Author Topic: TAR 25 East Coast EP 10 SHOW updates and commentary! (Read 17366 times)

Polaroid · « **Reply #25 on:** December 05, 2014, 07:48:37 PM »

If Brooke & Robbie end up getting last because they picked the largest pond...

Belle Book · « **Reply #26 on:** December 05, 2014, 07:49:04 PM »

If I'd been on the Race and found that ARI, I think I would have said something like, "Don't have a breakdown like Colin did!"

I also would have chosen the smallest pond -- if I could have done so.

Looks like it might be a KOR leg, but I might be mistaken.

TARloveit · « **Reply #27 on:** December 05, 2014, 07:49:46 PM »

Yup, KOR seems like a good possibility.

Lemontail · « **Reply #28 on:** December 05, 2014, 07:51:36 PM »

It's coincidence that in TAR 5 and TAR 25 there's 3 M/F teams and 1 F/F performing My Ox Is Broken task. Cohristie as Jimisti, Chipim as Adathany, Branicole as Brobbie and Likaren as Amaya.

Polaroid · « **Reply #29 on:** December 05, 2014, 07:52:17 PM »

And we're back. Brooke is really frustrated.

Jim's ox is trying to go into another pond lol. OMG MISTI & JIM FOUND IT IN FIRST. WOW. OMG AMY & MAYA FOUND IT RIGHT AFTER. WHAT THE HECK?

Search on foot for Phil and the pit stop!

Polaroid · « **Reply #30 on:** December 05, 2014, 07:53:57 PM »

Warning: The last team to check in may be eliminated. Misti & Jim see Phil... Amy & Maya running... But Misti & Jim in first. Maya says they were so close to getting first. Misti & Jim are team #1. Candy girls are team #2. Jim says they're going to finish the rest of the race with firsts. They won a trip to Vietnam.

Pit Stop:
1st - Misti & Jim
2nd - Amy & Maya

Polaroid · « **Reply #31 on:** December 05, 2014, 07:56:44 PM »

Bethany feels like she stepped on something? OMG BROOKE FOUND SOMETHING? OMG BETHANY FOUND THE CLUE. BROOKE FOUND THE CLUE TOO. BROOKE & ROBBIE IN 3RD. ADAM & BETHANY IN LAST. IT'S A FOOTRACE BETWEEN WRESTLERS AND SURFERS. BROOKE HAS NO SHOES ON.

OMG OMG OMGOMG. RACE. IT'S A RACE. OMG. ADAM & BETHANY ARRIVE ON THE MAT IN 3RD.

Brooke & Robbie are the last team to arrive... BUT IT'S A NON-ELIMINATION LEG. All teams on the mat.

Phil says it's so close between the 4 teams... He asks who's going to win. Amy & Maya want to be the 3rd all female team to win. Adam wishes all the teams good luck.

Pit Stop:
1st - Misti & Jim
2nd - Amy & Maya
3rd - Adam & Bethany
4th - Brooke & Robbie (NEL)

TARloveit · « **Reply #32 on:** December 05, 2014, 07:57:59 PM »

Very intense endings for BOTH first and last! Poor Wrestlers

Polaroid · « **Reply #33 on:** December 05, 2014, 07:58:03 PM »

Such an exciting finish to this leg! Wow.

Belle Book · « **Reply #34 on:** December 05, 2014, 07:58:31 PM »

Well, it was an NEL after all. I'm kind of glad that Amy & Maya beat Brooke & Robbie to the mat.

Polaroid · « **Reply #35 on:** December 05, 2014, 08:00:17 PM »

Next week on The Amazing Race...

As teams scramble for a spot in the finals, the wrestlers get back in the game. Looks like a basketball speedbump?

Adam goes head to head with Jim, and Amy completely loses control, crashing a tuk tuk into a car.

gamerfan09 · « **Reply #36 on:** December 05, 2014, 08:02:18 PM »

LOL if they reuse the horrendous TARPH Leg 1 Roadblock as a Speed Bump <3

Reilly Queens · « **Reply #37 on:** December 05, 2014, 08:03:41 PM »

YAWN at no RB for their precious Bethany again

RaceUntilWeDie · « **Reply #38 on:** December 05, 2014, 08:14:02 PM »

Best F4 NEL? (in terms of the leg/episode; usually F4 NEL's tend to be really boring).

Can't believe Wrestlers got last.

RachelLeVega · « **Reply #39 on:** December 05, 2014, 08:40:00 PM »

LEG 10 (Singapore --> Philippines) EPISODE ANALYSIS
Right around the corner of the grand season 25 finale, we fly into the city of Manila in the Philippines! The race kicks off with an hours of operation... ehh. Then, we are faced with the main tasks... Sorry for this terrible introduction, too tired from work to type up any more reviews.

Liked the episode though!

