Another week, another episode full of whiny teams. The teams get a major bunch right at the start,
when water taxis don’t run in the middle of the night, oddly enough. They head out to another island, where the
teams get a blessing from a priest before collecting scuba gear to do the
detour. The choices are create an
underwater picnic with a helmet on, or find two red pearls in a large amount of
oysters using swim fins and a snorkel.
The teams then got a map to head to yet another island, where they had
to kick a coconut down a track on stilts for the roadblock, before making a mad
dash to Phil, who is on yet another portion of the island.
How did the teams do?
Let’s find out
Jessica and Jon
left first, but were quickly gain on by all but the last two teams. Dave and Connor tried to get the second
express pass, but they held it close to their chest, at least for now. Other than than, these two didn’t leave much
of a mark
Bates and Anthony
rocked this leg, and managed to come in first, but again, didn’t say anything
to really stand out, either.
Dave and Connor
made a major error this week-they forgot their scuba gear at the priest island,
and had to go back after reaching the detour.
Other than that, they ran a solid leg, and actually managed to pick up a
spot in the melee. But Dave, on the run
into the mat, thinks he ruptured his Achilles tendon. Dun dun DUN!
Pam and Winnie
were pretty whiny this leg, even as they didn’t make much of an
impression. They did manage to get
completely and utterly lost after the detour, but did it affect their finishing
position?
Mona and Beth
were a complete and utter non-entity, beyond the fact that they were the first
team to choose the picnic detour, and managed to pick up a few places.
Joey and Megan
were pretty annoying again today, they were fully obnoxious in how proud of
themselves they were in the detour, ‘oh, look at us and how smart we are for thinking
of this technique’ that EVERY other team(except one) did too.
Chuck and Wynona
were standard middle of the pack fare, though Wynona was a titch insufferable
in her whining about being too old for this.
I just wonder what she thought she was getting into, if not a physically
taxing game.
Idries and Jamil
were fully scared of water AGAIN. And
again, I have to ask what they thought they were getting into. Have they not seen this show, like at
all? Anyway, they do fine until they get
to the detour, where their whole thing unravels. They blather around for the better part of an
hour, attempting to get clams and having to be rescued, before they finally change
to the other half of the detour, and finish that relatively quickly. But did their dithering hurt them?
Max and Katie ran
a solid, if unremarkable leg. It’s
almost too bad they had that four hour penalty(beside the fact that I still
HAAAAATE them), though it was cut to an hour and a half with the bunching.
Caroline and Jennifer
also had a solid leg, and rocked the final challenge, but again, had a four
hour penalty that made everything interesting.
Beyond the whining and bunching, this was a solid
episode. The challenges were
sufficiently difficult, so that positions were not guaranteed, which was
nice. I also liked that they actually
had to navigate themselves around, which always leaves room for extra drama(oh
hi, Pam and Winnie!).
Lets see how everyone ended up, shall we?
Finishing Order(Average
Place)
1. Bates/Anthony(1.5)
2. Dave/Connor(2.5)
3. Jessica/Jon(2.0)
4. Joey/Megan(5)
5. Chuck/Wynona(6.0)
6. Mona/Beth(5.5)
7. Caroline/Jennifer(8.5)
8. Max/Katie(8.5)
9. Pam/Winnie(6.5)
10. Idres/Jamil(9.0)-Eliminated
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