Amazing Race 13 – Leg 11 – The Finish Line

Well, let’s get the worst out of it out of the way, as we leave Planet Earth and head back to America, Portland in Oregon to be exact.

The fratties stumble over their own feet the entire episode and never pull off their so called Cinderella story, to the extreme happiness of the entire globe. They loiter in third palce, proving yet gain they never deserved to be on this race, and will remain in this same limbo for the rest of their lfie, always staying merely one step ahead of the one person beneath them, until there is no one else left and they come in last.

It’s a very tense race between the eyebrows and the siblings, as they battle with their taxis and at the detour, which makes them climb a tree, walk across some wood and grab their clue, go to  a bridge and zip across the river which does look pretty cool.

Now the teams have a pretty cool roadblock, except both members do it, where they have to remember the route info, detours, roadblocks and pitstops throughout the race, find the photos and put them in place to get their next clue…which leads them into town to find a green dinosaur. this clue leads them to some carts where they need to find the russin food…then to a doughnut store and geez, there’s a lot of running going on in this leg and i wasn’t expecting all these clues to keep going! Only now can they get the cab to the finish line…

and Nick and Starr finish first! FINALLY! A well-deserving blood-related team wins…well done. You’re not my team, but you were second, and out of the final 3, my choice, so I’m pleasantly pleased for once, and not crying into my pillows and eating chocolate.

Sadly….losing the passports was pretty detrimental for Toni and Dallas, since they didn’t make it to the finish line at all.

Not too bad, it was a good season including a detrimental and devastating 4th place finish….and a deserving win.

But bring on season 14! I’m waiting!

The Amazing Race 13 – Leg 10

WHY?????

WHY??????????????????????????????????

I haven’t cried like this since Frank and Margherita got second place in classic TAR.

Why do the TAR Gods hate us so?

First and foremost, Toni, I cannot believe you let Dallas take this one – this was so up your alley. For starters, you wouldn’t have wasted 40 minutes playing guessing games, being able to recognise the difference between Stalin and Lenin (Oh Dallas, so pretty yet so stupid) and you wouldn’t then have left ALL THE MONEY AND PASSPORTS in the cab!

Dallas, you screwed your mum up bad.

And made me cry, dammit!
The one team I’ve been in love with since the beginning and they go out in the despised 4th place! DAMMIT! WHY DO I LOVE 4TH PLACE TEAMS SO MUCH?

At least you’re in good company with the Chas and Jill & John Vito.

BUT DAMMIT! DMMIT DAMMIT DAMMIT! My sibling love had to grow over the season, but my Toni and Dallas love leapt out of my chest before the end of the first episode. I want to hole myself up under the covers and cry.

There is no explanation for the fratties making it to the final. None. I despise them and their idiotic luck. Blasted fools. They think them winning would be the greatest thing to ever happen i the history of TAR? No, it would be the worst thing to have happened since Flo won.

I spent the entire hour beating my fists onto my bed, clutching my teddy bear in the hopes of the fratties making some ridiculous mistake yet again and rolling themselves out but alas…..this is why TAR is the best damn reality tv show!

Excuse me while I go and cry….

Amazing Race 13 – Leg 9

Oh my god.

I think the fratties have simultaneously proven themselves to be the stupidest team EVER as well as showing how frat boys really do not think beyond the next beer and the next shag.

After leaving behind their shoes at the previous detour, and for some strange reason not going bck to get them, the boys charge off to the airport for their flights to Moscow in slippers.

Then, having only $474 left, they decide to spend $300 on shoes.

HOW ARE THEY STILL ON THIS SHOW?

The bloody idiotic dipshits.

Who in their right mind spends the majority of their money on shoes? GAH!  I’m not sure if they thought, right Russia, that means poor country and poor people so we won’t need to spend lots of money…except it’s Moscow, and anybody with a bit of knowledge and common sense, knows Moscow is a rather important economic, fashion and political centre in Europe, meaning it’s not cheap.

