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Archive through June 29, 2005

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Hummingbird
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08-21-2002

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 8:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree fruitbat. They are losing me with the teen romance storyline. I suppose the producers are trying to show that the kids are well-rounded and not geeks, but I am not really caring.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 9:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree. This show does not hold my attention very long at all.

Fruitbat
Member

08-07-2000

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 10:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I took this and The Comeback, with Lisa Kudrow, off my Tivo.

Roxip
Member

01-29-2004

Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 2:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
But I really like Amari...and I thought Milana's last question was easier than the last one for Amari...the name of the park was a dead give-away to the country it was located in...even I, a total African geography ignoramus, could guess that Kruger State Park was located in South Africa.

Rslover
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11-19-2002

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 10:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    


Kittystj
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08-10-2001

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 1:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
i am enjoying it. Guess I must be a 75 year old teen!

Jen
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07-27-2003

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 4:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks for the recap!

Jennabeesmommy
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06-06-2004

Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 7:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was totally rooting for Amari. Maybe next week.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 2:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think Melissa rocks!

Jeremy is the local kid to root for..Westminster is just to the north of me.

Roxip
Member

01-29-2004

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 6:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm actually starting to like this show and especially LIz. I didn't like her originally but she has grown on me. Was glad to see her get in the finals (especially beating what's his name (Davis?)) last night. I feel kind of bad for the kids who don't seem to ever get a chance - the guy from Commerce, Texas for instance...and I really like Max but he never seems to rise to the top.

Seamonkey
Member

09-07-2000

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 10:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think there is an agenda on the part of one judge that Amari must be in the finals.. I don't see how she got to the second showdown.. now, that being said, really, all of these young people would put that money to good use and benefit from it, so it is hard to be upset about any one of them getting whatever they do get.

I thought the wrong team won the challenge and thought the judges just hated that they had to put Davis? into the challenge.. was happy he lost and sad that Liz gave him so much credit for her win. She won, no matter who coached her, she had to absorb and produce at the right time.

I agree, Liz had come up in my estimation, as time has gone on.

This next week will be rough and I do hope Davis doesn't win the fifth slot, but on the other hand, hope that whoever does win it, is a standout.

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 11:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't think there was an agenda to put Amari into the showdown. From what they have shown, that girl has really grown in the past couple of weeks, and last night she was great as the director and filmer.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 11:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was perturbed with Davis last night -- using the team's film (not his film) as a vehicle to further show his feelings about Liz. Sick puppy. This competition is not the place for it. I don't think he should win.

Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 1:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
For the third week in a row we had tornado warnings and weather reports through the entire show so I've yet to see more than 5 minutes. I'm becoming resigned to the fact that I'm just not destined to see these kids. <sigh>

Colordeagua
Member

10-25-2003

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 1:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tess, . I'm sorry. Hopefully next Monday.... I am enjoying the show. At times it does seem kind of simplistic, but the scholarship prize(s) make the students' participation and audience's viewing so worthwhile. And last night the winning team got a trip to Europe!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 5:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ummmm, Tess? You would like this show. Too bad the weather gods don't want you to see it.

I thought the wrong team won last night as well. I mean the story of Davis mooning over Liz was just icky. I can't believe the others on his team let him run with that idea.

I think the female judge is very impressed with Amari but Amari has done everything to earn it.

Let's take the two girls who have had similar reactions to not having made final five so far. Alyssa and Amari. Both are used to coming in first in everything, to always being the person picked for everything, in short to always being the star. Both are flabbergasted that they have not automatically risen to the top this time with their usual no effort (and I don't mean that as a slam; it is just easy for them to excel at most everything). That has been the story line for both girls, although it probably applies to all ten contestants.

The two girls took different approaches. Alyssa continues as she always has, expecting to automatically excel, carping at others, and crying when she doesn't come in first.

Amari, on the other hand, decided she better pour on the steam, and she worked her butt off on the last two challenges, whereas she had also taken the automatic cream rising to the top approach in the earlier challenges.

Result: Amari got picked for Captain's Quiz (or whatever they call it) twice in a row.



Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 6:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think that is what they call it.. I didn't say I'd have put Alyssa into the quiz and agree that her reaction isn't helping her at all.. of course she's now the only one who hasn't had a shot and I'm sure that would have worn on any of them.

As for the usual style of several of them, including Jeremey.. perhaps they haven't been judged by people who are looking so much for leadership in the past.. hard to say, of course.

I'd also say that I'd be surprised to find that any of these young people end up without scholarships of some kind.

Tess, I am sorry you aren't seeing this.

Yep. Wrong team won.. Interesting that the two captains got that position by being faster at being careless putting the maps together, but then no one else came through with the goods, so there they were.

Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 6:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How many more weeks is it on?

Colordeagua
Member

10-25-2003

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 7:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm guessing two. One more "captain's quiz" show for the last spot and then the final to decide winner of the full-ride scholarship.

Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Tuesday, June 28, 2005 - 8:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
If there's another storm this Monday I'm going to scream. Our ABC affiliate stayed on weather long after the other networks went back to regular programing all 3 weeks. Yeah, it was storming, but geeeeez.

Jan
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 7:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Tess, I have three words for you and your cable company ..."WEST COAST FEEDS" .

That way, if you miss it in your time zone, you can catch it in theirs :-):-)

Not1worry
Member

07-30-2002

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 10:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have to say, Davis hauled butt on the state map puzzle. Even with forgetting SC, he was so far ahead of anyone else, he had it in the bag. I love puzzles, so that was my favorite thing.

I think the wrong team won as well. I didn't they they did as good of a job with their quote and I agree, Davis laying his heart out for Liz was squicky.

I'd like to see either Jeremy or Amari in the final slot.

Teachmichigan
Member

07-22-2001

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 10:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Jan -- I used to LOVE our West Coast Feeds. We'd watch some shows on local channels, then the others we'd watch later after DS was in bed. Unfortunately, some new federal legislations now BANS us from getting both. We could keep west coast or keep local, but not both. Fortunately DirecTV notified us more than a month before it took effect, so we were able to get another TIVO for the upstairs TV. (Yeah -- we have dual lines, but DH forgot to run them when we built the house! LOL)

Scout
Member

01-20-2005

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 11:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I thought Davis's idea was pretty strange, but if I had been the judge and had not known where the idea came from, I would have probably picked his team to win. I thought the super-hero thing was too juvenile.

I don't care for Davis's personality, either, but I thought the judges were pretty hard on him. They criticized him for doing the same things they told Jeremy that he should have been doing.

I'd like to see them on individual competitions instead of these groups. I don't think the group is always a fair way to know someone's abilities. Often, the person who spends the most time telling everyone they're the most qualified, is the one they do pick. I think the quiet ones have as much, if not more, potential than some of the others.

I want to see Alyssa in the final competition. She obviously is qualified to be there and I see no reason she shouldn't be given a chance to show what she knows. This show would be much more fair if all three final contestants were there because of their results on a test and not because of the subjective opinion of three judges.



Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Wednesday, June 29, 2005 - 11:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Teach - HUH ????? there is a USA federal legislation against getting local and west coast feeds???

I think that is kinda dumb, no???? Is there a reason for it??

Here in Canada, I get feeds from the Atlantic , Eastern, Mountain and Pacific time Zones. I love all of these feeds as it gives me lots of viewing options!!