green
-
Posts
2.5k -
Joined
Content Type
Blogs
Gallery
Downloads
Discussion
Posts posted by green
-
-
sure.
they are looking great this season. 1,000 ounces, no problem! ;)
They aren't on this season that I can see. There are the Dodge Brothers I think they are that are new this season. Think those are the dudes you might be thinking about.
-
1
-
-
Glad the dude that was the Hoffman foreman and did all the work while Hoffman laid about doing nothing except be crabby and yell at the people actually working is now finally out from under them. And that he is off with a new team of sane people who actually, you know, mine gold that you can see and hold and is real. And being away from the Hoffmans may help him clear his head of the Hoffman version of Stockholm Syndrome they seem to have cast over him for years.
The Hoffmans are only there to collect more money from the producers. They sure can't mine and they make dismal viewing on TV. Do they hold some kind of blackmail material regards the producer that they have them back yet again?
-
2
-
-
A lot of people, especially guys, hated the way Naevia was written and played after GOTA. It's almost like they thought the writers would have come up with a completely different storyline for her if Lesley Ann Brandt had stayed.
Having seen all the episodes online I have to say I actually like the new actor better. She just seems to have more true grit to her.
If they would have made the storyline different then I'm glad the first actor left the role cause the writers are writing Naevia totally awesome this season dealing with real issues and being a far more complex, well-rounded human being.
First season to me Naevia was too much shown as a mere plot device in the Crixus/Lucretia/Naevia storyline to move Crixus's development along. Not a real person in and of herself. But now she is showing the first glimmerings of coming back from a fate worse than death and coming into her own.
I don't mean to demean the first actor in the role. I mean I hope she could have played Naevia as she is written going forward. I hope she would have that range for a real human Naevia who is showing up in her own right starting with this season. But I already know the second actor does.
-
3
-
-
Dina wasn't the first to use chocolate as a substitute. I have read that Alfred Hitchcock used chocolate syrup for blood in the shower scene of Psycho. He found that it looked more realistic in black and white that fake blood.
Perhaps this proves that whether you eat it or not, everybody needs chocolate (see what I did there?)
And since this is about the mud look too, I also read that British theatre in general and the Royal Shakespeare Company in particular have always used melted chocolate for the "muddy" effect on actor's faces. Melting Mars bars and rubbing same on an actor's face and arms is old school over there.
-
This is one of my favorite most episodes of the series.
From the early "reveal" of the return of Gannicus complete with the rock star music motif theme they give him to the Capua arena falling down in flames what is not to love.
And just when Glaber can' t be any more out-schemed and humiliated by Ilithyia and company? He gets to look up from his seat in the arena and see Spartacus staring at him. Whizzzz, hot new scarface look for Glaber compliments of his favorite Thracian. Then he runs into Albinius (Ilithia's father) whilst following the local fire exit signs of the day (cough) and daddy-in-law got a timber half-crushing him and asks please can Glaber help him so of course Glaber lifts the timber and ... what? Really, Glaber? He did say "please." Does that not mean anything to you? Oh I see, all crazed-eyes Glaber has finally gotten a clue.
And Ilithyia, that won't be good for you. Cause your hot new high climber Varinius isn't thrilled to learn that the old Senator won't now be able to dissolve your marriage and no way does he want to raise Glaber Junior either so back to Rome for Varinius leaving the "happy" couple of Glaber and Ilithyia still "coupled."
Meanwhile Former Gladiators 1, Romans 0. After a sort of early rough reunion between Gannicus and Oenomaus anyway. And Rasskus (sp?) doesn't live to see the win. But given how it had been going, a massive win for Team Ex-Slaves. I mean the whole f**king arena as Agron would say. It was a glorious moment.
Guess most of the cuts in this episode to fit SyFy's schedule were between Gannicus and the prostitute cause I remembered a lot longer "visit" shall we call it from the download. But I also remember an even deeper connection between them at a personal level since Gannicus seems to really like her as a person in her own right too as I recall.
Nice to have a basically feel good episode you can cheer some during. Good one, show.
-
3
-
-
A couple of questions:
Who was down the well?
Did the elder official say that Ilithyia would be inheriting her father's duties when she came of age? I feel like I missed something there.
Question 1: "The Egyptian" was down the well. That's how Ashur referred to him anyway. Apparently he is the biggest bad ass of the bad ass ex-gladiators Ashur recruited into his private little army. And these guys are suppose to be ex-gladiators cause only such can fight fellow gladiators at an equal level though Varinius mentioned at the arena that the only gladiator to earn his freedom in Capua was Gannicus. I'll go with continuity error and/or fudge factor rather then make up something in my mind to explain why these guys are running around loose in Capua.
Question 2: The official said that Ilithyia's son would. And meant he would be inheriting her father's wealth and titles at that point giving him access to becoming a Senator easily etc. Probably because he would be the one male "blood" heir of age to her father at that point. And I think they are assuming he is a son because he "kicks hard" as they mentioned in an earlier episode. Anyway it is bad news for Glaber who would have rather been the one inheriting everything.
As for this episode. Man did Ashur have a field day. When you feel sorry for Lucretia you know Ashur's been a bad bad boy. Then he finally gets to be his dream of an alpha gladiator making mincemeat of three of Glaber's men. And gets to shrug it off mentioning he was considered the least in the ludus which, when you win like that, is more a bragging right then humility. Then he gets his own micro-army to lead of evil ex-gladiators featuring "the Egyptian" and "tatoo guy" amongst others. And, bonus round, he gets a super cool golden serpent bracelet as a freebie off of Seppius. Could things go any better for our favorite slimeball?
Speaking of bad asses, Glaber the Formerly Clueless is feeling all big and bad this episode. No more Mr Nice Glaber. And though he will never be the master schemer running intricate subroutines in his mental software brain like Batiatus. Well he at least does learn that Ashur, with some muscle backing him, knows how to take down a rival Roman for him when needed. Further he has brought Ilithyia to heel. And with Varinius fled to Rome and Seppius "undoubtedly" killed by the Spartacus bunch who is top dog in Capua now? I present to you Glaber the Mighty.
Meanwhile back at Lucius' ruined temple hideaway. Oenomaus, I understand you are pissed off at Gannicus. But let me tell you that 2000 years later we use a phrase that it "takes two to tango" and Gannicus is taking the whole guilt on himself 100% to leave you with a pure and unsullied vision of your late wife. The wife that took the wine and key and went to Gannicus on her own free will. But Gannicus won't tell you those details cause he feels guilty and cause he views you as his brother. So give the guy a break. He just helped save your life.
Summary of Crixus/Agron relationship:
Crixus: Yeah like thanks for saving my life, bro.
Agron: Yeah cool, like finally you say something sensible.
Crixus: Except you still lied about Naevia being dead and I never would have been captured if you hadn't wimped out of the rescue party to the mines. So there is still that.
Agron: Eh, f**king Gauls.
The writing about the women in the group continues to be outstanding. Very good writing/acting showing Naevia's post-traumatic fallout. Mira tries to show Chandara (sp?) how to take charge of her life but Chandara can't make the adjustment. When Gannicus wisely deflects her advances she ends up with Donner who thinks she just wanted a one night stand. Or at least that was what he wanted. So Chandara can't cope and decides to flee and try some Plan Z or something and Mira is forced to shoot Chandara. Though when Lucius congratulated her on an excellent kill shot she says she actually was just trying to wound her and missed. And tells the others that the reason for the betrayal was because Chandara never felt she "belonged" with the group which was sweet of her to say instead of just leaving it that she was a traitor period.
