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Roppiepie
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05-06-2004

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - 11:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you for the clarification, Rosie. I can't believe that i'm rooting for Rob and Amber!

Bastable
Member

07-09-2002

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 4:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Boy, does their behavior gross me out. I don't mind the tough playing, the bribery, the grabbing locals for help. I do mind that they passed an overturned Range Rover on the side of the road and refused to stop.

Sorry--if they think a million dollars is more important than the lives of their co-players and that cameraman, then I'm no longer a fan.

You can bet that the staff of TAR really hates Rob and Amber. Imagine--one of their colleagues, a member of the production family, was lying injured on the side of the road, but R&A refused to stop. You can bet that rubbed everyone the wrong way.

I wouldn't be surprised to see the producers try to make things even harder on R&A from now on.

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 4:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
one of "their own" wasn't even helping him. just continued to film. and everyone needs to stop to watch? lynn and alex were there, and they weren't doing anything

Bastable
Member

07-09-2002

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 4:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's his job--to film. And L&A's appearance was so heavily edited, how do we KNOW they didn't do anything? Hey--at least they asked if the brothers needed help. They did something more than R&A, who sort of chuckled and drove on.

Wow--R&A apologists here?

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 5:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What will we do when they get eliminated? That could be in about 24 hours.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow--R&A apologists here?

Many, scroll back a bit! LOL



Gen
Member

08-22-2003

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 6:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Maybe what we didn't see was them signaling R&A to keep on driving by - not to stop.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 6:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
bite your tongue Julie!!!!!!


Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 6:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pamy, I'm just sayin'....

Ddr
Member

08-19-2001

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 6:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
My disgust lies with the brothers who caused the accident by their careless behavior.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 6:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
But how does anyone know what really happened?

Jimmer
Member

08-30-2000

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 7:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I’m just happy that we have another good season. Rob and Amber and Lynn and Alex are all likeable and annoying at different times on the show, but best of all they are entertaining!!! Thank goodness after last season.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 8:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Really, the brothers, who caused the accident and were standing with their back to the hurt cameraman looking anxious to get a replacement vehicle? NAH.. let's blame Rob and Amber, even though the two brothers, their guide, Lynn, Alex, their guide and their cameraman were all there with two sets of radios.. but they needed Rob and Amber too?

Sure maybe Lynn and Alex have medical training, but they are administrative assistants by profession..

We don't know Julie.. well we DO know the vehicle rolled, with a brother at the wheel and we know for sure Lynn and Alex stopped because we saw them there in the picture when Ray and Deana and then Rob and Amber drove by.

We know that Meredith and Gretchen came by later and Gretchen tells us in a video clip that they didn't know what to do, slowed down,and they were waved on.

Bastable
Member

07-09-2002

Monday, April 04, 2005 - 9:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hm. I recall Phil asking R&A why they didn't stop, and R&A admitting they didn't.

Ddr
Member

08-19-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 4:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hmmm. I seem to remember one brother telling the other brother to slow down, to stay in the middle of the road, not to hit the soft sand, that he was going too fast.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 5:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yep, it's always good to blame the people who don't stop versus the ones who caused the accident!
So glad to know we are still arguing this a week later too! LOL

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dang I must've missed all of this drama from last week and I was watching the show. Personally I didn't think it was as big a deal as it's been made here.

Bastable
Member

07-09-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Let's get out heads screwed on straight about this. No one is blaming Rob and Amber for the cause of the accident. People are saying that driving right by without even asking if help was needed was not only poor sportsmanship, but also poor behavior as human beings. It was callous.

I think R&A's behavior was extremely tacky. The brothers may indeed be to blame for the accident. That's quite a different question, though, isn't it? Let's not confuse simple things.

I thought they were playing a smart game up until they did that. Now I think they're a little too dirty for my tastes.

I also think it's unfair that they are recognized as celebrities in most of the countries they visit. It gives them an unfair advantage over the other teams. If I were on one of the other teams, I'd be pretty angry at the producers--it's not a level playing field.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree with you Bastable. I also think we cannot and should not blame the brothers (or anyone) for the accident until we know the facts. For all we know they could have had a blowout or something that was not their fault at all. Then again it totally could have been their fault. We just don't know.

Bastable
Member

07-09-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Exactly. And the cause of the accident is a totally different question from the teams' reactions to the accident. I'm actually surprised to see some posters confuse the two issues so easily.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm not a bit confused. But I think it was more callous that the BROTHERS weren't huddled over the injured man and tending to him... oh, what? They were in a race, so they were justified in turning their backs and fretting to another camera about being in this bad situation? But we like them, so that is ok and of course we accept that they knew the cameraman had attention and help was on the way.

But since we don't like Rob and Amber, they are callous. (and mostly we just forget that Ray and Deana also passed by without stopping).

I agree that it would have looked better if they had stopped, but there really wasn't much of a reason to stop.

Hopefully we'll find something else to discuss after tonight.

Ddr
Member

08-19-2001

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm not confused Bastable. I just don't think Rob and Amber are "tacky" for not stopping. And I don't think the staff of TAR "really hates" Rob and Amber for not stopping either.

Kitt
Member

09-06-2000

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think Texannie made the point that the brothers caused the accident because all the anger here is going towards Rob and Amber. Of course the two incidents (the crash and the reaction to the crash) are separate, but people seem to be focusing on the relatively minor point of R&A driving by an accident, rather than the fact that the brothers were driving too fast for the conditions and actually caused an accident in which someone was injured.

I say relatively minor because of course it would have been better if R&A had stopped or at least paused. Would stopping have had any useful purpose, unlikely imo. And remember we also don't know what actually happened in that car, perhaps they'd heard from the crew's walkie-talkies that help was on its way, perhaps they said and believed "looks like they've got it handled", perhaps they slowed down to assess but all we saw was them speeding up again, who knows. If we can give the brothers the benefit of the doubt ("it could have been a blowout") why does so much anger have to be directed towards R&A? When it comes down to it, their actions or inactions changed nothing in the status of the accident. We can like them less, or think less of them, but this does seem to be getting blown out of all proportion.

Lexie_girl
Member

07-30-2004

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:57 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How many people here think Lynn and Alex would have stopped if Rob and Amber had been in an accident?

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, April 05, 2005 - 8:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
rather than the fact that the brothers were driving too fast for the conditions and actually caused an accident in which someone was injured.

This is what I am talking about. How do we possibly know that this is FACT?