Wonderful scenery
Wait, we're on time again for the second week in a row?
Very intereschtink!
Shame I won't be able to post in real time tonight.I call on all of you reading this in time -- jump in and do your part!
In tonight's episode: Cowboys represent the independent indominable American spirit, Brenchel the folk heroes operating outside the law, while the pop and son and cousins and singers have grouped together to tame and civilize the wild wide world, in ----
"Accidental Alliance!"
Here comes the hypocrisy.Industrial strength.
Dehumanization begins.Some things are utterly predictable.
Off to Switzerland. B&R make the first train. Sadly, so does everyone else but the cowboys. Greens aware the others are banding against them. It's all because they used the U-Turn, claim the others, abandoning them in their own car.
Such polite comments about Rachel.
Driving themselves now. Find William Tell. Night leg!
Wrong. Night bunch point. Everyone wait for sunrise.
Banded teams are The Accidental Alliance. Better than Friendship, I guess.
Much overture results.
Drive to Chapel Bridge. Brenchel goes to the wrong bridge.
Go to hotel: clean trashed room. Everyone so glad at lack of green. Team Actually Playing in last.
Ugly Racers. Ugly teams with no self-awareness.
Ah, the good ol' strains of "The William Tell Overture"!!! The little kid in me was expecting to see the Lone Ranger and Tonto ride in to save the day.
There were so few racers this season that I liked from the beginning that Dave & Connor were the default team I was hoping to win. Now they have lost my respect. This has been a season of beautiful venues and ugly racers.
I really didn't get their griping at all. Dave thinks he's so entitled that he shouldn't ever get U-turned, just because he's 60? Stuff it. Take a cue from Leo and Jamal who just shrugged it off and moved on.
Dave thinks he shouldn't ever get U-turned because he's old and slow, which is why his team has won three legs so far... just like Brenchel. In fact, if not for the U-turn, they'd be at four, twice any other team, with a target the size of Texas on their backs. They should be thanking Brenchel.
Singers say they've been in such rooms before. And it was Brenchel's fault!Trashed rooms are on a rock star level. Rooms must be restored exactly. Rail afraid his wife will make him clean now. Fear.
Example rooms available. Lots of small details.
Cowboys fail. L&J fail. C&J fail. D&C fail. Racing up and down to check examples. No hints from inspector.
Cowboys spot detail: toilet paper. Teams start to pass. Everyone but B&R. Go to museum of transport and answer question about drill bit, then search for Mustang exhibit and calculate model year of their Ford. Clues and formula. Road signs on building.
So much helping. Unless you're from Vegas.
B&R clear and head for museum.
Turns out everyone was looking at wrong clues. Around they go.
Cowboys head to look for milk tanker.
B&R get drill bit answer from local. They catch up to the singers. Everyone else heading to tanker. C&J distressed.
Now waiting for prayer.
Have to wonder if the Globetrotters would have ever gotten past Helga - attention to detail never seemed their strong suit.
The Mercy Rule would probably have kicked in eventually.
This would have been ripe for a Luke meltdown as well where he'd trash the room and then start all over again.
LAST EDITED ON 04-27-14 AT 08:57 PM (EST)Their deity sends them Leo & Jamal, who double back and give them the answer. Brenchel clear shortly after.
Choose dog and milk cart. Take gondola to pick up milk. Roadblock, so Noose takes it. Connor. B&R fully aware of what's going on. Looks like Jamal, Caroline, and Brandon.
Great Apps shot. Lots of running in the snow. Caroline wipes out on the ice. Humans alone on this part. About 60lbs of milk to carry. Brandon makes up time on gondola. Wrote TAR Winners on window. Connor offended.
Cowboys clear. D&C clear. L&J clear. Race to Pit Stop. First two expecting toothache to mat. D&C got off final gondola too early: Phil is at top of mountain. But others made mistakes, and now lead three teams on makeup gondola.
Brittany appears to say it's Rachel's fault.
L&J plot in their own language. Everyone hates them now, I'm sure.Foot race. D&C win a 2015 Mustang each. Connor goes massive hypocrite again, talking about racing on their own. Cowboys second. Leo & Jamal third. B&R fourth. J&C last. Non-elim. Typical. They feel they must win. Because they're lucky.
Will they share it?
Has there been a season with three non-elims before?
Not that I recall, but that's probably why they added it. Can't get too predictable, or something.
The third is usually in the next to last leg when only three teams are left.
Most seasons have 12 legs. So if you start with 11 racers, you have to eliminate 8 of them by leg 11 for a final 3 to run the last leg. So over the l1 legs, 8 of the legs end in eliminations and the others are something else. I personally miss the superleg.
Yeah, I liked the Superleg as well.
Next week: Spain. Bull ramming. L&J get the chance to U-Turn someone.Wonder who.
LAST EDITED ON 04-28-14 AT 03:20 PM (EST)Some info I've read elsewhere on what happens during the U-turn in the next episode ... hiding the text so people won't be spoiled if they don't want to know:
I'm reading elsewhere that it isn't Brenchel who got U-turned by the Afghanimals -- according to the sleuths over at Reality Fan Forums, it's the Cowboys who were U-turned and then Philiminated.
Now, that is how an U-turn should be used - to try and eliminate a strong team and improve your chances of winning by keeping perceived weaker teams still in the race.
If that's true, Leo & Jamal will not be welcome in certain parts of the country anymore. Not that were very welcome there before.
To be fair, I don't think the cowboys are participating in the alliance. They just aren't actively helping Brendan and Rachel, which seems legit, especially this late in the race.No detour. I'm guessing it was something else to match cleaning the room, because that seemed like a task that some would skip. Although I like the idea of essentially having them do both halves of the detour (a mental and physical task).
Two bunch points and a non-elimination leg? That will make the next leg interesting - a double U-Turn AND a Speed Bump. Can't we just let the racers race already?
I'm having a premonition that the Speed Bump will be along the lines of "throw coins in a fountain" simple.Caroline & Jennifer are among luckiest racers ever. May top Beekmans.
BJ & Tyler. Should have been out over and over again.
Shame the Trotters didn't make it to the mountaintop, and then on to the bulls, they were always about putting on a good show.Wonderful scenery