Guest recapper and Velcrometer blogger M. Giant does the honors for last week’s Ile de Goree-Berlin leg on The Amazing Race: In a leg that takes the teams to Berlin (the German city, not the ’80s New Wave band), Kendra and Jonathan indulge in some gasp-inducingly poor behavior. Don and MJ must beg, steal, or borrow cash for the leg. Kris and Jon are confused by the metro. Jonathan has a brief masquerade as a bearable human being, but his treatment of Victoria when they come in second nearly causes Phil to have no more words. And Don and MJ…
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Amazing Race: How To Reflect on Human Depravity and Learn Absolutely NOTHING A picture is worth at least a thousand words, and every picture tells a story, too.
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SCI FI Channel confirmed that Farscape star Ben Browder will join the cast of SCI FI’s original series Stargate. Browder will join the cast in the show’s upcoming ninth season; no information on Browder’s role was available. Meanwhile, the show’s producer, MGM, is still working on a deal to bring back Stargate star Richard Dean Anderson (Gen. O’Neill) in some capacity. Oh, this could be good. Oh, very good. Can’t wait to see sparks fly between Carter and the new guy. I expect fanfic writers will be looking for different sparks than I am, but it’s all good, eh?
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Chicago Tribune | Not so amazing Media attention focuses on TAR’s ugly, botoxed underbelly this season. A column at Entertainment Weekly has reader comments visible if you are a member of EW or AOL. There’s a lot of backlash there for Kendra’s uncool comments, also. In happier news from the same column: Ben Browder is joining the cast of SG-1! This is cause for a mighty “woo-hoo!”
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I missed doing a snarklist last week, so here’s this week’s remarks, hot off the airwaves. As before, the team member in bold did the Roadblock. However, I’ll be saving most of my snark for one team (as you might suspect). Kris/Jon Jonathan/Victoria Lori/Bolo Hayden/Aaron Freddy/Kendra Adam/Rebecca Gus/Hera Don/Mary Jean Right. There’s the list, and here’s my two cents’ worth…
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my husband David says he didn’t know about this: Production Weekly reported that a feature film set in J. Michael Straczynski’s Babylon 5 universe will begin production in April in the United Kingdom. Straczynski wrote the film, The Memory of Shadows, which will be directed by Steven Beck (Ghost Ship), the publication reported. But I remember hearing about this because I posted about it back in February, when the project was mysteriously known as “B5:TMoS” and a list of likely and unlikely titles was bandied about. My favorite is still “The Memory of Spoo,” so I’m quite disappointed. And now…
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The four lead teams start off with a colossal blunder in which they learn the lesson that you never know the operating hours until you look at them. Fortunately (because some of them are teams I like), they hit the airport bunch, at which point we’re off to Dakar, where things look a little different than they do in Scandinavia. Kendra adjusts not-so-nicely to her surroundings, while Kris and Jon, predictably, think it’s kind of cool. The Detour offers a choice between catching fish and arranging fish, and for some reason, Gus and Hera and Don and MJ conclude that…
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StudyAbroad.com Launches World’s First Online Interactive Reality Show Here we go. It’s billed as a mixture of Amazing Race and blogging – 3 college students are actually studying abroad, but they are given tasks to complete and they blog about their experiences. The blogging software is Mindsay.com‘s, which as it happens I’ve used off and on. Currently, half of the Gus Overshaw whale-killing journal crew have blogs there, since it’s a little more fun and interactive than Tripod, Gus’ main provider. Also, you have to log in to read Mindsay blogs, and you can set your posts to be read…
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If No Icelanders Admit To Feeling Blue, Are They? The premiere of TAR showed people tearing past gorgeous Icelandic scenery and pestering gorgeous Icelandic locals for directions to Seljalandfoss (waterfall) and Vatnajokull (glacier). In their interactions with some locals in a town, Don noted that everyone seemed to be “ripped” at 7 o’clock in the morning. An old Internet acquaintance who lived in Iceland had mentioned that there are a lot of problems with alcoholism, so I wasn’t as surprised as Don was. As a Nordic country with long, dark winters, you would think that there would also be a…
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Miss Alli’s Recaplet: Well, shoot. This week’s episode takes the teams to Sweden, where they get encased in ice and then go to — I am not making this up — a huge Ikea, because that’s what they have in Sweden. Of course, that’s what they have two minutes from my apartment, too. [Eye-roll.] Anyway, a brutal counting task proves too much for all but a few teams, so most of the group winds up slapping together particle-board furniture like there’s no tomorrow. Then, the teams move on to a punishing Roadblock in which hay bales have to be unrolled…