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Sadiesmom
Member
03-13-2002
| Sunday, May 05, 2024 - 2:41 pm 
The crew drivers may have been local people, but the crew should have been staff of the amazing race. The staff should have been reachable. There is no excuse. If they erred, they should have been canned.
The film the week before said a bad decision by Danny, so it makes me wonder if there was room to pull over and they did not as part of the problem. Racing decisions are not corrected if questionable. I remember early in the series one person godysentery due to having to do a task in infected water and got sick during the race, she could not be treated unless she dropped out or fetched the rest spot. One of the tasks was drinking some foul tea, most people did it reluctantly,but did it. She would drink a sip then get really ill. It took forever to finish that task and they got eliminated. It was an illness caused by the race.1
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Sunday, May 05, 2024 - 4:43 pm
I was just thinking...there obviously was a camera in Danny and mom's cart. I wonder why they just couldn't have made the decision to let them continue...then had another crew (either from a previous team that arrived) or have their crew go straight to the mat checkpoint and film from there. They had footage from the cart and footage of the arrival.
Of course, I guess if you have a rule you have to stick to it...but it seems it could have been worked around maybe.
In any case, like I mentioned before, I doubt the mom could have kept up in the final legs? But Danny was so excellent in propelling his mom in tasks...they just might have made it. Especially if another team had an equivalent mess up. Did anyone keep track of how many challenges the mom did versus the son? I have seen in the past, teams will try to have the weaker one do most of the initial ones, so they save the ones towards the end for the stronger teammate. Since the ones at the end are harder. Seemed that the son did more of them? If that's the case, I think their chance to win in the end would have been decreased
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Pamy
Member
01-01-2002
| Sunday, May 05, 2024 - 5:20 pm
Honestly, if the mom wasnt helped in that puzzle task a couple weeks ago she would have been out. I feel like this was nature correcting itself lol
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Sunday, May 05, 2024 - 7:04 pm
Lol right, forgot about that!
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Christy358
Member
07-10-2007
| Sunday, May 05, 2024 - 11:21 pm
She was helped in that puzzle contest by a person who felt Dannys map skills helped them.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, May 06, 2024 - 3:40 am
And if Danny hadn't shared directions, outcomes may have differed.
Their elimination, to me, cannot be shrugged off by assuming what would happen in the future.
And it wasn't clear cut to the production people. Mike Bloom says they described awkwardly standing on the mat which production staff discussed what to do.
It wasn't their finest hour.
The winners of the last season aired were shocked to hear how long they had to wait to start the next task and said they would have reacted strongly in that situation.
Film can be and is edited. Danny and Angie were there,and I imagine that if they were lying, they would be called out by producers or CBS.
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Monday, May 06, 2024 - 9:30 am
I can understand the issue with losing the crew. What I don’t understand is how it took the crew so long to catch up? It’s a small island. That’s absurd. They should at most have been five minutes behind them. Something isn’t adding up?
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Monday, May 06, 2024 - 10:19 am
And it could not have happened to a nicer team...can imagine the reactions, had it happened to a few of the more grumpy teams they have had.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, May 06, 2024 - 1:15 pm
Yes, several teams would have reacted badly. I would have.
Angie and Danny have had a couple of years to deal with it.
She says at that point she had moved from racing for her son's dream and struggling, to being into it for herself, too. Danny says they don't show how Angie was like a mom to lots of the racers.
But Angie said she found a new confidence and the next year she traveled to Ireland with her daughter, they backpacked, drove on the left side and that before the race experience she wouldn't have been open to that.
So they are making lemonade out of a large lemon!
Jimmer, it sounds like production really dropped the ball. After 90 minutes one person opened the car door and said their penalty was over, but they were never given a penalty!
Then they suddenly had a new crew 30 minutes before theirs showed up. And at the mat, more time elapsed before production concluded that they were eliminated!
I do wonder if and how they will spin this at the beginning of the next episode?
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Sincebb1
Member
08-22-2005
| Monday, May 06, 2024 - 1:29 pm
That is the biggest take away for most all contestants on all competition shows...they say they come away from the experience with a newfound confidence and discovery of themselves. So in that respect, they are still winners
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, May 06, 2024 - 8:32 pm
Yes, for sure.
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