY. They ask her about the hair, she said she might just keep it short now.

Csnog
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07-18-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah but in another country not an American territory where security is a lot tighter.

I've traveled a lot and some countries are not security conscience.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I thouht that
Rob and Amber lost with grace as did Ron and Kelly. As far as I am concerned this couldnt have worked out better. Uch and joyce won the big money but Rob and Amber kept us entertained right to the end.

Csnog
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07-18-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree Maris. Just what I wanted.

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nick..it's time to let the conspiracy theories go....

I thought Rob and Amber were very graceful in their defeat.

Bummer, Maris, I would love to see them!

What time will the be on the Early show??

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ooh
I forgot that time has passed! Can't wait to see Joyce's hair in real time.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Maris, I agree with you. The best team won, the best team kept up entertained..........what a great season!!!!!!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The spoiler was
due to betting. This is not the first time betting was shut down due to heavy bets on a certain team/person.

I don't know why they allow betting on an outcome that many all ready know anyway

One early spoiler said R/A were NOT in final 3 and the boyfriends were, so I am glad that one was wrong

Pixieduster
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09-27-2004

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nickovtyme - I came to post the same thought which initially came to me as I watched Rob/Amber get stopped at the police check in Jamaica. Then when U/J were allowed to get on the plane, I really thought the fix was in.


Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
With you on THAT one, Pamy!!

Also happy no one else beat Romber except Joyce and Uchenna. And I hope they have a gorgeous set of twins and sell their story to Baby Story or some show ... LOL.

AND I do agree it was rigged tonight. But I guess since I knew all along who won, that worked okay for me.. still looking at production with a jaundiced eye.

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It was a wonderful season. Rob and Amber made it exciting and then a great team won in Uchenna and Joyce.

I would be absolutely ecstatic if I could get past the obvious fact that it is now very clear that it is simply pure entertainment and not a race. I never dreamed that I would fall into Nick’s conspiracy theory camp on this one but the producer’s intervention in this show was so blatantly obvious that I’ll probably never watch the show the same way again.

Oh … I’ll keep watching because I love so many aspects of the show but no one will ever convince me that it is actually a race in any real sense. I’m still happy that U/J won but I hated the way it was done. Do they really think the viewers are idiots? It makes it hard to cheer on teams and get excited about the winners.

And, I would be saying the same thing (along with a lot more other people) if they had re-opened the plane for Rob and Amber.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I havent seen it yet but am thinking 'thank goodness it didn't appear rigged and R/A won'

this thread would have been going nuts for days!

Abby7
Member

07-17-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Pamy! I did find it after a long search (Wilson no longer has a folder unfortunately.) Very kind of you to post it here though. I really appreciate it.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
anything for you Abby!

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 8:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It was very interesting tonight in the interview Joyce said, we didnt get any help. She was never asked if they got help. She did look great, Uchenna looked fine too.

Watching2
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07-07-2001

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 9:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well that was definitely the best season of TAR yet! I totally didn't think I would like Rob & Amber, but they made the show fun and exciting. I'm really happy at the outcome! I did see a spoiler early on and had that in the back of my head the whole time, but thought they could be wrong so it didn't really "spoil" the show for me. Just loved it!!!!!!

Mush
Member

09-09-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 9:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just to clarify -- the door had been shut, but the plane had not moved. I watch Airline on A&E, and reopening the door isn't all that unusual (at least on reality shows ). It's up to the pilot's discretion, not a hard and fast rule.

Although, on Airline it's usually to get some difficult passenger off the plane.

Twinkie
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09-24-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 9:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved the ending!!! Its unusual for me to really love the outcome of this show but this year did it! Best year ever! As far as manipulating things I never saw Gretchen anywhere near the top of that tower they had to climb.

Kappy
Member

06-29-2002

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 - 9:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So in reading these boards, the race wasn't considered blatantly fixed when Romber conveniently got help in every third world country where people barely have enough to eat (let alone care about who won on an American tv show called Survivor) but now that Romber lost, people are more willing to realize how much of a hand the producers had in this race all along? Personally, I thought the handwriting was all over the wall after the first few episodes and it did in fact ruin the show for me this season and cause me to stop watching.

Which makes me doubly thankful to those who spoiled tonight. Glad to hear most are happy with the couple who won.

I'd just like to add that I'm still looking forward to the next one and hoping it's all 'newcomers', period. I have always been thoroughly entertained by the unknowns on this show since season one.