Not quite as annoying as Rob calling Kim "dude" all season!

I am soooo happy that the boys won as I couldn't stand the other two teams...Way to go model boys!!

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A quite boring finale, maybe because there's no D/K in the race.

haha, LMAO when I saw L/K went to Orly instead of CDG airport, they didn't know which airport was bigger and had more international flights? There's no karma, they just screw it up. And I was happy that we didn't see them once they missed that flight!

Actually, I also think that the producers did something to get T/J to board that plane so there's still competition. So it's a pity that R/K didn't win at the end, I think it's a bit unfair.

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Although I don't think they had really thought it out this way, L/K's gamble with going to Orly was actually fairly intelligent. They had little to no chance of winning if they were on the same flight as the other teams, so why not risk it and try to find a "secret" flight out of Orly that would give them a nice head start? It obviously didn't pay off, but it had potential to flip things in their favor.

I was wondering if they couldn't get an overnight flight to London or Manchester and then a flight to New York from there.

I wonder if any of the racers tried this.

Yeah, a rather boring finale. I kept thinking that they must be going to have it be a two-parter. No such luck.

I'm glad the boys beat Rob & Kimberly but I think I'm amongst the minority who wanted Bama to win.

I wish they'd had some sort of actual task to do once in New York. All they had to do was travel. Boring!

I hate it when it's an airplane that puts a team behind. I'd love a three-way race to the mat with all the teams within minutes of each other. That would make for a heart-pounding finish. (I don't want an actual foot-race to the mat but having the teams be withing five minutes or so of each other so you don't know which team will arrive first)

As for the "producers helped them get a flight" thing....I think it's bunk. Thought it last time everyone was in an uproar about it with Uchena and Joyce. Think it now. Totally plausible that only two seats opened up. Two people traveling together don't show up, very believable.

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But it's not just two, it's four. It's never shown but there must also be room for the camera and sound dude. Teams always have to get four tickets.

I don't want to start conspiracy theories but all CBS had to do was bump 4 passengers to first class so that 4 seats open up in economy. There's always room for VIPs. It then came down to T/J having been put first on the waiting list.

Weren't Tyler & James the first to arrive and get on the waiting list - How did Rob & Kimberly get tickets first?

They got in contact with a supervisor who made the arrangements.

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I agree that the producers may have tried moving up people to first/business class or out and out pay people on stand-by to dump the flight. But there are only so many first-class seats available, and a large number of people were not going give up their seats.

The Bamas booked their stand-by seats late and there were just too many people ahead of them on stand-by for even the producers to create an openning. The models not only got stand-by seats but booked a later flight, just in-case. The Bamas booked their stand-by then seemed to give up. If they tried they may have pulled of what Rob and Kimberly did, but from the edit it did not look like they tried.

I was rooting for the 'Bamas only because I thought they could make the best use of the money (whatever's left after taxes), but I'm glad the oh-so-boring models won instead of those Ugly Americans Rob and Kimberly. Yuck. Good luck to them, they deserve each other.

Last episode was kinda meh, follow the clues, the Road Block and Detour tasks were awful (the French fashionazi had her moments though). The trek to the East Village would have defeated Lyn and Karlyn anyway, there is no way they could have covered that ground on foot as quickly as the other two teams.

Oh, well, on to TARAllStarz!

"I wish they'd had some sort
of actual task to do
once in New York. All
they had to do was
travel. Boring!

Getting a NYC cab to drive all the way upstate is a task and I was surprised the teams had no trouble. Most of the time cabs here don't even want to take you to outer boroughs like Queens and Brooklyn. I'm thinking the presence of a camera crew made the task much easier - lol.

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What I thought they could of done is at least show BAMA finnaly getting to NYC. If you go to the cbs website they have footage we didn't see last night. BAMA running around nyc having a hard time finding the buliding.. It was the same thing last season with RAY and Yolanda in the middle of the episode they vanished so it wasn't as intense as to who was gonna win. I think they should of eddited it to make it look like it was a closer race even though it wasn't.. You kinds expected the models to win after the whole Ez-Pass thing

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I thought the same thing. And why didn't we see them asking/negotiating the price? It should have been an expensive cab ride since most cabbies would charge you double since they don't have a fare back to the city. I was surprised they all had enough money left. Those cab drivers were DAWs themselves!

Yeah, I was wondering how much money they had. Someone (I think Bama) was shown counting $1 bills in Paris, so I assumed that they weren't given much cash.

In a completely unprecedented finish, two hot, athletic guys win the tenth installment of The Amazing Race. What's that you say? This has happened before? The first, second, fourth, and ninth seasons? Wow. I guess putting all my money on 'Bama was a bad idea, then, huh? http://blog.meevee.com/my_weblog/2006/12/amazing_race_mo.html#more

UGH!!! I missed the whole second half of the last episode! My DVR didn't compensate for the game earlier in the day!

Well I'm glad the guys won. Almost all of my favorites were out pretty early in the race, and these were my final two favorites left. I just wish I could have seen it happen.

Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait for All-Stars.

I missed it, too. Thanks to the %^$#^$#@$@@$#% time slot and the fact that I had a concert that night. I was so po'd I didn't even watch the part that got recorded. Sounds like I didn't miss much.

Guess I'm glad the models won, but, like you, I would have liked to actually see it.

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