Archive through December 13, 2002
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Guinevere | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 01:33 pm     I guess I find it telling that so far the editors have been able to come up with a dozen episodes worth of Teri and Ian acting like jerks and one of them acting okay. You can talk about editing all you want, but Teri and Ian have provided the material for their negative portrayal. |
Tabbyking | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 02:09 pm     i agree completely. editing-schemediting, these people are quite a bit as they are portrayed. when they are winning, ian is pleasant, flattering and chipper as a chipmunk. when things are less than perfect, he is demanding, rude.... when they aren't last, flo is pleasant, flattering and chipper as a chipmunk. when things are less than perfect, she is demanding, rude... when things are going well, zach is level-headed and patient. when things aren't going well, zach is level-headed and patient. when things are going well, the twins are having a mostly rollicking, brotherly good time. when things aren't going well, the brothers are still mostly having a rollicking, brotherly good time. i believe what we see or feel may be mostly what these people are like even when they aren't in a race for a million dollars. JMHO |
Babyruth | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 02:21 pm     Agreed, Tabbyking! Great post. |
Juju2bigdog | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 03:46 pm     Yay old people! |
Kitt | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 04:03 pm     It seems like the more stress Ian's under, the more he takes it out on Teri. These last two or three weeks they've been further ahead and he hasn't been as obnoxious to her. I can't say I'd like them to win though, but I must say they've played a good game to be where they are. |
Tabbyking | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 04:15 pm     i agree they have played a good game, considering they have done it all on their own. i just don't care for them to win the money. |
Fanny | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 04:32 pm     (Tabby, I love your posts.) To me it seemed they got off to a slow start like other "old" teams have done in the past, and that made me stereotype them as a nonthreat just like the others have been. But, once they found their rhythm they've done well. I respect their doggedness & determination. I'm old enough to want them to do better than the young whippersnappers, all of whom they've now beaten but F&Z. I just don't want them to take first. A close second place would be just right for me. If I were around either of them for more than say 10 minutes I'm sure I'd want to slap each of them silly. |
Tabbyking | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 04:45 pm     okay, that order works for me, too! gerard and ken winners teri and ian second place flo and saint zach the 'guido award' ;>) |
Fruitbat | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 06:27 pm     Juju, cut it out. |
Knightpatti | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 07:02 pm     Please do not let them be the winners! Yuck!!!! I think that Ian is a terrible example of how a husband treats a wife and I do not understand Teri at all! I do not want to hear Ian's speech if he does win. |
Bob2112 | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 07:31 pm     Yay old people! |
Halfunit | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 07:44 pm     Fruit - now look! It's a Juju by proxy..... |
Fanny | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 08:17 pm     somebody quick check under his tail |
Halfunit | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 08:22 pm     Last I looked, Ketchup was doing all of the checking, and Strawberry was unchecking..... Any new checker takers? Fanny? Fruitbat? |
Allietex | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 08:29 pm     At least Ian acknowledged the deaths of 58 thousand Americans and millions of Vietnamese in Vietnam. The other teams did not even seem to realize where they were. I did not hear one comment about it from any of them. I did hear a lot of complaining about the locals giving the wrong directions like it was their fault they had messed up. Ian isn't the only ugly American in this group. Not by a long shot. I guess one of the things that has bothered me all along about the other teams is their arrogance. They seem to think they deserve to win and that Ian and Terri were just along to provide background and someone to ridicule. Even the brother teams who I like have been guilty of this, and yet last night was the first time I have heard either Ian or Terri even hint that they think they could win. The others have really treated Ian and Terri badly. They have ostracized them and treated them like outcasts. Some of the other people were just as unlikable, but they were not excluded. I am not talking about helping each other, I am just talking about being pleasant to people. Someone last night said that Terri was complaining that Flo and Zach had booked plane tickets for the twins. I didn't hear her complain. All she did was ask if they had done that. People are so ready to read something bad into anything these two say or do. Thus their faults become magnified. So they aren't loveydovey newlyweds. So what? Their behavior toward each other, while not ideal is not really that bad. It is mild in comparison to a lot of couples. I have even seen posts on this board about how the idea of the two in bed is disgusting. Excuse me? First we complain about how they treat each other and then we make disparaging remarks about them in bed together. I don't get it. Sorry about venting but I just can't help it. I feel thse two have been treated unfairly by the editors and by the fans. I hope they win the whole thing. If it comes down to a foot race they won't have a chance, but I admire them for coming this far. They have shown more guts and initiative than the other teams combined. Go old folks! |
