Sorry for the false alarm about the time change business, looks like it was just some odd holdover from the time change.
Anyways. So last week saw perhaps the greatest act of altruism, or foolishness, or strategy in the history of TAR when the Chos bluffed the BQs into passing on the Fast Forward so David and Mary could have it. Also millions of fans across the country clapped like seals at the site of robot jockey-driven camels, and millions more followed suit when Sarah proved that a one-legged woman can win an ass-kicking contest, when the ass in question is Peter.
Tonight, possibly more whining from the Bama moms and the BQs fulfill every blonde/woman driver joke ever told.
If supervenusfreak and I ever went on this show, our internet nickname would be “the Geeks”. When they said they were going to Mauritius, my immediate first reaction was, “DODOS!”
And none of the other teams had ever even heard of it…
I was holding my breath the last couple of minutes.
It was awfully fun to watch Kimberly, James (?) and Dustace (whichever one it was) fall into that pirate trap…
I thought all the teams were smart to give up on the idea of finding the salt shaker. At last teams learned from previous seasons, where I swear, that one woman would STILL be unrolling hay bales in Europe!
In their defense, it’s a little crazy to go from Kuwait to Mauritius via London, isn’t it? I also would have confirmed if it was London, England, or some other London that I didn’t know about (other countries have cities with that name too!) I wonder if asking for a flight to Mumbai or Johannesburg first would have paid off. Although as it turned out, every team was on the same flight, so taking something else would have been quite risky and dangerous.
I can’t believe this was another NEL… and where was the Roadblock? I thought there was one of those on every leg except for two-parters?
If your race strategy is to wait for the last team to catch up to you, you aren’t really racing. Why does any one of these three teams really think this is a strategy that will vault them into the final three? I can’t see how it could do anything other than keep them from losing for up to two more weeks (assuming that they are the fastest footracers of the loser teams) and then they’ll just have to compete to come in before someone else. Why not just compete to come in before someone else now?
Why oh why do the non-eliminations keep forcing me to see Mary for another week? What a nasty, stupid person. Switching from the salt task to a task that you know everyone else already left to do only guarantees you a last place finish, whereas you might find the saltshaker if you stay. And wasn’t Mary pushing to do the salt in the first place? Then she harangues David because he wants to stick with it rather than select a sure-fire last place finish? Didn’t she push him to make that last wrong turn at the end, where she had just been muttering that he always goes the wrong way? What a nasty, ugly person.
Mary is an unintelligent person who found someone that she could browbeat into thinking that he was less intelligent and worthy than she. In a way, she’s using the Cho strategy as a lifelong self-worth strategy: linking up with a “loser” so that ultimately there’s someone who she’s better than. David, wake up man. Get hand or get out.
Wasn’t there supposed to be a Roadblock in there someplace?
That was an interesting flight connection. Seems like there would have been something quicker through Mumbai, Athens, or somewhere in Africa. I don’t blame the teams for being skeptical. I do blame them for not knowing what country London is in.
lorene, Mary just didn’t have her life jacket on tight enough (although body shape may have had something to do with it, too). The jacket floats, that’s the whole point, but hers was almost floating up and off her body.
Everybody seemed to be having trouble on the island; it looked like a piece of cake to me. The later teams could have just followed the BQ’s footprints backwards and they’d be right there.
I don’t think teaming up makes anybody stronger, it just means they all lose time waiting for the slowest member of the group. If there’s an advantage to teaming up, it’s to get with another team that you can beat in the footrace to the mat; but you don’t even really need the other team to go along with it.
I wonder how many cars they have waiting on standby.
Phil, this is not their second chance, this is their third chance. Just eliminate them already.
On preview, I see:
Well, from Kuwait to Mauritius by way of London, Ontario, would be even less likely.
You’re being a bit harsh. We’re watching carefully edited footage of people going through very intense situations. Like someone said a few weeks back, I think their just *that * old married couple. They may bicker, but they really do love each other.
The Six-Pack’s plan is pretty stupid for all the reasons you mentioned though.
I don’t think that is what is going on between them. From the way she describes it, their “culture” is different than what many Americans find acceptable in their own communities. She says that women are expected to follow their men at every turn and never question them. I wonder if the race isn’t her way of breaking out of that particular mindset. Maybe she does that at home, too, but I think she’s built up resentment for being treated like a second-class citizen in her community. There are still many places that feel women should be treated that way and I can’t think of a reason to doubt her feelings on the matter.
Dave and Mary should have stuck with the salt. They had all three piles to them selves and no competition. By each working on a different pile, that would double their chances of finding a clue.
Was there not a roadblock, or was it edited out in favor of the inter- and intra-team drama?
I’m excited to see what this “Intersection” thing is next week. Having to work with another team? I hope 'Bama has to work with the BQs.
Perhaps I’m unfairly extrapolating from couples I’ve seen professionally. It doesn’t matter if it’s a man or a woman doing to belittling, but it isn’t much different than any other bullying. The only difference is that it’s a little more rare when the man is the one taking the abuse. Ironically, this emasculation tends to feed more into the problem, since the woman generally uses his “lack of manliness” to further put the guy in the one-down position.
But you are absolutely correct that we are seeing only the relationship that the editors choose for us to see. However, I would also point out to you that bullying people are quite capable of formulating excuses as to why they might behave the way that they do. If she did try to explain it away as an over-reaction to a culture that belittles women, this might be true or it might be an excuse, but it seems to suggest that the editors might not be that far off the mark.
