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"TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 12-09-12 at 08:56 PM
I'll be a little late joining in on the action tonight but wanted to be sure that a thread is up for discussion of tonight's finale. Have at it, folks!
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"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by vennui on 12-09-12 at 09:09 PM
Trey and Lexi say the million first.

Why does everyone think aliances are still on?

"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by Estee on 12-09-12 at 09:19 PM
If the twinnies keep their clueless lack of tact up for the whole two hours, they're going to find themselves on a tribe with Abi-Maria.
"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by featherfish81 on 12-09-12 at 09:28 PM
The twins are panicking - they have to do a speed bump while the rest of the teams are going on. But really - attacking the Beekman boys for riding on others coattails the entire race??? They've been fighting from the back of the pack the entire time. And who was it who spoke French?

Jaymes, James, Trey, and Lexi seem to be teaming up out of practicality - 6 heads are better than 2. But the twins seem to be doing it out of pure spite.

"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by Estee on 12-09-12 at 09:39 PM
"We've never been nice!"

Truth as last line of defense.

"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by Estee on 12-09-12 at 09:53 PM
We now bring you to the fifty-third minute of our Ford Escape commercial, still in progress.
"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by Snidget on 12-09-12 at 11:00 PM
Holy Product Placement Batman!
"Ding-dong!"
Posted by Estee on 12-09-12 at 10:03 PM
Karma calling!
"RE: Ding-dong!"
Posted by Snidget on 12-09-12 at 11:05 PM
Is it wrong that I happy danced to the dirge music playing while the twinnies were eliminated?
"RE: Ding-dong!"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 12-10-12 at 00:34 AM
Loved seeing these two get the turf!

And was anyone else disappointed that neither Trey/Lexi nor the Chippendales screamed, "OMG, MY OX IS BROKEN!" during the plowing part?

"The return of Invisi-Clue."
Posted by Estee on 12-09-12 at 10:17 PM
Houdini would be so proud.

Weird to see a last leg in Brooklyn. It's been a while since the course run through the boroughs -- a long while. And home field isn't always an edge...

"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by Brownroach on 12-09-12 at 10:22 PM
Loved the Coney Island segment. The Navy Yard is looking good!
"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by Puffy on 12-09-12 at 11:22 PM
Another site where the Amazing Race visited and later on disaster struck.
"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by PepeLePew13 on 12-10-12 at 00:31 AM
Not exactly the same thing, but Josh and Brent won the day after a Dallas Cowboys player by the name of Josh Brent was arrested for intoxicated manslaughter in killing a teammate after crashing while drunk.
"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by Brownroach on 12-09-12 at 10:23 PM
LAST EDITED ON 12-09-12 AT 10:24 PM (EST)

Now to Spring Street for Lombardi's pizza!

"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by Brownroach on 12-09-12 at 10:27 PM
Wait, that does not look like Lombardi's. I've never seen it anywhere near that empty.
"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by Estee on 12-09-12 at 10:33 PM
Cleared out for the day by CBS rental. I've never seen that much sauce. If I see a pizza like that, I generally assume something died on it.

I love how the Race is essentially hiding in plain sight here. Has one local reacted to the cameras? Just another day in the city.

"The UN? But our Texas schoolbooks said if we ever set foot there, the socialists would eat us!"

"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by Estee on 12-09-12 at 10:39 PM
And to think that they screwed up on Mulberry Street.

Ye gawds, the course review is the greetings and dismissals at the Pit Stops! No wonder the camera kept giving us the translations! If anyone thought to write those down...

"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by Estee on 12-09-12 at 10:44 PM
"We thought they were just being cordial!"

So basically, no.

"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by byoffer on 12-09-12 at 10:53 PM
This final challenge is too hard. I don't have a problem with hard, but it seems to me it will end up being a crap shoot as to who gets lucky and gets a few matches. And that will decide the $1M.
"RE: TAR 21 - FINALE - East Coast Spoiler Thread"
Posted by dabo on 12-10-12 at 03:24 AM
And, of course, all the teams who ever finished first in a leg were less interested in hearing what else was said on the matt, they had visions of trips and cars and sugar plums in their heads.
"The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by Estee on 12-09-12 at 10:59 PM
But not the winners who would be the least liked.

Thank you for broadcasting that kiss, CBS. I know you're going to get endless amounts of fundie flack over it. Tell them where to find the Navy Yards and tell them the bungee cords are gone.

And I have no objections to sending the Chippies back out on the course.

"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by byoffer on 12-09-12 at 11:01 PM
YAY!!! Beekmans!!!
"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by byoffer on 12-09-12 at 11:02 PM
and my favourite part is the slap that must give to the Twinnies!
"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by Estee on 12-09-12 at 11:09 PM
No, let me slap the twinnies! I've been standing in line for ages!

(Dread that interview. Wonder how many shots the editors needed before they could find one where those two looked happy for anybody...)

Honestly, it could be a lot worse. MB could have gotten them. And still might.

"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by kidflash212 on 12-09-12 at 11:17 PM
Would have liked to see the Chippendales win. So much emphasis on them wanting to win to take care of their parents, I thought it would happen.
"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by Estee on 12-09-12 at 11:20 PM
I was kind of fond of them by the end myself -- part of why I'd like to see them on any future Second Chances season. Not your standard issue alpha team: drive from heart, not ego -- and there was a lot of heart.
"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by byoffer on 12-09-12 at 11:27 PM
They were the team I was cheering for most of the season also.

