Amazing Race: All Stars
 

Anybody else watching this? What is up with CBS's obsession with Rob & Amber? They're such sleazy, smirky, self-absorbed famewhores. I can't stand the sight of them, and they're ruining one of my favorite shows!

I enjoyed the first episode. It might take skill to come in first, but bad luck sure brings you in last.

(I like Rob and Amber)

We're actually watching this season. We actually watched a bit of season 1, and enjoyed it, but either it was up against something else we watched, or we just kinda didn't have enough of an attention span to care about Survivor AND AR (and we lacked a DVR). But we figured an All-Star season would be a good one to give it another show.

I liked the first episode. And I'll admit to liking Rob and Amber. I liked Rob in his first go on Survivor. He may be smug and an attention whore...but at least he backs it up by actually being on top of things.

CP and I were having MA flashbacks.

As Jeff said, Rob was the star of Survivor All-Stars. He should have won the million without having to marry Ambuh (though he did seem genuinely smitten in his monologues). My memory is vague, but I thought Rob pulled his weight on Amazing Race and CBS contrived to screw them out of the victory. Further, at least Rob and Amber did get married, which is more than you could say for the Bachelor/Bachelorette pairings, except for Trista and Ryan, whom I never understood. Byron and Mary are apparently still engaged, but she's got to be close to 40, what's he waiting for?

It was a phase.

I love Amazing Race. And this first episode kept my attention and kept me hooked until the end (next week teaser as well) but I was disapointed that some of the other memorable people were not on it...

But for Rob & Amber, they just dont belong on it. But I suppose they do give us a reason to route against them.. I just really dont want them to win...

I love the underdogs...

Myrna & Shmirna and the Kentucky Bumpkins...

Whatever they are on becomes "The Rob & Amber Show". They become the focus of it, and I'm sick to death of them. Ugh.... just...ugh.

Lets pray they get kicked out very soon..

I might actually be the only one who actually appreciated Rob and Amber's gameplay on TAR7. When they avoided elimination by convincing two other teams to quit the roadblock that they did, they basically guaranteed themselves a spot in the race, because their time penalty expired before theirs did. It was a risky move, but when it actually worked, I was thinking to myself "Damn...that was a smart play!" I'm actually kind of interested to see what other tricks they have up their sleeves, no question about it...but I agree that they shouldn't win...they have too much money already.

I'm so bummed that John Vito/Jill got Phil-iminated! Yes, they made a stupid error in judgment, but so did three other teams. I would have liked to have seen them last longer than a couple of other teams (cough cough Teri/Ian...cough...hack...Guidos), but that's the way the cookie crumbles. I like how it was particularly edited, because I was left wondering who would meet their end until 5 minutes before the show ended!

GO OSWALD AND DANNY!!!

YAY CHARLA AND MIRNA!!!

Best quote of the night was from Danny: "Of course we know Rob and Amber... because, you know, we live on this planet."

I felt bad at that moment because I have no idea who Rob and Amber are (in fact, I have no idea who any of the contestants not in the last season are).

With the way it kepting being emphasized that the American flight was scheduled to arrive in Quinto first I was really expecting that the flight would be delayed such that the Copa flight ended up getting there first (has that ever happened on the show where a flight ends up being significantly delayed or cancelled?).