No, that makes PERFECT sense. Very well put.
Loved the Dog challenge! Also wanted to give the dog at the check in mat a giant hug.
Maybe I am off base but I felt the Father son team were being selfish for continuing after this leg. They won the leg, proved they weren’t quitters. By staying in all they are doing is guaranteeing no one but them gets eliminated the end of the actual leg at the next pit stop. The only reason they were in this one was the express pass. The son can keep doing teh Roadblocks for now but they will get hosed at the next Detour. Maybe selfish isn’t the right word but it seems…I don’t know self indulgent or something because basically it removes an opportunity to get rid of a team that has a chance at winning. I get wanting to stay in this time but anything else seems just unfair to the other teams somehow.
My husband and I keep talking about that, too. Aw, jeez—are you crying again??!
More of this alliance crap? If I wanted to watch a bunch of people trying to figure out the perfect time to stab each other in the back, I’d watch Survivor.
Wait, they both had cancer? I must have missed that part. Good job catching that.
We haven’t crossed paths in a while. Hope you’re doing well these days.
I disagree with this entirely. My motto is “Never, ever leave the race until Phil kicks you out.” If they left now, barring the show forcibly telling them they can’t continue, they would be quitters in my book. I’m already annoyed enough with the “take the penalty” teams from the first episode. I admire the father/son team for continuing until they can’t continue any more. Who knows what will happen.
By the way, was that the Amazing Dad greeting them at the mat?
I don’t think it was. Here’s Phil’s Dad on the mat in the 13th season…can’t find any screencaps of last night though, but going by memory that wasn’t the guy with the Tim the Dog. But perhaps once was enough, I guess.
I guess to us Americans, all New Zealanders look alike. (I wondered if it was TAD as well).
As for your aside—yeah, I’m overall ok. You?
Phil and his dad, season 13
Phil and the greeter, last night
Bonus: Phil and Richard Simmons (always funny)
I love your episode breakdowns, zut!
As to the father-son team, I was impressed with the crutch running but am wondering when he’s going to give himself an injury from that. I’m pretty sure if I was in the same position, I would stay in the race until they told me I had to go, whether for injury reasons or for inability to complete a task or just coming in last. The son didn’t look too happy about staying in, though, when they talked about it at the end. I see staying in and getting eliminated as giving another team an extra chance at staying in the race, rather than losing two teams at once.
That guy would not be getting around like that with a torn achilles tendon. That’s a debilitating injury and the pain is incredible.
Even when stabilized in a cast like that and looped on a crapload of opiates? (Wondering if that might be part of where the crying’s coming from.)
He walked 100 yards to the mat and didn’t get the boot until much later. I’ve seen guys rupture Achilles and the reaction I’ve seen is collapsing in a heap and screaming in pain.
Huh. Well, I wouldn’t put it past them to exaggerate for TV. Another reason I think they should keep going until they’re thrown out.
Is nearly 48 hours the longest ever between the start of a leg and the first task in the leg?
It’s not ruptured, it’s torn. The difference between the two can be vast.
Torn could mean a teeny-tiny tear. Ruptured means snapped in two, no longer connected. Sort of like a hairline fracture compared to a broken bone.
I’d be very concerned about further damaging it. Torn already, it could rupture. That’s game over, carry me to a hospital bed for an extended convalescence.
Not bad. (Would hope for better for both of us, but it’s a start.) Nothing special going on, just settling back in to being a Bostonian again.
Good explanation, I tore mine 3/4s of the way across. Hurt like hell, but I could walk. In the boot, I felt invincible. Until the operation. Then, I was a baby about it.
A friend of mine severed his, collapsed immediately, taken to hospital right away.
It was muy stupido for the father and son to use the express pass rather than really give the fishing a chance. The lake appeared stocked - all they had to do was keep trying. Now the pass is gone. They could’ve squeezed one more leg out before their sudden and inevitable [del]betrayal[/del] elimination.
StG
I think it was the right decision for them to use it when they did. They are done, they won’t win but at least by coming in first they won a trip. I think if they’d waited to use it they may make it one more leg way at the back but then that would be it. At least they got something.
I was oddly surprised at Max when he couldn’t drive properly. I was expecting a big freak out but he just quietly kept at it.