DETOUR: (Shark Week or Motor Week)
In Shark Week, teams had to harvest three basket-fulls of fish from Manila Bay to receive their next clue. Not only this task truly reflected an exotic nature of fish harvesting in the Philippines, but proved that wrestler can't even finish without encountering troubles. Plus the impending thunderstorm... more challenge to the task at hand. I loved it! In Motor Week, teams had to properly assemble a side carriage onto a Filipino motorcycle to receive their next clue. Again, this task matched the difficulty of the priorly listed task in the Detour. Misti & Jim struggled with the mechanical work in this task despite being detailed-attentive. Also, more points for featuring authentic Filipino products in the Philippines.
DETOUR SCORE: 10/10

FAUX ROADBLOCK: (Who plows through challenges?)
(Switchback to TAR5) This Roadblock required one team member to steer an ox through a muddy rice field while searching for a clue. I do love a good Switchback, and every team being caught up in the pasture was hilarious! A great task to end the Leg, but I thought the Pit Stop should have been placed further along the path.
ROADBLOCK SCORE: 9/10

OTHER SCORES:
TEAM DEVELOPMENT: 8/10
TEAM DRAMA: 10/10
EDITING: 9.5/10
SOUNDTRACK: 8/10
PIT STOP CONFIGURATION: 3/10 (Really? 4 teams left and they refuse to air Adam & Bethany's 3rd place? Come on!)
MAYA DURING MANILA TAXI RIDES: 11/10 (Authentic excitement!)
BROOKE'S "GROSS"ING AND COUGHING: 5/10
OVERALL: 8.8/10

Tallguy700 · « **Reply #40 on:** December 05, 2014, 08:40:17 PM »

Alas, Adam & Bethany next to last on a NEL again, and the only 2 legs they won since leg 2 were from extras. Congratulations Bertram, you've cast an absolutely horrid team, AGAIN.

Holy crap (No pun intended), this entire leg was disgusting to watch, and I had just eaten my dinner 10 minutes in too.

Great finish though!

gamerfan09 · « **Reply #41 on:** December 05, 2014, 09:57:29 PM »

Quote from: Kandace on December 05, 2014, 08:03:41 PM

YAWN at no RB for their precious Bethany again

I agree, I like Adam/Bethany but really? No RB for her again? I love them, I've known Bethany's story for a long time and I find them really inspirational and good, but I desperately want them to lose out of these Final Four teams. People complain about casting "non-normal" people, but a person with a million dollar story is the "BEST TEAM EVER!!!!!!!111111" :res

theschnauzers · « **Reply #42 on:** December 05, 2014, 10:14:08 PM »

Excuse me, BetHany has done her share of roadblocks this season, and I dxon't think there's much support for the producer bias claim. All the teams benefit from tasks being ARIs as opposed to roadblocks. And as to the switchback, the original in TAR 5 was a detour to begin with.

Lemontail · « **Reply #43 on:** December 05, 2014, 11:11:57 PM »

This leg is absolutely good, but not the best.

Zachary · « **Reply #44 on:** December 06, 2014, 12:45:50 AM »

NO ROADBLOCK IN PHILIPPINES? I TAKE OFFENCE !!!! And I sarcastically wonder why!

I think this is a fine leg. Not their best effort.. but yeah. I know so well that there's so much of anything else to do in the Philippines, but noooo they have to build a tuk-tuk with machines and deliver 300 pounds of fishes like there's no one else there to do it. Oh also a switchback! What a nice surprise! So I assume they already did one or a couple legs in The Philippines like a million years ago.

Quite frankly, I was fine with the tuk-tuk task but the fish delivering? I mean really!?

And the whole ox thing, it seemed to me that once the dentists found their clue, everyone else then knew what kind of item they were looking for and they just searched for the exact same thing. So after that, phew! no sweating for the scientists.

The Wrestlers sadly hit a final 4 speed bump next leg, even after a preciously great lead.

Now I don't want to take a guess around, but history does speak for itself on how a team that hit a speed bump in final 4 always ends up. Hmm hmm?!

And it will be a linear leg too. Philippines 2 has a lot to make up on!

Zachary · « **Reply #45 on:** December 06, 2014, 12:51:04 AM »

The good thing is Amy and Maya finally finished in 2nd after 10 legs.

RaceUntilWeDie · « **Reply #46 on:** December 06, 2014, 12:58:05 AM »

Quote from: Zachary on December 06, 2014, 12:51:04 AM

The good thing is Amy and Maya finally finished in 2nd after 10 legs.

finally

Their performance so far:
6th 8th 5th 4th 7th 6th 3rd 4th 4th 2nd 4.9

What could've been:
6th 8th 2nd 2nd 7th 6th 3rd 4th 2nd 2nd 4.2

All those 2nd's make them look like a strong team statistically

Hoping for the best!

Zachary · « **Reply #47 on:** December 06, 2014, 01:06:08 AM »

Amy and Maya have it all. From 2nd to 8th. It's kinda hilarious

gamerfan09 · « **Reply #48 on:** December 06, 2014, 01:48:48 AM »

I don't see the need for people to complain about Brooke. Manila Bay is VERY polluted and smelly in a certain area, I dare you to even WADE in it

dryedmangoez · « **Reply #49 on:** December 06, 2014, 02:07:33 AM »

Looks like they all found the clues within minutes of each other since Phil pointed to the other two teams running over right after he officially checks Misti & Jim and Amy & Maya in. And then tells them about the trip to Vietnam when all of them were there.

Should've edited it into a four way footrace instead.

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Author Topic: TAR 25 East Coast EP 10 SHOW updates and commentary! (Read 17366 times)