TEAMS TRAVEL TO ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA WHERE THEY EXPERIENCE CLASSICAL FILM, MUSIC AND MANUAL LABOR, ON "THE AMAZING RACE," SUNDAY, OCT. 31 "Run, Babushka, Run" (Russia) - Racers struggle to complete their creative detours before putting in a proper day's work in the fields, where they discover the key to potato farming is manure, on THE AMAZING RACE, Sunday, Oct. 31 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Phil Keoghan is host.
Woden's TIMELINE: :hearts:
ROUTE SUMMARY: Upcoming Episodes EP06: Norway to St. Petersburg, Russia (via Stockholm, Sweden) EVIDENCE: Teams spotted at ARN (Stockholm) flying to St. Petersburg 6/5 (SK 732 DEP 10:14am, ARR 1:33pm) (Source 1 (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,21997.msg526799.html#msg526799)), (Source 2 (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,21997.msg526813.html#msg526813))
Film Date: JUNE 5-6 Air Date: OCT 31
Leg Route/Tasks: ROUTE INFO: Train to ARL (Stockholm), fly to St. Petersburg, Russia EVIDENCE: Twitvid with train (Source (http://www.twitvid.com/DGIUR))
ROUTE INFO: Find St. Isaac's Cathedral EVIDENCE: Possible sighting of teams getting a clue there (Source (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,21997.msg527061.html#msg527061)), promo after EP05/photo ID (Source (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23535.msg569376.html#msg569376)) OTHER INFO: Possibly Michael/Kevin's cab approaching cathedral between 3:35 and 4:05pm (Source (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23535.msg569393.html#msg569393))
DETOUR: Identify piece of music with multiple piano players (?) at Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace (Source (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23535.msg569518.html#msg569518)) or search for matching film (Eisenstein's "October") among film strips (?) EVIDENCE: Promo after EP05 (Source (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23535.msg569373.html#msg569373)) PIANOS: Nick/Vicki, Chad/Stephanie, Nat/Kat (both), Gary/Mallory (both) FILM: Jill/Thomas, Michael/Kevin, Gary/Mallory (both), Nat/Kat (both)
ROADBLOCK: Manure task at potato farm EVIDENCE: Promo after EP05 (Source (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23535.msg569373.html#msg569373)) PERFORMED BY: Nick, Brook, Kevin, Jill
ROUTE INFO: Tasks at/near Naval Museum? EVIDENCE: Photo of museum in intro caps (Source (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23438.msg566275.html#msg566275))
Safe from Elimination at End of Leg: Brook/Claire: Spotted in Hong Kong, likely spotted in Dongducheon, South Korea (Source 1 (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,21996.msg527628.html#msg527628)), (Source 2 (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,21997.msg527732.html#msg527732)), (Source 3 (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,21997.msg527795.html#msg527795)) Nat/Kat: Spotted in Hong Kong, likely spotted in Dongducheon, South Korea (Source 1 (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,21997.msg527732.html#msg527732)), (Source 2 (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,21997.msg527795.html#msg527795)) Jill/Thomas: POSSIBLY spotted in Hong Kong, likely spotted in Dongducheon, South Korea (Source 1 (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,21997.msg527732.html#msg527732)), (Source 2 (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,21997.msg527795.html#msg527795)) Nick/Vicki: POSSIBLE sighting in Hong Kong (6/12), likely sighting as decoys on flight to LAX (Source 1 (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,21997.msg569919.html#msg569919)) Stephanie/Chad: POSSIBLE sighting in Muscat Airport on evening of 6/8 or 9
Possibly Eliminated: Michael/Kevin: Not seen since flight to St Petersburg 6/5 Gary/Mallory: Not seen since flight to St Petersburg 6/5
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 17, 2010, 12:35:29 AM
Promos and Previews!
screencaps are here: http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23535.msg569373.html#msg569373
PROMO:
Twitvid:
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 17, 2010, 12:35:47 AM
saved
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: kwando1313 on October 18, 2010, 08:40:45 PM
Run grandma run?
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Cocoa on October 18, 2010, 08:48:59 PM
Yes. And as a matter of fact, the last babushka we saw was the lady who handed cards to the teams in Russia S13. (random info? :lol:)
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Dånooky on October 18, 2010, 09:02:20 PM
Methinks, another race in "drag" like the Netherlands leg in Season 15
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Obbyz on October 19, 2010, 09:15:23 PM
Speculating : Maybe there is a Switchback Roadblock from Season 5 , eating Caviar.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Slowhatch on October 21, 2010, 03:34:00 PM
Resources: Yandex offers a superior-resolution street view of St. Petersburg (http://maps.yandex.ru/-/CRWEqmd), but there's no English interface. The controls are at the top-right: the binocular button toggles the street view; the drop-down box on the right lets you choose map, satellite, or hybrid; and sharing-links are created in the field above (circled).
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: pyryniemi on October 24, 2010, 03:59:00 PM
Nice to see they're going to St. petersburg again, I went there last summer.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: theschnauzers on October 24, 2010, 08:26:15 PM
There may be a Switchback of sorts, but it doesn't appear to be caviar. The glimpse of the piano seemed like it was similar to TAR 10 Ukraine detour with the sheet music; there might be another similar task that I can't place at the moment as well.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: woden on October 24, 2010, 08:28:57 PM
There may be a Switchback of sorts, but it doesn't appear to be caviar. The glimpse of the piano seemed like it was similar to TAR 10 Ukraine detour with the sheet music; there might be another similar task that I can't place at the moment as well.
It seems to me the idea of the Switchback is same location, same task as a previous season -- neither would apply here.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Slowhatch on October 24, 2010, 09:56:49 PM
A conservatory, perhaps? And the word on the screen, as best I can translate it, is "surrendered." A Potemkin reference, maybe? I haven't seen the whole film.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Kaylynn on October 24, 2010, 10:22:17 PM
So it looks like the first clue in St Petersburg is the spoiler clue of teams spotted at St. Isaac's Cathedral (based on the flight arrival time of 1:33 pm).
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Kaylynn on October 25, 2010, 04:54:52 AM
The Hermitage Museum complex. From left to right: Hermitage Theatre – Old Hermitage – Small Hermitage – Winter Palace (the "New Hermitage" is situated behind the Old Hermitage). (bold is from Wikipedia) The "front" of The Hermitage faces the river and the "back" faces the square and the General Staff Building. The public entrance is in the courtyard to the Winter Palace.
Chateau......the pic you posted is of the General Staff Building...across the square from the Winter Palace. Part of it is used as part of The Hermitage. There are actually 6 buildings used for The Hermitage Museum. In that respect, it is very similar to our Smithsonian Museum in DC.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: redskevin88 on October 25, 2010, 07:30:39 AM
They are planting potatos........with apologies to Dan Quale.
Don't get ur joke...
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Cocoa on October 25, 2010, 07:35:35 AM
Yup. I agree. I think the Detour is the Piano and the Film.
This may be redundant information, but I'm giving what I can give. The word on the screen behind Thomas can be transliterated as "Sdalas" (without the last letter. I forgot what it stands for). Random info? :lol:
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Neobie on October 25, 2010, 08:19:22 AM
This may be redundant information, but I'm giving what I can give. The word on the screen behind Thomas can be transliterated as "Sdalas" (without the last letter. I forgot what it stands for). Random info?
Thanks Cocoa! I think "sdalas" means "surrendered".
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: woden on October 25, 2010, 11:23:43 AM
Yup. I agree. I think the Detour is the Piano and the Film.
I can't decide yet -- I can't tell from the caps whether we have both teammates performing the manure task or the film task. The piano task is definitely a detour option.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: walkingpneumonia on October 25, 2010, 11:39:18 AM
They are planting potatos........with apologies to Dan Quale.
Don't get ur joke...
That's because you don't eat enough potatoes... :lol3:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle
Or too young!
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Slowhatch on October 25, 2010, 07:59:17 PM
I think I've found the piano task: Beloselsky-Belozersky Palace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloselsky-Belozersky_Palace), 41 Nevsky prospect. The floor, chandeliers, woodwork etc. looks like a match. (photo source (http://www.souvenirplus.com/eng/palaces/))
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 25, 2010, 08:08:32 PM
Oh GREAT job!! I have been climbing all thru the Hermitage looking for that room, and am delighted to stop! :lol:
WHo can do a map between our spots??