Anyway, our intrepid racers make their way from Almaty, Kazakhstan to Moscow, Russia on the same flight where Nick and Starr starts falling apart due to seriously crappy taxis which cause them to get lost. On the other hand, Toni and Dallas take charge here, and just steamroll through thedetour and roadblock, barely beating out Ken and Tina for first, which just makes me squee and jump happily yet again. Oh I love them so. It’s been a long time since I loved a team so, and they’ve done really well, and there’s no way the fratties can possibly stay in the final 3, so I’m resolutely on the Toni/Dallas to win bandwagon and seriously hoping my heart doesn’t become devastatingly crushed next episode…

There’s a truly brilliant sequence ehre with the detour, as it’s a chocie between amrching or serving borscht. All the teams choose to march, first needing to properly put on a Russian soldier’s uniform. Ken and Tina, Toni and Dallas, and Nick and Starr all work their way through easily and finish quickly. The fratties, on the other hand really muck it up. They can’t get the wrappings on their feet right, so give up and go to the borscht. Only they didn’t ready the clue properly and change out of their uniforms, not realising they also need to be in uniform, so they have to go back and put the uniforms on again. The they decide to try the marching again, and one of them, Dan, I think…looks…looks…I can’t explain it. For some reason, he decides to pretend to be some emaciated robot jerkily shifting out of sync and it’s jsut so ridiculous, everyone starts laughing. I honestly have no idea what he was doing. So they give up again and go bac to the borscht. Oh vey.

And then, to top it off, they’ve kept the same taxid river all day and haven’t told im they’re only giving him $150 dollars for 6 hours of work. He doesn’t want to leave them, and they hold money back, tell him they’re holding money back and i just want to kick them so far up their own arses at this point. WHy can’t they be off my show?

because of course this is a non-elimination round. The fratties, who resolutely stay behind the entire episode, the entire season, can’t even manage to sue Nick and Starr’s bad luck to their advantage and come in last. But it’s non-elimination, so these stupid idiots are saved yet again. How? How? Oh, right, it’s tht bloody stupid fratty luck, where life jsut rolls by, and everything seemingly works out some way.

GAH. I want them off my show. They are tainting the wonderuflness which is the family teams. No more fratties!

Amzing Race 13 – Leg 8

Wow…..this show continues to surprise me with the awesome destinations, leaving India for Kazakhstan, a brnd new country for the show and on my to-do list. Grrr. After providing me with one of my new all-time favourite teams in Toni and Dallas, the show also provides me with a dream route? Oh show, you should already have known I’ll have your babies, you don’t need to go to these type of lengths for me!

So, we fly in to Kazakhstan and sadly, it is another elimination round, which surprised me. I ws expecting a non-elim…and although they attempt to make it supsenseful, Terence and Sarah pretty much lsot it from the get-go, having gone for the fast forward which meant eating a sheep’s butt. And Terence is a vegetarian. He tried, but boy, did they waste time with Terence attempting to gag it down while Nick and Starr just shovel the stuff into their mouths.

So, Nick and Starr win yet another round, Toni and Dallas continue to crawl into my heart and snuggle up inside cutely by coming ins econd, being adoringly sweet and spectacular, and just proving to me how brilliant parent-child teams can be. Meanwhile, Starr and Dallas continue pursuing their budding relationship, which means my love for Toni and Dallas has started spilling over to Nick and Starr.

There is a brilliant detour, which means the teams dress up as a cow, walk the streets of Almaty, drink some milk and then offer themselves to a butcher. Heh. I love it!!!! Particularly how Toni and Dallas (!LOVE!) mess around as a cow, mooing to people on the street and dancing. Can I keep them? Please?

The fratties piss me off yet again, and continue to piss me off by unsurprisingly missing elimination by moments, even though they take a taxi instead of walking, and leave their shoes behind at the route info. Believe me, this becomes crucial down the line.

Although Ken and Tina and the scary eyebrows return to the theatre to get out of their cow outfit, they realsie their mistake, get back into it and beat the stupid fratties who merely continue to piss me off relentlessly.

Terence and Sarah say goodbye to the race and Terence regretfully gives up years of vegetarianism…which didn’t pay off. I wish I could feel sad for them, but really I want to laugh, dance and yell, “Suck on that!”

