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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 1:25 pm
ugh....groan
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 1:30 pm
See, I'm looking forward to seeing them on the race. I don't need to see them get married. Why can't they cast Rupert and his wife for TAR??
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 1:52 pm
Now that would be funny! I can just hear him, "Sorry Phil. I thought it was okay to steal the other teams' shoes". 
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 2:02 pm
A one-day special on their wedding I could almost live with. But a summer series? Just how long a wedding do they plan to hold?
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Auntiemike
Member
09-17-2001
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 3:35 pm
Karen and Jimmer: I'm with you. Let's start a "Rupert and Wife" chant and maybe they will be considered. I think that would be great fun to watch!
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 3:55 pm
oh blech!!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 9:46 pm
I'm sorry... I must be in the minority. I saw enough of each of them the first time they were on Survivor. The second time was way more than I wanted. So now they are gonna be reality show wh---s and will compete on my favorite show? (Honestly, Survivor has gone downhill since the AS.) I hope this isn't a "jumping the shark" tactic. Oh, and I so do NOT wanna see their wedding either. Sorry. I am just sick to death of reality stars and their continuing infatuation with their own fame.
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Starshine40
Member
07-30-2002
| Friday, January 21, 2005 - 1:58 am
Maybe they plan to do it like Trista & Ryan's wedding with all the planning and the bachelor & bachelorette parties before the big whoopla!
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Justalittlebean
Member
08-15-2003
| Friday, January 21, 2005 - 6:02 am
I agree with Costacat, enough is enough. Give someone else a chance and I won't be watching their wedding either. 
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Friday, January 21, 2005 - 6:16 am
Amber & Rob vs Rupert and Wife, spare me from both. I was in the absolute minority, I could not stand Rupert. There is no way I am going to watch a season of a tied dyed tshirt and stringy hair. Uh Uh, not going to do it.
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, January 21, 2005 - 6:47 am
What we are seeing here is the usual “Catch 22”. If you go on a Reality Show and you are bland and boring, you will not be disliked or liked by many viewers. Therefore, you make boring TV. If you are more dominant and involved, then of course you are going to have a block of viewers that find you entertaining and you are also going to have a block of viewers that can’t stand you. Same thing with every public figure (including Presidents ). So what do reality show producers do? If they only get neutral contestants that no one cares about one way or the other, then they will definitely lose viewers. What they are going for here are crossover viewers. The people who are watching AR already will probably continue to watch regardless. They may get some additional Survivor viewers who are curious enough to watch. They will not get Survivor viewers who weren’t watching AR previously and who dislike Rob and Amber – but they wouldn’t have got them anyway.
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Hobbs
Member
08-05-2002
| Friday, January 21, 2005 - 6:56 am
Very well put, Jimmer.
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 7:10 am
I think as long as it doesn't hurt anyone or isn't against the law, people should be allowed to further themselves any way they want or enjoy their lives any way they want. I don't care for Rob, and was ambivalent about Amber.. but really, how does it cause harm to anyone if they compete on TAR? I might trip over my hassock looking for the remote to change the channel if I happen to walk in on the wedding show, but is that really Rob and Amber's fault? ...
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 11:09 am
I think if you are reality producers you DO YOUR JOB and do the interviews and find NEW and compelling people. You don't use agents who are shilling for their clients (be they models, wannabe actors or stand up comics or simply pretty faces with agents). You give other people a chance. Part of what gets people to watch reality shows is the thought that "I could do that".. or "I could have done that" if the age group is in the past for you. or at least "would I apply for that?" I don't think the only choices are neutral people vs people we've already seen. If they keep recycling the same people, and especially the same winners, it gets really old, really fast. I'm just grateful that the wedding won't be part of TAR. Rob and Amber will definitely be more palatable than Ali but.. I simply don't see why they should get even more air time, more chances for trips and goodies and the possible win..
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 11:10 am
Kep. the only harm is to the thousands of people who might have had a chance at that slot, at those adventures, that airtime, who haven't already won a million dollars and a vehicle..
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 5:29 pm
Jimmer, you missed my point. As did Kep. Seamonkey stated it quite well... there are thousands and thousands of people out there. People who have applied to be on these shows. I, for one, applied for TAR7 (a girlfriend and I would've been cross country friends). So, instead of picking someone who wants to be on the show, they pick someone who has already been on another reality show. Twice. And yes, Jimmer, I will stop watching. If the TAR producers start to cast for a specific character, I will quit watching. If they continue to recruit reality show w----s, I'll stop watching. They had a good formula. For goodness sake, they won two Emmy's. They did not need to "tinker" with the formula and hire wannabe's.