Not sure we can find the potato field... :(
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Slowhatch on October 25, 2010, 08:38:57 PM
Yeah, the household plot (if that's what it is) looks very generic. So does the film studio. The only guess I could make--and it's only a guess--is the SP Documentary Film Studio (http://wikimapia.org/8651120/St-Petersburg-Documentary-Film-Studios), about the same distance from St. Isaac's as BB palace.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: smiley on October 25, 2010, 09:30:48 PM
Yup. I agree. I think the Detour is the Piano and the Film.
I can't decide yet -- I can't tell from the caps whether we have both teammates performing the manure task or the film task. The piano task is definitely a detour option.
You "kinda" can. In cap #19, you can see Kat (I think) in the background, also looking through the movies/whatever it is. :)
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: kwando1313 on October 25, 2010, 09:34:32 PM
I would say Piano vs. Film would make more sense than Piano vs. Manure...
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 25, 2010, 10:02:07 PM
I went thru all the caps again and pulled out a few more that may have the possibility of having more than one racer in the shot...see what y'all think? pretty sure #4 shows Jill too.... And there seems to be another racer in the potato patch!
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: redskevin88 on October 26, 2010, 12:56:54 AM
Betcha Chad or Thomas says the title...
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 26, 2010, 12:57:38 AM
Guess this answers the DETOUR question!! :funny:
TEAMS TRAVEL TO ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA WHERE THEY EXPERIENCE CLASSICAL FILM, MUSIC AND MANUAL LABOR, ON "THE AMAZING RACE," SUNDAY, OCT. 31
"Run, Babushka, Run" (Russia) - Racers struggle to complete their creative detours before putting in a proper day's work in the fields, where they discover the key to potato farming is manure, on THE AMAZING RACE, Sunday, Oct. 31 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Phil Keoghan is host.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: milanissimo on October 26, 2010, 07:58:28 AM
There is a new promo :hearts: :hearts: However in caps 9 10 (first promo)and also in caps 13...18 we can see jill and thomas(see the clothes :tup:), so they try both tasks...(I think it' s a detour) Also Nat and Kat appear in cap 19 ...21 ,and in the new promo we see them on piano's task... so they both change.. Maybe also gary and mallory,because they appear in cinema's task(in the new promo),but during the interview mallory mimes a piano (so I think the try both tasks)...
This is just a speculation .....I think the next eliminated team will be gary and mallory :waves: :waves:
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: FLFan on October 26, 2010, 11:05:16 AM
It looks like Kevin in the "potato" patch.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: DrRox on October 26, 2010, 12:18:51 PM
This is just a speculation .....I think the next eliminated team will be gary and mallory :waves: :waves:
I think so, too. They were the only team with no real sightings, either potentially, partially, or fully substantiated, after St. Petersburg. Chad & Stephanie have a possible Oman sighting. Michael & Kevin have a possible decoy sighting in Hong Kong on a ferry (I think). Nick & Vicki also have a potential Hong Kong sighting, likely in race mode if it's true. Add that to Brook & Claire, Nat & Kat, and Jill & Thomas all being spotted in Hong Kong and later in South Korea, and Gary & Mallory pretty much stick out like a sore thumb. So I'm also calling them out this Sunday.
And that? Will suck.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: redskevin88 on October 26, 2010, 08:45:07 PM
This is just a speculation .....I think the next eliminated team will be gary and mallory :waves: :waves:
I think so, too. They were the only team with no real sightings, either potentially, partially, or fully substantiated, after St. Petersburg. Chad & Stephanie have a possible Oman sighting. Michael & Kevin have a possible decoy sighting in Hong Kong on a ferry (I think). Nick & Vicki also have a potential Hong Kong sighting, likely in race mode if it's true. Add that to Brook & Claire, Nat & Kat, and Jill & Thomas all being spotted in Hong Kong and later in South Korea, and Gary & Mallory pretty much stick out like a sore thumb. So I'm also calling them out this Sunday.
