The Amazing Race -- All-Purpose Thread

We're finally caught up, and that fucking sucks for Angie and Danny. Hoping Ricky and Cesar win now, but really disappointed in TAR for not allowing Danny and Angie to continue.

 

I wonder how quickly Danny and Angie, like the dad and son last season, would be featured if there's another All-Stars TAR sometime in the future.

It's probably been posted here before, so apologies if so, but I wonder if it might be fun - or dreadful - to have a season of teams who all lost the first leg of the Race compete against each other. I've also wondered - because I know I'd be the world's worst racer - if a season of wholly incompetent people trying to run the Race might be hilarious.

 

Just watched the episode. That was a BS way for Danny and Angie to be eliminated. It was the crew's fault that it didn't take the same turn as them. I, too, hope they can be on an All-Stars TAR season.

 

I completely agree about Danny and Angie's elimination, basically as a result of them just sitting at the beach, waiting for the crew.

Danny and Angie got to the challenge in, like, second or third place, I think, and their having to wait was catastrophic. I've never heard of that rule about having to stay with your crew, and vice versa, in all the years of watching TAR, even with all the shots we've sometimes seen of crew/cameramen, etc. It should be up to the crew to stay with the team, especially if it's that much of hard and fast rule that teams actually end up taking what amounts to a timeout/costly penalty until they show up.

 

Hey, I really like that idea(s)!

It'd certainly give even the poor performers a chance to actually have a real and more fulfilling TAR experience, which I always feel like is the goal of the show, and particularly of Phil Keoghan, a lifelong, genuine proponent of world travel and cultural enrichment. Because, let's face it, getting eliminated in the first leg doesn't do much for anybody in terms of that. It's just that someone has to be the first to go.

Maybe a solution to that would be to always have the first leg be a mega leg, at least. How about that?

 

Maybe I’m misremembering but did Phil not say teams had to do both sides of the beach detour?

 

I heard that too but it appears he meant that both were at the same location.

 

As I was watching this week's episode, appropriately on my Facebook memories from seven years ago to the day, one of my proudest headlines of my pagination career.

 

Really, really don't like Vinny and Amber. Ugh.

 

All these Latin America stages where Ricky and Cesar had the advantage, and of course Ricky was raised in Philadelphia.

Of course they'd have a clue box at Pat's and Geno's, but I'm disappointed there wasn't a task directly linked to the cheesesteaks. Just like when they ended in Chicago one year and stopped at a Vienna hot dog restaurant and didn't have to make a Chicago dog (that bummed my wife, who worked in a Chicago dog shop in Atlanta during high school and college). Or when they ended in Atlanta and didn't go to the Varsity.

Ricky and Cesar were fine winners, but I was going for Rod and Leticia. Seeing that schmuck Vinny propose after their elimination made me sick.

 

Our family was very happy with Ricky and Cesar as winners.

 

That was a good finale. It was an imperfect leg for each team at different points along the way; it was straightforward, but not too easy; and the final challenges were appropriate and interesting in terms of Philadelphia and its place in U.S. history.

I was glad Ricky and Cesar won. They deserved it, having won seven legs and being good, surprising competitors throughout. They also had to overcome Ricky's struggles with wind-surfing to do it, and so, they definitely earned it on the final day as well as in the race overall.