Topic: TARCanada2 EP 7 LIVE SHOW Discussion Aug 19 @ 9PM

[georgiapeach]

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[georgiapeach]

Leafs and Poloroid cannpt be here tonight, so PLEASE someone help update? Post here if you can, otherwise posting starts at 845 PM!

Thanks everyone!

[WindsorSue]

Leafs and Poloroid cannpt be here tonight, so PLEASE someone help update? Post here if you can, otherwise posting starts at 845 PM!

Thanks everyone!

I will give it a go!

[georgiapeach]

Leafs and Poloroid cannpt be here tonight, so PLEASE someone help update? Post here if you can, otherwise posting starts at 845 PM!

Thanks everyone!

I will give it a go!

    

[WindsorSue]

Yes I am here...30 minutes to go.  Be kind, this is my first time! LOL

[georgiapeach]

Thank you Sue! Anyone else watching live, please help out as well?

[WindsorSue]

Recapping about 5 hole, AA getting FF, Twins using xpress, Rex Bob eliminated. 6 teams remain

Manitoba home to 1.2 million

PM 6:13 am
Make ur way to Normandy, WWI and WWII. this episode is dedicated to our vets

AA 6:23

MP 6:44

SJ 6:46
NM 6:52
RB 7:55
$200 I think

via Toronto to Paris, drive to Calvados Boulard

AA, RB getting lost

RB must dilute to 40%
must extract cider from a specific barrel

"Who wants to give it their 40%?"

must measure, temperature, get specific gravity, use complex formula.

Meaghan first there
Pete
Pierre
Jinder

Pete doesn't like math

Audrey arrives

Pierre 1st attempt

drive to le Molay Littrey

[WindsorSue]

I missed what they have to do in Molay Littrey

back from commercial

RR lost on way to Boulard

Jinder gets it 2nd attempt

twins at detour

Show it or Tell it
Show it; groom & braid Percheron horse
tell It: rearrange Bayeaux Tapestry segments into proper order. William the Conqueror and the Battle of hastings

meanwhile meaghan gets on 6th attempt.
Audrey 1st attempt
Ryan Mickey having hard time
Ryan 1st attempt
Pete is last there...thinks he will lose race but gets on 9th attempt

SJ lost on their way to horse ranch

Twins do Show it
Hockey does Tell it...doesn't know who Harold is LOL

commercial

[Bookworm]

Le Molay Littrey is a town. Did teams have to go to a place in town or was it identified as the town itself in the show?

[WindsorSue]

back from commercial

twins switch to tell it
RR get lost, in last place
Hockey knows they have 1 wrong, correct it they get out in first

Clue: Drive to beaches of Anselles, para sailing  racing
MP do show it
AA do show it
SJ show it jinder wants to know if horse bites "mangez"

SJ AA get it in that order

twins think they r still first get it on 1st attempt

(I messed this part up)
commercial

[WindsorSue]

Hockey at beach first, very happy

they each get a buggy

MP finish show it

NM in first place, must drive to cemetery

Twins arrive beach, upset hockey is in front

RR do show it, know they r in last place

twins in second
AA get lost finding beach

SJ & MP get to beach same time

mickey collides with jinder

SJ finish 3rd
MP 4th

meanwhile RR finish show it

twins right behind hockey

Benys sur mer 3rd cdn infantry div. all willing to sacrifice everything, will always be remembered

Natalie reads plaque
2049 headstones. they walk around, lament on olympic heroes vs war heroes.
Pierre reads, they cry...hard

clue: poppy in clue, must deliver to soldier outside juno beach centre

verbal clue from soldier

make ur way to beach to find Jon at mat

Jon tears up at mat
Vet explains he landed 150 yds away, 359 Cdns died that day

Hockey in first win 2 tickets to any european destination ($3000 I think)
twins 2nd, still crying

commercial

[WindsorSue]

back from commercial

AA arrive 5th at anselles beach

Audrey tips over hard leave in 5th

MP SJ at cemetery...all crying...so amazed, forgot about race

Mickey Pete finish in third. Jon asks Jim the vet if they ever had guys in army with hair like that...he saids they would have got it shaved

SJ finish in 4th

RR get to anselles

commercial

[WindsorSue]

back from commercial

AA finish 5th Audrey hugs Jim

RR thinks they are last, arrive at sunset Jon tells them they are last, but its a NEL, must do a Speed Bump. Jim tells them to remember what they saw today

Preview: drive past Eiffel Tower, Arch de triumphe, "love is in the air" Detour is in cafe area; looks like Roadblock is they must create a masterpiece with Skittles (like Lite Brite toy?); music in the streets re: speed bump; the twins lie to Audrey and Alain is not happy.