Tabbyking | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 10:01 pm     you have the right to vent, but i disagree with some of what you feel. not that you are wrong to feel as you do, i just feel different. my husband was in viet nam. that 'conflict'--they don't even call it a war, anymore--ended in 1974, when the others were very young or not even born. i don't think it's that they didn't appreciate what happened there, as much as they didn't understand it because it was before their time. as far as people blaming the vietnamese for wrong directions, i just heard comments about the directions being contradictory or confused, not anyone angry or blaming over these incorrect directions. i don't see any more arrogance in the others than i do in ian and teri. "we'll show those youngsters" is about the same as "we'll show those oldsters"...big talk from everyone, to psyche themselves up. no biggie! on the road, the others may treat ian and teri as if they are in a race for a million bucks, but when they show pit stop scenes, everyone is together at dinner and laughing and talking. teri's voice sounded upset to me when she asked about the twins' tickets being booked by the others. i am not saying i wouldn't be upset, because i am sure i would be...but i did hear it in her voice. i don't believe this duo has been treated unfairly by the editing or the fans. we all see what we want, which is evident in all our different posts about likes and dislikes. my favorite group was aaron and arianne, who made one or two comments about the twins, early on---along with two or three other teams, by the way--and were bashed to hell by fans. since then, we have certainly seen many more 'nasty' comments by each team, as bad or worse than what arianne and aaron said about the twins. all i am saying is (no, not, 'give peace a chance'! good guess, though) is that by going on a show such as TAR, people are open to inspection, dissection, introspection through the teensiest microscopes. and ian and teri have not been nice folks much of the time. i don't care to know the couples that teri and ian are 'mild in comparison to'. i am sorry if you know couples who are worse than teri and ian. it certainly wouldn't be fun to hang with them! i don't hope teri and ian win the whole thing, but if they do, i'll be okay with it...BUT: it would be because they played a nice race, not played the race 'nicely'. JMHO |
Hummingbird | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 10:09 pm     I have a compliment for Teri. She has nice legs for an old chick. Can't think of one for Ian. |
Allietex | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 10:11 pm     Hope you never have to associate with anyone who does not meet your standards. Must be nice to know only "nice" people. Oh well, I'll just go crawl in my hole with all the "unnice" people. |
Tabbyking | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 10:15 pm     allie, we are all here to be able to talk about how we feel. no one is right, no one is wrong. we all post what we feel. if that 'standards' comment was for me, i don't appreciate it. |
Allietex | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 10:21 pm     Like I did not appreciate the comment that you were sorry that I know couples that are worse than Ian and Terri and would not care to know them like you are too good to associate with such people. You're right. We are here to talk about how we feel. I had not aimed any of my earlier comments at any one person, but I feel you got personal first. I am out and will not respond to any more, so let's just let it drop. I have always enjoyed your posts and do not want to cause any hard feelings.Sorry if I offended you. |
Tabbyking | Thursday, December 12, 2002 - 10:25 pm     if you had read my post correctly, you would see that i said "IF" you know people, not "that" you know people... I never made it personal about you. |
Juju2bigdog | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 08:16 am     Yay old people!!! |
Car54 | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 08:31 am     Juju, you have been Teri and Ian's loyal supporter all along. I have a lot of respect for that! Yay Juju2~! |
Tabbyking | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 09:09 am     Yay old Juju! |
Bastable | Friday, December 13, 2002 - 09:21 am     Just because we didn't see the youngsters acknowledge Vietnam's history doesn't mean they didn't do it... We have 44 minutes of footage to cover an entire day. |
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