The Amazing Race 8: Episode 7
This was a two hour episode, with two pit-stops along the way (one non-elimination) and yet I am finding it hard to write two sentences about what transpired. They're back in the states, which means boring challenges, and I hate all the teams left, so it's more a question of who I'm rooting against rather than who I'm voting for.
And the team I was rooting against the hardest, the Paolos, were eliminated this week. Next week I'm rooting against the Weavers. They're two-faced and mean. They bad-mouth other teams, throw garbage at them when passing them out on the highway, then don't understand why the other teams don't like them. Yet supposedly no one likes them because they're such good Christians and they don't cuss. I'll be glad when they're out of the race.
As boring as this episode was, there are a couple of style points to be awarded:
1) At the first pit-stop the Paolos intercepted the Bransens before they made it onto the mat, and told them to go put all their clothes on, as they were definitely the last team to arrive and it may be a non-elimination leg (which it was).
2) One of the road-blocks was at a go-kart track which was, understandably, difficult for the Weavers. Mom played leader of the family and did the challenge, and the Godlewskis said encouraging things to the kids while mom was out there doing her laps.
Teams are positioned well to go to Vegas, which could lead to some very interesting challenges indeed. But given that 3/4 of the teams remaining have a player under the age of 21 it seems unlikely that they will go that way. How about a detour at the Bunny Ranch? That could be very entertaining.
Probably more entertaining than what we'll see next week. Yet here I'll be, blogging all about it.
And the team I was rooting against the hardest, the Paolos, were eliminated this week. Next week I'm rooting against the Weavers. They're two-faced and mean. They bad-mouth other teams, throw garbage at them when passing them out on the highway, then don't understand why the other teams don't like them. Yet supposedly no one likes them because they're such good Christians and they don't cuss. I'll be glad when they're out of the race.
As boring as this episode was, there are a couple of style points to be awarded:
1) At the first pit-stop the Paolos intercepted the Bransens before they made it onto the mat, and told them to go put all their clothes on, as they were definitely the last team to arrive and it may be a non-elimination leg (which it was).
2) One of the road-blocks was at a go-kart track which was, understandably, difficult for the Weavers. Mom played leader of the family and did the challenge, and the Godlewskis said encouraging things to the kids while mom was out there doing her laps.
Teams are positioned well to go to Vegas, which could lead to some very interesting challenges indeed. But given that 3/4 of the teams remaining have a player under the age of 21 it seems unlikely that they will go that way. How about a detour at the Bunny Ranch? That could be very entertaining.
Probably more entertaining than what we'll see next week. Yet here I'll be, blogging all about it.
posted by Swankette at 11:04 PM
1 Comments:
The Weavers are a bit catty, I'll grant you. And the smugness of their Christianity is yucky. But among the teams that remain, they're the nicest to each other. For that and for the hell they've been going through as a family, I'm willing to cut them a little slack.
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