[WindsorSue]

OMG this is so much harder than I thought it would be! I can post a better recap later!

the final finish is:

1) Natalie & Meaghan
2) Pierre & Michel
3) Mickey & Pete
4) Sukhi & Jinder
5) Alain & Audrey
6) Ryan & Rob last, NEL

[Alenaveda]

First time is always hard , but you did it great.

[Maanca]

That was a powerful tribute. They did a great job.

[WindsorSue]

First time is always hard , but you did it great.

You are too kind.
I found I had to skip details in order to get the next bit!
One funny part was when Jinder got the calculation right, he and Sukhi screamed and celebrated. Ryan complained, and said, "Ferme la bush" (be quiet...and I can't remember if it's la or le)...his French as bad as mine.

[WindsorSue]

That was a powerful tribute. They did a great job.

It really was. So often I find this kind of thing forced, but those were real tears. Pierre cried with a cry-snort, trying to hold it back. Jon could barely get his speech out at the mat.
I was already teared up when they had to give the poppy to the soldier at the Juno Beach Centre...I think he was dressed in WWI uniform? Not sure.

[Polaroid]

Thank you SO much for updating, Sue!

I love how teams stopped and reflected on the sacrifices made by Canadian soldiers in WWII. A very emotional episode and a great task.

I feel like I recognize that formula used in the roadblock... Too bad I hate chemistry and doing chem labs, lol.

"Ferme la bouche." I remember this because my French teacher taught my class this in grade 7.

Love a good self-driving leg. Poor Ryan & Rob. Must have been super frustrating for them. I'm glad that this episode ended with a NEL.

[georgiapeach]

Sue!! Awesome job, that will hold me very nicely until I can see it!

So the big PitStop thing was just....a NEL?

[WindsorSue]

Thank you SO much for updating, Sue!

I love how teams stopped and reflected on the sacrifices made by Canadian soldiers in WWII. A very emotional episode and a great task.

I feel like I recognize that formula used in the roadblock... Too bad I hate chemistry and doing chem labs, lol.

"Ferme la bouche." I remember this because my French teacher taught my class this in grade 7.

Love a good self-driving leg. Poor Ryan & Rob. Must have been super frustrating for them. I'm glad that this episode ended with a NEL.

Thanks, I couldn't for the life of me remember how to spell "bouche"... and considering I had a Catholic Nun teach me French, we heard that one a lot! LOL. I think they only passed me out of sympathy! The formula for the dilution also gave me bad flashbacks to Grade 9 science, I never clued in to that subject until senior year! Alain & Audrey were getting lost too... so much for the French language advantage! Ryan and Rob did well in the tasks. It was just the navigating that was their downfall, so yes I am glad it was a NEL for them. The preview for next week looks interesting. Except for the Skittles art...that seems bizarre (I think it was Skittles?)

[Maanca]

Thanks, I couldn't for the life of me remember how to spell "bouche"... and considering I had a Catholic Nun teach me French, we heard that one a lot! LOL. I think they only passed me out of sympathy! The formula for the dilution also gave me bad flashbacks to Grade 9 science, I never clued in to that subject until senior year! Alain & Audrey were getting lost too... so much for the French language advantage! Ryan and Rob did well in the tasks. It was just the navigating that was their downfall, so yes I am glad it was a NEL for them. The preview for next week looks interesting. Except for the Skittles art...that seems bizarre (I think it was Skittles?)

Nope, Mentos, one of the sponsors this year. Another product placement task 

[WindsorSue]

Thanks, I couldn't for the life of me remember how to spell "bouche"... and considering I had a Catholic Nun teach me French, we heard that one a lot! LOL. I think they only passed me out of sympathy! The formula for the dilution also gave me bad flashbacks to Grade 9 science, I never clued in to that subject until senior year! Alain & Audrey were getting lost too... so much for the French language advantage! Ryan and Rob did well in the tasks. It was just the navigating that was their downfall, so yes I am glad it was a NEL for them. The preview for next week looks interesting. Except for the Skittles art...that seems bizarre (I think it was Skittles?)

