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Zachary:
hey yall... i'm back. it's kinda quiet here I wonder why ...
just watched the premiere ...

boy was that leg a mess or what!!!

first, with the Bopper-Mallory switching as a last minute decision. It seems so fake to me. There's no way that Mark doesn't know that his partner will be Mallory up until at the starting line. They should just introduce the team as Mark & Mallory and leave Bopper out of the picture. Maybe along the way, Mark could mention something about Bopper being unable to participate due to health problem. I bet it's way more believable.

no penalty on the last team in that starting line task? I don't think we even know who's the last team to complete that task. It looks like after the first four teams, Phil just tells all the other teams to go to their car and head to LAX.

the language barrier task was actually not so bad. I just don't understand why does it have to be on the bridal shops? Is Guangzhaou associated with brides or anything? Maybe I missed out when Phil explained it.

the tower task was boring. the only thing that's interesting is the fact that it's the tallest building in China??? and you get to see the city from high above.

the roadblock was a big mess... what the heck was that!!! Although I am surprised that Jennifer (of the Country Singers) was actually the one doing this RB and not Caroline.

I like the fact that all the second flights team managed to catch up. But other than the fact that Afghanimals and The Twins messed up, it's more because all the teams from filght #2 actually took the metro to the shops instead of a taxi, while from flight #1, only The Cowboys did so that's why they had so much lead ahead and why flight #2 could catch up that easy

I honestly was not looking forward to this season by just looking at the cast alone. A couple teams deserve to return but they don't deserve to be put in a season with "All Stars" entitled to it. What, JJ did not use their express pass and that makes them "star" worthy? I mean come on!

However, I'll keep watching ... My money is on Brendon and Rachel right now. It could change. But I just hope they don't break under pressure this time around. (I want to root for M&M but they don't seem like they get along very well as a team yet.)

paradoxinee:
I think Mark and Mallory said that they know each others one night before the race starts in their confessions.

About the Wedding Dress, I don't know how it is related to the city but that place might be famous for Wedding Dress because there are so many shops.

And I don't think Metro and Taxis make too much different because when Twinnies and Afghanimals arrived, Cowboys were still there to find the shop.

Zachary:
oh it must be Afghanimals and Twinnies messing up then ...
it's just The Cowboys seemed so far ahead ... when they switched bubbles there's still no other teams showing up

Cocoa:
Twinnies for All-Stars Three pls <3

Plaidmoon:
I've been having trouble working up enthusiasm for this season, but I liked the first episode enough that I think I'll end up enjoying the season even though I do not expect it to be one of the better ones. I agree that the episode seemed rushed, but the first ones always do. There's so many teams and so much going on that it always seems superficial. Spending several minutes of valuable air time on Bopper made it worse, but I imagine the producers felt they had to explain how Mark and Mallory were a team. Just dropping them in without saying something would have made people wonder. Besides, I suppose Bopper's sudden illness was a dramatic hook for the start of the season and they used it that way.

I liked the wedding shop search. That clearly showed that some teams were better at thinking the task through and getting help from the locals (or at least attaching themselves to a pack of teams so they didn't fall behind). I wonder if any of the helpful locals were from our Guangzhou team?

I was not as wild about the Canton Tower Ferris wheel task as it was just luck, though it did scramble the order a bit and sunk the Twinnies once and for all. As someone else mentioned above, whoever noticed that the even number cars had the clues and the odd ones didn't was really sharp. I don't think I would have caught that (no surprise there), but I think would have taken a car of a team I saw leaving.

As for doing the somersaults while dangling in the air, that didn't seem to be that difficult aside from being a couple of hundred feet in the air. I'd swear I saw a live sighting back then that said that Natalie or Nadiya (which ever did the somersaults) had a lot of trouble and took a long time to do it. I looked and that sighting isn't in the live sightings thread now, so maybe I'm mistaken. It certainly didn't look like that was the case when we saw her doing the somersaults. However, from the shadows, it looked like late afternoon when they arrived at the pit stop and significantly later than Meghan and Joey.

Is it just me or should we be calling them Flight Time and Bigger Easy? Mr. Easy looks like he's packed on some pounds since last time.

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