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    S33.E10: No Room for Error/S33.E11: In the Hands of the Amazing Race Gods LIVE CHAT

    in The Amazing Race

    1 minute ago, Browncoat said:

    So, Penn is just blindly (heh) hitting all the pinatas now?

    Since Kim can't find the tiny donkey, guess so. That's one strategy to get through this. Not the best one, but certainly one.

    In a normal final leg I'd say the girls got this in the bag, but the leg designers seem to have put a bit more effort than usual into this one, so maybe there is still a way to pass?

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    S05.E08: Rebellion

    in The Good Doctor

    2 hours ago, rmontro said:

    The main problem I have with it is that it isn't a doctor's place to tell a patient what dating league he is in.  It's none of their business.  If they think the patient is struggling mentally, they can arrange for some sort of psychiatric consult if they think it's necessary.  Park spoke out of turn.

    I mean sure. But these doctors butt into things that aren't their business all the time. I think we just have to accept that as a conceit of medical dramas.

    2 hours ago, rmontro said:

    Most people seem to want to date out of their league.  I'm not sure that is even a desirable thing, seems like it would cause problems.  Would you always be looking to see if your partner is going to cheat, or find someone better?  Would your partner feel satisfied and happy?  Would you want your partner to think he or she settled?  There are two things driving this, as far as I can see.  Either the person's self image is more inflated than it should be (people commonly rate themselves as more attractive than others do).  Or they hope that dating an attractive person will drag them up into a better league, or prove that they themselves are in that higher league.

    I blame sitcoms, where the big hairy guy and/or old guy always has a smoking hot girlfriend or wife. If it was just one or two it wouldn't be a problem, but it's basically all of them and so a wrong picture of reality gets planted in peoples heads.

    But yeah, in reality it's really not desirable to date too far out of your league. I for one am a big hairy guy who likes big hairy guys, so I think I'm good. ;D

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    S05.E08: Rebellion

    in The Good Doctor

    13 hours ago, tennisgurl said:

    Park gave the insecure guy some solid advice, its not that woman don't want to be with him because he isn't traditionally good looking, its that he is clearly massively insecure. Telling him to get over it when woman aren't into him is the best advice he can give him, don't take it so personally and move on.

    Yeah that's still the feel good Hollywood answer. Nobody likes to say it, but reality is, if you aren't super rich to compensate, you can't expect to get somebody who is much hotter than you. So when the patient asked if Park meant that he should date in his league, Park should have answered with a simple "yes". Of course there is always the exception that proofs the rule, but that's not likely.

    The woman even said she loves the guy but didn't want to settle. So it's clearly not about his personality. It is about his looks. That's just reality. Sugar coating it won't help him.

    12 hours ago, preeya said:

    Was there anyone in the universe that didn't know Salen would know about Lin's venture to the AG's office? 

    Nope. Lim clearly has never seen the wire. Otherwise she would know: "You come at the king, you best not miss." She really should have built a way stronger case before she went to the AG and if she couldn't she should have tried to get some concessions out of Salen by way of blackmail. "Would be a tragedy if the sale of this hospital was delayed or fell through because you can't keep it running smoothly. How about we draw up some corner points about how this place should be run and put that in the sales contract?" Probably wouldn't work in real life, but in the universe of this melodramatic show, I could totally see that working.

    8 hours ago, thuganomics85 said:

    But now Salen knows that Lim tried to make a move on her and of course is being all "How dare you!" about it because at least she's "open and honest" about how she operates.  Well, besides that time she used Shaun's likeness without his permission.  And even started her entire relationship with the hospital by pretending to be a patient....

    Or that time she lied to the dead babies mother. Or the time she tried to sweep her fuckup with the pharmacy under the rug, by blackmailing the pharmacist. Don't think she was honest with the AG or the public there...

     

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    S05.E08: Rebellion

    in The Good Doctor

    I don't think we can lay full blame at Salen for her actions here. Afterall, she doesn't have a map and is making this up as she goes:

    (watched the cam shot by coincidence during the break and noticed it's the same actress, thought I'd share. Better audio version is here.)

     

    Lea, as always master of the spin and self pitty. She fucked up royally and somehow she turned it around on Shaun.