-
4
-
-
If they do merge next time, I'd love for the women to band together - but keep it a secret. The yellow tribe females could maybe convince Josh or Dale to stick with them since they still have "loved ones" on the other side. The blue tribe 4 females could convince Reed to join them and maybe Keith b/c he's scared of Jeremy. That'd be an alliance of up to 10 players from both sides and a super secret sub-alliance of 6 females. It may not last them til the end but they could reduce the number of the He Man Women Hater's Club (Jeremy, Jon, Alec) before it fell apart. I wish the women could make a stand and run the game.
We've seen from episode 1 that Jeremy has been allied with the women. Remember early on he had his alliance together of himself and the women and needed to pull in one other guy and figured it would be Keith cause of the firefighter connection.
Granted this episode's editing seemed weird in that it seemed to indicate he was with the other men but I wonder if that was just a cover he has been maintaining to them all along. Jeremy neither voted with the men nor against Keith even but in lockstep with the women getting rid of Drew. Which says to me that their alliance has indeed remained together since day one.
It was Jon who voted for Keith and not Jeremy as well. Wonder if Jeremy even had secretly lobbied Jon for a Keith vote helping to split the males further because otherwise why would Jon have voted for Keith? So much of the strategy remains hidden on Survivor shows.
Someone above wanted to know who Keith and Reed voted for. They voted for Julie. Which says that Drew couldn't even bring along anyone with him to vote against the "head snake" Kelly.
-
4
-
-
While this was a satisfying episode, it was rather difficult to watch thanks to Drew's monologing. I can't really call him evil, since the only thing he could mastermind was napping. ...
And calling women in general "bitches" which does kind of make him somewhat evil in my book.
I'm still wondering why Jon voted for Keith. Guess he was right when he said he couldn't remember who he was suppose to be voting for.
-
Someone upthread referenced Baylor being supposedly the most disliked person in the game. Maybe so, but so far the only place I've seen that said was from the mouth of Jon Rocker. Consider the source. Now, if that's been repeated elsewhere, and I'm not aware that it has, then that would certainly change things. She seems pleasant enough so far.
Ditto. She's being disliked by a man who is known for hating pretty much everyone? And, in this episode, by Alec who seems to have problems dealing with strong, independent women who don't bow and scrape before him? Makes me like Baylor a lot as a result. She sure is doing something right if those two guys can't stand her.
The editing was so over the top for Drew being voted out I assumed the editors were assuming that everyone watching figured they were selling it so hard and wouldn't believe he would be going. That's the usual case more often then not. But it looks like the editors have just given up and decided instead to give the audience a feel good episode from beginning to end. Editing is becoming more like paint by numbers of late as a result. Guess the interns are finally getting to edit the show. But no matter, I'll take a feel good episode.
-
7
-
-
I agree Stella's was the worst this week. But over all I don't get why the petroleum spill fairy dude is still around. I haven't liked anything I can remember that he has done. Hope he doesn't end up in the final three.
-
Right now I am on Team Scientist, mainly because no one else is.
I am sort of miffed that some people are making fun of one of them for being "ugly".
Given the full interview of the women (FINALLY) , she is not model pretty, ugly? No.
Also, I was momentarily distracted and missed the decision to stay with the peat task - I would have LOVED to hear/see the solution to 'I don't have the strength'- and I missed it and they NEVER showed the SCIENTISTS AGAIN!!!!!!!
What the hell - they are not "pretty enough?". They are not crazy enough?
Basically I love the season and the teams, I am questioning editing/productions decision to isolate one team. I don't like it.l
That said:
Loving all sheep all the time, especially jumping sheep and loving cute little ponies bringing on the evil side!
Just who is making fun of these women? I didn't see any comments on the show these first episodes. And everyone here seems to like them.
Also they weren't shown as much because they keep finishing in the middle. Middle teams get far less air time barring something very big or really entertaining or silly or stupid happening to or by them. Otherwise the focus is always on the lead teams racing for first and the trailing teams trying to stave off elimination. Been that way since Season 1 when post-introductions Lenny & Karen had about 2 seconds total screen time in the first episode. (Now many people came to wish they just had had 2 seconds screen time in Paris but that's another story, heh. "L-E-N-N-N-N-Y-Y!!!!!").