And that? Will suck.
I have unconfirmed, unverifiable sightings of Michael & Kevin doing decoy running in Korea...
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Paron on October 26, 2010, 09:05:55 PM
This is just a speculation .....I think the next eliminated team will be gary and mallory :waves: :waves:
I think so, too. They were the only team with no real sightings, either potentially, partially, or fully substantiated, after St. Petersburg. Chad & Stephanie have a possible Oman sighting. Michael & Kevin have a possible decoy sighting in Hong Kong on a ferry (I think). Nick & Vicki also have a potential Hong Kong sighting, likely in race mode if it's true. Add that to Brook & Claire, Nat & Kat, and Jill & Thomas all being spotted in Hong Kong and later in South Korea, and Gary & Mallory pretty much stick out like a sore thumb. So I'm also calling them out this Sunday.
And that? Will suck.
I have unconfirmed, unverifiable sightings of Michael & Kevin doing decoy running in Korea...
And if that turns out to be true, that definitely takes them out of the running for leaving Sunday.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Dragoondaniel on October 26, 2010, 10:06:35 PM
Any chance for this leg being a non-elimination? I know it's too soon for US TAR (we just had one 2 weeks ago) but with the subsequent leg being pegged as an elimination ("final showdown for elimination... russian lawn game") could it be so? Gary/Mallory leaving now would be pretty upsetting considering how well they've been doing... :(
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Paron on October 26, 2010, 10:13:28 PM
Any chance for this leg being a non-elimination? I know it's too soon for US TAR (we just had one 2 weeks ago) but with the subsequent leg being pegged as an elimination ("final showdown for elimination... russian lawn game") could it be so? Gary/Mallory leaving now would be pretty upsetting considering how well they've been doing... :(
They've never, ever taken the F7 beyond the sixth episode (or sixth leg, in TAR6's case, as that one did have it happen in episode seven) before cutting down to the F6. They might have if this were a thirteen-legger, but since it's a twelve-legger . . . I don't think so. So that, plus everything here, as well as the sightings, points to me to thinking this next episode, if it has a Pit Stop and is not a TBC, will end with an elimination. Also, I think episode seven will be the F6 elimination, making the rest of the race a fairly predictable NEL-Elimination-NEL-Elimination-F3 scheme for the last five legs.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Dragoondaniel on October 26, 2010, 10:31:06 PM
Any chance for this leg being a non-elimination? I know it's too soon for US TAR (we just had one 2 weeks ago) but with the subsequent leg being pegged as an elimination ("final showdown for elimination... russian lawn game") could it be so? Gary/Mallory leaving now would be pretty upsetting considering how well they've been doing... :(
They've never, ever taken the F7 beyond the sixth episode (or sixth leg, in TAR6's case, as that one did have it happen in episode seven) before cutting down to the F6. They might have if this were a thirteen-legger, but since it's a twelve-legger . . . I don't think so. So that, plus everything here, as well as the sightings, points to me to thinking this next episode, if it has a Pit Stop and is not a TBC, will end with an elimination. Also, I think episode seven will be the F6 elimination, making the rest of the race a fairly predictable NEL-Elimination-NEL-Elimination-F3 scheme for the last five legs.
Haha yeah, I've noticed the NEL pattern for US TAR. Ah well, I can only hope they surprise us again with the NEL this season. The NEL-EL-NEL-EL-F3 is one of my greatest peeves about TAR because it screams predictability. (:;)
Ah well, continue spoiling then. :hearts: This leg is gonna be awesome I think. (except the outcome, maybe)
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: FLFan on October 27, 2010, 12:08:25 AM
Any chance for this leg being a non-elimination? I know it's too soon for US TAR (we just had one 2 weeks ago) but with the subsequent leg being pegged as an elimination ("final showdown for elimination... russian lawn game") could it be so? Gary/Mallory leaving now would be pretty upsetting considering how well they've been doing... :(
They've never, ever taken the F7 beyond the sixth episode (or sixth leg, in TAR6's case, as that one did have it happen in episode seven) before cutting down to the F6. They might have if this were a thirteen-legger, but since it's a twelve-legger . . . I don't think so. So that, plus everything here, as well as the sightings, points to me to thinking this next episode, if it has a Pit Stop and is not a TBC, will end with an elimination. Also, I think episode seven will be the F6 elimination, making the rest of the race a fairly predictable NEL-Elimination-NEL-Elimination-F3 scheme for the last five legs.
