Obveeus wrote:
> As expected after the last episode of TAR Asia, this leg of the race started
> out with a plane flight that equalized all the teams. The start times were
> a bit odd, (maybe the second to last team had some sort of penalty or maybe
> the start time they had was a misprint?). In any case, the 4hour lead the
> alpha males had was erased.
Also of note last week to this week. Editing last week made it appear
the first two teams were racing to find the mat at roughly the same
time. Departure times this week showed the two teams separated by 2
hours. Team gym buddies were actually closer time wise to the last
place team than the first place team.
>
> The flight took all 7 teams to Japan. So, who will get the negative edit
> for this week? Apparently, the entire country of Japan. Japan is
> definitely disliked by most of the cast.
>
> Navy guy and his wife spent most of this leg of the race lagging behind. He
> is a slow thinker and she is a non-thinker.
She is Flo with a gravely whine instead of the high pitched one. And
she has a nastier disposition. The teams are hoping for the moms to
lose. I anxiously await the departure of these two. I keep saying that
and they keep hanging. Maybe I need to change my strategy. BTW, he
keeps doing all the roadblocks. I'll be curious to see if they have a
road block count limit and she ends up scaling a wall or something.
Then we're REALLY hear a bunch of whining.
>
> The first task with the camcorder was straight out of last season. Somehow,
> I wonder if this season didn't kill the product placement, though, as 2
> teams found the Sony handicam too complicated to operate. Funny, but not a
> good 'infomercial'.
Well, one of the teams was navy guy and wife. So in reality there was
only one 'TEAM' that couldn't do it.
>
> The next task was to find the cute girl in the French Maid's outfit. Yeah,
> I know, they were looking for the Anime woman in the milk maid outfit, but
> is there really any difference? This was an entertaining task, but only
> because it exposed that 'all Japanese women look alike' so instead of
> identifying the correct one by photo, each team just mindlessly walked up to
> women in costume and asked them if it was their picture.
I was disappointed. Bunch of cute women like that in maids costumes,
and not one in fishnet stockings. DARN!
>
> I'm really starting to dislike our alpha males. They play for the camera
> way too much and they are 'too Americanized'.
I'm reminded of the hippies from TAR 9. But these guys are athletic so
it's going to be harder to take them out.
>
> Detour involved child's game (catch it) or navigating (cart it). Both tasks
> were chosen, some after the other task was rejected and I think once simply
> because the team stumbled upon the catch it task location by accident.
> Neither task was particularly interesting, but neither one looked very time
> consuming, either.
>
> Roadblock was an ice puzzle version of scrabble. Spelling out words
> requires brains, but the task also required a great deal of luck since only
> one particular word mattered among those possible. Only one player was
> shown being smart enough to use pencil and paper (wow, were her hands red
> from the ice) and, of course, one team 'cheated'. Hopefully, the lesson
> learned will be to not leave clues around that other teams can copy/follow.
Penalty for cheating? I don't think so, but I'm not sure.
>
> Then, along came the letdown of the episode: another train ride on a train
> that was not set to depart for hours. At that point, you knew this was
> going to be 'one of those pointless episodes'. Not a non-elimination, but a
> 'to be continued'. Same difference from a viewer perspective, though as it
> wiped out the effort of an entire episode worth of 'racing'. I think that
> if I reparsed the letters of the ice block destination word a bit, I would
> know what the producers were really saying to the viewers this episode. ;-)
>
>
I call FOUL on this one. I went back and watched again and Allen
specifically said it would be the pit stop. Then they get there and
they're still racing. BOOO!!! HISS!!!!!
Take care,
Rich
God bless the USA
--
That's one of the problems in this country
The nuts don't know they're nuts.
--Jeff Foxworthy
