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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #400 on: March 25, 2007, 05:09:09 PM »
Two more things...

I think the "logs" we see the BQ's trundling around are really probably rolled up straw mats that they use for drying cloves...it can be seen in one of puddins pics upstream and I had a great one that unfortunately I can't access from work but that's my guess anyway!


And how could I forget my sweetie-pie baby with the nasty big bottle--if he is an orphan somewhere and Madonna or Joli or U/J don't want him--I do! I do! :hearts:
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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #401 on: March 25, 2007, 05:33:21 PM »
An hour and a half until I get to watch it  :wohoo:


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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #402 on: March 25, 2007, 06:30:16 PM »
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Though wouldn't it be kind of awesome if say this group (U & J, Eric & Danielle, Joe & Bill and Teri & Ian) are nearly a day behind.  And that somehow, Eric & Danielle manage by Izad's spoiled episode, to catch back up while the otherss slowly get eliminated and why Uchenna & Joyce are still so far behind in that episode.

I agree with this line of thinking. I do not believe that the producers manipulate anything except airplane flights and boardings(that flight to Singapore that would have given Colin and Christie a connection to Manila and unbeatable lead arrived just slightly too late; the momentous pull-back-in in San Juan). I think that whichever of Eric/Danielle, Charla/Mirna, Dustin/Kandice and Oswald/Danny does not get into the lead group by the end of this episode will have to move up later via Fast Forward.

There will be a reckoning in Kuala Lumpur, where the only remaining team not in my above group, Uchenna and Joyce, is expected to be 17 hours behind.


NOTE ADDED BY EDIT: Ha, ha, ha. My own words come back to haunt me. It's so obvious that the producers manipulate the "weather conditions" to prevent the dhows from sailing so that Charla/Mirna cannot get the larger lead that their risk-taking deserved.
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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #403 on: March 25, 2007, 06:37:02 PM »
Estimated Start time is now

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #404 on: March 25, 2007, 06:50:32 PM »
Alright guys - I'm off to watch TAR, it starts in 10 minutes!

It's been fun talking about this episode! *gets all cheesy* haha - yea right. Have fun watching! I will be back to discuss next week later!


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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #405 on: March 25, 2007, 06:54:11 PM »
Alright guys - I'm off to watch TAR, it starts in 10 minutes!

It's been fun talking about this episode! *gets all cheesy* haha - yea right. Have fun watching! I will be back to discuss next week later!
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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #406 on: March 25, 2007, 06:55:29 PM »
Puddin! GET OFFLINE!

Don't spoil it for yourself!!

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #407 on: March 25, 2007, 06:57:23 PM »
but spoiling is what I love the best  :lol: ..its the OCD I tell ya  :jumpy:

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #408 on: March 25, 2007, 07:03:43 PM »
but spoiling is what I love the best  :lol: ..its the OCD I tell ya  :jumpy:
I am telling you.  I want to just know who comes in first, because that will tell everything.


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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #409 on: March 25, 2007, 08:40:45 PM »
No wonder we had trouble with this stupid leg


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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #410 on: March 25, 2007, 09:03:39 PM »
But it was fun trying Michael  :wohoo:

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #411 on: March 25, 2007, 09:05:59 PM »
haha - yeah it was! But i'm afraid the promo for the next episode gave us even LESS To go on.

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #412 on: March 25, 2007, 09:07:20 PM »
Theres still something I'm not reading right about Phils interview
Phil arrives at the original Pitstop in the dead of night
Plans change, logistics..teams can't make it to the pitstop which is a 2 hour flight away or 9 hours driving?
Phil asks the crew if they could fly them back in the morning
Crew says no
So Phil & production fly back with the crew at night and get to the new pitstop at 3am?
then Phil & crew go out in the middle of the night for the pit stop, having not been to bed at all.
"There was no facility for any of us, like chairs or any of that. So at one point there was 12 of us, cameramen and production people, all tightly packed onto the mat, which was lying in a grassy area, being absolutely annihilated at 3:00 am by mosquitoes"



Time will tell  :wohoo:



Do we have any proof that this happened this episode???