     

    I  assume by the season finale Lim will find a smoking gun that prevents the aquisition at the last second.

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    S33.E09: Rock Bottom

    in The Amazing Race

    1 minute ago, Netfoot said:

    If searching for a gold coin or a red bean, the team that takes a logical, methodical approach to the task will usually win out over the team that randomly flaps about, looking here and there, running hither and yon, without any rational plan to follow.

    You are right. It's not the same. At least with a D100 everbody would have the same chance. With a needle task the chance of winning gets exponentially lower, the more clues other teams find. So if you are not one of the first teams to find one, you are SOL.

    Every team goes at these tasks methodically. They all have a modicum of intelligence. Attributing success or failure to how methodical a team was, is just just-world fallacy.

    So in fact, just rolling a dice would be much fairer than having a needle challange.

    5 minutes ago, Netfoot said:

    And as viewers, we get to bite our nails while waiting to see whether smarts beats dumb luck or vice versa.

    No, we get to be annoyed waiting to see which team has dumb luck.

    There can't be any skills with 5000 rocks. There is no way you won't overlook some if you aren't allowed to mark them. With hay bales you have no idea where the clue could be, there is no method that could work. It's always just dumb luck.

    S33.E09: Rock Bottom

    in The Amazing Race

    1 hour ago, Cotypubby said:

    I love the needle in a haystack challenges. Those are the ones that can totally shake up the placement of teams. I hate tasks that are just “Show up. Jump off this thing. Get clue.” Bungee jumping, skydiving, zip lining, etc. Not only do they take no skill but there’s rarely any way to ever pass a team so it’s just boring to watch. I can only remember once a team actually being scared enough to not do it.

    So next season we should just have a task where the teams throw a D100 and then have to wait out a number of minutes equivalent to the number that comes up? Because that would certainly "totally shake up the placement".

    52 minutes ago, grandmabegum said:

    The only thing that bothers me about the finale taxi luck is it can give an advantage to a team that is from/visits the finale city and knows there way around.

    I don't think that ever helped. In season 1 it even cost the team, that was from the final city, the win. The New Yorkers were so sure that they knew New York better than the taxi driver, that they fell behind another team so far, that they missed a train and never recovered from that.

    Their backstreet driving might have even been a good call, if it had been rush hour, but it was like 5 in the morning and so the main streets were way faster.

    S33.E09: Rock Bottom

    in The Amazing Race

    3 minutes ago, Netfoot said:

    You can prepare a track in advance so as to rule out the chance of dumb luck affecting racers negatively or positively. But if you are racing on real-world roads, racers can hit a pothole, run over a tire-busting nail, make all the lights right on green or find a gas pump just when they need one. 

    The race should be a ball-buster. There's a million bucks at stake. If your cab gets lost in one episode, hopefully a few episodes later the first rock you turn over has a coin under it. Swings and roundabouts. Hopefully your luck averages out OK, over the course of the race. And over the course of life.

    Yeah no argument there. (although it has been less and less a race around the world in recent years). I don't love it when it comes down to taxi luck, but it's something that can't be helped and if you see it as a race around the world as in "around the world in 80 days", that's just part of it. And like I said, there is even some skill to the "taxi-luck". But throwing in "challanges" that are just luck of the draw, that's where it gets super annoying. I don't want to see racers go out on what is essentially a coin flip. That's not good TV, imo. At that point we can just not do the rest of the leg at all and might as well eliminate one team at the starting line by random number generator.

    I completely agree that the race should be a ball-buster and has often been too easy in recent years. But just because the racers suffer while looking for the right rock, doesn't make it good TV. I want them to suffer while they are trying to figure something out, or try to find a place in a crowded city (granted that couldn't be a thing this season for obvious reasons), or go to the edge of their physical capabilities. Best case if some of those things are combined. Like when Floyd had to ride that bike for way longer than necessary because it wasn't correct how he loaded it.

    1 minute ago, Leeds said:

    There have been challenges that have been very selectively judged though.  The Globe Trotters (I think it was) were appalling at a dance challenge but were very leniently judged compared to others.

