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Sherbear
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07-19-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 2:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Totally loving Rob and Amber's attitude. They know everyone hates them and yet they ate taking it in stride. There is no other team I am really rooting for but the brothers. The rest seem to be a bunch of sour grapes.

Sherri

Prisonerno6
Member

08-31-2002

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 4:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    

quote:

Romber has unbelievable luck.




How much of it is luck and how much of it is playing on their Survivor notoriety? I also find their attitude of superiority as hard to take as Lynn and Alex's "hatred" of them.

The focus on Rob and Amber has really taken a lot out of AR for me this time. I stopped watching and flipped to House halfway through last night's show.

Kep421
Member

08-11-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 5:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm trying to like Rob/Amber, but failing miserably. I was all set to give them kudo's for getting to that plane at the last second, and then Rob opens his mouth in the cab and spouts a Rob-put-everyone-down-ism that everyone who likes his smile seems to never hear.

I put Rob and Ray in the same catagory when it comes to thinking everyone else is scum compared to themselves.

Lindy
Member

12-21-2004

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 5:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't think anyone ever had to go back to "start" to change roadblocks. They have just never been in the same place before. Ususally to get from one to the other they had to pass the spot where they started from.

Lorie
Member

08-29-2003

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 5:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was going to say the same thing Lindy. It wasn't that they "had" to go back. They just went past the starting point to get to the other challenge.

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 6:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I guess you either love or hate Rob. I love him, he entertains me. This has been my fav race.

I want Ray gone next!

Next week looks gooood!

Dogdoc
Member

09-29-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 6:45 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't think they should have had the barrel racing. The gaucho horses are well trained and not used to having there mouthes pulled on or being screamed at. Untrained riders on responsive horses are a bad idea for both animal and rider. I don't know why they said they had to do it at the same speed gauchos did it. That was obviously not the case.

Raenstorm
Member

07-16-2004

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 6:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Count me in the category of people who were expecting to dislike the team of Rob/Amber. I never liked Rob on Survivor and didn't expect that to change. However, I really have come to like them on this show. I still don't like the concept of people jumping from reality show to reality show but I suppose that is a reality in this business.

I have to say, though, that I really don't feel like the show has been all about Rob/Amber the way others do. In fact, I thought they were doing a fairly good job of NOT focusing on them. Unfortunately, having a couple of the other teams obsessively bringing it up every time they feel even slightly threatened by Rob/Amber doesn't leave the editors much of a choice in not allowing that become a part of the show.

In some ways I liked it in the beginning because it gave the other teams incentive and a team to focus on beating. On the other hand, I think they'd have more success if they just focused on themselves. Rob just thrives on that competition factor and it forces him to be on his game.

Raenstorm
Member

07-16-2004

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 6:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Watching - I loved the commercial for BB6!

Tntitanfan
Member

08-03-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 7:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Raen - you are just amazing!

Hobbs
Member

08-05-2002

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 7:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I loved it when Amber said to Rob, "You've ridden horses before?" And he just matter of factly says. "Yeah." Unbelivable. I laughed in amazement at that. And that he could! Who would've known?

Did anybody else notice the editing when Joyce was climbing on her horse for the umpteenth time that they played the sound of another team opening their clue so it sounded like she ripped her pants? That was classic!

I love Rob and Amber and I don't think they are focusing too much on them. I think it's just compressed. They were done with the leg only 40 minutes into the show. We didn't see them again after that.

Gina8642
Member

06-01-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 8:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Romber didn't once rely on their noteriety in last night's episode. Actually, they only used it in the first episode. Nor did act superior - they chalked all their success last night up to luck. I think it was hard word and luck!

BTW - why is Deena doing all the roadblocks for her team? Eating, horseback riding, etc...

Gina8642
Member

06-01-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 8:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I just went back and looked - Ray did the shoe shine roadblock. What's up with that. He totally berates Deena for not performing physically challenging tasks up to snuff, but he chooses to do the one roadblock that takes nothing but perseverance to complete?

IMO - he should put up or shut up.

Sassynegal
Member

01-21-2005

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 8:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Has Amber done a Roadblock yet?????

Gina8642
Member

06-01-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 8:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
She did the shoeshine roadblock. Romber is dividing their labor in a more logical fashion than Ray and Deena.

Sandra
Member

07-06-2004

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 10:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What did Rob and Amber do to get the 4 hour penalty? I missed the last show. Thanks!

Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good point about Amber having not done many roadblocks. That could bite them in the butt in the second half of the race.

Lumbele
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 10:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pamy, I neither love nor hate Rob, but I can have a chuckle at how he plays the game. The more the others snipe the more I end up rooting for him.
Maybe it's because they already have their million + that Romber can be so relaxed. The old competitiveness is still there, but they are taking obstacles in their stride and are grateful for luck. In short, a pleasant team to watch.
Rob's asides to the camera may be a bit show-offy, even arrogant at times. But I wonder how any of us would react knowing we had a big target on our backs, with competitors mainly rooting for our demise and isolating us from the group at large, yet still ending up in top positions. The temptation for a little smugness must be overwhelming.
The lack of arrogance when Romber deal with locals really is refreshing, I agree. So many teams over the years have shown the condescending, rich tourist faces.
No secret whose corner I am in, eh?

Kitt
Member

09-06-2000

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I noticed the ripping sound too Hobbs! Classic - someone has a sense of humour!

I think Ray is saving himself for what he considers to be the difficult challenges later on. Or perhaps riding a horse, like so many other things, is beneath him.

I don't think they're focusing too much on Rob and Amber either, although half of the other teams are. It's hard to avoid showing them when three of the teams reference them constantly.

Marysafan
Member

08-07-2000

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Rob stopped eating in a challenge where they had to eat 4 pounds of meat. He decided he couldn't do it and decided to take the penalty which was four hours after the next person arrived.

He also convinced Ray and Deena to take the penalty assuring that Rob and Amber wouldn't be in last place. Merrideth and his wife also took the penalty instead of eating.

This worked out because the mom and the son team and the two girl team got very lost and arrived very late. Even though they did the challenge and ate the meat, they couldn't make up the time.

Wilsonatmd
Member

01-23-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 10:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sandra, Rob and Amber, and a few other teams (thanks to advice from Rob), quit the Roadblock last week (They had to eat 4 pounds of meat). They each got assessed a 4 hour penalty for quitting the Roadblock. Rob was real smart on it actually, as he got other teams to quit AFTER he had quit, so he knew his penalty time would end before theirs, so they would have been ahead of them no matter what.

Sandra
Member

07-06-2004

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 10:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you so much!

Gina8642
Member

06-01-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 10:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It seems like some of the teams have gone with a strategy of strictly alternating roadblocks between each other. I think it would be smarter to evaluate each one and decide. Strictly alternating seems detrimental - like last season where Victoria ended up doing all the physically difficult challenges and Jonathan had to stomp grapes? That was messed up.

So far, Rob's done two road blocks and Amber's done one, so they are as even as they can be given the odd number.

Hippyt
Member

06-15-2001

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 11:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree Gina,good point.
Did anyone notice Rob speaking Spanish to the taxi driver? That boy has hidden talents,I tell you.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Wednesday, March 23, 2005 - 12:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh he's been speaking Spanish, and pretty well, too.. on all the epidsodes.. Guess he'll lose that advantage next week in Africa, but he also uses his smile and so far hasn't ever badmouthed a taxi driver or anyone else.. his comments to Amber about the people they meet are positive and even with a language barrier, people KNOW..