Actually, I tend to agree dragoondaniel that this is a NEL (or a possible TBC). My DVR description for the circus episode also mentions Russian lawn game, 2 racers, and elimination. The way that it is worded tends me to believe this leg is a NEL and the last place team from this episode has to learn a Russian game to continue. (Of course, TAR tends to word things vaguely, but....)
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Paron on October 27, 2010, 02:28:22 AM
Any chance for this leg being a non-elimination? I know it's too soon for US TAR (we just had one 2 weeks ago) but with the subsequent leg being pegged as an elimination ("final showdown for elimination... russian lawn game") could it be so? Gary/Mallory leaving now would be pretty upsetting considering how well they've been doing... :(
They've never, ever taken the F7 beyond the sixth episode (or sixth leg, in TAR6's case, as that one did have it happen in episode seven) before cutting down to the F6. They might have if this were a thirteen-legger, but since it's a twelve-legger . . . I don't think so. So that, plus everything here, as well as the sightings, points to me to thinking this next episode, if it has a Pit Stop and is not a TBC, will end with an elimination. Also, I think episode seven will be the F6 elimination, making the rest of the race a fairly predictable NEL-Elimination-NEL-Elimination-F3 scheme for the last five legs.
Actually, I tend to agree dragoondaniel that this is a NEL (or a possible TBC). My DVR description for the circus episode also mentions Russian lawn game, 2 racers, and elimination. The way that it is worded tends me to believe this leg is a NEL and the last place team from this episode has to learn a Russian game to continue. (Of course, TAR tends to word things vaguely, but....)
The Russian game is part of a "final showdown," though. No way it's a Speed Bump.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 27, 2010, 02:38:19 AM
Let's discuss the episode 7 in that thread please?
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: gator27 on October 27, 2010, 06:40:03 AM
I think that is either Chad or Steph's jacket on the rail in cap 14. And perhaps cap 30 is a suggestion that they are changing Detours?? ???
Nat & Kat are in the film room and in the piano room. Mallory mockingly playing the piano could suggest they tried the piano Detour or that the piano Detour seemed annoying so they chose the Film Detour.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Prama on October 27, 2010, 07:13:04 AM
Does the Movie task is a real detour? Or could it be a RB? Why does (in caps) Mallory ran to her dad and hug him? Does Gary doesn't allow to help Mallory? Oh gosh, i wish they're ok there... :(
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 27, 2010, 11:03:34 AM
We see Nat and Kat and Thomas and Jill all in the film pile at the same time...so it does appear to be a Detour choice.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: laimis on October 27, 2010, 02:25:32 PM
Hello, I'm new in here. :waves: I'm from Lithuania, and I'm just 13 years old. : D
I just want to say, maybe in this leg there are a u-turn? :duno: so maybe someone u-turned gary & mallory :duno:
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Kaylynn on October 27, 2010, 02:39:36 PM
Hello, I'm new in here. :waves: I'm from Lithuania, and I'm just 13 years old. : D
I just want to say, maybe in this leg there are a u-turn? :duno: so maybe someone u-turned gary & mallory :duno:
:welcome2:
I have to agree with a u turn on the leg but now with it being used on Gary and Mallory
I wouldn't blame anyone who used it on them. They've been pretty solid. Also, maybe the bigger target got past the U-Turn before it could be used, so Gary & Mallory got hit with it.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: guacamole300 on October 27, 2010, 02:59:10 PM
Any chance for this leg being a non-elimination? I know it's too soon for US TAR (we just had one 2 weeks ago) but with the subsequent leg being pegged as an elimination ("final showdown for elimination... russian lawn game") could it be so? Gary/Mallory leaving now would be pretty upsetting considering how well they've been doing... :(
They've never, ever taken the F7 beyond the sixth episode (or sixth leg, in TAR6's case, as that one did have it happen in episode seven) before cutting down to the F6. They might have if this were a thirteen-legger, but since it's a twelve-legger . . . I don't think so. So that, plus everything here, as well as the sightings, points to me to thinking this next episode, if it has a Pit Stop and is not a TBC, will end with an elimination. Also, I think episode seven will be the F6 elimination, making the rest of the race a fairly predictable NEL-Elimination-NEL-Elimination-F3 scheme for the last five legs.
