The next leg (the first half of the two hour finale) should count as the final NEL. It’ll be interesting to see if the 3rd place time gets their belongings and money taken away or if it’ll be treated any differently because its down to the wire.
I did…in fact I said it out loud in my best Kelly voice.
As for next week…
…nice to see a team (especially Team Romber) getting busted for breaking traffic laws at long last.
The final three dash off to the next location, find clues and do the tasks, go to the Pit Stop, which will be non-elimination. Twelve hours later (or some semblance thereof), they receive the first clue for the Final Leg, then it will be race, race, race.
Go Uchenna & Joyce!
The final three dash off to the next location, find clues and do the tasks, go to the Pit Stop, which will be non-elimination. Twelve hours later (or some semblance thereof), they receive the first clue for the Final Leg, then it will be race, race, race.
Go Uchenna & Joyce!
Cockiness is such the opposite of who I am that I tend to appreciate it. It’s why Terrell Owens is my favorite football player.
U/J are several hours behind - if they can’t bunch up on the next flight, they’re toast. Any guesses where that goes to? The clips seemed to be set in the US.
The Heathrow Express goes into Paddington, not Victoria, but yes, one could quickly walk to Abbey Road from there. We didn’t see any hint that any of the teams had ever been to London before, which, given its popularity as a tourist destination for Americans, seemed odd.
Frankly, I like Rob and Amber. Not as people, necessarily, but just like on Survivor, Rob recognizes that it’s a game with rules, written and unwritten and that you do what you can to win. I felt a bit gleeful when one of his mind games screwed him over with the earlier flight thing in the last episode, but basically, Rob is playing every minute of the game, and playing it to win.
i have to agree with you. rob is a good competitor. but like i’ve said, he makes the game less fun because you know he’s good. amber on the other hand is just along for the ride i think. i haven’t seen her doing much of anything. OH and they should outlaw bringing a native around with you. that so screws the game. and why haven’t the other teams picked up on this tactic?
No, that’s silly. U & J knew they were at best in 3rd place. They may like the old couple. They may even like them a lot. It would be stupid not to yield them if the opportunity had been present. It has nothing to do with a soft spot - money is a powerful motivator. Obviously, we can only speculate but I would have been very surprised if U & J hadn’t yielded M & G given the chance.
Disagree. First of all, rounding up a local to guide you around isn’t a tactic invented by Rob – plenty of other teams have done it in earlier seasons. There’s no reason any other team this season couldn’t scrounge up their own guide. Granted, Rob and Amber seem to be notably successful at using this tactic; but, as you say, Rob’s a competitor and he’s obviously latched onto this as a Good Idea. [NB: I’ve read people grumbling that Rob and Amber’s previous FameWhore fame contributes to the local’s willingness to help 'em out. Possible, but I think it’s more that Rob’s not afraid to ask people, and that there’s plenty of people that are willing to go on a lark for the chance to get on TV. Something other teams could still take advantage of.]
Second of all, and more importantly, I like the tactic of rounding up a local. The possibility of doing that – getting some random person on the other side of the world to drop everything and help you – is what makes The Amazing Race great. TAR isn’t Survivor or Big Brother, where the contestants interact only with each other in a carefully controlled microcosm. TAR is about racing all over the world, where anything can happen. Who will the racers meet? WHere will they go? What will they do? It’s all up in the air. I think the show should encourage racers to interact with the other people they meet, not discourage it. I’d hate to see TAR turn into Big Brother With Changing Scenery.
I’ve been wondering about that. They always use phrases like “This is the tenth pit stop on a race around the world.” If they’re really going around the world, the last two legs are going to have to cover a lot of ground.
(What would be the shortest? If you went London -> St. Petersburg -> Anchorage, which side of the North Pole would you be on? Is there even a flight along that route? Maybe somewhere in Southeast Asia and finish in Honolulu. They could be going anywhere.)
What are you talking about? That’s how the word is pronounced.
Speaking of Kelly, you can really tell when she’s not wearing makeup, can’t you?
They haven’t gained much longitude in this race; in fact in the past couple of episodes they’ve lost a lot of longitude. Is this common? They’re looking at one or two loooong flights across Asia and the Pacific if they’re really going all the way around.
Romber never heard of whirling dervishes before. Twits.
Much as I hate Amber, I was amused to see her in the deerstalker, with the pipe and magnifying glass.
I don’t understand hating someone because they are bland and lack a personality.
Shouldn’t that lead one to be indifferent about them?
Under normal circumstances, I would be indifferent. If Amber was an acquaintance, I’d be indifferent. But (and this is, admittedly, my own fault), she has sucked up my valuable attention on not only one but two Survivor seasons, and her moderately-likable-but-still-kinda-snakey jackass of a fiance messed up my Amazing Race. 
I wonder why they got so much money for this leg. London is expensive but it’s not $477 expensive.
OTOH, it would be very expensive if you had $0. Those Heathrow Express tickets are £14 one way/per person. That totals out at over $50 per couple. And that cab ride to Greenwich (where the Millenium Dome is) would be really expensive too.
Maybe the other teams had so much money they didn’t mind giving it away.
It’s my understanding (from what former racers have said) that their funds have to pay for everything but plane tickets and food for their crew, too. So multiply everything by two. $477 doesn’t go as far when paying for four as for two.
Hmm. I guess it bugged me because she had earlier called Ron a “piece of trash redneck,” and in my neck of the woods (har!), pronouncing that particular word as “nekkid” is sort of … well, trashy and redneck-y. Granted, I am an effete Northern elitist snob (if it is possible for a woman to also be effete), so probably I am not the best arbiter of what constitutes grounds for a snot-smacking. Still, a reason is a reason, right?
Also, if teams decided to take cabs through London traffic, rather than doing the smart thing and taking the Tube, that adds up, too. But I didn’t know they had to pay for the sound guy’s Big Mac. Which is why nobody wants the fat sound guy, I guess.
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But normally they get less than a $100 for a leg. They usually only get this much when they have to buy alternative transportation, like train or bus tickets.
No, they pay for the crew’s transportation but not food. Which I gather is good since the crews have been known to sit there and eat a huge meal in front of hungry racers, who don’t dare spare any of their own money for food. :rolleyes: