The Amazing Race 7: Episode 2
This season of the race truly is amazing. In the past I have lamented the fact that the producers force suspense at the end of the episode when it's brutally honest who will be the final team to arrive. This season we're two for two with LEGITIMATELY suspenseful endings. Last week the two teams were running to the pit stop at the same time. Granted, it was a former POW and a beauty queen vs. two fat guys, but it was still close. This time it wasn't QUITE as close, given that we had a former college athlete and his brother vs. the silicone Farah Fawcett girls, but the fact that it came down to a foot race added an element of suspense. I like it better when there's a close ending than when it's a blowout.
Although I sense next week the brothers may be the ones to go. They're currently in last place. Previews from next week show they have an issue with a flat tire on a bike. Oh yeah, and now that the girls they had the hots for are off the show their testosterone levels are going to drop significantly.
And now it's time for our lesson to future Amazing Race contestants: If you have a detour and one of the options requires you to enter a market in a 2nd or 3rd world country you want to pick the other challenge. I don't really care what that other challenge is. Finding the appropriate vendors in the market is a challenge. Finding the appropriate items from the appropriate vendor is a challenge. This week insuring you had a fish that was 3 kg appeared to be a challenge. AND the teams that went to market had to spend their valuable cash in order to get the job done. Carrying books on a dolly 8 blocks - nothing compared to the market task.
Finally, there's the money issue. In past episodes of the Amazing Race there have been minor money issues. Chip and Kim had to sweet talk a cab driver for a free or reduced fare once. And some teams have had to exchange their money to get the task done, but an exchange location was always readily available. Today the mother/son team had issues with needing to exchange their money, and every single team that chose the marketing task had major money issues to get the task done.
The upside to this is I think it may help get the evil Rob out of the game earlier, as he seems intent to bribe as many locals as possible to get in first place, and I relish the fact that he won't be able to afford a habit like that the rest of the way around the world.
Although I sense next week the brothers may be the ones to go. They're currently in last place. Previews from next week show they have an issue with a flat tire on a bike. Oh yeah, and now that the girls they had the hots for are off the show their testosterone levels are going to drop significantly.
And now it's time for our lesson to future Amazing Race contestants: If you have a detour and one of the options requires you to enter a market in a 2nd or 3rd world country you want to pick the other challenge. I don't really care what that other challenge is. Finding the appropriate vendors in the market is a challenge. Finding the appropriate items from the appropriate vendor is a challenge. This week insuring you had a fish that was 3 kg appeared to be a challenge. AND the teams that went to market had to spend their valuable cash in order to get the job done. Carrying books on a dolly 8 blocks - nothing compared to the market task.
Finally, there's the money issue. In past episodes of the Amazing Race there have been minor money issues. Chip and Kim had to sweet talk a cab driver for a free or reduced fare once. And some teams have had to exchange their money to get the task done, but an exchange location was always readily available. Today the mother/son team had issues with needing to exchange their money, and every single team that chose the marketing task had major money issues to get the task done.
The upside to this is I think it may help get the evil Rob out of the game earlier, as he seems intent to bribe as many locals as possible to get in first place, and I relish the fact that he won't be able to afford a habit like that the rest of the way around the world.
posted by Swankette at 10:10 PM
2 Comments:
I didn't watch the Survivor that Rob and Amber were on, so I don't know if it was obvious then what an opportunistic bastard he is. Part of me wonders if such underhanded tactics are what anyone who is determined above all else to win and is resourceful would do. I could respect him more if he weren't such a dishonest cheat about it. He would have been more likable if he had just had the balls to say, "Yes, I bribed the guard to not tell anyone else which bus was best." Then, he'd just be playing the game, without being a duplicitous jerk. And getting other teams to chip in on a bribe and keeping his own money?? Ugh. Wanna see him eliminated. Now, please.
Rob is slimy--no doubt about it. But in last night's episode, he was the best player--the only one to check if the first bus to leave Cuzco was also the first to arrive in the destination, and the only one to get all of the books to the Library of Congress in one trip. As much as we all dislike him, I'm afraid we'll be stuck with him for a while.
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