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I think it became really clear this episode that everyone knows Justin and Diana are the strongest team in this season by a huge margin, and that includes Justin and Diana. Not that it excuses them, but their bickering has very strong overtones of them knowing that they’re the best team racing and they ought to be winning every leg, and getting frustrated by that whenever they’re not in first place.

What’s going to be really interesting is the next time they’re in danger of elimination, either through a blunder or the U-Turn (if they don’t get to that U-Turn mat first again, there’s no way the other teams don’t gang up on them to make it a single U-Turn). Are they going to put their heads down and overpower it or fold, that’s the question the entire season is hanging on.

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So . . . what’s your take on TAR28? Eleven teams of YouTube “personalities” . . . either a great idea to get more viewers, or something as dumb as the “blind date” teams of TAR26. Something tells me that we should cherish TAR27 . . . except there isn’t much to hold on to . . . Justin is an insufferable superfan, the Texans come off an alpha douche assembly line, Denise & James Earl are a disaster waiting to happen, ditto the Paparazzi, and the (ex-)Cheerleaders are only recently performing well. Oh, and there’s Kelsey & Joey, but I cannot take them seriously because they have caps with their names on them.

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I am neutral with a thin sliver of cautiously optimistic about TAR 28. I don’t think it’s an inherently bad idea to do a theme of “social media stars”, because there’s a certain logic to it–social media stars sell their personality as much as their content, so you can assume they’ve got at least some screen presence right off the bat.

That said, the previous YouTube stars who’ve done the Race have not excited me overmuch, and I recognize none of them (which is entirely on me, not on them) so I’m not excited about it yet either. But it beats more Survivor or Big Brother cast-members shoehorned into the show.

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Candlejack said on November 14th, 2015 at 1:08 pm

Justin certainly resembles a penis more some days than he does others.

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