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Kappy
Member
06-29-2002
| Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 5:36 pm
Seamonkey said what I've said before . . alot of us enjoy this show because it's one where we could actually see ourselves participating in it. From TAR1, I've enjoyed watching average people race around the globe - some of them seeing places and countries that they might not have gotten to see otherwise. Do I want to see Romber? Heck no or any other previous reality contestant for that matter. First they sour me on watching Survivor and now they're going to sour me on TAR. But I guess it's all good in the long run as watching less tv is good for you, right? And watching less tv means less time on the computer talking about it. Heck ~ just think of everything I can get done with all that extra time! Thank you, Amrob! And thank God for Bravo on Tuesdays!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 6:22 pm
At least, for some period of time in February, I can let my voice be heard. I just found out I'll be a Nielson home for a bit! <wink>
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 8:43 pm
TAR has always cast specific characters or types. They have the “couple whose relationship is in trouble” (e.g. the couple that came in second in the first season), they have a “model couple” (the twins in an earlier season), they have the “older couple”, they have the “gay couple”, they have "the sisters", they have “the long distance couple”, they have the “college buddies”, they have the “two funny friends”, they have the “married parents” (that’s a good one!), they have the “estranged father/daughter/son”, they have the “couple with some unusual attribute”, etc. They are casting for specific personalities and types. They don’t randomly choose these people. I agree that they shouldn’t recycle a lot of contestants that have appeared on other reality shows. However, like it or not, the Rob/Amber relationship interested a lot of viewers and some people are interested in seeing how it works on AR and they are betting that some Survivor fans will tune in to see it. If they get too carried away with this idea of casting former contestants then I wouldn’t like it. But keep in mind it’s not like they do this a lot. They have cast 77 couples so far and only 2 of the 77 have been former reality show contestants. That’s only 2.5%.
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Tabbyking
Member
03-11-2002
| Saturday, January 22, 2005 - 10:12 pm
hear, hear, seamonkey!! NEW and COMPELLING people. i totally agree. the world consists of more than the same darn 200 people all competing for every reality show out there...some of them winning and going on to another show (alison, rob and amber), some of them winning, then losing, then being the one to pick a winner...(several of the bachelor/ette series). i don't personally feel that the earlier TAR's intentionally cast specific characters or types. the first groups were people i had never heard of before (or since, i think!) they just had teams that happened to include a lot of different types. after the first two, it seems to be intentionally cast and that bugs me because what i enjoyed about this show was seeing unknowns. the everyday person...okay, people like myself i think they should say in the rules, "if you have applied to any other reality show in the last 2 years or EVER been chosen to appear on another reality show, you may not apply.; tabby and sea want new faces." no more models, actors, people who have been on other reality shows...just take a handful of all the new--unrecycled--people who apply, throw their applications up in the air and pick the ones that land face up!
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 4:35 am
I guess my feelings break from the norm around here. I don't feel that the producers of a TV show should run it according to my dictates or wants. I have no desire to control the actions of the show's producers and feel like my needs have to be met for it to be a good show. I don't like Law and Order, but I don't believe they should change the show to suit my needs. I just don't watch it. I am not particularly thrilled with Rob and Amber being on AR either, but then I'm not the one producing that show so I don't feel the need to control who gets chosen. I will watch AR but will pass on the wedding and Dr. Phil (can't take him even for a few moments) As far as all the other hundreds and thousands of people who don't get chosen, eh...life happens. There will always be those who get chosen and those who don't. Its a fact of life. No one's "rights" are being violated because Rob and Amber are being chosen over them because the producers have the right to chose whom they want.
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Vsmart
Member
02-10-2003
| Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 4:36 am
In order to appeal to the widest audience, TAR will not cast all the couples from the same state or same type. After enough weeks, if your favorite couple is eliminated, you are still hooked on the show. Why can't we accept that being famous (even if only for 15 minutes) is another "type"?
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 9:11 am
I would argue that a reality show contestant is not "famous" (not even for 15 minutes). I think the reason these reality show contestants go from show to show is that they are wannabe's. They want to be famous. They want to be movie stars. Wannabe's are not famous.
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Cousin_jake
Member
07-04-2002
| Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 10:00 am
I agree. They're know within the "Reality fan" world and I think that this gives them a false sense of celebrity. The only one I can think of who's "made it" is Elizabeth with her gig on the View and I'm sure most of the fans of that show don't even realize that she was on Survivor.
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Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 10:11 am
LOL - I think there is a desire aside from wanting to be famous. The grand prize is a million bucks!!! That is a pretty strong motivator. Both Rob and Amber are young, fit, and reasonably intelligent - i.e., good competitors for TAR. While I don't really care for Romber, I don't blame them for going on more shows when they are offered money to do so. Personally, I'd love to see Adria and Nat on TAR.
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