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Post by Kaleidoscope Eyes on Mar 9, 2021 22:02:16 GMT -4
Watched it this weekend. I actually got a little sentimental watching them 30 years later. I ordered Paramount Plus and will cancel at the end of the month. They also have the first four seasons (as well as seasons 12-last, but who cares about that). I'm working my way through Seasons 1-4 for the rest of the month.
This has been the perfect antidote to my news junkie tendencies.
There's just something so right about spending the weekend doing household chores, cooking, and having The Real World on in the background.
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Sukie
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Post by Sukie on Mar 10, 2021 1:21:53 GMT -4
Started watching RW San Francisco again because of Paramount Plus. Rachel has always and will forever be a self absorbed twat. I remember thinking that I thought she gets better as the season goes and remember her on at least one Challenge, but watching her now, even in the early SF days, she was destined to become a Fox news contributor and overall insufferable person.
Watching Pedro makes me so sad. We were only a couple years away from solid treatments and he died so young and 3 hours after the last episode of the season aired that year. It is hard to explain to my kids just how much a death sentence HIV was then.
I was 20 when the SF season aired and grew up 12 miles south. Watching the scenes in and around SF are taking me back and the clothing! I was explaining to my daughter that I pretty much wore what Cory & Rachel are wearing during that time period. It is giving me such flashbacks.
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Post by Ginger on Mar 10, 2021 14:31:13 GMT -4
Rachel and Sean now have 9 children! One of them born just a couple of years ago with Down's Syndrome (because Rachel and Sean at this point are in their late 40s). I don't find her to be particularly self-absorbed, not even during RW San Francisco. She seemed at a pretty normal level of self-involvement for a 19-year-old. MTV was almost all I watched from the ages of 13-18. I saw Seasons 1-5 of Real World and Road Rules so many times because they were constantly on marathon. I think I would actually find it too sentimental to re-watch them now. It changes the memory to take it out of 1991 and put it into 2021 and I think I want to leave the original memories where they are. But damn to I love hearing all of the music snippets from those episodes. Watching Pedro makes me so sad. We were only a couple years away from solid treatments and he died so young and 3 hours after the last episode of the season aired that year. It is hard to explain to my kids just how much a death sentence HIV was then. Yes, a few more years was all he needed! I knew someone in the 90s who was on death's door, and then started ART and turned back into a healthy person as if by miracle. I think that was around '96. |
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Post by laurenj on Mar 10, 2021 20:24:08 GMT -4
Rachel and Sean now have 9 children! One of them born just a couple of years ago with Down's Syndrome (because Rachel and Sean at this point are in their late 40s). I don't find her to be particularly self-absorbed, not even during RW San Francisco. She seemed at a pretty normal level of self-involvement for a 19-year-old. MTV was almost all I watched from the ages of 13-18. I saw Seasons 1-5 of Real World and Road Rules so many times because they were constantly on marathon. I think I would actually find it too sentimental to re-watch them now. It changes the memory to take it out of 1991 and put it into 2021 and I think I want to leave the original memories where they are. But damn to I love hearing all of the music snippets from those episodes. Watching Pedro makes me so sad. We were only a couple years away from solid treatments and he died so young and 3 hours after the last episode of the season aired that year. It is hard to explain to my kids just how much a death sentence HIV was then. Yes, a few more years was all he needed! I knew someone in the 90s who was on death's door, and then started ART and turned back into a healthy person as if by miracle. I think that was around '96. From the documentaries I've seen, it seems like Ronald Reagan's response to AIDS was pretty similar to the last administration's response to Covid, so maybe Pedro could've been saved if the crisis had been recognized and dealt with sooner.  I know his husband Sean has since died as well. Rachel was 100% a product of her family/her environment. She was rebellious against certain things, but the fundamentals (religion and politics) were deeply ingrained. She definitely had a personal charisma and had the potential to do any number of things, but her future was kind of written for her. She definitely said some offensive things, but in that kind of situation, it almost seems better for people to voice their prejudices out loud so everyone knows where they stand. Better for Pedro to know her apprehension about him instead of hearing it secondhand. And they did seem to have some sort of genuine relationship, to the point where Rachel took him home to her family, which was part of what the original show was about. Taking people out of their bubbles and introducing them to different worlds. Somewhere along the way, it devolved into utterly generic people drinking themselves into oblivion and hooking up, but in the original social experiment, I do think Rachel and Pedro came to some kind of understanding, even moreso than the people who tried really hard with Pedro, like Cory. |
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Post by Mutagen on Mar 10, 2021 22:10:09 GMT -4
The SF season was the high water mark of the franchise in my opinion, largely because of Pedro. At the time I really took for granted how groundbreaking it was that they showed his and his husband's wedding. That was way ahead of even a lot of "progressive" shows of the time.
On the flip side of the coin, Puck was the first reality show villain I remember well and truly HATING, although at the time I was pretty blissfully naive about a lot of reality show editing/scripting/tropes. No idea how much it was that and how much he was genuinely a dipshit.
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Post by kostgard on Mar 11, 2021 5:47:56 GMT -4
I think San Francisco and Seattle were the only two seasons I really watched (I kinda-sorta watched LA). SF I think is the best for all the reasons mentioned - Pedro, Puck the villain, and a real-life couple who met on the show and are still together today (Pam and Judd).
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Post by scarlet on Mar 11, 2021 13:05:15 GMT -4
Just watched the second episode of the reunion. Becky and Kevin are getting into it, because same old Becky. I did LMAO when she was telling them how she communicated with John Lennon's spirit for years. Best comment was Andre saying not only doesn't he believe in ghosts, but even if he did he wouldn't believe Lennon would talk to random Becky.
Heather continues to be the coolest person in the room.
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Post by Mutagen on Mar 13, 2021 10:58:08 GMT -4
Best comment was Andre saying not only doesn't he believe in ghosts, but even if he did he wouldn't believe Lennon would talk to random Becky. Hahahahaha!! I always did like Andre. I really hope she got royalties for COULD YOU GET THE PHONE??? because that is still in my head decades later. |
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Post by Ginger on Mar 13, 2021 13:14:11 GMT -4
On the flip side of the coin, Puck was the first reality show villain I remember well and truly HATING, although at the time I was pretty blissfully naive about a lot of reality show editing/scripting/tropes. No idea how much it was that and how much he was genuinely a dipshit. He's trash. The show did him a favor by portraying him as charming. Since The Real World, he has: -spent a year in prison for beating up his girlfriend (his girlfriend being a separate person from his wife) -got probation for felony possession of ammunition -drove drunk and got himself and his son into a major car accident -was arrested for felony injury of a spouse -served another two years in prison for stalking a woman |
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Post by chiqui on Mar 13, 2021 13:40:26 GMT -4
Wow! Any in-depth news on other cast members?
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I know his husband Sean has since died as well.
