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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]


brenda m - Oct 18, 2009 4:58:06 pm PDT #11283 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Wait, they don't get/have to actually ski?


sumi - Oct 18, 2009 5:11:58 pm PDT #11284 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

Wow. Finally, Lance and Keri are gone.

(And I cannot believe the show started over an hour late.)

I wish that they had to ski. Oh well.

(Doesn't Dubai also have a tennis court on top of some skyscraper? I wish that they had had to play a game on that court.) Dubai is chockful of oddball things.


sumi - Oct 18, 2009 5:13:44 pm PDT #11285 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

I hope that Marie and Tiffany are next. I had a crazy moment where I thought that Marie was going to do the water finding challenge but - what was I thinking? Of course, Tiffany did it.


brenda m - Oct 18, 2009 5:22:11 pm PDT #11286 of 23273
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Dubai is like the over-the-top Mary Sue of countries. If you can conceive it, they can probably make it happen. So long as you're a bajillionaire.


Theodosia - Oct 19, 2009 3:34:09 am PDT #11287 of 23273
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I probably shouldn't be astounded by the racers who thought "The Persian Gulf" was a country, but... WE'VE ONLY BEEN INVOLVED IN WARS THERE FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS. How dumb-ass-American can you get, anyway?

Good fakeout on going up The Tallest Building In The World, just to bunch 'em up and keep 'em on their toes. And how dumb-ass does Mika look, because if you've watched past seasons, sometimes half the challenges seemed to involve heights -- did she miss the ones where they rappelled down buildings? Walked out on catwalks over nuclear reactor stacks? Climbed cliffs?

Lance & Keri: in comparison to last week, this was a much-deserved elimination. And despite the fact that I found them pretty unpleasant, they weren't spending their screentime blaming each other for their screwups.


sumi - Oct 19, 2009 4:11:56 am PDT #11288 of 23273
Art Crawl!!!

True, there is that.


Jessica - Oct 19, 2009 4:45:23 am PDT #11289 of 23273
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I probably shouldn't be astounded by the racers who thought "The Persian Gulf" was a country, but... WE'VE ONLY BEEN INVOLVED IN WARS THERE FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS. How dumb-ass-American can you get, anyway?

Remember that this is the same group of people who just last week couldn't recognize a photo of Jackie freaking Kennedy.


Jesse - Oct 19, 2009 4:54:43 am PDT #11290 of 23273
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Lance & Keri: in comparison to last week, this was a much-deserved elimination. And despite the fact that I found them pretty unpleasant, they weren't spending their screentime blaming each other for their screwups.

Yeah, this leg they seemed to get over trying to win and seemed like they were having a better time with each other, so that's something. Although he still wanted to kick the snowman! He's not right.


SuziQ - Oct 19, 2009 5:23:50 am PDT #11291 of 23273
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I was happy to see the teams do their own driving. And getting lost. Ahhh, good times.


Kathy A - Oct 19, 2009 6:41:15 am PDT #11292 of 23273
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

As much as I reallyreally hate Lance, I did laugh when he was wandering in the desert, muttering, "Let's do the Amazing Race! It'll be fun!!!"