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Oh god it's true. Reality tv IS dumbing us down.
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Dec 9, 2015 00:30
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The Gunslinger posted:Too much screen time vs other teams, Justin is absolutely obnoxious, they're bragging shitheads when winning and mopey crybabies when losing, Justin literally crying over any hardship, etc etc etc. It really is all Justin. Diana seems fine and she sort of fills the Brandon role of "you seem like a decent person stuck with a lunatic but you are doing this to yourself so I don't have much sympathy either".
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Dec 9, 2015 00:41
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Drunk posting in a foreign language is not a good idea  still hate the Green team though.
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Dec 9, 2015 10:43
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Overdrift posted:I really hate when Justin comes in to pretty much any challenge and screams "Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!". During the India legs he did this in pretty much every scene he was in, and it just drives me up the wall. I like it when racers are upbeat and try to engage the locals. It really beats the "ughhh get all the dirty brown people away from me" vibe lots of racers have given off in the past. Meanwhile Justin is high fiving everyone in sight and Diana is giving out temporary tattoos. I like that. Overdrift posted:I'm rooting for team Paparazzi to win Ha, ok that explains a lot
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Dec 9, 2015 20:38
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Factor Mystic posted:I like it when racers are upbeat and try to engage the locals. It really beats the "ughhh get all the dirty brown people away from me" vibe lots of racers have given off in the past. Meanwhile Justin is high fiving everyone in sight and Diana is giving out temporary tattoos. I like that. I bet the producers love him, he's really good at narrating everything little thing he's doing and why it's difficult or fun. You can tell a few of the other teams are answering a prompt or being fed a line, but Justin's a sound bite machine. Either he's just like that naturally or he's seen the show enough to know that giving the editors lots to work with gets you the most screen time.
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Dec 9, 2015 21:23
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Factor Mystic posted:I like it when racers are upbeat and try to engage the locals. It really beats the "ughhh get all the dirty brown people away from me" vibe lots of racers have given off in the past. Meanwhile Justin is high fiving everyone in sight and Diana is giving out temporary tattoos. I like that. Don't forget the middle-aged super dorks Diana handed out temporary tattoos to as well.
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Dec 9, 2015 22:08
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I legitimately forgot the paparazzi were a couple and not just coworkers.
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Dec 12, 2015 06:17
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Haschel Cedricson posted:I legitimately forgot the paparazzi were a couple and not just coworkers. They never really emphasized it much until that one episode where suddenly everyone is talking abut possible marriage plans.
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Dec 12, 2015 06:19
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I'd feel bad for green team except they did it to themselves, plus they got 7 first place prizes and they are 100% guaranteed to be returning in the future.
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Dec 12, 2015 07:04
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lol at the whole thing being decided by taxis yet again, and also lol at "what is the flag of Africa" and "Macau is a country"
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Dec 12, 2015 08:49
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3peat posted:lol at the whole thing being decided by taxis yet again, and also lol at "what is the flag of Africa" and "Macau is a country" Keeping your taxi in the final leg is pretty basic stuff at this point. Taxis aside, this was a great final leg. Multiple memory tasks mixed with endurance and open-water navigation created a lot of opportunities to move around. If this had been a mid-season leg, the spread would have been several hours. The fact that Team Green and the Reporters were ostensibly minutes apart only reinforces how strong they both were. If I were unbiased I'd probably say that Team Green got screwed and that there should be dedicated chauffeurs on the final leg. But watching Justin haggle his taxi fare and then stiff the driver made me think that this is how it should be.
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Dec 12, 2015 10:14
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I think that was one of the best finales in years
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Dec 12, 2015 12:33
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Tellah posted:If I were unbiased I'd probably say that Team Green got screwed and that there should be dedicated chauffeurs on the final leg. But watching Justin haggle his taxi fare and then stiff the driver made me think that this is how it should be. Also if the paparazzi knew anything about flags, you could make the case that they got screwed and could have won, since Justin drove off their taxi driver with his hassling.
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Dec 12, 2015 15:57
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That taxi driver was a weirdo
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Dec 12, 2015 17:00
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If the paparazzi successfully stole the reporters taxi, the green team probably wins.
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Dec 12, 2015 18:24
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Riptor posted:I think that was one of the best finales in years I agree! They really balanced the tasks well. I guess they learned something from that horrible Vegas finale after all. I don't know if they publicize what 2nd place earns but you can't help but wonder what 8 Travelocity trips plus the 2nd place prize is. I'm irritated at next season's hook, but maybe I'm a grumpy Old. I guess it will pull in a certain amount of viewers if they all have large instagram followings.
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Dec 12, 2015 18:30
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The good thing about next season is that the route is gonna be incredible
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Dec 12, 2015 18:31
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Riptor posted:The good thing about next season is that the route is gonna be incredible You know the route? I only know the destination they live streamed monumento de la revolucion, mexico d.f.
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Dec 12, 2015 18:39
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Realityfanforum is a den of some of the absolute most insane  maniacs I've ever come across (seriously, the forum is horrendous) but they, without fail, figure out at least 90% of the route every season. For anyone who wants to know it goes US (weirdly, each from their own hometown)->Mexico->Colombia(!)->Switzerland->France->Armenia(!)->Georgia(!)->UAE->Indonesia->China->US
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Dec 12, 2015 19:13
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hepscat posted:I'm irritated at next season's hook, but maybe I'm a grumpy Old. I guess it will pull in a certain amount of viewers if they all have large instagram followings. I'm not old and I'm irritated too. Looks like too many "zany" YouTube personalities. My  per episode will be enormous.I'm glad the reporters won, and I laughed so hard when Phil called out the paparazzi as being completely terrible to each other.
