TAR -All Stars Episode 3.
If you haven't yet seen (and you intend to see) episode 3 of The Amazing Race Series 11 – All Stars Edition (TARAS), do not read any further!
The last TARAS episode we saw here in Australia ended with Kevin & Drew being the last team to reach the Pit Stop and the second team to be eliminated from the All Stars edition of the show. The Pit Stop was located in the town of San Pedro de Atacama in Chile.
For the record, this was the order in which the teams reached Phil on the mat last episode, and the order in which they started this leg of the Race:
1. Rob & Amber
2. Oswald & Danny
3. Joe & Bill
4. Eric & Danielle
5. Uchenna & Joyce
6. Dustin & Kandice
7. Teri & Ian
8. Charla & Mirna
9. David & Mary
Note: If you're already ahead of this point in the series, please refrain from giving any spoilers in your comments. Thank you.
As always, I’ll provide my thoughts on each team in this episode, listing them in the order in which they arrived at the Pit Stop (hence the 'Spoiler Alert!').
1. Rob & Amber
Last week: 1
This week: No change
Once again they finished first, but I’m a bit concerned by some happenings including them that appeared in the previews of next weeks episode. But I’m jumping ahead of myself. R&A got off to a good start in this episode by asking some locals for the address of a late night travel agency where they were able to book tickets on the earliest flight to the next destination. Apart from Rob taking a wrong turn based on a ‘feeling’ they went about their usual work and most of the time managed to stay ahead of the pack. Coming in first got them the extra prize of a home gym….as if they couldn’t already afford one!
2. Uchenna & Joyce
Last week: 5
This week: Up three places
I actually think these two played the smartest game on this leg. They were the second team to think about booking their tickets online rather than waiting for the airport counters to open. They even offer to buy the tickets of a few other teams who were also waiting at the airport. Unfortunately only one of the other teams provided the security code for their credit cards and so ended up on a later flight, but that was completely their faults. U&J also took advantage of asking locals for directions and I’m sure there was some other reason that made me think this, but I think they did this leg better than just about every other team, which jumped them up position wise, but not quite enough to beat R&A.
3. Eric & Danielle
Last week: 4
This week: Up one place
Eric has some serious explaining to do for that green tracksuit that he was wearing for the first part of this episode. He looked like the green M&M. Danielle once again proved herself fairly useless and held them up a bit at the fish transporting task. In fairness to her however, in this task where large, live fish had to be transported between breeding tanks, other team members had some fear issues with the fish too. Eric seemed to be the only one getting really annoyed has his partner for her slowness though.
E&D also had a bit of a run in with the old gay couple after they eavesdropped on them asking directions. The eavesdropping trick seems to be a common one in this game and the old gay guys tried to block E&D in with their car. It was pretty petty really.
4. Dustin & Kandice
Last week: 6
This week: Up two places
I thought the beauty queens were gone when it got to the last 10 minutes of the show, cause when they reached the finish line, Phil told them that he couldn’t check them in as they had missed a clue! This forced them to back track somewhat to find the clue they had missed. But either the other teams were way behind, or the clue mustn’t have been far away, cause by the time they got back to the finish line, they were still in 4th place!
Other that that rather big stuff up the girls did very well and from the start of the episode kind of partnered up with Ian and Terri quite amicably. They also had a bit of bad luck when they were leaving the second task, as their car would not start, which allowed a couple of other teams to leave the parking lot before them.
5. Oswald & Danny
Last week: 2
This week: Down three places
These guys dropped back a bit from last week and had a fairly uneventful episode. The funniest (and perhaps most un-PC) comment goes to one of them when they reached the finish line and saw that the person dressed in national costume was a little person, they said, “Charla’s (the only little person in the race) gonna be in love!”
6. Teri & Ian
Last week: 7
This week: Up one place
Even though they teamed up with the beauty queens, they still managed to end up a couple of places behind them. The team they had a run in with was Charla and Mirna, after Mirna tried to barge in when they were talking to someone behind the counter at the airport. From what I could see Mirna was totally in the wrong and was just being rude. Ian called for security, but I don’t think anything came of it.
The second task, which was the choice of doing a 40ft rock climb or going on a white water rafting trip (everyone chose the rafting, which they apparently decided was quicker) was the cause of a bit of a scare for these two. Terri fell out of the raft into some pretty serious rapids, but they were quickly able to rescue her and in the interview afterwards Terri said that the whole thing was very exciting!
7. Joe & Bill
Last week: 3
This week: Down four places
Once again one of these guys demonstrated their inability to read instructions and didn’t read a vital part of a clue that mentioned a place name. They were very lucky to find Charla and Mirna by sheer chance, who surprisingly told them the other place name (big mistake on their part too). These guys should have come last because of the seriousness of their mistake, but again, luck saves another couple of smucks in the race.