Ugly Betty – s03ep10 – Bad Amanda

After taking a week off for Thanksgiving, Betty comes back with a vengeance and a smile, as Mode decides to relaunch their focus on their online site, asking for dieas. Betty has a great idea, but seemingly continues to deny she works at a high-profile fashion magazine and come sup with ideas of a very boring museum. Come on, after working at Mode for 2 years, isn’t it time for her to actually grow a little, maybe use her brains and prove she understands the industry at least a little?

Of course, her idea is about what to do in Manhattan for free, as it’s ridiculously expensive to lvie there. WIlly has a brilliant line how she says she never realsied it was expensive and heh, girl’s got money to burn. Anyway, Betty got the idea following her absolute lack of money after Amanda didn’t pay half the rent or food or anything, and is  basically dossing for free.

Uh Betty, what’s with the lack of a spine? You tell her to pay or get out, because you can barely afford to pay for yourself and definitely can’t manage for 2. But no, along with having no increased understanding of her surroundings, she’s also still meek and submissive. Oh Betty. Thank god I watch this show for Justin and Marc, even if I do find msyelf resonating way too much with your character for my own liking. (And why don’t I have a Henry and Gio fighting over me? Gah, life sucks!)

So, due to ehr boring ideas andAmanda’s own sparkling ideas of freebeis in the city, Daniel pairs them together. So, manda takes Betty out, getting samples for cosmetics, perfume, etc and also using the old concept of buying items of clothing and returning them within the 30-day policy. Betty doesn’t like the concept, but Amanda reminds them they’re looking at this from the view of an everyday reader, which let’s face it, probably use the 30 day policy quite regularly. They then hit an art exhibition for the champagne and nibblies before bumping into 2 italians who take them out for a feed, expensive champagne and the bill. Ouch.

At least they hit their $10,000 target!

Betty waffles her way out of the bill, by exposing them as writing for Mode and pretending they;’ll be writing up the restaurant, and the manager goes for it. Lucky for them! That’s when Amanda realises her wallet is missing, along with the rent which she somehow took from Betty in order to pay it…which I don’t know, but anyway they have a fight.

And Betty goes home, only for her pappi to tell her Amanda is good for her. Well duh! So Betty goes home, writes up the article and Daniel likes it enough to make it a weekly feature. So the girls can afford to eat. Meanwhile, Amanda gets a second job to help pay the rent. Living with Betty seems to be evening ehr character out somehow.

At the end of a day at her second job, Amanda comes home to find Betty has cooked for her. Aww…that’s sweet. Hope it’s all low-fat!

What else happened? Willy hides from Connor and makes a fool out of herself when she’s in his presence, and then bonds with Christina over her unborn son, revealing she’s scared of screwing up her son as badly as she screwed up ehr daughter. Ouch. I forgot the Queen of Ice actually has a heart. On the other hand, Willy gets proof of Daniel’s lvoe for Molly, with video footge of them nearly kissing…and this is so not boding well for Daniel.

And the Suarex family remain under-used in these storylines…More Suarez story, people!

Ugly Betty – s03ep09 – When Betty met YETI

Betty’s been getting rather down in the dumps lately, realising she’s made no progress towards her future goal of becoming an editor…until she learns about YETI, which is a program for assistants to train to become editors.

Except the deadline is the next day.

Of course, Marc is also in the running, which puts the pressure on as only one assistant from each magzine gets chosen, so one of them can get in and the other one won’t. Initially Betty decides to go the crap, easy route of putting together a fashion magazine as she can do that easily overnight, but when things go wrong she gives up. And you know, this was a stupid premise to begin with because if the whole point is to show your unique twists on magazines and provide something new, how is presenting another run-of-the-mill magazine going to get you a place?

So then Betty steals my idea of a magazine celebrating strong women in the world, women whose lvies don’t revolve around being a size 0 and who they’re dating, but one celebrating intelligent and creative women from all walks of life. They’re obviously impressed.