    I don't remember that one. Were they in the back of the pack? "The judges", aka producers behind the camera, usually loosen the requirements for passing when the team is very far behind.

    S04.E03: Everything Is Bellmore

    in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

    On 2/26/2022 at 8:10 PM, shapeshifter said:

    Sarcasm, right?

    People keep insisting that Midge outed Shy at the Apollo. When in reality all she did was talk about how flamboyant he was and everybody already knew that. It's now been weeks or months since the Apollo, we've not heard about any news articles that speculate about his sexuality or anything like it. Only thing we saw was that he got engaged to his beard and nobody questioned it.

    Some just can't help but see what Midge said through a modern lense, when back then nobody would have gotten it. Still they act like she said "That Shy, boy he sure likes sucking dick and taking it up the ass!"

    Same thing, from todays perspective we know that Buzz's roommate is not just his roommate. Not with the special thanks and how those two looked at each other (plus the musical theater). But back then nobody would have gotten it.

    So yes, I may have gotten a bit sarcastic there...

    On 2/26/2022 at 11:39 PM, tennisgurl said:

    I hope that they plan on doing more with the strip club manager, seems like a waste to hire Santino Fontana for such a minor role. 

    I assume he's going to be a love interest for Midge.

    On 2/27/2022 at 6:14 AM, gorgy said:

    How old is Midge and Joel's son supposed to be? Like I get child actors play younger, but he seems awfully big for his age. I assume he's like six or seven in the show, but he could be ten in real life.

    The IMDB bio of the twins playing him says they are 8 years old. Of course I can't say for sure when that was written, but that seems about right. 10 year olds would be bigger.

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    S33.E09: Rock Bottom

    in The Amazing Race

    On 2/28/2022 at 1:15 AM, Shermie said:

    Well, there’s not much racing skill in bungee jumping or zip lining or dancing or eating a bowl of foreign food or many other activities that have been done on TAR in the past. There’s more to this show than just moving the quickest from point A to point B. That’s called track and field.

    At least bungee jumping or zip lining shows us some nice vistas. And you are right, there is no skill to it, but it also doesn't shuffle the placing, so there is also no luck involved. I don't like when winning or losing the race comes down to pure dumb luck. In some situations it can't be helped, like with taxis, and you could even argue that picking a good driver and knowing when to bail, is actually a skill. But building it into the race on purpose is just a horrible idea either way.

    Dancing and eating challanges require skill and fortitude. Those were a really bad example.

    6 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

    But you can edit to overemphasize something, which is how I view this.

    Yes you could, but not to that extend. Dusty is always all over the place. If it was just from time to time they wouldn't have enough footage to edit it that way.

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    S33.E09: Rock Bottom

    in The Amazing Race

    13 hours ago, Shermie said:

    I like needle in a haystack challenges because they are unpredictable. Just because a team arrives last doesn’t mean they’re last to find the thing. As for it being luck only, no skill, I’d disagree somewhat. If the stone flippers were more methodical, they might have found the coin faster. As others have mentioned, separate the stones you checked from the ones you didn’t and don’t randomly grab stones and turn them over. There is some skill involved in finding a needle in a haystack.

    How fun. Why don't we let them flip a coin at the starting line and the losing team goes home? That's certainly unpredictable and would shake things up.

    Also it's not like teams didn't try to be methodical. But when you have to put the stones back exactly as you found them, you are bound to miss some. There were only 4 changes out of 5000 and at the end for Dusty it was only 1 in 4997.

    16 hours ago, Netfoot said:

    The Greeks smash plates to ward off evil spirits. Specially made plaster plates are produced just for the purpose. I suspect TAR simply used the normal made-for-smashing plates.

    Just fyi, since it has been spoken about like a uniquely greek tradition before in this thread. Breaking plates before a wedding for good luck is also a german tradition. It's called Polterabend here.

     

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    S04.E03: Everything Is Bellmore

    in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

    Uh oh, I'm afraid Buzz just outed himself. Because we know what "dramaturg and roommate" means, it also means that everybody knew in the time this show was set. Guess his career is ruined and he'll be an outcast from society. If only he hadn't outed himself so clearly and unmistakeably!

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