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Cocoa:
WHAT I LOVE IN THIS EPPY:

1. The uberly simple tasks that turn too difficult. No need for a World War I re-enactment to get good TV, just do cunningly simple yet deadly tasks. :tup: Ok, the boxing was lame, but it was still ok, though it is forgettable.
2. The teams. So far, only Jill and Thomas are meh to me. Everyone is :hearts: Katie and Rachel, told ya, they'll get the villainy or bitchy edit. :lol:
3. The locations. Ok, I love Africa. It's been 5 long seasons since we've been to motherland Africa (Seychelles was an island-nation not in the Motherland continent, of course) and I miss it a lot!
4. The people and locals. I love the Pitstop Greeter and the Teachers for being fierce with designer clothing. I love the smiles of the innocent children. I love how the Wheel Barrow Man told each and every idiot team for items lost (but Coconut Man last year was better. :lol:)

The first three episodes of this season really gave an impact to me no other seasons, as far as I can remember, gave me. I think TAR hits gold this season after doing so in Season 14. Good job and keep up the good work, TAR! :jam:

Goldeneye:
Presuming that this is a minimum 36 hour pit stop - Michael can use some of that time to recuperate - that equatorial heat really was brutal to him, as the scenes of a medic showed.

Ruth:
I was actually wondering if teams would check in at around the same positions as the last leg, seeing that they were still in Ghana. But I liked it that the positions were completely reshuffled. Well perhaps it's due to teams not having that much of a time difference in the first place. But it certainly made things more exciting. And you gotta give props to Gary and Mallory for starting out in last place and finishing in second! They climbed up indeed. I'm starting to really like this team, love the father-daughter support!

And what's really cool about this season is that both alpha-male teams simply rock! Past seasons, we either had the guys with all brawn and no brains, or they were just egotistical muscle men dominating every leg of the race. This season, we have the geeky boys and the Asian father-son, I think it's amazing. They're not the typical alpha-male kinda team, and I love it that way. I love Connor and Jonathan's singing, humour and easy going nature on the race, I love Michael and Kevin's support for each other, Kevin's encouragement for his dad! Wooh!

As for the other teams... Katie and Rachel fell down my ladder for being utterly bitchy this leg. Hello, dumb doctor? That wasn't really needed... Chad, on the other hand, climbed up my ladder for that little speech on the children of Ghana. It made me see his more humane side, lol. Nick has to stop yelling at Vicky! It wasn't such a grave mistake yet he went on and on. I'm surprised that Vicky's stomaching all of this, saying sorry to him so many times. And I'm amazed by their position this leg. Wow, fifth! Nat and Kat, you have to be surprised that as doctors, they couldn't figure out the Language Arts Detour. (Well only the Glee boys got it! Wow.) And then they proceeded to get lost to the pit-stop. They've gotta step up their game! But I like it that they're always calm and collected. Not much from Jill and Thomas and Brooke and Claire this week, but I'm still loving the latter. They're just fun to watch!

My ranking of the teams for the past three legs:
1. Nat and Kat
2. Brooke and Claire
3. Connor and Jonathan
4. Gary and Mallory
5. Michael and Kevin
6. Katie and Rachel
7. Jill and Thomas
8. Chad and Stephanie
9. Nick and Vicky

mswood:
Ruth

Katie & Rachel have had bitchy comments about teams so far in all three episodes.

Just because their are male teams doesn't mean they are alpha males.  It usually refers to athletic young males that dominate the race or male teams that dominate the race. 

Really production has moved away from that type of casting.

But seriously most of the athletic male teams would have never made some of the major stupid errors that so many of these teams have made.

Ruth:
Oops. I actually meant the all-male teams. Guess I just got momentarily confused haha. I don't know, but this season's all-male teams seem pretty special in a sense. Well I'd normally just find it boring when those athletic male teams just dominate everything because they're so physically strong and fast. But yeah, I agree, production's moving away from that type of casting. And the tasks as well, the Detours have evidently shifted from "physical and fast" versus "non-physical and slow" to something fairer for everyone. But in any case, I love this season's casting!

And I'm still hoping that one of the all-female teams will be the first to win this season. That'll be just awesome.

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