I didn’t hate K&V this week. They were one of only three teams that made it to the mat without assistance from anyone else. I don’t get these teams. I am all about not being unnecessarily mean to people but damn people raaaace.
Well, the Globetrotters u-turned the Cowboys. Does that count?
…although I must admit that was probably the nicest u-turn I’ve ever seen.
I also never want to see a bowl of fondue again. NEVER.
Next week’s teaser looks interesting. seems they finally got some conflict back in the race.
I dislike what I see as a type of cheating in this episode. Everyone ganged up on one team. How is it acceptable to pass on the answer to three other teams instead of allowing it to be an actual race among them all?
Oh well, the losing team did indeed make a mistake. Just leaves a bad taste in my mouth how it all went down. The Double U-turn outcome was a surprise. I didn’t see that coming (except for the last bit).
I’m not one hundred percent sure that Vyxxen didn’t get help on the moped task, although I know they didn’t show it.
And I certainly have no dislike for her. But really, have you seen anything more pathetic than Kynt sitting in the little cart as his “girlfriend” pulls him around? Or the whining about Vyxxen bumping his leg? There should really be a “being a big puss” time penalty.
It seemed like they made the Cowboys eat all the cheese even though it didn’t make any difference. If that’s the case, that’s about the cruelest thing I’ve seen TAR producers do. I give two big middle fingers up for that move.
The Cowboys didn’t seem to have a problem with the cheese though. I wonder if they actually had to eat all of it, or if Zev & Justin just had a lot more trouble with it.
I was surprised that they had a U-Turn on an eating task. Did they have to eat all that bread with the cheese or couldn’t they just take mouthfuls of the cheese? I imagine it was the bread more than the cheese that filled them up.
Also, what did pedaling the bikes do? I thought they were motorized?
It sucks that one team lost because the others shared the answer to what seemed at first like a hard task, but the Cowboys made their own error so they really have no one to blame but themselves.
Yeah, they made a mistake in the map the country task. But so did three other teams. Same type of mistake (missing turns). The other three had the answer passed on to them. Of course, that all seemed to start because because one of the sisters likes one of the Globetrotters.
Cowboys handled it well. Admitted their mistake, stuck up for each other, didn’t whine. Didn’t even have to get bleeped.
Well, Vyxxxxen got lost in Lichtenstein so I guess it really isn’t Kent’s fault that their team constantly loses their way. He’s still a whiny little puissant, though.
I think this episode sets a TAR record: an entire country in 15 minutes.
No, the cruelest thing the Amazing Producers did was way back in Season 1. Team Guido was 24 hours behind and still in Alaska. They still had to perform all the tasks, including diving naked into a frozen lake to retrieve the clue to the final leg. When they opened it, they found a note saying the other two teams had already crossed the finish line and they had lost the race.
I don’t think there was anything wrong with the Globetrotters U-turning my Cowboys, though I hated it. Like they said, they did what they had to do. I was shocked no one else used the U-Turn though!
As everyone else said, the problem really was that so many people had the answer given to them (just like in the 1st Leg). Flight Time thought it was 20, and we don’t know what Gary or Vixsyn thought. If just one more team had to do it over again, we might have had a different outcome. (Heck, if Jet had stayed with Gary, he might have been given the answer or both of them had to go back). I also wondered if Jen heard Justin say it was 22 so knew to write it down. But that could have just been the way it was edited.
Just wish there wasn’t so much helping at this stage of the race.
It seems like the Globetrotters have trouble with damn near any task that requires analytical thinking, although they may have just simply lost the two missing luggage tags, but it is clear that they don’t have the intelligence needed to win Amazing Race outright.
Also, I was initially not physically attracted to Mallory AT ALL when I first saw her (she’s certainly not my type, and I have never been drawn towards blondes), or even at the start of this season of AR, but now, Holy Mother, she has transformed before my very eyes into a stone-cold stunner. I suppose it must be her quirky, silly, somewhat bizarre personalty and attitude, but I never gave her a second look until just a few weeks ago, when I suddenly noted to myself that I would really, really enjoy a good olde-fashioned Austrian “play-show” with her, and how…
A lot of people on this board do not like the U-turn. I am neutral to it (more or less)* but I do not think the a U-turn should be at the end of race. There is no hope to come back from it.
Liked the scooter task, but there should have been a rule prohibiting communication (help) between the teams.
- Is that redundant?
I don’t agree with that at all. They have the sense to pick the better of the options for the Detour almost all the time, they’ve just made some stupid mistakes like they did tonight. In the challenge in China where they had to memorize the order of the costumes of the theater troupe, they clearly did it the most intelligent way.
Well, I’m depressed. I did like Jet’s last word: “I couldn’t imagine anyone else I’d want to run the Amazing Race with. . . maybe my wife.”