When we saw what the final challenge was, despite them being in 3rd I actually thought they were going to win. I recall throughout the race that the Chippies were using the local language quite often. Sadly this may have just been "please" and "thank you" and not "hello" and "goodbye".

"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by featherfish81 on 12-10-12 at 02:20 AM
Yeah, if I'm going to learn a few words of a language, "please" and "thank you" are much higher on my list than "goodbye." I get that they didn't want to just do a recap of the tasks, because teams know that that's what they have to pay attention to and most do a good job of memorizing it. But that did seem a little too trial and error for a final task.
"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by Belle Book on 12-10-12 at 01:05 PM
I think I would have done a good job on the final task. Like all the others, I knew the French and Spanish words for "Hello" and "Good-bye" (and I minored in Spanish while in college, so that would also have helped). But I also would have known the Russian words for "Hello" and "Good-bye". Since the Dutch word for "Hello" is similar to the English word, and since English was originally a Germanic language, I'd have recognized it as well. I might also have figured out that which words were Chinese and that one of the other words was Turkish. Beyond that -- yeah, trial and error, but at least I would have been ahead of the curve.

Belle Book

"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by Karchita on 12-10-12 at 01:21 PM
Me, too. I wouldn't have had a huge problem with that task. I would like to see more tasks that reward the teams that have some sensitivity to the local cultures.
"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by featherfish81 on 12-10-12 at 08:27 PM
That's true, it did help if you knew the local cultures. And I knew a few more than they did (I can say Hello in Chinese and Goodbye in Russian). It also rewarded those who could think logically, and not those who panicked. I guess it was okay after all.
"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by Belle Book on 12-11-12 at 09:39 AM
Which reminds me -- if I'd been doing the Roadblock (and I probably would have, if I'd gotten that far), I would have told myself, "Don't panic! Calm down and be logical about this!" And I probably would have counted to ten before I began. It probably would have helped.

Belle Book

"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by Brownroach on 12-10-12 at 00:34 AM
I liked Jaymes and James a lot too, and thought they were being set up to win over the last few eps. But with the repeated emphasis tonight on how the Beekmans had never won a leg I thought they might end up taking it.
"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by MNgirl on 12-10-12 at 02:28 AM
The Beekmans winning was quite the surprise come-from-behind win and I'm happy for them. I usually would be thrilled the underdogs took it all, but dang it, I wanted the Chippies to win! They're just so nice, likable, funny, and kind. Especially Jaymes. Or James. I don't know, the blond one, lol. You could tell he really wanted to help his dad. He looked so sad, I felt so bad for him.

Thank god it wasn't the Twinnies, tho. Team Texas was getting on my nerves at the end, too. Shouldn't steal people's money, what with karma being a beyotch and all.

"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by CTgirl on 12-10-12 at 09:41 AM
I did too until they won cars for winning the Loire Valley leg. One of the James's said, my mom needs a new car...and I thought "overkill," they aren't going to win the entire thing. I hope they get asked back for an all-stars season but I'm not so sure how they'll do without an alliance! They seemed like genuinely nice guys.

I liked the last task. I think dark-haired James (I never figured out who spelled his name with a y) remembered better than they let on but since they didn't win, downplayed it. I loved the way Lexi panicked and crashed and burned. They followed too much of the way for me to want them to be winners.

As much as I like underdogs, I really, really did not care for the way Brent spoke to Josh whenever things got tough and how he blamed him for things. He doesn't seem like a very supportive partner.

"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by MNgirl on 12-10-12 at 02:21 PM
That's exactly how I felt about the Beekmans, too. They were really nice to other people, but not so much to each other. When the Chips were down (haha), they were supportive and encouraging to each other, well at least blond Jaymes/James.

I thought for sure Team Texas was going to whip through that last challenge and was pleasantly surprised when she melted down. They were super annoying last night, with all their "babe" this and "babe" that. I seriously almost stopped watching one season because there were so many couple teams that couldn't stop yelling babe at each other. Definitely my biggest pet peeve about TAR by far.

When I first saw Team Chip, I was completely ready to loathe them. I can't believe they ended up my favorite team, maybe one of my favorite teams, ever.

"RE: The unlikeliest of winners?"
Posted by CTgirl on 12-10-12 at 04:39 PM
Totally agree on the Chips. I rolled my eyes when I saw they had been cast. I missed a few episodes early on and when I started watching again, they quickly became one of my favorite teams too (although Danny and Oswald will always be #1!)
"origin of the name Gotham"
Posted by Puffy on 12-10-12 at 03:09 AM
It was meant to be. The final pitstop was Gotham Hall.

From Wikipedia:
"Gotham" had long been a well-known nickname for New York City. The nickname was popularized in the nineteenth century, having been first attached to New York by Washington Irving. Irving took the name from the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, England, a place that, according to folklore, was inhabited by fools. The village's name derives from Old English gat 'goat' and ham 'home', literally "homestead where goats are kept."

"RE: origin of the name Gotham"
Posted by angelworth29 on 12-10-12 at 05:16 PM

*Twilight Zone music plays*