But Marc has also come up with an impressive idea, having spent several months working on his pitch. Betty believes she has no chance, so is shocked when she gets in. Marc, extremely upset to have lost his place and probably still upset over losing Cliff (which causes me to grieve for days in bed yet again before picking up and continuing this review), lets her know it’s because she’s latina, so she fills their ethnic quota. Ouch. When she calls to ask, they don’t deny it. Wow. Yet again, this frivolous show about clothes and makeup manages to delve into a deeper issue with such grit and gumption….it’s what I lvoe about this show. Even if Amanda is spiralling like a roller-coaster between sweet and bitch too often for my liking. She’s starting to act like one of the characters on Heroes.

So, Betty resigns from YETI and allows Marc to take the spot. He in turns receives praise from Wilhemina, something he thought didn’t exist.  And Daniel, who wrote an essay-length feature on how great she is, manages to get her another spot, so the 2 of them are in YETI after all.

In other news, Willy tries getting Connor’s attention by taking him to a lush hotel and getting him while drunk, while Daniel tries not to fall in love with Molly. Boh fail miserably, thus proving how inferior they are as opposed to the wonderful, amazing Alexis. I miss her already.

Justin’s budding romance comes to a crashing halt, as his friend realises how his gang is laughing at him for hanging out with the camp musical guy. So he ditches Justin to be a jock again, and Justin cries in his pillow without fully understanding why. It was really sweet, this little budding relationship without ever coming out as a relationship. I hope they find Justin a boyfriend soon.

Like nobody saw that coming.

Grey’s Anatomy -s05ep10 – All By Myself

It’s time for the solo surgery – which should have been rewarded to Christina, except she’s excluded due to all the intern cutting mess, and none of this makes sense and pisses me off, but at any rate, she can’t do it so she gets to choose who will do the solo surgery, and they’ll choose who will assist. So they all suck up to Christina with unknown residents, who I’m guessing are the other surgical residents who would have been the other interns assigned to other residents when these ones started (but hey, we never knew there were any other residents with interns besides Bailey, so who knows?)

After their fight, Morose Meredith wants Christina to choose her because she’s the best, but tells her to do what she needs to. George attempts to say he’s the best because he’s grown (whatever!), while Alex simply lists the aspects of the surgery, telling her he knows how to do it, which is probably the smartest thing you can do with Christina as she’s so driven. Izzie…..god knows, Izzie doesn’t either try as she simply tells Christina about the geat mind-blowing sex she’s having. Because she’s still sleeping with the ghost, shiring her responsibilities and running off to…..I don’t know, I don’t even know how to explain it. The only person to notice is George, and even though he attempts to tell anyone else, they all shut him down, because everyone in this hospital is way too fucking self-absorbed to notice one of their own is having a freaking mental breakdown.

They piss me off.

Sloane has attempted not to “hit” Little Grey, until Sadie points out to Lexie how SLoane wants her and she decides to sleep with him, because there hasn;t been enough intern-resident relationships on this show since they all became residents themselves. So go Lexie for yet again breaking the mould and continuing to be the only intern whose name I actually know.

Sadie is giving googly eyes to Callie or at least Callie thinks so and sinc when is Callie rocking the lesbian boat? Yes, she had an extremely short relationship with another woman – so now she’s a full-blown lesbian? Hmmph. Anyway, either they’re going to go somewhere with this or not, I’m not sure. The cast is way too huge on this show similar to Heroes. People need to learn how keeping it simple is more important.

So, Alex wins the solo surgery and chooses Izzie to help him, and tells her he loves him. And how he makes ehr want to be better which from Alex? Is so goddamned swet and romantic and I am so happy to see these 2 finally together! If only they could end the freaking Denny storyline, because they have totally destroyed his character for me, and I want him gone. He’s DEAD – unless you’re attempting to steal Supernaturals…..

OOH……you bastard show! That’s IT! That’s what this is all about! You’re attempting to steal Supernatural’s audience, with the whole Jeffrey Dean Morgan and ghost aspectand you evil, evil bastards. Except they won’t follow through ebcause no matetr how good looking Alex is (McDreamy is so not in the equation here), there is absolutely no way he can compete with Jared and Jensen. Mmmmmmmmm.