Has nothing to do about looks. Has everything to do with the mechanics of presenting tons of teams in the first few episodes. And always on the lead teams and the trailing teams. I hardly remember Oswald & Danny the first few legs of TAR2 because they were middle-finishers with nothing out of the ordinary happening to them in Brazil. Uchenna & Joyce from TAR7 were even more invisible early on. Let the herd thin and give the Race time I'd say.
-
5
-
-
I bet they have a medical center on notice each location, so if a racer does need medical attention (as determined by a show medic), they get shuttled to the front. They couldn't hold up production for a 6-hour urgent care visit for one racer.
And the racers can't be the ones to determine when they have to make a side trip to the doctor because their incentive is to race on through the pain. But the show is probably exposed to legal liability if say a racer got long term damage from not stopping for medical care (his own choice or not).
One of the Bowling Moms from Season 5 sprained her ankle, which you saw in that episode, at the Great Pyramids. But she hide the damage from production at the time because she didn't want them to decide to take her out of the Race so she just wrapped it heavily at the pitstop hotel room she said in a post-race interview and was good enough to limp/go the next day. She continued to keep it tightly wrapped the rest of the Race pretty much.
Older couple guy in TAR7 had a giant wooden elephant (with his wife riding on top of said elephant cause they misunderstood the clue, hah) land on his foot in India and he ended up with a hairline foot fraction from same but again didn't make a big deal of it and continued to race the rest of the way. Both Racers were able to put some weight on their injured foot/ankle area and went on deep into their Races.
So I think it is up to the Racer. Any legal liability issues would have been signed away when they signed their contract with the show which is pretty standard stuff on all reality shows I believe.
And yeah like said above there is no show medic. From what I understand there are "contacts" medically speaking for all the locations they go to on a Race but they have to be locals as a previous poster mentioned above because of licensing issues etc.
As far as Scott here, his ankle was far more swollen. I had a ankle broken in two places with surgery and and screw put in it (old frisbee injury, heh). I then proceeded to sprain said ankle a couple more times. One of those sprains was worse then the two broken bones one in that it swelled up to the size of a pumpkin (well I thought so anyway) or at least so much so I couldn't get my foot in my sneaker anymore even with the shoelaces taken out. Also turned purple all over like Scott's. I spent 4 weeks on crutches from that sprain and had to use a cane for two more so yeah I agree that a sprain can sometimes be as bad if not worse than a break. So I salute Scott for trying to go on and am glad it didn't lead to their elimination directly but glad for him he got out of there when he did.
-
Weird they had one roadblock in the first leg and none since that are shown anyway. Meanwhile we have had an elaborate task the team has to perform to move on and which garners tons of film footage and looked to be planned to be a major task to gather major film footage in each of the last two legs. (Punting and sheep of course). Wonder if the roadblock is being eased out of TAR. That would be a bummer if so. Not that punting and sheep tasks weren't fun.
I haven't read any spoilers at all so this is just me. I don't think I've seen anyone get as much of a "Colin" edit then Jim from the Dentists. I got to think this is a set-up for a major fall late in the Race. Again, just my speculating.
Like that the bicycle women are enjoying themselves though the pub looked closed to me.
Liked when the ponies, who seem fine, suddenly all went gonzo and twirled round and round and looked like they had suddenly been possessed by the ghost of Trigger or something. That was really weird.
mtlchick, yeah you got it right. Chris was the Sheep Whisper and the one quoted in another post I can't find right now (sorry) when he re-read his instructions then said "Yep. Can't tackle 'em." Also loved Wil using his version of plural in the form of "sheeps" and being terrible at the task. And Oswald laughingly threatening them in Spanish to no avail. Probably cause they were New Zealand sheep and only spoke English Baaa is my guess. Good times. But those "sheeps" didn't come fully equipped with springs for hooves. Man the Scottish ones could become Olympic gymnasts doing totally insane floor exercises.
