brenda for the win!
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Non-Fiction TV: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
This thread is for non-fiction TV, including but not limited to reality television (So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef: Masters, Project Runway), documentaries (The History Channel, The Discovery Channel), and sundry (Expedition Africa, Mythbusters), et al. [NAFDA]
quester - Sep 27, 2009 6:49:40 pm PDT #11021 of 23273
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Lee - Sep 27, 2009 8:01:26 pm PDT #11022 of 23273
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Wasabi roulette was the best thing EVER.
I kind of miss the yoga instructors though. They seemed like they would be good for mocking.
kat perez - Sep 27, 2009 9:27:03 pm PDT #11023 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Eat the wasabi!
That might've been the best first episode of a reality TV season ever. I am enjoying Pinky and the Brain and the zen duck master. I hope that they do well. Ms. America and her husband are alternately kind of OK and kind of shrill and annoying. We'll have to wait and see. Instant hate for the poker girls, although I will give it up to them for coming back like champs. I also hate the loud lawyer and his lady friend. They can go home any minute now. Everyone else is a blur. Oh, wait. I like the gay kids thus far.
Jesse - Sep 28, 2009 2:50:38 am PDT #11024 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Their story was funny, at least: "Hey, bro, I got something to tell you..." "Dude, me too!"
Jessica - Sep 28, 2009 3:35:47 am PDT #11025 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The duck-herding challenge was so far beyond awesome. I'm glad I have it on DVD so I can watch it again WHENEVER I WANT.
The poker girls - whenever anyone says "I can't let them know I'm a XXXXX because they'll know I have a huge advantage" I always have to wonder exactly what show they think they're on. Because unless you're a championship hiker who moonlights as a travel agent, I'm really not sure there's any set of job-related skills that's going to help you in this game beyond *very* specific challenges. Dudes, you're good at poker. Yay you. Now shut up and play TAR.
Kathy A - Sep 28, 2009 3:45:02 am PDT #11026 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
whenever anyone says "I can't let them know I'm a XXXXX because they'll know I have a huge advantage" I always have to wonder exactly what show they think they're on
So much this!!! That and the usual female team strategy of "we'll bat our eyes at them and get our way," which never works, especially as a way to get a jump on the opposing teams. I mean, have these people actually watched the show in the past?
I wonder if they got to Vietnam in the middle of monsoon season, and if so, if they're going to have problems with the rain as long as they stay in S/SE Asia (please tell me they're going to go to India--I love it when they have their usual meltdowns there).
SuziQ - Sep 28, 2009 4:50:36 am PDT #11027 of 23273
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I missed the first 1.5 hours of TAR. Must get TIVO set correctly. What are my chances of finding it online?
Instead, I was watching the finals of ABDC. Of the final two, I'm happy with the results, but I think that was the wrong final two.
Kathy A - Sep 28, 2009 5:06:54 am PDT #11028 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
ABDC: I definitely think the right team won! I've loved them since the first ep, and thought that they were one of the strongest teams from the start.
Who do you think should have been the final two, Suzi?
Jesse - Sep 28, 2009 7:22:44 am PDT #11029 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I was really glad they won! And still kind of shocked that Afroborike made it to the finals. Was there was some untapped audience of people who don't like hip-hop? Because I didn't think they were all that good, even without the gender stuff.
kat perez - Sep 28, 2009 9:32:39 am PDT #11030 of 23273
"We have trust issues." Mylar
This was seriously the lamest season of ABDC ever. I was happy with the winners given the group of contestants they had, but honestly, the winners would've been middle of the pack in any of the previous seasons. AfroBorike making the finals was a joke. Setting aside arguments about whether they were hip-hop enough, they just weren't very good even in their own genre. I've definitely seen better salseros and stronger afro-latin infused dancers. They got over on putting the girls in skimpy costumes and being stank and nasty in almost every single routine they choreo'd. Shane's favorite move? Yeah, no. In addition to the stankitude, it wasn't even done well. All out of synch and those boys couldn't even really grind half as well as the kids in Massive Monkeys and they were B-Boys, for crying out loud! Ewww. No.
Anyway, I would've switched out AfroBorike for Rhythm City. They were a clean crew and they usually had very crisp, if not overly imaginative, choreography. I totally agreed with my fictional boy band husband, JC, when he went to the mat for them over Massive Monkeys against Shane and Lil Mama. I also loved Vogue Evolution and thought Lil Mama sandbagging them by jumping on Leomiy for being a diva was ten different flavors of wrong. I sincerely hope they turn up some better crews for the next season because this group just was not on point.
Maybe I shouldn't have watched the entire season in one long marathon?