I like that they explicitly talked about the work across the season, especially because I thought Drew's stuff last night was great, but no way would I want him to be the season winner.

And in general, I love that they just do a regular one-hour finale, because it's annoying when shows stretch out the episode with the fewest competitors, but in this case, I would have liked to hear more from the past winners!

Relevant to this thread: a reality show is filming at our house today! A friend is a producer and asked if we would serve as a filming location (for a whopping three figures). The executive producer also asked Bob Bob to play a role: so he's an expert on a thing he knows nothing about (all reality is fake...) for a whopping 1/4 of four figures!

Ooh, that's exciting Bon Bon! (Why does my phone auto-capitalize that??)

What kind of reality show? Will you be able to tell us later so we can watch and giggle at bob bob?

So fun! I'm still upset Law & Order decided not to use my apartment that one time....

I will clue you in when it airs!

Yes! I'm only one degree of separation from being a reality TV star!

The Face Off finale was great! Fantastic makeups across the board and an action packed fight scene.

I am intrigued by this Return of the Champions concept for January.

All things considered, making it halfway through the Amazing Race is a grand accomplishment, as it's a damn tough experience.

What we have left are some very good competitors. On paper, Tim and Tejay (the gay college sweethearts) may look like the weakest team, but they seem to have energy and endurance, smarts, and emotional maturity. Along with the surfers, they're most like to actually enjoy what they're doing and where they're going.

Most ingenious competitor ever may go to the surfer girl. Yeah, she's had a long time to cope with the loss of an arm, but thinking o/n/ to use your feet to steady up the frame like that is just above and beyond clever, under pressure.

Best spontaneous utterances from wrestler woman crossing the sky bridge. I myself might not have said it out loud, but by damn that's what I'd be thinking.

Every time, I'm thinking about whether/how I would do the tasks, and OMG that zipline one would not be a fave. Eek. Very impressed by Bethany, want to hug Tim and Tejay, still hate the dentists SOOOO MUCH.

I feel like the Sweet Scientists, Tim and Tejay, and the Wrestlers are all similarly weak, and the other three teams are all pretty strong. But anything can happen, of course...

I was glad to hear that the surfers are being thoughtful about having Bethany do challenges when they can, so if/when they get to one she can't do, she doesn't have to.

The ziplines we did were a little easier to mentally approach, because they were through woods, so there were trees you went past and a better feel for the height. The ones they had were just out into the middle of the air! (Great views, though, I'm sure.) Having done it once, I know I could again, maybe with my eyes shut. :-)