Liked when bad ankle fireman referred to two sheep that busted loose from him as "escapees." I'd be so frantic I'd be like the teams running around like crazy shouting by head off. Then I would finally have collapsed to the ground after an hour and the sheep would show my up by walking peacefully into the pen on their own. Who knew that shepherds down the ages didn't spend their time running around like mad men?
Good thing it was sheep and not goats in that task cause otherwise the Asian guys could have had their clothing eaten on the spot. Loved how they made a totally insane weird clothes "barrier" and the sheep are all "Whoooohoo, over we go. Wee, that was fun. Thanks guys."
Wrestling team thought wrapping burlap was really hard? Wait they were the ones that didn't know how to bend a nail either. And they did the task only cause they got lost going to the other task and ended up at this task? They are making Lori & Bolo look like brain surgeons by comparison.
Sorry to see the firemen go but asking about a replica of an artifact at a pub over asking at a museum wasn't probably their smartest decision. Glad they took it well. They seem like nice guys. But firemen have never done well on TAR that I recall. I think the two from Oklahoma was it went out really early. And TAR3's Firecop (fireman/cop) team ended up taken to a shady location in Morocco by an even more shady taxi driver where a still more shady "official" tried to get their passports from them. One of the few times if perhaps the only time the private security team TAR hires had to move in and get them out of the mess.
I'm enjoying all the teams fine so far. The edit that the Dentists get just makes them more interesting to watch for me. I really want to see if a broken ox is in Jim's future now. Nice start to the season.
-
wings707, there's an interesting TV Guide interview with John Rocker that came out, which you can Google to find online. He talks about the twins. And he gives a whole lot of insight into the argument with Natalie, and what we didn't see and hear. Apparently, she's a bigger trash talker than he is.
That's according to Rocker spinning it. Period. What do you expect him to say? Yeah I'm a jerk. He didn't back in 1999. Still not doing it today.
I don't believe this bigot one tiny bit. Guy likes to "charm" people when not endless losing it and sticking his foot in his big mouth every other day. I saw his blazing scary eyes in that shouting match. Guy is really bad news.
He wants people to believe his side and think better of him. No surprise. Been his m.o. from the very beginning back in 1999. But he will show his real stripes in the end. He always does. Still blogging the hate to this very day and I'm suppose to take his word for anything? Hah, no way no how.
Also poor old John didn't know there were not tons of idols cause he didn't ever watch the show?!?! The absolute nerve to use that as an excuse. And the total combination of ignorance and arrogance implied that he couldn't be bothered to take at least a few days to Netflix some Survivor seasons. Unacceptable. If he hadn't gone over hitter's charts prior to a game when he played for the Braves he would have been booted from baseball before he was booted from baseball for being a bigoted jackass.
Bigots don't sit around all day telling everyone under the sun all their hates. They are often pleasant and nice people around people they like. Bigots seem like normal people until the monster inside them comes out because of some circumstance or incident.
-
10
-
-
Poor Oenomaus (sadly, I still have to copy and paste this guy's name, which is why I usually just say "Doctore").
Heh, me too. When I google "Spartacus TV cast" and the Google link page comes up with all the portraits across the screen unfortunately Oenomaus is ID'ed as Doctore. So his name is the one main name I'm always fishing through old posts to find and it is the hardest to remember how to spell too. Or i just use Doctore too like you said.
Chadara then. Didn't know the blonde former slave woman's name so thanks. Rascus is it that she hooks up with for protection? Sounds something like that maybe? Think he is one of the Gauls?
-
2
-
-
Good point about Spartacus growing into his role. Just wish he did it faster or more stoically or with less whining at least.
Is Donar the one that hangs out around Agron a lot?
I had hoped that Aurelia too would have lasted longer. She and her son could have been the token "good Romans" that join in the revolt.
