although.. Five M/M teams and none of them made it to the finale.. That is insane..
I guess we know the final 3. In TAR 23, none of the 5 MM teams made the finals [either].
I'm totally okay with this. As I said several pages back, consider it another big dose of karma for CBS and their casting department. They
really thought that America would like a whopping FIVE men's teams in the cast? That was just
way too many. Season after season, we get a meager number of women's teams, yet they feel okay overcasting and overloading us with four and, three times (TAR4, TAR23, and now TAR30),
five men's teams?! Casting?! So to have none of them make it to the end
yet again makes me all giddy inside.
This is a decent parallel to TAR23, though: five men's teams, all of them eliminated before the end, with four of them falling in a row. Rowan & Shane, Chester & Ephraim, Brandon & Adam, and Tim & Danny for TAR23, and Joey & Tim (Eaters), Shaun & Cedric (NBA), Trevor & Chris (Violinists), and Eric & Daniel (Twins) for TAR30. And the final men's team gets the ax right before the end -- Leo & Jamal for TAR23, and now Alex & Connor (Indy) for TAR30. In addition, one coed team and two women's teams were eliminated over the course of each season -- Hoskote & Naina, Nicky & Kim, and Ally & Ashley for TAR23, and now Kayla & Dessie (Ring Girls), April & Sarah (Yoga Moms), and Lucas & Brittany (Lifeguards) for TAR30.
Good parallel, and good end result for this leg.
So Cody & Jessica (Jody), Henry & Evan (Debaters), and Jen & Kristi (Skiers) are our F3, huh? All three have sounded like they were in front at different times (with Jen & Kristi sounding like they were in or near the front a bit more than the other two), so it could be a tough race to the end. Hoping there
is one.
And I'm just glad that another women's team has
finally cracked the F3 after so long! I think Amy & Maya were our last one to do so
five seasons ago, right? So Jen & Kristi are the magic tenth one to make it there, following Lyn & Karlyn (TAR10), Dustin & Kandice (TAR11), Charla & Mirna (TAR11), Jaime & Cara (TAR14), Brook & Claire (TAR17), Nat & Kat (TAR17), Kisha & Jen (TAR18), Mona & Beth (TAR22), and Amy & Maya (TAR25). Congrats, ladies, for joining that super-rare club of women's teams who reach the end! After the other two were booted so soon this season, I really worried for them, but they turned out to be one of the strongest teams this season, if not
the strongest (hopefully)!
Either way, with Cody & Jessica at the end, Paul Abrahamian's head must be exploding right now. Or it will be when he hears of this.
Whew. Sorry for all the trivia. Just had to vent my excitement about this somehow.