Though this post is not itself a SPOILER, I will be using them to make my case. You have been warned.OK, this is my personal theory on how the Gutsy Grandmas finally surrender to fate and are eliminated:
1) Grannies oversleep and Blake & Paige passes them
2) They finally wake up and hit the panic button
3) They look for the fast forward, but it's already gone
4) They miss the most direct flight to Cape Town and look around for a flight - any flight - out of Iguacu (or Sao Paulo)
5) In the tradition of Frank & Margarita's theory that the shortest point between two cities is to go farther away from where you started, our grannies take a flight to Europe (Lisbon?)
6) Peggy's nervous breakdown
7) They finally arrive in Cape Town, hours and hours behind everyone else
8) Phil gives them the bad news as the lead teams applaud their gutsiness (they're about ready to leave)
I admit I had to do some straining to make everything fit, but I think I did a pretty good job.
The alternate theory is that they just get beat, and Europe is on their way to their sequestered location.
My mind just cannot accept that they make it past stop #3.
OK, this is my personal theory on how the Gutsy Grandmas finally surrender to fate and are eliminated:1) Grannies oversleep and Blake & Paige passes them
I was half right; they did oversleep, but Blake & Paige did NOT pass them.
2) They finally wake up and hit the panic button
This was true, as far as it went. Those two don't exactly move like FloJo, even in a panic situation.
3) They look for the fast forward, but it's already gone
The fast forward was in Cape Town, where it did them absolutely no good. The producers hurried them along once they finally got there.
4) They miss the most direct flight to Cape Town and look around for a flight - any flight - out of Iguacu (or Sao Paulo)
As I noted elsewhere, all the teams missed the most direct flight to Cape Town. In the specific case of the grannies, they would have been better off waiting a full day for it; the flight would've gotten there about noon, which would have put them close to C&A and Team Amen.
5) In the tradition of Frank & Margarita's theory that the shortest point between two cities is to go farther away from where you started, our grannies take a flight to Europe (Lisbon?)
Everyone went through Europe, but the GG's took the most circuitous route by far. NEW YORK???
6) Peggy's nervous breakdown
We didn't see it, but I certainly believe it happened. Three days of flights on four different continents would be enough to stress almost any reasonable person.
7) They finally arrive in Cape Town, hours and hours behind everyone else
Spot on, as our British friends would say.
8) Phil gives them the bad news as the lead teams applaud their gutsiness (they're about ready to leave)
Some of the other teams did applaud their gutsiness, but only in interviews after the fact. Unless all the teams were held for an extra 24 hours, they all should have left by the time the grannies arrived.