![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the friending meme, and the TAR season finale
First off, I spent the weekend adding a bunch of new people from the friending meme, and with a bunch of new people subscribing to me. Hiya! It's very cool to see the new voices on my reading list. If you haven't checked it out yet, you should; the word spread pretty far, and it's up to more than 1,200 comments over 11 pages. A big chunk of that is people responding to each other, but that still leaves hundreds of entries.
And if you're thinking damn, you should have jumped in -- jump in! It's still going, with new entries and new conversations. I started tracking it early on so I wouldn't forget to go check for new people, and then it hit a tipping point on Friday night and whoosh. It may have finally started slowing down a bit, but it hasn't stopped. I suspect the mention it got on f_fa is what did the trick, so yay to whoever did that!
I'm about a hundred comments behind at this point (by dint of ignoring basically all the side-chatter, which is a pity because I bet there was some good conversation, but -- 1,200 comments! oof.)
Meanwhile, I took a break from DW last night to watch the Amazing Race finale.
... Wow. That was completely unexpected. The goat farmers (*looks up* Josh and Brent - no idea why I can never remember that!) were on my early list of "rooting for, even though they won't make it past the midpoint", and for the entire race they stayed in that place of "oh yay, they're still there. They'll probably get eliminated next week" (and now in my head Phil is the Dread Pirate Keoghan...). Go them for sticking it out and getting it done! That's awesome.
I had been rooting more strongly for the Chippendales, since outside of the stupid "1-2-3 alliance" thing I really liked them a lot -- good guys, strong racers (once they started eating again, at least), no drama, and totally willing to not only bring along their Chippendale collars and cuffs, but wear them. (... what? they're pretty.) And since I figured the goat farmers (Beakmans? Maybe? I kept missing the name, and forgetting their first names) had no shot, the Chippendales were the best of the rest. (At least after we lost James and Abba, WOE -- they were who I wanted to win most.)
But really by the end, what I was mostly doing was hoping very hard that Nadiya and Natalie didn't win, and Trey and Lexi by association. I'd been rooting hard for the twins early on, but as soon as they stole James and Abba's money, and Trey and Lexi went along with it, and they all just giggled about how awesome they were for doing so -- yeah, shitlist, big time. UGH.
And then N&N were *worse* last night, which -- ugh ugh ugh. They were so awful about, and toward, Josh and Brent, omg. I have already repressed most of what they said, but it was enough to make me pause almost any time they opened their mouths and go do something else for a while because I couldn't cope. (This ep took a looooong time for me to watch.)
And they were even entitled about their "allies" (wtf, it's the final legs! You do not ally with two other teams to keep everyone together! It's a RACE!)."Everyone should wait for us while we do the Speed Bump! Oh no they're all leaving us!!" Gah.
I was very stressed out when N&N and the farmers were heading toward the mat, and so freaking relieved when it was the farmers.
And then in the second half, I really would have been okay with either of the m/m teams, as long as Trey and Lexi didn't get it. That was a great final challenge, and clearly tough enough that all three final teams were on pretty even footing -- and then given how astonishingly bad Josh and Brent are at directions, them finishing the task first was no guarantee that they wouldn't straggle in third regardless.
So, yeah. Phew.
I would have been absolutely happiest with a James and Abba win; those guys were just awesome. But go go goat farmers! \o/
And if you're thinking damn, you should have jumped in -- jump in! It's still going, with new entries and new conversations. I started tracking it early on so I wouldn't forget to go check for new people, and then it hit a tipping point on Friday night and whoosh. It may have finally started slowing down a bit, but it hasn't stopped. I suspect the mention it got on f_fa is what did the trick, so yay to whoever did that!
I'm about a hundred comments behind at this point (by dint of ignoring basically all the side-chatter, which is a pity because I bet there was some good conversation, but -- 1,200 comments! oof.)
Meanwhile, I took a break from DW last night to watch the Amazing Race finale.
... Wow. That was completely unexpected. The goat farmers (*looks up* Josh and Brent - no idea why I can never remember that!) were on my early list of "rooting for, even though they won't make it past the midpoint", and for the entire race they stayed in that place of "oh yay, they're still there. They'll probably get eliminated next week" (and now in my head Phil is the Dread Pirate Keoghan...). Go them for sticking it out and getting it done! That's awesome.