8. Charla & Mirna
Last week: 8
This week: No change
These two have become the masters of eavesdropping, but whoa betide anyone to tried to take advantage of information that they discover!
I was highly amused by how terrified Mirna was by the fish and it certainly took her a while to build up the courage to pick them up.
The other humorous thing was when they grabbed some local, who told them he actually had to go to work, and dragged him through the second part of the race with them. Mirna even apologized when they got back into the car still in swimsuits after the rafting task, but he didn’t seem to mind. In their rush they also forgot the keys to the car in the changing tent and had to go back and get them at a crucial time.9. David & Mary: ELIMINATED!
Last week: 9
This week: No change
Personally I really liked these guys and was sad to see them go......just kidding Bevis!
This was another team that had fish issues, with David pretty much standing in the tank just looking terrified at first, but once he finally started he really picked up speed and got through the whole task quite quickly.
As far as I could tell, the loss was Mary’s fault. David saw a sign and pointed out that he thought there was something important on it, but Mary pretty much told him to shut up and keep going straight. This resulted in them going way off course toward the end of the leg and ultimately being eliminated.
In the post ending interview they stated their love for each other, so alls well that ends well.
Last week's tips:
First Team: Rob & Amber. Correct!
Last Team: Charla & Mirna. (Wrong) - I should have just stuck with Bevis's prediction as I did predict! ;)
Yield? No. Correct!
Fast Forward? No. Correct!
Elimination Week? Yes. Correct!
Biggest Argument: Eric & Danielle. Correct! - I'm disagreeing with Bevis's assessment here as I didn't really notice David and Mary arguing. I thought they were communicating in the same way they have always done. Eric's cracking it at Danielle in the fish task really stood out more for me.
Smartest Team: Rob & Amber. (Wrong) – I felt it was Uchenna & Joyce, pretty much for the same reason Bevis did.
Next week's tips:
First Team: Oswald & Danny .
Last Team: Rob & Amber (based on the preview, and in shows like this teams I like almost always have bad luck. I'm pretty certain that if they don't leave they will finish near the back. Possibly I should be predicting the same as Bevis though.
Biggest Argument: Charla & Mirna.
Smartest Team: Danny & Oswald.
NB. I will not be predicting the yields, fast forwards or elimination weeks anymore, cause in the previous weeks I was just using Bevis predictions for these as I have no idea if there is any science behind these catagories.
If you haven’t already done so, check out the review of this same episode that BEVIS posted on his blog.
posted by Javatari at 11:19 PM
2 Comments:
Well, that's going to make comparing our record of predictions against each other at the end of the season completely impossible! There's no "science" to it - the fun's in taking a wild stab and seeing if you can fluke it. That's pretty much how all the predictions work, because the ads may or may not provide any useful information to go on, so I generally ignore them and go with whoever I think will come in first, last, argument the most or be the smartest.
(A couple of your colours and bold sections are confusing - one section has black text on the black background. And there's only one R in Teri's name. But your wife just had a baby, so I'm only saying this to help; not to nitpick.)
To you crediting yourself for Eric & Danielle's argument, I say: Pfft! Mary was yelling at David the whole way through - about swimming, rock climbing, giving him directions to go the wrong way, and so on. I don't tink Eric was even being harsh / 100%serious with Danielle, but even if he was, it didn't last as long as the Hillbillies, whose 'argument' stretched out over the whole leg of the Race. Mary hadn't yelled at David this much in the first two episodes.
But anyway, each to their own.
:)
Good review - I'm enjoying this dual-review process thing we've got going!
Bevis, I was never really intending to compare my predictions with yours at the end of the season. For my part I only do it as fun to see if I'm right or wrong after I've seen each episode. That's another reason as to why I'm dropping those other categories. For me there is no human interest in whether there is a fast forword or a yield.
As for the formatting, I thought I'd gotten rid of the black text, but I must have missed some. After using your template I obviously cut and paste, which buggers up some formatting, hence why the prediction part in particular looks crap. To be honest I can't be stuffed fixing it.
Pfft indeed. Mary has been yelling at David all season! I can place my hand on my heart and say that it didn't even occur to me that they were arguing. Case in point, David notices the sign and Mary tells him to keep going. No argument at all, David does what's he's told. They seem to have reached a happy medium together.
Originally I was thinking that we should agree on the verdicts for these, but due to the time constraints on both of us, I'm happy for us to make our own calls, and then argue each other's decisions after the fact. It would be less interesting if we had nothing to contest! ;)
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