TAR 7.3

Mar. 15th, 2005 08:04 pm
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Previously: Cuzco to Santiago, "liars" confronted, petty bickering, cash problems, trip instead of cash, bye-bye Hippie Chix

::snerk:: I like how they cut from a monkey to Hippie Chix in the credits. 8-)

Rob/Amber are leaving at 12:34 AM? That's a nifty number. Does anyone else make a wish when they notice number coincidences like that?

Oh, Soldier-boy! You're not sure if you want to marry Beauty Queen (hereafter known as BQ) after only 2 legs, 'cause she's pushy?! PUH-leeze! Just think of her as your drill sargeant and deal!

Driving through the Andes to Argentina is going to be pretty.

"Verbalizing yourself" is always code for "I'm opinionated and loud but trying to not say that." Learn it, live it, love it.

::sigh:: And the provided cars aren't going to be available until 5AM. Bunching is SOOO fun, isn't it?

At least Questionably Lesbians are using the time to try to get directions for the drive. I'm not sure what the hell Reality Retreads are doing.

Huh. Questionably Lesbians' cab-driver ditched 'em at the hotel for Reality Retreads. At least they can call for another one.

Dear gods, did Joyce just squeak? It's like she's a iddle-widdle mouse.

Amazing Sound Editors? There's only so much you can do with driving footage, especially when nothing dramatic is happening. I appreciate the effort, tho.

OH LORD, I WANT TO GO THERE! THAT MOUNTAIN DRIVE IS SO PRETTY! ::crys a little::

A Yield is coming up. Of course, Reality Retread is going to get there first, so it's not like the other teams will be able to use it against them. ::shrug::

Okay, the Racers have apparently learned that at least one of them needs to know how to drive stick; now they just need to learn how to follow street signs.

It's really nice to see the Surfer Bros and Token Black Couple appreciate the drive. "This is what I imagine Heaven looks like," indeed.

Big surprise. Rob/Amber got to the Yield/Detour first.

Paddle vs. Peddle, huh? Let's see... raft down a somewhat rapid-filled river or bike down a mountain. Both are physically strenuous; it's just a matter of whether you want to exhaust your arms or your legs. I think I'd do the bikes.

Team Queeny? Get over the Rob/Amber hate or [livejournal.com profile] trollprincess is going to start giving you time penalties. You don't want to lose your small lead because of that, okay?

70 miles to a gorge-fest feast of Argentinian BBQ? Neat.

Oops. :/ Questionably Lesbians got bad directions back in Santiago and are now more than 2 hours in the wrong direction. Of course, they really should have noticed that they were driving beside the ocean instead of through the mountains, so I really can't feel too bad for them. Unofficial Rule One of the Race is "PAY ATTENTION!" We've seen more teams in more Races get in trouble because of ignoring this rule than I want to bother to count.

::snerk:: Questionably Lesbians wish that the other teams will get a flat tire and we cut to Surfer Bros in the process of doing exactly that on their bikes. Do the QLs have "special brain powers"?

Ray/Deanna and Uchenna/Joyce only get generic techno background music for their raft race? I feel kinda cheated.

And now Susan/Patrick get psuedo-super-spy music when they hit the Detour?

Good God! "Not for vegetarians", indeed. 4 POUNDS of assorted BBQed cow parts?! And I DO mean "assorted", by the way. It includes "part of a cooked saliva gland", brains, and intestine. Yummy.

So QL are in last place, Debbie almost died in a rafting accident a few months ago, and they decide to take the Paddle option anyway? Okay...

I have to admit, I'm surprised that neither of Team Queeny has made an "eating sausage" "joke" yet.

And we have the first vomiting. Poor guys.

Wait. Rob just quit the eating challenge as a strategic manuever?! He even knows that they'll have to take the 4-hour penalty! And GOOD LORD! If you're going to quit & go, then FUCKING QUIT AND GO!! Stop hanging around trying to psych out the other Racers!

Good god, but I think that it's working. Rob might just convince everyone else to quit with him & thus make the time penalty meaningless. This just pisses me off. It's exploiting an unforeseen loophole in a way that's against the spirit of the Rules, even if it's not against the letters. ::gag:: I think that Rob just firmly entrenched Reality Retreads in my "HATE!!" column.

Thank the Lord that Uchenna and Alex actually went through with the Roadblock. They're the first 2 teams and they don't have that 4-hour time penalty. Good for them for following through.

Hmm. That copter-cam shot shows a really nice ranch compound. I guess the days of camping out at their Pitstops are definitely over.

Team Queeny's in first! No trip, tho.

Okay, so Susan/Patrick aren't even at the Roadblock yet and QL just finished the Detour. Or at least it looks like that.

Oh, so they changed the rules of the time penalties. You have to wait at the task site until the next team arrives there, and then you have to wait for 4 hours. So the time penalty can potentially be much, much longer than 4 hours, and the last team to arrive at any task has to do it.

GODS, but Rob/Amber's smugness pisses me off. Fuck off and die, plzkthnx? And his goddamn plan fucking worked!! They arrived in 5th and the two teams they convinced to also skip came in 6th and 7th! ::grumblegrumble::

So Patrick finishes eating just before QL and they're all racing for 8th place.

Patrick/Susan in 8th, QL in last and out. A goodly portion of that was the self-imposed 4 hour lag (2 hours in the wrong direction then 2 back), but I still don't like the fact that 3 teams chicken-shitted out of the Roadblock and all managed to come in in the middle of the pack. Look at it: QL managed to make up enough of that lost time to catch up with the rest of the pack. That shows an impressive amount of capability (once they figured out their mistake, of course) and if they hadn't made that error, they'd have come in first, I think.

Next week: more Reality Retread smugness, horse antics

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