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I actually thought the fishing would be easier from their description it sounded like a short run out, fish all over the place, back in. I think if not for the rough conditions that would have been the faster way to go.
Regarding the women, Kris is just a hottie, and probably the best personality of any person they've ever had on that show, whatever happens, she doesn't complain "that sucked" and then moves on. For an ex "go-go dancer" and current cocktail waitress she seems to have an incredible outlook on life. Everyone else is whining about Senegal and she says "this is incredible." Jon is a lucky man.
Blue hair's comment about what a good father he'd be had me cringing, lack of patience and fatherhood, a horrible combination.
Not sure if this has been mentioned before, my girlfriend and I are convinced, have been for years, that the non elimination shows are not set in stone in advance as they claim, and are used "on demand" for various reasons. It just seems to always work out that "nice" teams get lucky and get the non elimination, and "teams we all hate" don't. Had blue hair and Victoria finished last I'm convinced they'd have been eliminated.
Also, how come Gus and Hera weren't penalyzed, he clearly took 2-3 shovelfuls of salt off the boat while she was yelling at him not to do it? are we to assume he emptied his basket and started over and they just didn't show that? I was fully expecting them to say Gus and Hera you get a 30 minute penalty for that, and have them finish last.
Regarding the woman's comment that everytime her husband got sick, she caught fish, that's why on party boats and such they call it "chumming" there absolutely can be a correlation, the fish smell it in the water.
There are a lot of time penalties that they don't show, if it doesn't affect the game.
From looking at the show, I would say that Gus and Hera were actually quite a bit ahead of the grandfolks - will know for sure next week with start times.
Another thing that bugged me. the hours of operation deal where the lead teams were told it opened at 10am and it really opened at 7am. We couldn't tell if the sign was there when they arrived or not but that sign was CLEARLY put there by Amazing Race since the exact same sign was at another spot later same font, color, everything. A cynic would suggest they rigged it since the locals all seemed to think it opened at 10 not 7. I suspect they set that up to create artificial intrigue hoping some of the teams would do exactly what they did, ask a local instead of reading the sign.
So far this one is less interesting than the previous ones.
Another thing that bugged me. the hours of operation deal where the lead teams were told it opened at 10am and it really opened at 7am. We couldn't tell if the sign was there when they arrived or not but that sign was CLEARLY put there by Amazing Race since the exact same sign was at another spot later same font, color, everything. A cynic would suggest they rigged it since the locals all seemed to think it opened at 10 not 7. I suspect they set that up to create artificial intrigue hoping some of the teams would do exactly what they did, ask a local instead of reading the sign.
So far this one is less interesting than the previous ones.
That is the key though is to follow times established by the show, not the local expected times.
The teams should have looked for a sign. Every other place has times clearly marked if it is not in operation at the time they get there.
When contestants on CBS' Emmy-winning reality competition series "The Amazing Race" sally forth on their globetrotting adventures, they retrace the steps of series co-creators Bertram van Munster and his wife and business partner, Elise Doganieri.
On Tuesday, Dec. 28, the show features expanded scenes and unaired footage from the first six episodes of the show's current incarnation, "The Amazing Race 6."
The show, hosted by Phil Keoghan, sends two-person teams who have some prior relationship, whether romantic, familial or friendly, on a round-the-world race. They negotiate trains, planes and automobiles -- along with buses, bicycles and horse-drawn carts -- as they rush to dodge elimination by not being the last team to arrive at designated "pit stops."
Threatening to trip them up on each leg are challenges ranging from the mental to the physical and the gastronomic. Competitors have had to scarf large amounts of caviar in Russia, assemble furniture in the world's largest IKEA in Sweden, wrangle goats onto boats in Egypt and lug huge cuts of beef in Uruguay.
"It takes between three and five months, realistically, to plan a season," Van Munster says. "This last one, season seven, I did in 10 weeks, which is incredibly fast. I go around first, lay the whole thing out with Elise. She does half the world; I do the other half. We do our thing, then we put the creative together.
"We also have to put together the basic logistics and money package, otherwise it doesn't fit. Then we go back to the office, discuss it with the team. Then I go around with my co-executive producer and do the whole thing all over again. We go through every detail again and again."
Van Munster does know what he's going to ask contestants to do before he chooses them for each race. "I know who my contestants are, and I know what challenges I'm going to put them up against," he says. "We know what we can ask them to do.
"These are regular people from all walks of life, between 21 and 69 years old. This is not a torture chamber. This is a race around the world for a prize of a million dollars. You make your way; you be as inventive and quick on your feet as you can. In the meantime, we have a couple of riddles for you set up."
One thing out of Van Munster's control is how racers behave as they encounter foreign cultures. Last season, contestant Colin got into a dispute with a Kenyan taxi driver over the fare, and the police were called in.
"It was typical colonial behavior," Van Munster says. "It was nasty. It's embarrassing. I tell people, 'Show respect; be respectful of the people you're meeting and where you're going.' But it goes out the window."
A native Dutchman who has lived in the United States for 35 years, Van Munster sees both sides of this.
"There's a great thing called the American spirit," he says, "and that's what these people bring to the table. They bring something unique and original and fun to the table, and that is fantastic. Everybody in the world can learn from that. What they also bring to the table sometimes is a certain crudeness.
"I've had moments where I've had to apologize to people, absolutely, for behavior which I personally had no control over."
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The best of stuff is interesting, just makes me hate old Jonathan more but not when we were left with a ....To be continued... the previous week. We will have been waiting for 2 weeks to find out if Lori and Bolo catch up or not, or if this is an elimination round---I just don't have the patience for it.
....my girlfriend and I are convinced, have been for years, that the non elimination shows are not set in stone in advance as they claim, and are used "on demand" for various reasons....
If this is true they should have used one on the sisters, gosh that girl worked hard 8 hours, 100 hay bales and she never gave up even when it was clear that they were going to finish last. If anyone deserved the "non-elimination" round it was her.
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