-
2
-
-
^ I concur. Quintus was pretty much forced into following in his father's footsteps which constantly left him feeling unsatisfied. He mentioned specifically both a chance to serve in the military and wanting to get into politics. Since he couldn't do the latter directly he felt forced into using the family business as a stepping stone into politics. Which steams Titus because it soils the honor of his business in his mind and they should know their place in society and climbing that high is bad form. Then there is the belittling Meushell mentions. I wouldn't want Titus as a father.
In the meantime the "business" is all about slaves forced to kill each other for the pleasure of others so honor is a relative thing here and not something any of us would call honorable.
-
2
-
-
Ah, Ok, thanks. Seppia and Seppius. I got an incest vibe from them, although that wasn't uncommon during that time, correct?
Actually it was pretty uncommon I think. Over a hundred years later Rome was scandalize by the Emperor Caligula having an affair with his own sister. And the old Republic was far less hedonistic than in Caligula's time. But then this show tends to show a more Hollywoodized Caligula Era type of Roman society. Makes for better TV I guess they figure.
-
This wasn't one of the better episodes to watch for me. It was more a transition one and seemed to be more needed for the Roman side of the story to catch up as it were.
So the Spartacus side of the narrative ended up being a chase through an endless forest forever with occasional Romans dropping in and killing off "red shirt" gladiators. Good moment when Mira goes all ninja and jumps the Roman ready to kill Naevia though. Naevia is too messed up from her horrible rape and torment in the recent past to fend much for herself right now but she came out of it long enough to save Nasir's life by the sealing the wound with fire advice. Slow steps, Naevia. Takes time for you to heal. Ashur had his evil bits to throw in on this storyline track too and so like him to kill the Roman officer in charge at the end when Mr Roman went all "duty" on him. Ashur is for Ashur.
But the main storyline in this episode centered on the Romans since it was the one that needed to advance. Spartacus just has to see Vesuvius ahead and done and done for their storyline this time around.
Meanwhile you can't keep up with the plots and schemes going on in ye old ludus without a program. Buy your souvenir "Romans With Plots" program right here folks. It like there is Glaber, Ilithyia, Lucertia, Varinius, Seppia, Seppius, Ilithyia's daddy and assorted others all skulking and scheming about in ways hard to keep track of. Trying to figure this out by remembering what I can here.
Let's see, Ilithyia seemed to be rather busy. Varinius looks a better catch now then boring Glaber but she is pregnant and married to the latter. But Seppia is flirting with Varinius and no way will Ilithyia lose him to that mere girl.
Glaber wants to remain in good graces with his rival politically (and unknowingly, for Ilithyia), Varinius. He didn't catch Spartacus but got a silver for Crixus, right? What? These guys don't seem to care about Crixus? Well maybe an offering of human sacrifice will appease them.
On the other hand Lucretia does care very much for Crixus but not in the way you would want given their parting at the time of the massacre . So things don't look good for Crixus. Or for poor Oenomaus for that matter.
But they ended up looking a lot worse for "red shirt" gladiator Lucretia chose for human sacrifice at the orgy ... errr dinner party. And Seppia's "I'm a bad ass" act came crashing down at that point too as Ilithyia showed her what a for real bad ass can do with a sword especially since Varinius was getting so turned on by same.
But that's okay, Seppia. Your brother, Seppius, will always take you to his bed and truth be known he was getting a little jealous of you looking at other men.
Then Lucretia decided to help Ilithiya land Varinius by bedding Ilithyia's father to talk him into allowing a divorce for Ilithyia. Which lead to an ever so slight misunderstanding on Ilithyia's part when she sees them in the act. Which almost lead to an encore of "What I Do With Heads of People That Offend Me." But turns out Lucretia loves her bestest friend ever and Ilithyia decides to let someone live that evening. Meanwhile Glaber the Slow-Witted remains clueless about it all.
