We have dissension in my house. My daughter and I both have Zev and Justin as our #1, but she has Gary and Mallory in the #2 spot, while I have the Globetrotters. My son has the Globetrotters as his #1, but Kent and Vyxsin for #2.
I did ask if he didn’t think Kent was kind of a baby, making Vyxsin haul him around in a wagon and all. To be fair, I’m not 100% sure that my son knows Kent is a boy.
He did change his mind about being a Goth for Halloween, though. His newest idea is that he’s going to be…a talking mime. (Yes, I did just sneak a cute story about my kid into this thread, despite the fact that it has little or nothing to do with TAR.)
My order: #0 Cowboys (Gone but not forgotten) #1 Zev/Justin #2 Globetrotters #3/#4 Gary and Mallory/Keisha and Jen (I don’t really care enough about either of these teams to pick an order) #5 Vyxsin #7 Kent
Also, looks like a possible delay tonight. It looks like golf is still on but it was supposed to be over half and hour ago.
Well despite the popular opinion in that kitchen the globe trotter clearly took vyxsin’s mold. Damn if people keep picking on her I might have to start rooting for her. Still not Kent though.
I take it all back. I was so proud of her standing up for herself and telling him he was a jerk while they were waiting but that final interview … Ugh.
I just finished watching Season 3. One of the teams took a taxi and spent the entire ride musing on whether the “you must walk” just meant “walk into the pit stop” as opposed to “walk to the pit stop”. They came in first. Cut to a bunch of really weird shots of every other team coming in, where you never see Phil’s face and all he says is “You are team number x”. Then, when the last team comes in, he brings them and the first team together, tells them about the 30 minute penalty. All of the teams were close enough together that it dropped them from 1st to worst, and they were eliminated! I looked it up and it seems that Phil didn’t know about the taxi when checking the first place team in, so that’s why it was done all weirdly.
Also, I must say that after years of hearing about Flo it was pretty amazing to actually watch her season. At the beginning I kept thinking how there had been a lot worse people. I mean, even the previous season had that horrible Tara letting her boyfriend win. I didn’t know why all the animosity to Flo. Then the season went on and she melted down worse and worse! When Zack got that guy to pole her across the river in that little coracle-type thing, all the while she is shrewishly complaining about everything. WOW!!! (Can’t wait to find time to watch Season 4 – I will eventually catch up with where I started)
That’s actually the first interpersonal (outside of the racers, anyway) sign of his Asberger’s I’ve seen. The teacup wasn’t an inappropriate comment to a race “official”, although it was inappropriate.
Well, that was really just delightful! The only problem is that I won’t have Kynt to love to hate anymore, but the thought of them possibly winning it all was starting to get a little bit scary.
“Vyxsin, put up my hood! I can’t reach it!”
He was also a complete lying sack of shit, blaming Vyxsin and saying that she read the clue first. He grabbed the clue and read it first. I couldn’t tell what it was that he said he had been dealing with during the time that she was doing the task, but all he had to do was sit there and harp on her to put the mold in the oven, and then make semi-racist remarks like a pussy behind Big Easy’s back.
How did they take a taxi and still come in third?
I kind of suspected that they took so much effort to look like a freak-show in their interview clips that they had been eliminated.
Also, Moonlitherial, why do you say Flight Time took Vyxsin’s mold? He pretty clearly knew that his wasn’t there, held on to her’s for a moment, and then put it back.
:nodding: They showed Flight Time putting his mold on the bottom shelf of the freezer. When we went back for it and it wasn’t there, he took another mold (Vyx’s?), reconsidered, then put it back.
Actually, who did take his mold? Was it Vyx? I got a bit confuzzled during that particular scene with Big Easy’s calling out…
I know it goes against the general consensus here, but I think that Zev is a useless, whiny, sniveling, dead-weight around his teammate Justin’s neck, (though I think Justin seems like one of the most levelheaded, cool-under-pressure, all around decent Racers that I can ever remember), a manchilde who has never given any indication that he cares one way or the other about trying to do his fair share of actual work, or to attempt to be a serious competitor.
The only thing he really contributed to his team’s success the entire Race so far was eating the lion’s share of last weeks fondue, but the way he allowed Justin to do all the shovel work while he lay in the snow like a 4 year-old told me all I could ever need to know about Zev.
Vyxsinn deserves Kynt, and Kynt deserves to have the shit stomped out of him by a drunken, savage rabble of Zurich Hell’s Angels on the tail-end of a vicious 8 day-long PCP bender…
Absolutely re Justin – I’ll never argue with that. With Zev, though, you’ve got to take his Asperger’s into consideration, I think – given all the different sights, sounds, tasks, and even the actual traveling from place to place, doing this race cannot be easy for him. The wind whipping around on that glacier during the task is what probably reduced him to 4-year old behavior. Just being on the race is testimony to his spirit!
I basically like Vyx. As much as her relationship with Kent possesses me to drive nails through my eyes, he fuels most of their dynamic. She’s their voice of reason of sorts.
After the unconscionable way that Kynt tried to blame their 30 minute penalty solely on Vyxsinn’s shoulders, after she LITERALLY carried him thru the entire Race, and then to have Vyxsinn lauding his character at the post-race interview, she deserves him and all of his pathetic passive-aggressive horseshitt.
I don’t dislike Vyxsin, but I can’t really say that there’s a lot about her I like, and I’m not terribly sad to see her go.
I think that Kynt and Vyxsin fill important needs for one another in their pretend relationship, essentially seconding what MPB in Salt Lake said above.
