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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 12:10 pm
I've just started to watch, and I have a MAJOR complaint! Wasn't last week's episode the one with the Fast Forward? So why the heck would they put a fast forward and then immediately have the next leg be a bunch-up leg with everyone on the same train/plane? THAT seems to be especially unfair to the ones who attempted and completed the fast forward. They had no advantage other than that they didn't have to complete any other tasks. But the time advantage they gained by that? Whoosh. Gone. So wrong. And this is definitely something the producers could control.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 12:17 pm
Bisc, it sounds like Katie and Rachel are sucking the very life out of the racers at ES.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 12:19 pm
When they had a FF last week, I figured this week would be non-elimination. That's why I didn't get that excited when Vick and Nicki came in last...I knew they'd be staying. I did like the train trip, though. Seems like it'd be a fun way to travel. I've always wanted to get a sleeper car and go on train across part of the US, but I've never gotten around to it yet. The show wasn't particularly exciting last night IMO except maybe Mallory's kvetching about the poop.
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 12:40 pm
The mystery of where Fast Forwards and NELs come has vexed us for years! They really make very little logical sense. I thought that both tasks were very difficult last night...all those reels of film and the cacophony of all those pianos...they were both rather difficult tasks, although once you found the key (IMO of course - listening to one song at a time and finding the letters on the film) they were easier to solve. Anybody else expect to see Chad beating his manly chest and belching during last night's show? Have you ever seen such a condescending twit? Run Stephanie Run!
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Karen
Member
09-06-2004
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 2:00 pm
From a production standpoint, it's got to be a nightmare when one team ends up far ahead of another team (think back to the first season or two when teams ended up an entire leg ahead of others). If they give a FF, it allows a team to come in first, get a prize, get the exhilaration of winning a leg, win their trip for two, and leaving first, and then the bunching allows production to keep them all close enough to each other to not be a complete logistical nightmare. Just my opinion, of course.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 2:58 pm
Karen, I think you may be right about that. It kind of makes sense to allow the rest of them to catch up to whoever won the FF. Also, when a team falls a leg (or a day or so ) behind, we miss the interaction of that team with the other teams and there is no suspense as to who will be the last one to hit the mat.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 3:32 pm
I wonder if the song challenge started out with they had to do it all 3 at once, and then finally said they could do it one at a time - I alos couldnt figure out how they were going to separate that sound mess overload!
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 3:51 pm
The producers have already said that they intentionally try to bunch 'em up every now and again. Not in that many words.
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 6:06 pm
Yes, Karen, I think you have it figured out! It obviously took a long time for my voice to carry as far as St. Petersburg, because I was yelling "one at a time" from the get-go on the music challenge. I also would have listened to one and had my partner listen to another to speed up the process. It is remarkable how much easier this race is to run from my couch!
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Brenda1966
Member
07-02-2002
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 8:20 pm
Never really liked the volley ball girls and after seeing their attitudes at ES, I'm really glad they are gone! They sounds like bitter, poor sports. Most unlikable team so far this season!
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Whoami
Member
08-02-2001
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 8:51 pm
I got frustrated with the music challenge, cause first of all so few people decided to do it. Then cause they all had such a dreadful time completing the task. But then again, I'm quite familiar with the music of Pictures At An Exhibition and Sheherazade. Can't say I'm familiar with Troika though. So this challenge would have been an easy one for me (well, 2/3 of it anyway, LOL). They didn't stay on the clips of each song long enough for me to hear them thoroughly. But I recognized the part from Pictures At An Exhibition right away (thanks to one of my favorite drum and bugle corps using it for a couple years back in the 80's). So that one I'd have found immediately, even though I may not have remembered the song title right away. I recognized Sheherezade right away. I Googled the last song, and found a YouTube video of someone playing the song. The tune wasn't familiar to me at all. So I guess I can understand the contestant's frustrations on trying to locate 3 pieces of music they didn't know.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 10:57 pm
Lexie_girl said: Bisc, it sounds like Katie and Rachel are sucking the very life out of the racers at ES. TYVM, I think you put it in a nutshell! I always look forward to ES, almost as much as the show. When I try to write out the summary for our Canadian Friends, I may watch/listen 3-4 times just trying to get it PRECISELY right. Not a hardship because I always see some new comment, facial expression, piece of scenery I missed. Still fun. Last night's show though felt like a "sucking the very life out" clip. After 2 watchings I thought 'hope that's close enough folks, I don't need to see it again!' Question. If Katie & Rachel were the "strongest team" (as they keep relentlessly repeating) WHY were they in 8th place the episode before they were (once again) the 8th place to become the bootees? 2 times in a row. They weren't usually running at the front of the pack. I think K/R can't grasp that the race is about more than athletic skills. The ability to charm a taxi driver or bystanders to help, map navigating, stay calm under stress, easily drive a clutch on the other side of the road, etc. Lot's of other skills come into play to create the winners. Somehow, I didn't really envision K/R would end up doing the
Wah Wah Wah's at ES.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Monday, November 01, 2010 - 11:04 pm
You know, that Wah Wah Wah Wah's harmony tune that Connor & Jonathan created for ES, is like an earwig that keeps pestering me. I rarely watched cartoons as a kid, but my kid sisters did. Was it Wylie Coyote & Roadrunner? Everytime he hit the bottom of the cliff? Or Tweety Pie? Anyone recognize the tune? Like I said, it's an earwig!
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Tuesday, November 02, 2010 - 7:59 am
I wonder if K and R will be able to resign themselves to the fact that ANYBODY other than themselves is going to win this race! How petty are they?
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Roxip
Member
01-29-2004
| Tuesday, November 02, 2010 - 8:19 am
They don't come off looking like good sports, that's for sure. I understand that as athletes they are intense and focused, but they need to learn a little humility. A lot less ego will stand them in good stead with future endeavors. They need to learn to let it go once they get off the court! And they also need to learn how important it will be for them throughout their lives to be supportive of other women!
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Wednesday, November 03, 2010 - 5:57 pm
It is remarkable how much easier this race is to run from my couch! I was just thinking the same thing, TNT! 
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