Whew, those Romans had a busy day. Now that they caught up with their storyline things are really starting to cook. Next week, on to Vesuvius it would seem for the rag tag rebel band. And Guess Who Is Coming to Capua? (No spoiler attempt here, just meant as a teaser).
-
2
-
-
Well so much for the Doctore not knowing about his wife and Gannicus. Guy can't catch a break. And who else but Ashur would do such a thing. Oh Ashur is there nothing evil you won't do? At least you, upon threat of death, removed the mark of the brotherhood aka the giant Batiatus "B" from your wrist. That was a bit of a ouchie for you but I'm not kissing it to make it better for you.
Glaber is no Batiatus. Totally on the JV Squad for scheming and such. Ilithyia runs circles around him. And Ilithyia, Lucretia isn't playing with a full deck half the time these days. She has no idea why you are so pissed at her. Neither do I since Glaber already knows what you did to Crassus' niece. Then I remember oh yeah Big Daddy and everyone else doesn't so guess you do have a point on keeping it on the down low after all. And, you know, the annoyance of having been blackmailed and made a gopher for House Batiatus in the recent past.
Not cool, Agron. Might be for the "greater good" but each person has a right to decide what the greater good is and, like Spartacus said, if one person no longer matters then who matters. Good of Nasir to tell Crixus the truth and volunteer to go along and help too.
Welcome new actor who plays Naevia this season. Read the original had another project and instead of just changing the script and killing off Naevia between seasons the writers kept the character around and found a good, competent replacement actor for the character. Good for them. Nice tender moment from the usually macho Crixus in the mines when he finds her too.
-
1
-
-
When people started talking about the controversy surrounding Rocker, they discussed how he'd shot off his mouth 15 years ago. No one seemed to realize that it's still ongoing on his blog. More importantly to this episode, no one seemed aware of the Bleacher Report article in April of 2014 in which Jeff Pearlman, the author of the original article from 1999, details how Rocker's behavior and comments now have gotten even worse. When Julie said, Oh so they've read the article, this was no doubt what she was referring to. I was amazed that none of the Survivors asked what article she meant.
So Julie knows about the article. I wonder if she read it, because, and I quote:
As we walked down the sidewalk, his pen slipped from his hand to the ground. I picked it up and said, "Hey, you dropped this."
He stared at me for a moment. "Nah," he said. "I did that on purpose."
Um…
The day got weirder. We picked up John's girlfriend. When she exited the car, he called his other girlfriend. At one point, with Girlfriend I in the front passenger seat and me sitting in the back, John asked if I'd ever been to Disney World.
"Sure," I said.
"You know all those characters who walk around the park?" he said. "Mickey, Donald, Minnie?"
"Yeah," I said. "I do."
"Well, the people who dress up in the outfits are all f-----g f----ts, man. They're all f-----g f----ts."
Um…
Later on, as we drove from there to here and here to there, John filled me in on some of his social takes, referring to Randall Simon, his black teammate, as a "fat monkey" and making it clear he was no fan of the Big Apple ("Imagine having to take the [Number] 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you're [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with kids. It's depressing.")—even though he knew the city was my home.
I bolded the current day Rocker comments from the one at the end which was from the old Sports Illustrated article. Thanks for proving he hasn't changed his stripes one bit. He only regrets he shot off his mouth which caused him to destroy his professional baseball career. Not that he doesn't still believe this stuff in this day and age.
Also no wonder the woman with him on Survivor keeps going around referring to herself as "John's girlfriend" all the time. I imagine she is thinking to herself, "Take that, other girlfriend! I'm the real Girlfriend #1 cause he took me on Survivor to eat bugs with him; not to Disney World filled with all those Goofys and Mickeys he hates."
BTW loved the recap of this episode here on Previously TV.
-
1
-
-
I feel bad for John. The people jumping all over him weren't even on his team. They were judging him by something that happened years ago. And they didn't even know about it. Someone told them he said some stuff years ago. And then they listen to Natalie and weaken their tribe the way she wanted? And she needs to shut it. Her behavior on TV has been far more disgusting than anything I've seen from John.