Nope, Mentos, one of the sponsors this year. Another product placement task 

Yes...just watched it again. LOL. The bag tearing on live show was so fast, and silly me I didn't put 2 and 2 together!

[georgiapeach]

Really nice Toronto Star recap:


The Amazing Race Canada: The Race remembers

Normandy leg of contest gets emotional as teams visit Juno Beach and Bény -sur-Mer war cemetery.


{pic}Host Jon Montgomery and Second World War veteran Jim Parks at the Amazing Race Canada Pit Stop on Juno Beach, near where Parks landed on D-Day in 1944.

by Mark ONeill / BELL MEDIA


By: Debra Yeo Staff Reporter,  Published on Wed Aug 20 2014

“Makes you proud to be a Canadian, right?”


So Second World War veteran Jim Parks asked Amazing Race Canada frontrunners Natalie and Meaghan on Tuesday’s episode.

•More TV recaps at thestar.com


They were standing on Juno Beach, just about 150 yards from where Parks landed on D-Day in 1944, as part of an invasion in which some 340 of his fellow Canadian soldiers were killed and almost 1,000 more wounded.


And the answer to his question would be yes, for the contestants and likely for many viewers, too.


The reality series has always been part travelogue, part history lesson, part cheerleader for all things Canadian, but it truly wore its Canadian heart on its sleeve with the episode, which brought the six remaining teams to Juno Beach and the Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Normandy, France.


Everyone from designated villains Pierre and Michel to hyperactive siblings Sukhi and Jinder to Muskoka dudes Mickey and Pete was affected by the sight of those 2,049 white headstones.


“Every headstone represents a young man, a father, a brother, an uncle, a son,” said a crying Michel.


“There’s just thousands of graves and it just hit me that they gave their lives so that we could live,” said Jinder. “We just completely forgot about the race at that moment.”


The competition was alive and well early in the episode as the teams flew from Winnipeg to France.


Audrey tried to practise a little diplomacy at the airport, sucking up to fellow Quebecers Pierre and Michel, who were still in first place.


“Congratulations on your first place. We’re so happy,” Audrey told the twins.


“Suddenly Audrey want to speak with us,” sniffed Pierre. “You know, she hasn’t talked to us, it’s been six legs. I think she’s hypocrite.”


All the teams flew on the same plane to Paris. Once they landed, they had to drive to Normandy and the Calvados Boulard Distillery for a Road Block.


Never mind zip lines or bungee jumping; this was a really frightening challenge: it involved math.


One member of each team had to dilute the alcohol content in a vial of pure Calvados apple brandy to 40 per cent by watching a silent expert demonstration and using a complex mathematical formula that included the temperature, specific gravity and alcohol content to figure out how much water to add to the brandy.


No wonder Meaghan had a hard time wrapping her head around it. She and Natalie were first to arrive at the distillery, but most of the other teams weren’t far behind.


Their lead evaporated, if you’ll pardon the pun, after Meaghan kept racking up incorrect tries, which meant running back to the distillery room and extracting a new sample every time.


Pete was quite excited about the Road Block, assuming it involved either making or drinking booze, but that enthusiasm soon faded.


“I hate math and science, they both suck,” he complained.


“I should have done this. I’m an accountant, I went to school for accounting,” said Mickey, at which point you could almost hear the words “Say what?” echoing in TV rooms across the country.


“Mickey plays dumb. He likes people to think he’s an idiot,” said Pete. “I don’t know why, he’s a numbers guy.”


Pierre, meanwhile, was confident of success since he’s in charge of the waste water facility at the family meat-packing plant. And Jinder felt likewise because of his biology degree.


Pierre aced the task on his first attempt; Jinder took two.


Alain and Audrey arrived before Pierre and Michel left, but Ryan and Rob were still lost. “We’re leaving behind everybody except Ryan and Rob, who are I think on their way to Spain,” quipped Pierre.


Meaghan finally passed the Road Block on her sixth attempt after she noticed the tools used to measure the liquid were different sizes and she was using the wrong one.


Audrey, who took her time to make sure everything was perfect, needed only one try.


Despite the late arrival, Ryan also whizzed through on his first attempt when he noticed the different tool sizes. He tipped off Pete on his way out, which enabled Pete to succeed on his ninth try and the Muskokans to get to the clue box in the public square of the village of Le Molay-Littry ahead of the Vancouver bartenders.


