Well. Adam gets freaked out in an old-school diving suit. Team Star 80 appears to get stuck on a boat in the middle of a body of water. And the teams have to head to Corsica, where they’ll stomp enough grapes to fill five wine bottles, or so says the summary on My Yahoo!
God willing, Adam will figure out a way to not freak out and will get in touch with his inner adult. Star 80 will have to paddle that boat back to shore using their hands (after * throws the paddles overboard, you know), at which point Victoria will quit. Hayden and Aaron will fight (in that Hayden with passive-agressively bitch and Aaron will call her a psycho), but still do okay. Lori and Bolo will fall behind in a hurry, but will make a good showing in the grape stomping (though it may not save them). Kendra’s desire to do “research” will put her and Freddy in a hole at the first task after the Pit Stop, but they’ll bounce back. And Kris and Jon will continue winning us all over with their great attitudes, senses of adventure, and general hotness.
Well, you know Jonathan is going to throw the paddles overboard because Victoria will have been blubbering and crying since before they even got in the boat. She’ll probably manage to get some throwing up in there, too.
Tonight will almost certainly be a Non-Elimination Leg since they’ve gone two whole legs without one. I hope J&V don’t finish last, if that’s true. Same with Adam & Rebecca…I’m ready for them to go.
Ah, this is why I don’t start threads! I always forget something…I agree, I think it’s gonna be non-elim. In my head, it’s really been three legs since they’ve had one: the non-elim where Don and MJ were saved, the next episode where they weren’t, and then the double leg where Gus and Hera were out. But however you count it, I think the reason it won’t be an elimination leg is that six is a good number of teams to hang on to for a couple of weeks. You get to know them better by virtue of the small number, while still having plenty of teams to watch. Yep, we better hope that Star 80 quits, if we want to be rid of them.
Again, I chime in to say ‘ditto’. I think tonight will be a non-elimination night as well. And I’m hoping that Victoria throws Jonathan off of the boat and a grouchy eel eats his face.
The show description on my digital cable guide had this to say about tonight’s episode:
One team uses the Fast Foward.
I’m spoiler-boxing it just in case. It doesn’t spoil anything about who is last to the mat, but it does give away one aspect of the show.
“Tell my mom I love her.”
Gee, who do you think utters that line? How many times has Adam said that already? What a mamma’s boy. :rolleyes:
I was watching the insider videos a couple days ago, and the clip of Kris talking about * and Victoria was kind of interesting. She actually said he was a nice guy (but snaps, even right in the middle of a sentence and screams “Victoriaaaaaaaaaaa”.) Could it be just all bad editing? Nah… I’m guessing Kris is missing some of the pleasantries we’ve been privvy to.
And as much as I dislike * and Victoria, I’m really over Adam and Rebecca. If he somehow had his diving suit inflated with helium and just floated away, I wouldn’t mind so much.
Oh, ick. Rebecca seems like she could be nice (if needy), but I was over Adam from the first or second episode when he did that zip-line and kept screaming for his mommy all the way down. He’s a big baby.
Me neither. I think it’s too soon after the TBC episode two weeks ago, which was essentially a non-elim leg. I’m betting on next week as the next non-elim.
Adam’s mother should be shot dead as punishment for raising an adult human being to have absolutely no emotional or mental resiliency whatsoever. Man…my mother was pretty sheltering, but I’d certainly like to think (and have real-world events proof, if not Amazing-Race-level dramatic events proof) that I’d be a lot more resilient and capable of doing things that I’m not completely comfortable with in a situation like that than Adam has ever shown himself to be. I feel more sorry for him than scornful, actually.
I think in this episode they showed a side of Victimia that they’ve been editing around before this. She’s almost as bad as *, isn’t she? Although I have to say that the whole “YOU make the decision…then if I don’t like it I’ll po-mouth it until you change it so I can blame you either way when my own incompetence and stupidity make it go wrong” thing is major assholishness.
Hayden is getting on my nerves. A lot. Poor Aaron. (Not ‘poor Victimia’ level, poor, but poor Aaron nonetheless…)
I liked last week’s greeter better. “Welcome to LA PIETRA! CORSICA!”
Adam looked like the Michelin tire man in that diving suit. (Better than what my husband said, which is that he looked like a sex doll!) I thought I was going to die laughing when they kept rolling him around on the dock.
Victoria really annoyed me tonight. She’s not as big an ass as her husband, but she sure is shrieky. I was really hoping to see the two of them get the boot.
I agree, jayjay. This week’s greeter more than paled in comparison.
Meltdowns on TAR are usually progressive things. As the race goes on and the field narrows, the stress gets worse and worse, and the worst aspects of pretty much everyone come out and do the Hustle on your tv screen. The only standouts on this, from watching it the last three seasons, are the very few who blow out early and somehow manage to run late into the race while sputtering furiously (* and Victimia) and the ones who stay fairly serene all the way through (Chip & Kim, Kris & Jon).
Last season we had Colin & Christie, who didn’t show any signs of major malfunctions until at least the halfway point, then spiralled spectacularly downward to their ultimate nadir, “My ox is broken!”
Of course, we also had last season Allison & Donnie, who, like * & Victimia, were blowing up at each other from the very beginning, but didn’t make it even as far as our current champeen dysfunctionals have.
I’m stunned that the fast-forward got Lori and Bolo less than an hour’s head start, although the doubled-up bunching was very, very lame.
As for this week’s FF: Rolling rolling rolling, rolling rolling rolling, rolling rolling rolling, Adam!
Shift him on the dock, like a giant haddock. Rolling rolling rolling, Adam!
That was giggleriffic.
If I ever go on this race, I’m learning how to use an ascender, and teaching my teammate how to drive a stick. But having driven a stick shift in France, there is no excuse in not being able to shift gears. Those cars have the easiest, most effortless shifting in the whole damn world, once you figure out how to lower the seat. Definitely much easier than Hayden and Aaron’s decision to switch drivers half a dozen times…
