It was more obvious when I watched in HD on the huge TV at my friend's house (he also has top of the line surround sound, which was excellent), but on my much less awesome TV it didn't bother much.

I'm content to tell myself not to notice it.

Instead, I'm distracted by the fact that the stretch of highway where all the exteriors are shot has a double-yellow line in the middle even though all the cars are going the same way.

Ohhhh yes. Highways = white dotted and/or solid lines between lanes. Double yellow = other side of the road.

When looking up the Dodge Challenger last night (Hi, I'm Ailleann and I'm addicted to muscle cars), I discovered that Dodge is redoing the Challenger in 2008. Which is... surprisingly tempting. As long as they have it in all black.

Oh, I just figured they were passing on the other side of the road. And luckily no one was coming the other direction.

I think the only thing that bugged me about the final chase scene was that all of a sudden they're all within a few car lengths of each other? That made no sense to me - felt like they were trying to hurry up and cram the ending into a few available minutes.

(In fact, at first I thought they had just not done a very good job of communicating the passage of time between when Tully passed each of the other (main) competitors. Then they were all pulling in one after another which...come on. First of all, he's supposedly going so fast that he makes up all that time spent not-arrested, but now they can all keep up? ) And anyway, anyone who's ever taken a multi-car trip knows you can't manage arriving simultaneously when you're actively trying, let alone when the cars are not actually together.

I'd also like to see more throw-away shots of unnamed competitors, like the couple on the bike, just for realism's sake.

But those are pretty minor quibbles, all things considered.

I think the only thing that bugged me about the final chase scene was that all of a sudden they're all within a few car lengths of each other?

Yeah, I was confused there too -- I've watched too much TAR to see something like that happen and not wonder where they all got bunched up.

I'd also like to see more throw-away shots of unnamed competitors, like the couple on the bike, just for realism's sake.

Yes! I mean, obviously there are budgetary reasons not to show all 42 cars every week, but I'm not going to be able to buy these 5 coincidentally being the only racers within a few minutes of each other on every leg.

I just wanna go on the record: if the secret magical Florida mountain people sing "Brigadoon" I'm going back to watching How I Met Your Mother live instead of on tape.

This is a good thing, because the GI's wife currently makes me long for Saint!Cordy.

Now you've got me imagining Riley Smith in mid-argument, turning to the passenger seat, and instead of his wife Skip is sitting there giving a little wave and saying "Howyadoin'?"

Considering how multi-layered the characters we've gotten to know are, I'm thinking (and really hoping) that there is more going on with Army wife than just loving her husband. Because she was bugging me too.

Hopefully. Last night was...talky, and the scenes with those two made me want to change channels. But once Tully got in the Challenger I was re-invested.

But once Tully got in the Challenger I was re-invested.

That's a really unique spelling of "incredibly turned on."

Oh, I just figured they were passing on the other side of the road. And luckily no one was coming the other direction.

Except that there were lots of seemingly speed-limit-driving cars also going in the "wrong direction". The best hand-wave I could come up with is that the double yellow line separated out the high speed commuter lanes.

Yeah, the double yellow line drove me bugnuts, too. I figured it was just poor [some technical word for whatever special effects they're using]. But I let go of stuff like that if the story is intriguing.