Pierre and Michel, and Natalie and Meaghan were already doing the Detour, which was a choice between Show It and Tell It.


Show It meant travelling to a Percheron horse farm in Lower Normandy, choosing a horse, cleaning and brushing it, then using red yarn to braid its mane.


Tell Me involved travelling to the Bayeux Tapestry Museum, studying plaques that describe events depicted in the famous medieval tapestry, which tells the story of William the Conqueror, then arranging reproductions of the tapestry panels in chronological order.


Everyone but the Olympians picked Show It.


Several teams got lost on the way to the farm and there were other issues.


Pierre and Michel rode a horse when they were young and thought they could charm their Percheron — “Hello, darling, so what happened with your husband this week?” Michel asked, pretending to be a hairdresser — but their horse wouldn’t stay still, so the brothers switched to the tapestry task.


Jinder was very nervous about holding his horse’s head: “Will he bite ever? Mange (eat) arm?” he asked a farm employee and then begged the horse, “No biting me, please, no biting me.” Despite his awkwardness, Sukhi whipped through the braiding in no time at all.


Alain and Audrey, and Mickey and Pete also had a fairly easy time of it. Audrey used to braid her sister’s hair, while Mickey, demonstrating yet another hidden talent, revealed that he had taken cosmetology in high school as a condition of taking machine shop.


Rob and Ryan were still driving around.


Pierre and Michel had found the tapestry museum and rearranged the panels in one try, not realizing that Natalie and Meaghan had already been there and done that (after three tries).


The brothers drove off to the beaches of Asnelles to go land-sailing and were annoyed to see Natalie and Meaghan leaving just as they arrived.


But it could have been worse; they could have been Ryan and Rob, who didn’t find the horse farm until after everyone else had gone.


The other teams breezed through the land-sailing, which seemed more like a treat than a task, except for Alain and Audrey, who got lost.


And then the episode went from laughter and rivalry to solemnity.


Nat and Meaghan were the first to arrive at Bény-sur-Mer, where the teams were to pay their respects to Canadian soldiers who died in the Second World War.


Some contestants cried; some just walked quietly among the headstones; 20-somethings Mickey and Pete were struck by the fact many of the soldiers were younger than them when they died.


And there was another tug on the heartstrings in store. After delivering a felt poppy to a soldier at the Remembrance and Renewal Statue in front of the Juno Beach Centre, the teams were directed to the Pit Stop on the beach, where host Jon Montgomery waited with veteran Parks.


Even Montgomery got choked up as he called Parks “a real hero.”


The contestants thanked Parks, they shook his hand, they hugged him.


“I just have a sense of gratitude, like thankfulness just for everything that every single person did on this beach, just for our freedom and the freedom that we enjoy as Canadians,” said Sukhi, tearing up again.


“It’s been a privilege to be able to see you taking part in this and good luck to you in the rest of the race,” said Parks as a tear rolled down his cheek.


Natalie and Meaghan finished first (and won a trip to Europe on Air Canada and $3,000); Pierre and Michel were second; Mickey and Pete third; Sukhi and Jinder fourth; Alain and Audrey fifth.


Ryan and Rob were still lost. We never saw them land-sail or visit the war cemetery. It was dark by the time they reached the Pit Stop.


“What happened out there, boys?” Montgomery asked.


“We just sucked at directions today,” said Rob.


“A five-minute distance took us two hours,” added Ryan.


But the friends caught a break. It was a non-elimination leg, so they’ll race again next week, although they’ll have to complete a Speed Bump.


Like everyone else, they thanked Parks for his war service.


“Now remember what you saw today, eh?” he told them.


I have a feeling all the teams will.


Next week, the race moves to Paris and it looks like things are about to get ugly between the twins and Alain and Audrey, with Alain accusing them of lying.


It airs Tuesday at 9 p.m. on CTV.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2014/08/20/the_amazing_race_canada_the_race_remembers.html

[Vitoko]

What an amazing leg! 

I can't believe how fast Sukhi&Jinder were at the beginning of the leg... they pretty much flew through the Roadblock and Detour...

Didn't quite care for the sailing ARI but it worked great thinking how the racers were having a blast doing it and then they were hit to the ground visiting the cemetery. Just beautiful way to show how emotional TAR can be.