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TAR 27 Ep 5 LIVE SHOW Updates & Commentary!
RachelLeVega:
Now that both Express Passes are rid and have cleared most evil, the race can continue in full "swing", so to say. In a leg full of danger with carnivorous animals, a snappy Logan, and an elimination to top it all off, the episode provided a close insight of a typical and rather harmonious African safari in the TAR universe..... :groan: Who am I kidding?! The editing made this episode look bad. And the amount of navigation and task drama in this leg deserved better. One thing that I am not kidding, OJ is making me type smarter, or am I?
LEG 5 (Zimbabwe) EPISODE REVIEW
Drink: Freshly squeezed non-alcoholic orange juice
We get no time to even blink and teams are shown starting off where they stood as of last episode. Finally, the EP's are extinct for now. And we immediately see other teams piling in to the orphanage to get their next clue by Phil. Tiffany & Krista even frantically tried to U-Turn the leg winners. What a scramble!
ROADBLOCK: (Who wants to take it back to Batoka "George"?)
I enjoyed watching this season 1 Switchback, and seeing the gorge in high-definition this time satisfyingly spot out all the details and river color in brighter hues. But - wouldn't this count as a trip back into Zambia again or have we thought this all wrong since season 1? ??? ??? ???
ROADBLOCK SCORE: 9/10 (in terms of first Detour task history), in this new era case 8.7/10.
DETOUR: (Encaged & Feed or Paddle & Retrieve)
Though this task did provide lots of drama from the laughable rivaling teams, Tiffany & Krista and Logan & Chris the tasks were as linear as well... a line. I didn't love the tasks, but I have to respect them. By the end of tonight, my final say is that this was a relatively boring Detour choice, except for the crocodiles.
DETOUR SCORE: 7.8/10
And then we have the Pit Stop, but not before we see avalanches of fruit falling everywhere along the trail. Crazy as it is, I loved the turtle-paced foot race to the Pit Stop. It's a refreshing spin, but here is the main thing these newer seasons need to keep the race alive and spectacular: MORE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC! I can't stress this enough. :lol:
OVERALL: 7.9/10
My overall ranking would have been so much higher, even close to a 10 if the editing had been mastered to draw suspense in this race cast scenario between two teams rivaling each other to the three-way stroll to the Pit Stop. The editing currently is just flat and doesn't add anything interesting.
More orange juice for me.
--- Quote ---Just a heads up for next week regarding updating:
I will be attending a wedding ceremony & reception for a friend scheduled on Friday. Unfortunately, this will mean I will have to miss the Paris, France leg on live TV. :( The review for that episode will most likely not be posted on the live updating thread for episode 6 until Saturday. Luckily, I will be having champagne to keep up with the TAR27 drinks theme I'm "secretly" doing here. :hoot:
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freds:
I Watch this leg and the previous of the next. I lived near Paris and the last picture of the preview is about transportation problem. When Alen will post the pics of the preview, i will wrote about that. I just write for the moment that a route info is not in Paris (the plane task) and transportation could have a good part for the race.
Belle Book:
--- Quote from: cbacbacba1 on October 23, 2015, 08:00:45 PM ---Tiffany & Krista randomly getting 5th place, despite arriving last at the virtual pit-stop :funny:
But now their u-turn power is gone :(
Jazmine & Danielle did lose because of themselves
(1) They should have u-turned Tiffany & Krista to ensure they are not last in the 1st pit-stop
(2) They went to the Pit-stop instead of the lion task
(3) They did not read the clue correctly and did not pick up the clue for the lion task
(4) They could not balance fruit :stare
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As far as U-Turning Tiffany & Krista, hindsight is always 20/20. And they weren't the only ones having problems balancing fruit. The key errors were going to the Pit Stop instead of the lion task and failing to read their clue correctly and thus not picking up the clue for the lion task. Read the clue!
Dånooky:
I thought ChacAttack was going home, they keep making small mistakes and falling behind. However Jaz and Dani completely deserved their elimination for failing to read their clues and for making the exact same mistake they witnessed other teams making on the same leg. Denise & James caught a lucky break and finally made a new entry in the winners' circle, however I don't feel like they'll win any more legs. Green Team and Texas are definitely on league way over the rest of the teams and based on their performances so far, the only team that could compete with them might be Kelsey & Joey. Hopefully one of the slower teams picks up the pace, otherwise it will be a two-team race until the end.
Jobby:
Denise and Earl James getting the EP. Omg, secretly happy HAHA.
omg no more team intros again -_-
DENISE AND JAMES EARL FIRST <3333333333 OMG
Jazmine and Danielle, like OMG? OMG? OMG?
-_- This team just got a whole lot of bad luck (not reading clue, then thinking that they didn't need to do anything at the lion encounter) and everything. #READYOURCLUE
Bye bye Jazmine and Danielle.
This is clearly the best leg so far. I have no complaints. <3
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