True, but they've never, ever had a F9 NEL before...so who knows!
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Kaylynn on October 27, 2010, 05:27:33 PM
Any chance for this leg being a non-elimination? I know it's too soon for US TAR (we just had one 2 weeks ago) but with the subsequent leg being pegged as an elimination ("final showdown for elimination... russian lawn game") could it be so? Gary/Mallory leaving now would be pretty upsetting considering how well they've been doing... :(
They've never, ever taken the F7 beyond the sixth episode (or sixth leg, in TAR6's case, as that one did have it happen in episode seven) before cutting down to the F6. They might have if this were a thirteen-legger, but since it's a twelve-legger . . . I don't think so. So that, plus everything here, as well as the sightings, points to me to thinking this next episode, if it has a Pit Stop and is not a TBC, will end with an elimination. Also, I think episode seven will be the F6 elimination, making the rest of the race a fairly predictable NEL-Elimination-NEL-Elimination-F3 scheme for the last five legs.
well episode 7 was still Leg 6. It had been planned to be 6 legs. but its illegal to beg in Hungary so they made it a double leg. it was still leg 6.
but I do think it is a NEL.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 27, 2010, 05:54:05 PM
Hello, I'm new in here. :waves: I'm from Lithuania, and I'm just 13 years old. : D
I just want to say, maybe in this leg there are a u-turn? :duno: so maybe someone u-turned gary & mallory :duno:
:welcome: to RFF laimis!! Hope you have fun here!!
I think there will be a U-Turn soon...but I HOPE they have done away with that!! :lol:
Peach I think we have better chances being cast as a team of racers then production getting rid of the U-Turn. Hate it so, so much.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Kaylynn on October 28, 2010, 10:03:34 PM
I don't know if this can be a hint. but I was watching the videos of the teams they post after the episode. Nick and Vicky think Gary/Mallory are strong (with the high spec of them u turned) Chad/Steph think Brook and Claire are strong. and Jill and Thomas think they arent a target anymore.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 28, 2010, 10:28:36 PM
Okay, what movie is playing on the screen while the racers look for film?? Caps 19>22 show some of it. Anyone know? Is it a clue? ???
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Slowhatch on October 28, 2010, 11:43:10 PM
I thought it might be The Battleship Potemkin, so I watched it a couple of nights ago. No luck, the "surrendered" never shows on screen. It's some other silent film with machinery shots and a Trotsky-looking dude (they all looked like Trotsky back then :lol:)
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 28, 2010, 11:57:01 PM
I want that film. :lol:
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: TarJunkie999 on October 29, 2010, 11:35:37 AM
wonder if it's Eisenstein's classic Soviet film "October".
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: walkingpneumonia on October 29, 2010, 12:08:07 PM
wonder if it's Eisenstein's classic Soviet film "October".
I think you're correct - it fits with the "surrender" subtitle. If anyone wants to watch all 1hr42mins its here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeIn8AduwTg
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: walkingpneumonia on October 29, 2010, 01:54:59 PM
wonder if it's Eisenstein's classic Soviet film "October".
I think you're correct - it fits with the "surrender" subtitle. If anyone wants to watch all 1hr42mins its here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeIn8AduwTg
The "surrendered" subtitle comes up around 1hr 24 minutes into the film - just after the bicycle battalion rallies to the soviets. "The cossacks... ...surrendered". And this picture from the movie matches cap number 17 from the latest promo...
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 29, 2010, 02:20:58 PM
Oh NICE job guys!!