Why? Because she is a strong, assertive woman? Because she got upset when she heard the truth about Rocker. And it was the truth. Why would the fireman lie about something like that that could be so easily verified later.
And it was a VERY big deal a few years back, not something anyone should never ever sweep under the carpet. And it wasn't a "something" but a whole string of tirades that just climaxed in the Sports Illustrated article. Dude was on the network news more than the recent train wreck of NFL wife/kid abusers. Whole country was talking about him.
It was no small thing and forgetting it would be an insult to the people he vented against. Especially since Rocker has never apologized for it. And he has a homophobe and racist pov that continues to this day on his blogs. Why blame a strong, emotional woman instead of an angry, emotional bigot? Why is it every time a woman gets into a shouting match with a man the woman is viewed as the "bad" person and was being "mouthy"?
And the "if you weren't a woman I would knock your teeth out" is a threat. It's the phrase many a man uses before he does indeed strike a woman. Not likely with camera and production there but still the hatred in his delivery was chilling..
Rocker was a former closer with the Braves. He should know how to handle people yelling at him. It happened all the time as a pro athlete. Guy has serious anger and control issues. Then he calms down he turns on the "charm" he thinks he has and "spins" stuff. Doesn't fool me one bit. Worst person cast on Survivor ever.
-
14
-
-
It would have been smarter for John to have said "Hey, Val did herself no favors by telling everyone she had two idols. I told her to play one if she wanted to be safe, and she had none to play. She lied to all of us." Instead of what he said, which again I attribute to his unfamilarity with how the game is played. Jeremy might have not lashed out if he realized his wife had made such a dumb move.
If Rocker thought it was possible that both he and Val held THREE immunity idols after two tribal councils he should be booted for utter stupidity alone. If he was (d'oh) stunt cast? Well even a total idiot is such a case should have bought/rented some past seasons to view before going on the show. Speaks to his arrogance that he didn't even bother.
(I wish if they stoop to stunt casting -- and we all know they always will -- at least stunt cast someone who has watched the show. It isn't hard to find tons of these annoying Z-Listers that do).
-
1
-
-
They didn't call any of the straight teams "the straights", they didn't refer to anyone else's sexual orientation, just the Beekmans. Was there some reason they couldn't just call them "the Beekmans"? Or how about "the farmers"? Like all the other teams did. They were the only team that kept bringing up the fact that the Beekmans were gay.
Maybe because calling a team "the straights" makes no sense as in there were lots of teams that were straight. If everyone on that season of the Race was gay except one straight team then sure there should have been a team called "the straights" but that wasn't the case.
And maybe they actually wanted to showcase something they felt the Beekmans were proud to be. Last I heard the term "gay" hadn't become some negative "N" word thing.
Given Natalie's reaction to finding out that John was (and still is, see the post here about his current blogs) a for real homophobe, I don't think either twin meant "the gay team" to be derogatory. And it isn't. Why look for someone who has shown no bigotry towards gays at all to call out when she was clearly very upset to hear someone was a real homophobe on Survivor? Someone that is really upset at their orientation to this day (again see the post that quoted from John's blogs).
I look to intent and I see no intent to demean anyone in a bigoted way from either twin ever.
Well that's it for me. If you don't agree with me and I don't agree with you I guess we will have to agree to disagree, heh.
-
5
-
S25.E04: Thinly Sliced Anchovies
in The Amazing Race
· Edited by green
Again, all non-eliminations are locked in before the race starts. It would be a totally illegal act to change them in mid-stream. This show isn't in the trash reality genre. It is the reality game show that has played the most straight up of any reality show in TV history. Is the show always perfect? No as in they edit people in broad strokes trying to find some sort of storyline along the way though if the Racers don't give them the footage they wouldn't get painted that way. But is it on the up-and-up? Absolutely yes.