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bag:
This episode was great, I thought, except the new preview style bothered me a bit. No mention of Steve & Linda? But either way, I thought the whole "NOW TONIGHT: Tammy & Victor etc." was kind of interesting.

Hey, speaking of Tammy & Victor, were they supposed to have a 'mat meltdown'? That didn't look quite like a meltdown, but I was happy that Victor realized he was acting ridiculous towards Tammy. I'm not sure, this season has been full of surprises, but I wouldn't be surprised if they had a rebound and came in 1st again next week.

And, also, speaking of first place, way to go Mel & Mike! Had I not looked at spoilers (or Joab's game) I never would've seen it coming!

And neither Brad & Victoria's elimination, either. I still thought for sure it would be Christie & Jodi. Eh. Congratulations to the flight attendants for not coming in second-to-last and starting a new round of Dandrew-style jokes. As for Brad & Victoria... :'(

Romania was interesting, and the tasks were as well. I felt sorry for the poor girl gymnasts, getting up at around midnight for that. :P Otherwise, Brasov/Bran was pretty cool, too.

An interesting episode overall, and I thought it was better than last weeks, even though elimination was pretty much inevitable once B&V missed their flight.

apskip:

--- Quote from: georgiapeach on March 01, 2009, 08:11:50 PM ---Brad and Victoria are gone! :crybabe:

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Peach, they were a favorite team of mine based on their excellent performance the first 2 legs and their attitude. However, you have to admit that they took unnecessary risks in an effort to get ever-so-slightly(15 minutes) ahead. Call it the Uchenna/Joyce syndrome. Trying to make close connections in busy major European airports is never a good thing (also true here in the U.S.). This almost happened to me with a 2 hour gate hold delay coming back from Bucharest to Warsaw. We had 10 minutes to connect and there were multiple security checkpoints and way more than 1/2 mile of running(I can't really, but I had no choice here). Only having an escort from the arriving plane to the departing plane who got us instant priorty at the checkpoints made this possible.

My conclusion is that Brad/Victoria got greedy! Just as it was for Uchanna/Joyce in Frankfurt it did not take much in the way of problems to blow down their house of cards.

honeybee:

--- Quote from: Joab on March 01, 2009, 09:55:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: Neobie on March 01, 2009, 09:53:11 PM ---I feel for Victor. I'm pretty sure I would have done the same thing.

--- End quote ---

Yes, and that sure looks like a marker too. :funny:

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Pretty ironic that there were those tree markings anyway.  They were not quite right, but right enough to confuse.  I wonder where they really led to?  You would figure that after a few hours of hiking you'd think 'I'm sure they wouldn't have put the detour this far away'...

honeybee:

--- Quote from: Joab on March 01, 2009, 07:58:00 PM ---And i think Tammy and Victor really seriously got lucky here. They would have been eliminated had it not been Brad and Victoria's flight. Would have been a Azaria and Hendekea shocker!!

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I completely agree, from the start Tammy & Victor reminded me of Azaria and Hendekea.
It'll be ineteresting to see how far T&V make it (we know they go quite a bit farther) because they 'owe' it to Brad & Victoria... well, not really owe it, but really they would easily have been eliminated had it not been for B&V missing their flight.  Always interesting how every little choice one makes alters the whole game.

honeybee:
On a side note:
I live in Portland, Oregon and during one of the commercial breaks for this episode I saw Phil's face but it looked like an infomercial.  Turns out it was an ad for Phil's program "NOW: No Opportunity Wasted" and led you to the website www.ditchtheexcuses.com 
Apparently there are two Ditch the Excuses workshops in Portland this weekend.  I was excited until I saw the small print "Phil Keoghan will not appear at the event".
Booooooo!

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