Not that there’s anything wrong with it…
Just that my wife doesn’t see it which amazes me.
I can claim “gaydar”, so…I don’t know why he’s doing it, and I don’t know how serious he is about doing it outside of the Race, but that man is closeting himself bigtime, IMO. He and Vixsyn just give off “girlfriend” (as in “you go, girlfriend”, not as in “she’s my main squeeze” girlfriend) vibes…I can much more picture them sitting at a bar comparing notes on the guys than I can picture them actually making love.
I think the only person who doesn’t think Kent is flamingly gay is Kent.
Mel and Mike- aside from Mike being a drama queen, I think he has the emotional maturity of a six year old. I get it- you love your dad. Kudos. Still, assess the situation and man up, rather than collapsing in a puddle of tears just because your dad gets a leg cramp, FFS. I think Luke suffers from this as well, but we haven’t seen much of him this season. He’s been generally quiet and under the radar, possibly a response to seeing his performance from the earlier season.
But it wasn’t really an appropriate penalty…or rather, a penalty isn’t enough. The affected team should have been provided a time credit for the time spent locating the pack. As is, every team but the Globetrotters benefited from this mishap, which is beyond stupid.
This probably got lost in my long Taxi Assessment post, but, although we didn’t see it onscreen, the official CBS recap strongly implies that Ron & Christina got a time credit:
It’s possible there’s a typo there and it should have been *fourth *to third, but the only way Ron & Christina could leap over Kisha & Jen would be if they got a time credit.
It was said several times that the Cathay-Pacific flight was a “connecting” flight, which implies that there is a plane change in Hong Kong (?), and that there was a three hour layover. If the first flight was delayed, why did the second flight get in an hour later? Was the first flight delayed more than three hours and they had to take a different flight for the second leg?
That’s good to know. Wish they had made that explicit in the show.
I understood it to be that the flight with the connection came in 15 minutes earlier than the direct flight, if they’d both been on time. That includes the 3 hour layover. I don’t know WHY the Cathay Pacific planes were so much faster that they could afford to lose 3 hours sitting in an airport and still gain 15 minutes on the direct flight, but that was my understanding.
The FROM Hong Kong was the one that was delayed.
Kent and Vyxsin did that yoga fast forward where he got all “I get to check out Vyxsin’s stretching body” that was totally laughable!
One of my favorite moments from their season was whena whole bunch of teams decided to sleep on a bench waiting for some place to open in the morning. We pan across several teams, where the man has his arm around the woman snuggled up against him, only to see Vyxsin’s arms around Kent, as he’s snuggled up against her!
[Hmm, Vyxsin? Vixsyn? Vyxsyn???]
Viykksxiyn with two k’s, the well-known Dutch goth-er.
Because the Cathay Pacific flight left Sydney many hours before the non-stop direct flight on Qantas.
According to the search I just did:
The Qantas non-stop takes off at 9:55PM and arrives at Narita at 6:30.
The Cathay Pacific flight out of Sydney has several options for connecting in Hong Kong for arrival at 6:00AM. The last one leaves at 2:05PM (Cathay 100), arrives in Hong Kong at 9:35PM and leaves Hong Kong at 12:40AM (Cathay 524) getting in to Narita at 6:00.
Times may have shifted since then but that mostly works out to what they mentioned. So not only did they risk a connection to gain 15 minutes but they also subjected themselves to an extra 8 hours or so of being on planes and dealing with airports while the direct people were probably just napping at a gate or doing as much research on Tokyo as they could on a computer somewhere.
Actually Luke and Mamamamaamama have been pretty well behaved this season. She’s not coming across as a crazy, hyper-overprotective-harpy, and he’s not coming across as…well…retarded* I’m still rooting against them though.
Actually, what surprises me is the lack of love that the sisters (Kisha and Jen?) are getting. They’re smart, strong, supportive of each other and low-key. If one of them didn’t have a weak bladder, there was every chance they would have won their season. But they’re getting the “quiet, background” edit, so there’s a good chance they’ll get far. Drama edits early on are for fan favs (Cowboys) or early losers (Mel/Mike).
I want Christine and Ron out next, then the faux-redheads. Christine is less doormatty than last time (and I hope we get to see her say “Fuck off dad.” at least once), but Ron is either a complete and utter abusive jackass with anger management problems or mentally ill…or, actually, both. Either way, I don’t want him on my screen.
*It’s not the speech. I understand he’s deaf and deaf people can make weird noises, sounds. It’s the having total emotional meltdowns every time there’s any stress. Colin’s “My OX is broken!” meltdown was funnier but less of a meltdown than Luke’s “I can’t spell Chekov” meltdown.
We know for a fact that people have faked “couple” status to get on the race. I’ve always assumed that “Gay guy and…um…female best friend” didn’t fit with the Amazing Producer’s demographic or whatever, so…they faked a “romance”. Which is weird–“Gay guy and female best friend” works perfectly well to me. I get no romantic vibe from them…I also get no goth vibe from them. They’re way more “Hello Kitty” than “Goth”.
Also glad that Mel and Mike are gone. That was getting painful.
Well, the time factor is the whole point though. Yeah, it would have taken them longer to put it back but that’s what they should have frigging done. What if they had taken the fanny pack of an all female team - they wouldn’t have found it in the men’s change room. Where would they have dumped it then?
Does anyone remember what penalty was given a couple seasons back when a team deliberately messed with the equipment that the next teams were going to have to use? The task was building something or other…
I’m remembering a yoga Speed Bump, involving tongue exercises.
I’m sorry, we don’t have anything by her, did W.H. Smith’s send you to us?
The one I remember was season 14, episode 8, where stuntmen Mark & Mike deliberately hid the bicycle pumps that teams needed to pump up the tires on their rickshaw. That cost them a 30-minute penalty.
Back in Season 6, Don & Mary Jean (Team Geritol) took Rebecca & Adam’s (Team Mama’s Boy) vehicle by mistake, delaying them. They were penalized 30 minutes, which put them behind the team that came in after them (Freddy & Kendra (Team Breeding)). Freddy & Kendra had, themselves, been assessed a 30-minute penalty for taking a second clue from the clue box because they’d lost their original one.
So it seems that 30 minutes is standard, though I was thinking of the one zut remembered. Funny that the deliberate incident was penalized the same as all the more accidental ones.