I had been rooting more strongly for the Chippendales, since outside of the stupid "1-2-3 alliance" thing I really liked them a lot -- good guys, strong racers (once they started eating again, at least), no drama, and totally willing to not only bring along their Chippendale collars and cuffs, but wear them. (... what? they're pretty.) And since I figured the goat farmers (Beakmans? Maybe? I kept missing the name, and forgetting their first names) had no shot, the Chippendales were the best of the rest. (At least after we lost James and Abba, WOE -- they were who I wanted to win most.)
But really by the end, what I was mostly doing was hoping very hard that Nadiya and Natalie didn't win, and Trey and Lexi by association. I'd been rooting hard for the twins early on, but as soon as they stole James and Abba's money, and Trey and Lexi went along with it, and they all just giggled about how awesome they were for doing so -- yeah, shitlist, big time. UGH.
And then N&N were *worse* last night, which -- ugh ugh ugh. They were so awful about, and toward, Josh and Brent, omg. I have already repressed most of what they said, but it was enough to make me pause almost any time they opened their mouths and go do something else for a while because I couldn't cope. (This ep took a looooong time for me to watch.)
And they were even entitled about their "allies" (wtf, it's the final legs! You do not ally with two other teams to keep everyone together! It's a RACE!)."Everyone should wait for us while we do the Speed Bump! Oh no they're all leaving us!!" Gah.
I was very stressed out when N&N and the farmers were heading toward the mat, and so freaking relieved when it was the farmers.
And then in the second half, I really would have been okay with either of the m/m teams, as long as Trey and Lexi didn't get it. That was a great final challenge, and clearly tough enough that all three final teams were on pretty even footing -- and then given how astonishingly bad Josh and Brent are at directions, them finishing the task first was no guarantee that they wouldn't straggle in third regardless.
So, yeah. Phew.
I would have been absolutely happiest with a James and Abba win; those guys were just awesome. But go go goat farmers! \o/
no subject
As for Amazing Race, I totally missed them stealing money. I must have missed part of an episode. Wow, if I'd known that, I'd have disliked them even more. They were totally obnoxious last night, and I desperately wanted them not to win. I was rooting for the goat farmers against the threesome alliance. No idea why the Chippendales, who seemed decent guys, threw in with that lot.
no subject
And, er. *kof* I never ask; I figure if someone's put their name in, they're okay with being added, so I just add them. If they add me back that's cool, but even if not, I've got more people to read, and if I comment on their journals they'll get to know me eventually that way. I think I've added more people than have added me for this, but there's a fair amount of reciprocation happening in both directions.
The theft was *so wretched omg*. There were three teams in a travel agency: Nadiya and Natalie, Trey and Lexi, and James and Abba. J&A had put their bags down, then picked them up to go talk to an agent, and didn't notice that the hundred bucks they'd gotten for the leg had fallen onto the counter (very neatly, even; it must just have slid out of a pocket in a backpack).
Nadiya and Natalie saw it, and where any other person EVER would have said "oh, hey, you dropped your money!", they just took it, saying "oh look, someone left their money" and giggling. They showed it to Trey and Lexi; Lexi was as amused as they were, and willingly went along with splitting it between them to "share the guilt". Trey was more doubtful, but let himself be talked into it. They never told J&A, who never once suspected that the money had been stolen by another team (because that is such an unthinkably crappy thing to do!); they assumed it had gotten lost in the cab or something, and that it was on them to replace it. They had to go out on the streets of Bangalore and beg for money, which they felt completely gross about, and did what they could to make it as non-gross as possible.
Meanwhile, the other two teams giggled about it off and on for half the episode. It was revolting.
I'd been rooting for the twins early on; I'm not a fan of their loud style or personalities, particularly, but they were motivated and strong and willing to do what it took, and I thought they were good racers. But that money-taking, man. That was the end. (They never got called on it because *technically* it wasn't stealing; they didn't take it from James and Abba's possession. They were just picking up "abandoned" money. But it was still completely gross, and even worse when they turned out to be the sort of people who expected everyone else to wait for them to finish their speed bump instead of taking advantage of an actual Race-induced advantage. Bleah.)
I don't think the Chippendales had any idea what the other two teams were like; for them it seemed to be all good-natured competition with no malice at all, and all I can think is they projected that onto the other teams.
no subject
I must have been pulled from the room, which is very likely. UGH! Well, I'm extra glad the goat guys won. I was rooting for James and Abba before they lost the passport.
no subject
no subject