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AMAZING RACE ASIA COMMENTARY
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EPISODE 5
This one starts in Sydney at the Tall Ship Bounty. Laura's leg Xray is OK and she is cleared to continue. Teams leave as follows:
1230am Andrew and Syeon
1232 Sharon and Melody
1241 Sandy and Francesca
105 Mardy and Marsio
131 Sahil and Prashant
136 Zabrina and JoeJer
138 Andy and Laura
536 Howard and Sahran (due to 4 hour penalty). They receive money from all contestants except Andy and Laura. They beg for more.
They have to fly a direct 2150 km to Auckland New Zealand on Air New Zealand. One there they must take the ferry to Devonport and find a child on a swing near the ferry terminal. The flight is 5 hours 15 minutes.
On arrival, Andy and Laura steal the cab from Mardy and Marsio, who are pissed. Sahil and Prashant observe this and comment that Andy's whining is not appreciated by other teams. The first ferry departs at 1330.
The scene in Devonport(conincidentally the home of my sister and brother-in-law) is madcap. Teams are going in every direction and ignoring the fundamental direction "near the ferry terminal." They logically search out schools and playgrounds but miss the bigger picture. Andrew and Syeon turn left along the waterfront after stepping off the ferry and immediately find the girl on the swing. They then go back to the terminal to wait for the next ferry departure and psyche out Sahil and Prashant. It initially appears they are going the only ones on that first ferry back. Zabrina/JoeJer and Andy/Laura just make tha first ferry. Mardy/Marsio avoid getting penalized for taking a non-public transportation vehicle, find a taxi for getting around and eventually find the right place. Sharon and Melody join them. Howard and Sahran, Sandy and Francesca and Sahil and Prashant are the trailing teams. However, 3 times Sahil and Prashant got into private vehicles They were warned it was against the rules by another team as they were coming out of the third one.
Back in Auckland the DETOUR was RUGBY or RIGGING. RUGBY invovlevd kicking 3 goals from the 22 meter line at Victoria Park(easy for anyone who could lift the ball into the air and get it any reasonable distance). RIGGING was copy a set of lines and knots to rig a sail on a moored sailboat at the Westhaven Marina.
Zabrina and Joe/Jer do Rigging and make the first ferry back.
Andy and Laura do Rigging and make the first ferry. Andrew and Syeon gave up on Rigging and went to do Rugby. Eventually Andrew got all 3 goals. They got the second ferry.
Howard and Sahran did Riging and finished quickly. They go the second ferry.
Mardy and Marsio started with Rugby, but were pathetic so switched to Rigging.
Sandy and Francseca and Sharon and Melody did Rigging in the last Group.
Sahil and Prashant blew through Rugby very fast, leaving S/F and S/M on the last ferry.
Next was the Vertigo Climb, a 44m climb of a 270 meter tower by both team members followed by a 192 meter controlled fall on the Sky Jump by one team member while the other takes a picture with a SONY (get the product placement) camera. What is significant there is that the order of arrival here was almost the order of finish. That order at the tower was:
Andy
Andrew(who is afraid of heights per Syeon)
Zabrina
Howard
Prashant
Francseca
Marsio
Melody
Prashant
Last was taxi to the nearby Auckland Museum. Arrival order was:
Andy/Laura
Andrew/Syeon
Zabrina/JoeJer
Howard/Sahran
Sahil/Prashant(who were fiven a 1 hour penalty for using a private vehicle and not allowed to check in)
Sandy/Francesca
Mardy/Marsio
Sharon/Melody
The penalthy put Sahil/Prahsant after Sharon/Melody and they were eliminated. They did not accept the validity of the penalty and were very upset about it.
patlini:
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The penalthy put Sahil/Prahsant after Sharon/Melody and they were eliminated. They did not accept the validity of the penalty and were very upset about it
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yep - those boys were not pleased, even though they were told it was against rules.
loved the confusion over what should have been the simplest of tasks in this episode. Seeing Sandy and Francesca in the library looking at books was hilarious
mswood:
I loved this episode. Absolutely loved it. THough I was disappointed in the penality that the guys got.
I think it was just a 30 minute penality.
And for taking improper transportation, previously it was always 30 minutes plus (or even minus) time gain or lost in reaching a destination.
I don't think they were hit hard enough with a penality (though of course theyw ere eliminated).
Since it wasn't a matter of taking alternate transportation to the correct location that just took longer (see Season 9's Greece leg). They were taking alternate transportation to specific places, that saved them tremendously over walking or even waiting for cabs and paying them. So I really felt that should have been hit harder. Or the very least 30 minutes per infraction.
This episode probably has the best example in race history of a very simple task confusing and confounding almost every single team.
I love it.
It was also the first exampe I had ever seen of that sort of tower jumping (which we also see in all stars). I liked this one even more because not only do you have the jump and a walk around (like All Stars), but you also have the physical climb.
For future tasks the should always put a physical aspect along with a gravity challenge or fear challenge (or even a climbing, fear and puzzle height challenge as tehy did in season 10).
My favorite epsiode to date of this season.
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--- Quote from: mswood on July 02, 2007, 06:55:35 PM ---THough I was disappointed in the penality that the guys got.
I think it was just a 30 minute penality.
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mswood, I'm sorry but the episode 5 footage I have is unequivocal. It was a one hour penalty as stated by Allen Wu at the pitstop.
mswood:
Cool, that makes me happy. I always did wonder about that, especially since, it didn't seem like 30 minutes was enough to give the remaining teams a chance to check in.
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