TAR: Awww, Cha Cha Cha! But I knew it was coming. They were just too far behind to be able to get a half hour advantage on anyone.
I don't like anyone left. I guess I'll go for the beauty queens by default, but my heart's not in it.
So during my bouts with insomnia, I've been watching the Season 2 race on GSN, and I love that season Danny & Oswald. What happened to their strategy of going to the top hotels and asking the concierges for directions? It was so funny during that one to see them going shopping; Gucci, all that stuff, and then end up with a Mercedes ride to the airport. Meanwhile the other teams are all tired and miserable and cranky. But it was interesting to see that they had money issues that season, too, and didn't work it out this season.
Did it look like the final episode would be in Hawaii?
Yeah, the final episode looked very Hawaiian.
There's a BBC series called Secrets of the Ancients / Secrets of Lost Empires that does exactly that. I wish I could remember if it ever aired in the States.
This does sound like it is right up my alley.
On the Mythbusters front this season feels like a lot of the episodes are rushed. I really enjoyed watching more of the details on the builds in the earlier episodes it felt like more of the episodes were spent on the builds. It also seems like they are almost intentionally setting themselves up to have to retest some of these in their re-visited episodes.
TAR:
Goodbye, Danny & Oswald! You ran a good game at least in the sense of having some class, wit, and out of the box thinking. If you'd been Yielded, you wouldn't have been crying that it was sooooo unfair.
I just remembered that the blondies came in 4th last year, in similar circumstances -- they had the 30 minute penalty, but legitimately came in last in the leg. That seems somehow fair to me -- they didn't get screwed because of their performance in the previous leg, just the current one.
I like the BQs. They're good natured and race well (except when they do the eyerolly things like miss the detour or forget the gps thingie). They're fun to watch.
They really seem to be enjoying themselves -- which neither of the remaining teams seem to and they aren't taking everything about the race as some sort of sign or morality/immorality.
Much speculation that the BQs mess up and Charla/Mirna win. I hope not. (Speculation based on the season long 'evil' edit the BQs have been getting and the reverse edit on Charla/Mirna.)
Charla is usually the more clueful of her duo, but I kept having to laugh at the poor Navy guy who had to remind her again and again that she shouldn't touch the screen of the GPS device....
"Ma'am. I said you're not supposed to touch the screen. Ma'am. Don't touch the screen. Not at all. Ma'am...." Poor guy.
I can't imagine Charla and Mirna winning -- that would be a travesty!
Though when the woman pointed out to Danielle that she might be hitting the buttons on the sides of the GPS, I wondered if that was maybe the problem - and either Charla didn't notice the buttons there or wasn't able to hold the thing without touching them.