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Dec 12, 2015 19:14
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hepscat posted:I don't know if they publicize what 2nd place earns but you can't help but wonder what 8 Travelocity trips plus the 2nd place prize is. There was an old interview I came across a while back from around season 7 or so, which was when this show was the most popular. Apparently 2nd place only gets $25k. But then again one of the prizes Justin & Diana won was something like $30k, so who knows if that's still true.
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Dec 12, 2015 19:26
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Are "zany YouTube personalities" really any different than "zany newscasters, super fans, cheerleaders, etc" It's just a profession
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Dec 12, 2015 19:27
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Except they play to the cameras as the "profession". I mean, what else do they do, I don't really care, but doesn't it boil down to that? I'm not going to dig one up to watch. /lazy I would bet the newscasters are 100% straight, no humor on camera. They weren't at all zany as Racers. Riptor posted:Realityfanforum is a den of some of the absolute most insane Thanks for that. Fan forums certainly have their uses! Now we have to wait until February.
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Dec 12, 2015 21:11
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For such students of the race you would have thought Justin and Diana would know not to let their cab leave in a somewhat remote area (or be unnecessary rear end in a top hat to cabbies). Couldn't have hoped for a better outcome, really.
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Dec 12, 2015 22:41
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Million dollar cab ride. Ooops
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Dec 12, 2015 23:21
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WampaLord posted:I'm not old and I'm irritated too. Looks like too many "zany" YouTube personalities. My Phil calling out the paparazzi as being horrible partners was hilarious. I'm glad they didn't win. Justin sending the cab away was one of those amateur mistakes. I'd still prefer a chauffeured final leg, but there's that hasn't happened yet and I don't see it happening any time soon. The tasks for this leg were some of the best final leg tasks in a while. Combining memory and physical tasks is a great way of doing it. Hopefully next season won't have too many cringeworthy or eye rolling moments. Might be worth tracking down a Canadian race instead if that's the case.
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Dec 13, 2015 01:17
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3peat posted:lol at the whole thing being decided by taxis yet again, and also lol at "what is the flag of Africa" and "Macau is a country" Every time they mentioned the "the flag of Africa" was the best.
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Dec 13, 2015 01:21
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WampaLord posted:I'm not old and I'm irritated too. Looks like too many "zany" YouTube personalities. My That's why I like Burnie and Ashley - in a sea of "zany" personalities on youtube, they seem the most legit. But yeah, I'm worried at all the other teams. Who was that young guy/girl team from a few years ago who were youtube celebrities? They were awful and so goddamn fake. 
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Dec 13, 2015 03:50
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3peat posted:lol at "what is the flag of Africa" and "Macau is a country" Well Macau and Hong Kong were sort of independent territories until a few years ago, so if you didn't realize there was an extra flag it's not that dumb of a mistake. But the other thing had me screaming at the TV. How can you be that dumb? Like, I know there's a lot of people out there that aren't entirely clear on whether Africa is a country or not, but these teams were there, they literally crossed a national border while within Africa. Samarium posted:If the paparazzi successfully stole the reporters taxi, the green team probably wins. Almost certainly, yeah. Man, can you imagine the shitstorm that would have erupted on the internet if that had happened? Tortolia posted:For such students of the race you would have thought Justin and Diana would know not to let their cab leave in a somewhat remote area (or be unnecessary rear end in a top hat to cabbies). For such a student of the race Justin should have known better than to brag about how well he knows the final city of the race. hepscat posted:I agree! They really balanced the tasks well. I guess they learned something from that horrible Vegas finale after all. Thank God. They didn't really need three separate memory tasks (the flags were the only ones that mattered), but they managed a good blend of different challenges (memory, physical strength, attention to detail) and kept the "spectacle" quarantined to a single task. jivjov posted:Are "zany YouTube personalities" really any different than "zany newscasters, super fans, cheerleaders, etc" I wouldn't mind one team of YouTubers (I think we've seen that a few times before) but I don't want to see an entire season of nothing but. You know the show is going to do all sorts of stupid stuff to play up the gimmick.
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Dec 13, 2015 05:18
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jivjov posted:Are "zany YouTube personalities" really any different than "zany newscasters, super fans, cheerleaders, etc" The stuff that is funny to the people that you can make money off of on YouTube is godawful
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Dec 13, 2015 23:18
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Justin was an rear end in a top hat to cabbies several times throughout the season. Glad that was his downfall. "It's not rude if he doesn't understand I'm insulting him!"
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Dec 14, 2015 00:17
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Agreed. Trying to be a big shot by haggling with the cabbie on the final leg was absurd. At the end when Diana says "its really tough when you can pinpoint the one thing you did wrong" which was great because he spent so much time blaming her for various things throughout the race. Him crying at the end was so funny, as if 20k in cash and 7 paid vacations was a rough go. To be fair though I am getting tired of The Amazing Taxi Race. The reporters did a great job throughout the race of playing teams off each other and deserved the win. Next season looks godawful in terms of the cast pool but hopefully the challenges are better. The finale had interesting stuff for a change and just reinforced what a weak season it was for challenges and transportation.
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Dec 15, 2015 17:07
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For their sake, I hope they exchange at least two or three of those vacations for cash. They're going to be screwed on taxes.
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Dec 16, 2015 00:58
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The reporters are engaged now
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Dec 18, 2015 15:55
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Dec 18, 2015 17:13
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They seemed to mesh really well so that isn't surprising. Good for them.
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Dec 18, 2015 17:26
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Did anyone else watch the premiere for the new season? It was just as awful as you'd imagine a cast of internet celebrities to be.
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Feb 13, 2016 03:43
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It was almost unwatchable. The cast overall is already unlikeable and somehow getting worse at racing.
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