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #413 on: March 25, 2007, 09:08:57 PM »
I think what we saw was when the teams were TRYING to fly to Tanzania and couldn't leave until the next day

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #414 on: March 25, 2007, 09:54:19 PM »
Theres still something I'm not reading right about Phils interview
Phil arrives at the original Pitstop in the dead of night
Plans change, logistics..teams can't make it to the pitstop which is a 2 hour flight away or 9 hours driving?
Phil asks the crew if they could fly them back in the morning
Crew says no
So Phil & production fly back with the crew at night and get to the new pitstop at 3am?
then Phil & crew go out in the middle of the night for the pit stop, having not been to bed at all.
"There was no facility for any of us, like chairs or any of that. So at one point there was 12 of us, cameramen and production people, all tightly packed onto the mat, which was lying in a grassy area, being absolutely annihilated at 3:00 am by mosquitoes"



Time will tell  :wohoo:



Do we have any proof that this happened this episode???

This really doesn't sound like this episode.  We have Phil there in all is glory at the Old Fort waiting to greet Schmirma and the others.  When the first team arrives it is perhaps late afternoon - and he is still there the next morning when Bill and Joe finally arrive.  Besides Zanzibar is not connected anywheres by a nine hour road trip. 

May be interesting in the next leg, if the first teams C/M and the Chas leave before the last teams arrive.

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #415 on: March 25, 2007, 10:01:29 PM »
I think it was here--not even a greeter for company!

So guess we'll not get to see much of Tanzania except a little more in Zanzibar next week.

Wonder if we will end up with missing screencaps that properly go with the missing leg? (dolphin, sweetie-pie baby with icky bottle, henna painting and hair plaiting?)
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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #416 on: March 25, 2007, 10:15:10 PM »
I think it was here--not even a greeter for company!

So guess we'll not get to see much of Tanzania except a little more in Zanzibar next week.

Wonder if we will end up with missing screencaps that properly go with the missing leg? (dolphin, sweetie-pie baby with icky bottle, henna painting and hair plaiting?)



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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #417 on: March 25, 2007, 10:23:24 PM »
OOPS! Must have blinked and missed that--Thanks!

(in my defense--I've been up since 5 and had a hellacious day at work! :lol:)
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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #418 on: March 25, 2007, 10:26:13 PM »
I understand peach..plus the show to me tonight was as if it was 2 hours with all the confusion with the flights! I can't wait to see the time-line  :happy:

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #419 on: March 25, 2007, 10:58:11 PM »
I'm still pissed about this  :lol3: ..it never clicked in my head that it was from the future!!

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #420 on: March 25, 2007, 10:59:08 PM »
Yeah! it looks exactly like the last confessional LOL
that would have helped us a lot!

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #421 on: March 25, 2007, 11:00:38 PM »
We were all over the Fortaleza de Maputo looking for those stupid steps  :lol:

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #422 on: March 25, 2007, 11:02:09 PM »
Poor Dee :grins:

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #423 on: March 25, 2007, 11:26:09 PM »
Just finished watching.
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What you saw was a producer-invented strategic delay to make sure that what happened in Thailand in AR1 did not happen in Tanzania in AR11. There was no really bad weather.
Agreed.  I can't believe what I saw is what the producers wanted. The problems with a wide-open field:
  • The risk of a "breakaway" lead team that no amount of editing can cover up
  • It's a hassle for the crew (already mentioned by Phil)
  • No drama for the viewers
  • A ripple effect in future legs
Charter flights or pre-arranged seats would have helped this leg; whoever did the advance work missed a few things.

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Re: EP6: "We're Going To Trade You For Food Now."
« Reply #424 on: March 25, 2007, 11:46:42 PM »
I'm not sure if this is the mystery pitstop or just the next destination, but I'll throw it in this thread. Producers give "special thanks" to the Moivaro Lodge in Arusha, which would maybe be 2 hrs. by plane.

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