Was there anything else? Oh, it ends with Lexie and Sloane, Christina snogging the new war doctor and everyone else watching Krev amputating a leg. Cos that was the solo surgery.

Meh. I want more Callie. And bring Addison back already!

Grey’s Anatomy – s05ep09 – In the Midnight Hour

Remember how I said I liked the last episode? Because a character I really liked returned in an interesting storyline?

Yeah, I’m over it. Denny is this show’s shark.

Izzie sleeps with Denny. She has ghost sex with a dead man.

I don’t fucking get where the hell hey’re going with this, and I’m afraid it’s going nowhere from the whispers I’ve heard.

It’s…..I really liked this over the last 2 episodes, as obviously that last heart patient stirred up a lot of shit for Izzie and she never really got over it, so I can understand it…but this? Where the hell are they taking this? I’m…I’m over it. I want Denny gone, because they are ruining my wonderful memories of this terrific character.

The interns have stepped up, in a way their predescessors never did, and have decided to try their own solo surgery bycutting Sadie up and checking out her appendix. Right. Because there’s a reason why they have this whole process installed – I thin we’re about to see why.

Of course, something goes wrong, and Morose Meredith and Christina race in to save the day, which they do and they call for Bailey and the Chief and save the new intern…and it’s a shame Melissa George seems to play extremely unliked characters because I think she’s a great actress and has done extremely well for herself since those early years on Home & Away.

BUT – what the hell is wrong with this episode? They don’t rip the residents apart for failing to either pay attention or teach their interns – no, they praise Morose Meredith and Christina on coming to them for help and then tell the residents to deal with their own interns the way they see fit.  It really pisses me off.

So no one except Christina is being punished because Lexie accidentally blurts out about Christina knowing – except Christina knew beforehand and attempted to stop it, she had no idea it had gone this far – so why is she the only one being punished?

And hasn’t anyone noticed Izzie is definitely acting freaky? No? Oh, I forgot, everyone on this show is so freaking self absorbed…..!

Grey’s Anatomy – s05ep08 – The ties that bind

Hmmph. Denny is still hanging around and not giving Izzie any peace. They have a patient who was given a heart transplant, and now wants to get rid of the heart as he can feel that person’s spirit haunting him (He’s Native American, by the way). Izzie resonates, as Denny is following her around the hospital and popping up at home as well. So, she decides to burn the one item of his she still has, a red sweater. Alex, who’s noticed she’s acting off, wants to help her, and very endearingly tells her he’s not giving up on her, she’ll have to break up with him because he’s in for the long haul. WHich – yay! After 4 years of bloody bed-jumping, these 2 finally get their act together – of course, nobody can be happy on this show, so they have to drag poor dead Denny into the whole mix. So, Izzie asks Alex to burn the sweater for her, which he does…..except Denny isn’t gone. and he’s not leaving, because he’s there for her. Huh? What does that mean? Is she dying, is she having a mental breakdown? WHy is there no answer for this?

Melissa George makes her star appearance as new, crazy intern Sadie who used to be Meredith’s best friend, which means Christina is all put off seeing as how Sadie wants to take over as Meredith’s BFF again. and why is Morose Meredith known as Death? Actually, who cares? It kind of fits her whole morose attitude to life, really.So Sadie is crazy and proves it by popping into the secret intern cutting experiments, and cutting herself deeply enough to make the others stitch her up. Yes, our interns are cutting themselves on a regular basis. Christina noticed, but shut it down. Or attempted to. Do you think anyone listens to these residents? Hell, I would never have passed them, they’re all hopeless!

New cardio surgeon arrives, who ahs Asperger’s and doesn’t really get along with anyone. She does act strange, but honestly, in this hospital, she’s probably the sanest of them all.

Speaking of lvoely people, the most gorgeous surgeon left is heartbroken after Hahn left and vainly struggling to pull it alogether, and failing when her patient dies, even though she built him a new leg. Poor heartbroken Callie…I’d make it up to her if she needs a hug!