No Hand Movement You'd like to think there would be another Muslim-majority country we could go to. You'd really like to think that.
Slap The quota of 'descend from high places' tasks has now officially been filled for the next seven seasons. Which means we only have what, twelve more to go before the end of the current course?
Clap The dates branch of the Detour was just complicated enough to be challenging while not so finicky as to make it a random roulette wheel where eighty balls had to land in the right slots -- out of eight hundred -- on one spin. Also, I can't help but feel that one table was placed with malice aforethought.
Slap Believe it or not, I understand the clothing rules involved in going into the mosque and respect them. However, once outside the structure, you are asking the female contestants to run around in 100+ degree heat while wearing long sleeves. What was the plan in case someone collapsed? Because if you keep coming back here, you're going to need that plan. And apparently it can't involve taking off any layers to cool them down.
Clap However, I'm very glad we went to the mosque.
Slap And then we threw on more layers of clothing to get in the race car -- and that's before looking at the way the back wheels were skidding about on some of those turns. Plus you put the driver at risk of Marie. You just know she's a passenger-seat takeover expert. Who was just waiting for a chance to grab the wheel. And yank. Hard.
Slap There were two points on this leg where we needed more details than we got. First, there was the fishing net branch of the Detour. How exactly was one supposed to be assembled? We saw the finished stage, but this was a place where a high-speed short cell would have helped the viewers. Then we got to the race car lap. How long was it? How much time was required for one circuit (because we know they're not moving at the record speed)? How many cars were allowed on the track at the same time? It's minor stuff, but it gives us a better idea of how the field is sorting out across the duration of the task -- whatever that latter is.