And yeah, that was horrible U-Turn placement. The way the leg was set-up, the last one to finish the detour was going to be in last place no matter what. On a U-Turn leg it should go detour, u-turn, then roadblock.
Also, I would’ve done the luggage task. Not because I couldn’t handle all that cheese, but I would hate to eat all that cheese, get u-turned, and then have to carry all those suitcases around.
I’m pretty sure my cowboys knew they’d lost, when they were U-turned. I think they just ate the cheese because that’s the kind of racers they are. They could’ve just said “We withdraw from the race” and they didn’t have to eat the cheese. (that’s beginning to sound like a metaphor - "“my boss told me I had to clean the public restrooms, so I just ate the cheese and did it”) And they looked like they enjoyed it.
And Kynt was the biggest pussy being hauled in the cart by Vyxxyn. He gives all gay goths trying to pass as straight a bad name.
StG
When he was first yelling I couldn’t tell if it was his voice or Vyxxyn’s.
One of the best lines I have ever read on SDMB…
Well done!!!
(Is there an age limit for Goth? It seems like 95% of the goths I knew grew out of it around 19 or 20 years of age, but Kynt & Vyxsinn are still going strong, and both of them are heading squarely into middle age)
I wouldn’t have put it quite that way, but I concur.
And lets not forget dad. Excellent work on the measuring-Liechtenstein Roadblock. He got the answer from Zev & Justin (indirectly, I think), but it looked like he took the direct route. If his odometer was working, I suspect he would have gotten it right.
For that matter, bad job by Jet (or was it Cord). He knew he was off the path for some distance, should have subtracted from the odometer reading. (If you discover you’re off track and it takes you three kilometers to get back, subtract six from the final reading.) But he guessed 35 kilometers. He could have guessed a random number and been closer.
Again, I share the sentiment if not the phraseology.
This show really pissed me off. I think sharing answers to a challenge like several teams did in this leg should not be allowed. I know it has happened many times in the past, so it’s nothing new, but I feel like it really violates the whole spirit of the race when a team (or multiple teams) that haven’t correctly completed the challenge on their own are given the answer (basically a free pass) by another team. I really wish the producers would put the kibosh on collaborations like that.
I don’t mind the information sharing. Remember, the racers aren’t trying to make compelling TV for us, they’re trying to win, and a big part of winning is strategy. Alliances, whether long-term or in individual challenges, are an important part of a long-term race strategy. It’s absolutely brilliant for two of the three teams with speed and stamina-- the basketball players – to help one another, formally or not, at this juncture, when that advantage helps neutralize the third physical team – the cowboys – and takes them out. It helps Justin & Zev to help a physical team that’s not great on the puzzle or finesse challenges, like the Globetrotters.
And if anyone helped Vyxsin at all, brilliant move by everyone. Every leg that Kent is in the race is another leg where literally everyone else has an advantage in that Kent is going to implode very shortly and Vyxsin has proven that she has difficulty navigating and is losing her rational ability whenever it butts up against Kent’s emotional instability. There is no way they hold up in a final leg unless she spanks Kent and it brings him hard into line.
It’ll be interesting to see what the fight is next week. It looked like Vyxsin vs. Globetrotters? Two of the teams with notable deficiencies, an excellent chance for Gary & Mallory to rise above and move into a contention spot.
I share the sentiment AND the phraseology.
TAR fans, can I please just brag for a minute? I had the greatest inspiration on Saturday. I decided to make an Amazing Easter Race for my kids. I hid their baskets and worked backwards from the finish line, making clues and riddles and challenges. There was a Roadblock (Who’s aiming to have a good Easter? The team member needed to shoot 3 baskets to get the next clue) and a Detour (Egg-sact change, in which they needed to sift through pennies and find ones with certain dates; or Egg-sact replica, in which they needed to color a picture of an easter egg using the same colors as the example I had done. They chose egg-sact change). I made the clues look like the official ones, with the right colors for Route Info, etc. It was so fun, and I seriously can’t decide if they enjoyed it more or if I did.
Anyhow, boo for cowboys being eliminated. Yay for Zev and Justin. I’ve switched allegiances and they’re my boys now.
Sorry to follow off on a tangent, but this has been the Easter tradition in my family since I was a child, and I’ve kept it up with my kids. We’ve never done anything like Roadblocks or Detours or what have you, but we’ve always had a trail with clues to solve and candy or small gifts at each stop. This year I even made a website with a clue on it that they had to go to, which I thought was pretty cool.
The pain in the ass is the tradition that the clues rhyme, and are written from the Easter Bunny’s perspective. My youngest knows the facts now, so I’ve been able to drop the Bunny stuff, but it seems wrong if they don’t rhyme.