So...is there any clue in there?? What's the plot? :lol:
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: walkingpneumonia on October 29, 2010, 03:12:56 PM
So...is there any clue in there?? What's the plot? :lol:
Its about the Russian Revolution - 1917 - and some guy named Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin). Here's a picture of the director Sergei Eisenstein. Guys sure looked freaky in those days. :ascared
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: apskip on October 29, 2010, 04:34:07 PM
I don't think it was Eisenstein's film. How about this:
Surrender
USA, 1927, 77 minutes, B&W, silent Directed by Edward Sloman
Surrender, one of the few American silent feature films to deal with life in a European Jewish shtetl is filled with the details of village life and Jewish customs. Based on "Lea Lyon" by Alexander Brody, the film’s story unfolds on the eve of WWI in an Austrian village where the chief Rabbi's daughter, Lea, encounters Prince Constantine, a Russian officer.
The two are immediately taken with each other, but Lea's father denounces the Russian as an oppressor and bids him farewell. When war breaks out and Prince Constantine comes back to invade the village, he demands Lea in exchange for the life of the village. Lea’s passion for the Prince, and her concern for the lives of the villagers, conflict with her father's view that it is right to resist such a sinful demand. Although Lea makes a decision, the course of the war and the Russian revolution ultimately determine who is considered a hero and who a traitor in this plot-twisting melodrama about passions both political and personal.
Note that Prince Constantine was a Russian officer and this is related to the Russian Revolution. You have the Russian ties there.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 29, 2010, 11:21:53 PM
From a source :lol:
Quote
just look for a tall blonde and little japanese girl running after jill and thomas in front of the st isaacs cathedral. Lol
Sorry Kat! :-[
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: TarJunkie999 on October 30, 2010, 03:35:04 PM
found a June 5th, 2010 reference to a "site of an Amazing Race stop" by Rembrandt's "Prodigal Son" painting at the Hermitage here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/chech1965/page58/) :duno: is this old or some other TAR? pitstop inside the Hermitage? ???
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 30, 2010, 03:40:04 PM
That is season 5 I believe.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 31, 2010, 04:12:49 AM
Maybe y'all can ID the train for sure, lots of numbers!??
Well, it is a Swedish train which is being run by SJ, Statens Järnvägar. This literally means The State Railroads, but the company was privatized a number of years ago. The numbers are just the type of the engine and the cars. And that kind of engine is pretty common (AFAIK) on the northern lines. So they will not help very much.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 31, 2010, 03:42:58 PM
Darn. :(
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 31, 2010, 06:28:10 PM
There is a new PIP out but I am having trouble uploading it.
I see Michael looking at film, and may be seeing Chad at the RB...
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 31, 2010, 06:57:17 PM
Best I can do for now...
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 31, 2010, 07:13:04 PM
Well, if I didn't have reason to believe Nat & Kat would survive this leg, this would probably indicate to me that they survived. Of course, there have been examples of teams making quotes and being eliminated at the end of the leg.
Belle Book
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Dånooky on October 31, 2010, 07:55:15 PM
Correction - Vicki for the Title
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: georgiapeach on October 31, 2010, 07:59:47 PM
Heee...guess it wasn't Chad after all, and I changed my answer!!
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Neobie on November 01, 2010, 12:47:39 AM
Looks like teams got off the train at Uppsala.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: guacamole300 on November 01, 2010, 10:48:40 PM
Yeah, I was rewatching and just before Chad and Stephanie get a taxi, the taxi that stops says UPPSALA TAXI
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Slowhatch on November 01, 2010, 11:42:06 PM
Uppsala>Arlanda must be a popular run (cap below). I wonder if they were told to take a certain train #/line; I couldn't find a good shot of the info card and it might have occurred to some team to just drive through the "night" from Narvik.
