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Tuesday, December 13, 2005
‘Amazing Race’ on its last leg?
Ready, set, GO! The Amazing Race heads for the finish line Tuesday. Forget all the rumors about Cincinnati’s Linz family winning. So far the sibs have only managed to finish first in one leg of the race.
Still, I think they have to be the favorites. The previews, and we know how manipulative they are, seem to indicate Daddy Bransen is about ready to implode. On the other hand, the “why are they so mean to us” Weavers keep managing to stay in it, but they don’t seem able to leap to the head of the pack.
If you were the show’s producers, what would you do to shake up the race for next time? You’ve got to admit this version has been terribly tame. What would you do to juice up the show? Or is it just too late?
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Well, the toughest Survivor endurance contest has ended, but it ended with a whimper, not a roar. Danni Boatwright was the last one standing, though here at the office there is talk about whether she deserved to be.
My guess is she had a pretty good guess she would be the winner, because her smiling, frequently licked full lips looked a bit … enhanced, shall we say, at the reunion. Maybe I’m just suspicious. After all, she was the first runner-up in the 1996 Miss USA pageant. She could have just lost a lot of lip weight in Guatemala.
Now attention turns to Panama (isn’t this the third time the show has visited the islands off Panama?), but the real question is, does anybody care? A former Survivor fanatic has said she’s just so over reality TV. It bores her.
Yes, Survivor is the No. 7 show for the season, but it used to be event TV, and the finales used to be party occasions. What do you think? Should we bid reality TV goodbye and just put another 30 or so CSI clones on the air?
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