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Season 16 = Dumbest Cast Ever...?
redskevin88:
--- Quote from: shzron1946 on April 14, 2010, 04:11:22 PM ---What I want to say is that there are those who play very emotionally and those who play very intellectually. I am sure everyone would like to think they are being really intellectual and cerebral and all that, but by golly sometimes you just go on a hunch, or go with your feelings.
Now,going back to Caite and her partner and the two lesbian ladies whose names I can never remember. I am sure that we in the viewing audience were getting info through some very clever editing that was brainstormed AFTER Caite and her partner actually had u-turned this team, but let's face it, they had been told from the beginning that the two ladies were making fun of them, and the ladies themselves appeared to have personally confirmed that they thought the couple was stupid. If I was the Caite and whatshisname couple, I'd have u-turned them too, just because I could and just to shut them up once and for all and GET THEM OUT OF THE GAME OUT OF SHEER SPITE. They had it coming. You all know they did.
And also, they could have actually won!
If I was Caite or her partner, even if I didn't think I could win, I wouldn't want THEM to win. This is these two ladies' own fault. Even though they made fun at the beginning of the race, if they were half as smart as they seemed to think they were, they would have smoothed that over pretty soon after the start. This is not a game where you want people to be mad at you. A little bit of help along the way has saved many an Amazing Racer and we all have seen that. These older ladies were not only nasty and cruel, they were arrogant.
I think they don't realize how abrasive they were because they didn't see or live the edited product, as we did. Maybe they will have a different story if they ever watch videos of the whole season. Still, whatever was really happening, they were not making Caite and her partner feel particularly forgiving.
So all of you intellectuals who want to argue the intelligence of the u-turn, keep this in mind: Sometimes simple human feelings can trump all the rational argument. Karma can be a killer. And guess what, ladies? THIS TIME IT WAS AND YOU'RE GONE!!!
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I agree with shzron1946. You don't have to be an Erwin & Godwin (who sabotaged their own race to help their allies a little too much), I've re-watched the episodes. Joe comes out as pretty arrogant. Carol & Brandy... the word starts with b, assume what you want.
mrmando:
My take on Joe is that his knee hurt more than he let on, and he was trying to put on a brave face to hide it. The cops mistook this for chest-thumping braggadocio.
everbloom:
OK, after going through all previous episodes, somehow the U-Turns were both personal and yet it's some coincidence that they did eliminate two strong teams. I mean, only an idiot can think that Joe/Heidi and Carol/Brandy weren't much of a threat. They've both run solid legs until they were eliminated. If both were in the F4 with Brent/Caite and Mike/Louie, they would also be threats. And maybe they could help Brent/Caite because now that the "mean lesbians" are out they can finally concentrate on actually WINNING then beating those two girls.
Sidenote: This season I find the U-Turn placings very sadistic. If you want to put a U-Turn in a race, make sure time can be made up. Joe/Heidi couldn't even finish the task even with Jordeff being hours and hours behind (Morse code is hard to learn in just a few hours), and the locations of the detours in Leg 9 were REALLY far apart, plus you have to deal with Singapore traffic. Those things were like death sentences for teams who received them.
thespicdatum:
--- Quote from: mrmando on April 14, 2010, 11:31:54 PM ---Thanks for the welcome.
My definition of a bad U-Turn is when you U-Turn a team that's actually weaker than you are. Do that and you've just made things tougher on yourself in the long run. That wasn't in the cards for Brent/Caite. No matter who they chose to U-Turn, they'd be improving their chances by eliminating a stronger competitor.
Another example of a bad U-Turn would be U-Turning a team that's so strong they actually survive it. This doesn't help you in the long run, and probably hurts you. If a team's right behind me and I'm not confident that the U-Turn will knock them out, I'll choose another team.
Both teams that used the U-Turn succeeded in knocking out another team, and both of them are still racing, so far be it from me to argue with their choices, even if I might have made a different choice.
Let's not forget that Brent/Caite ran by far their best leg in Episode 9, and I doubt they're going to repeat that performance. As to whether Carol/Brandy were the smartest remaining team, I suppose perhaps they were, but (a) that depends on what kind of smarts you're talking about; and (b) it isn't really saying much. "Smart" means more than being the only team that can pronounce "Seychelles."
Perhaps if I were a racer I couldn't afford to consider my personal feelings about the other racers, but as a viewer I certainly can. If I had to give a million dollars to one of these teams, I wouldn't give it to a narcissistic whiner like Brandy, who seems to be fairly well/off successful at any rate and probably needs the money less than anyone else does. I wouldn't give it to the bricks-for-brains models, who might misplace it before they got to the bank. (Do you realize that if this were baseball, they'd be guilty of running straight from second base to home plate ... twice?) I wouldn't give it to the Machiavellian cops, who have substituted puppet-mastery for actual strategy. And I wouldn't give it to the guys who phoned in their first seven legs. So who's left? Two hardworking, decent, thoroughly likable guys in a demanding, dangerous, low-paying profession who've managed to remain under the other racers' radar.
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I totally agree with this. Plus Brent/caite removed the team that caused them so much irritation that now they can race without this baggage lol
Jobby:
But I think we can all safely say that there's no way a team could have completed the Morse Code Detour if they have no prior knowledge to morse code?
It could have been a great opportunity to knock out Jet and Cord. Just my 2 cents worth.
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