On a different topic, production almost wasted a lot of money (save for N/V) with the piano task. It would have been easy, despite the cacophony, if you knew the tunes (I'm embarrassed to admit I only recognized two). I think the people who created and tested the task knew the music and didn't realize how hard it would be if someone was just hearing it for the first time.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: theschnauzers on November 02, 2010, 12:45:19 AM
I'm not so sure TPTB were aiming for an easy task. Most people these days, haven't trying learning an instrument or choir, so they are not at all familiar with reading sheet music. And I hadn't heard of two of them before, so my guess is the music task was designed to be the harder task, unless a team had a at least one member who had a really good ear for music. The film task was easier if you were patient and observant about the film being projected. A couple of the teams hit upon the words showing up on screen, and looking for those in the film strips the teams had to go through; but the unstated factor was how many of those strips were the correct film -- we weren't told. Clearly this was a dual "needle in a haystack" detour, devious and difficult, and one of the more challenging detours I think we've ever seen on TAR. It had to be driving the teams crazy unless they kept their cool from the time they arrived in St. Petersberg until they reached the pit stop. The roadblock wasn't a piece of cake, either. The Cyrillic alphabet would be difficult if you haven't been exposed to it (as some Cyrllic letters have quite different sounds that the Roman alphabet), and teams had to be observant about the signs and the instructions for the task. I loved the babushkas in this task, they were well coached about what sort of stupid things the Americans would do and the snark was unmistakable. (Reminded me of the Bakery babushka on an earlier visit to Russia) This, to me was a well designed leg (the 24-plus hours of travel after leaving the pit stop, having to use trains, planes, taxis along the way before they got to the first clue box in St.Petersburg). I'm one of the few who wasn't surprised that this was an NEL. I had suggested as much when we first learned there would be a second St. Petersburg leg, (as that has become the practice in the leg design in recent seasons when there are two legs in the same city or urban area. (Was the case in Ghana, right?) I do wonder if Nick and Vicki really how damned lucky they've been to avoid elimination. They've averaged 7th place in the season to date, and came in 7th this week with 7 teams left. The odds are against them (though Rebecca and Adam are proof that badly performing teams can make final three, not to mention that other team that was on the Race the last time they were in Russia proper.)
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: guacamole300 on November 02, 2010, 12:47:34 AM
C/S also completed that task!
I think it is like the symbols task in Ghana where under the pressure nobody save Connor/Jonathan figured out that the decoder key was just around the corner, and here under the pressure nobody figured out that the better way to do it, even if you're not music inclined, is to focus on just one before moving on to the next one. Still, it was an awesome task!!! and I understand that with 50 other pianos playing at the same time it gets harder, but not impossible! You just need a different approach and focus.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: DrRox on November 02, 2010, 07:41:37 AM
Ghana I = Andie and Jenna eliminated Ghana II = Michael and Kevin NEL
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Coutzy on November 02, 2010, 07:48:55 AM
I think the easiest approach (For me anyway) would be to take all the sheet music then listen to the three being played, one by one. That probably seems easier for me because I know how to read sheet music, but I can't believe that no teams thought it would be easier to take them on one at a time before Nick and Vicki completely Bald Snarked it.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Cocoa on November 02, 2010, 09:12:34 AM
I think this is my most favorite leg design in terms of the difficulty of tasks ever in TAR History!
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Jobby on November 10, 2010, 08:27:45 AM
I think this is my most favorite leg design in terms of the difficulty of tasks ever in TAR History!
If only there wasn't a production error. But the production error was actually the cause that made the teams so frustrated and the episode so fun to watch as well. :lol:
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: Zack. on November 10, 2010, 01:00:17 PM
I think this is my most favorite leg design in terms of the difficulty of tasks ever in TAR History!
TAR 13.10? Where the RB had two stages, and each Detour had three stages, with heavy emphasis on transportation, the Cyrillic alphabet, and general logic.
Title: Re: TAR 17 EP 6 "Run, Babushka, Run" (St Petersburg, Russia)
Post by: maf on November 12, 2010, 12:17:44 PM
When Nick & Kat came down from the tower Nick tried to deceive Kevin & Claire by talking about the DS13 they saw. Technically that was not a lie (since they actually saw it), but he also said they were going to it and that was not really true.
But I wonder if it would not have been more effective to answer the question "Did you find anything?" with something like "Yes, we saw the next route marker". That is technically not a lie (the figuring could count as a route marker) but could possibly cause the next team to spend a lot of time to look for a yellow and red flag.