And, we return to actual racing. I think.
My current guess is that the rest of the leg will take the rest of this episode--keep in mind they got $400, and where have they spent it? I'm thinking that the leg is running more than 24 hours and they gave them money for food and a room. The train back to Budapest couldn't have been that much, could it?
Larry has already called Adam offering to jump off of the bridge. I mistakenly guessed earlier this leg that Adam would offer to lie down in the road.
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Boy this leg sucks. (I'm writing most of this during the show).
We invalidated two weeks ago with the bunch, and indeed Lori and Bolo were rewarded for their awful racing, while the other teams, who did the right thing by springing for some sleep, fell behind.
Really ugly racing there too-I'm going to have to go back on the tivo and figure out who (if anyone) did it. And they demolished the number board. Apparently they've run out of reasonable people interested in running the race.
We have more Fear Factor shit. I like racing, I hate barfing.
Jonathan even annoying when vaguely apologizing while still being condecending. And telling the local color musicians to shut up. Yeah, cause that was the problem.
Welcome to Budapest guy is awesome though.
I just think the leg designers are getting lazier. This leg plain sucked. I actually liked the idea of a double leg to keep people on their toes, and to remove the need for one of the non-elimination legs. What I don't like is the complete invalidation of the previous leg. I'll have to look, but I think teams essentially finished in the order they took the toy train to the Fast Forward/Sportozoa clue box. Lori & Bolo, who were saved by the grace of God, got the first ticket, and ended up first, despite the fact that they were in last by at least 6 hours when they got to Klub Net. No team has had a less deserved first place finish in the history of the Race. I like them, but was not happy for them, because their high placement was so undeserved.
Now seems like a good time to bitch about having the Fast Forward after a first-come, first-served task. Why would anyone other than the first team go for it? Bad leg planning. And the puking. My God, the puking. This was essentially the St. Petersburg leg from TAR5, except in Budapest. You had the ridiculously easy sports Detour option (with water polo instead of hockey). You had the ridicuously vomitous eat stuff Roadblock (with paprika soup instead of caviar). And you had another bad leg.
But this leg was much worse, because of the endless bunching. Why not just have a mandatory rest period after each task of every leg? Seriously, we have now had something like 8 or 9 complete bunches (many of which were created by production, not just the vagaries of international travel) after 7 legs (or 6, if this is considered just one leg). Did they even bother to explain why there was no Pit Stop at the end of the episode two weeks ago? It just seems like they're getting lazy. We watch for the travel, and we watch for the Racing. We don't watch for the argiung, bitching or puking.
Wilhite
I didn't end up exactly as the order of the rail train, as Adam and Rebecca were 4th for that and finished 5th and I thin Hayden and Aaron also lost a little ground. I agree the leg pretty much sucked and I'm getting more and more tired of almost all of these racers. If Kris and Jon get eliminated I might just say to hell with these teams and wait for race 7. I hadn't thought about it but this leg did seem to be ridiculously similar to the St. Petersburg leg. I at first thought the soup thing would be easier than the caviar (I usually don't eat 2lbs of something at a time but 24 ounces is only 2 cans of coke) but that stuff must have been really spicy and it looked like they had a pretty small spoon so that the spices would have time to get to them. Also did anyone else think that the justification for the pig's blood sounded like a bunch of crap. Hungary contains what was once Translyvania so drink some blood. Whenever the leg planners get lazy it seems like the show goes fear factory. Ah, here's hoping next weeks leg is as good as the post St. Petersburg leg was last race.
Larry
I don't know how much of the upchucking was from the soup, and how much was from a peristaltic chain reaction started by Victoria hurling reapetedly. They clearly had a shot of one of the Hungarians being quite disgusted later, so I don't think smells were dissipating in that space.
Assuming Steuard is reading this, I'm tasking him with finding out from Klara what a typical serving of that soup ought to be.
The Transylvania stuff was worse--it's not part of Hungary (although maybe some spillover region is), it's mostly in Romania, IIRC. It would have been part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but still.
Hayden and Aaron lost ground for two reasons: 1) they walked away from where the cabs would come, so Kris and Jon passed them 2) Rebecca totally passed them up with the soup.
They should stop the camera-perspective run to the mat to avoid eliminate. They haven't fooled me once. Gus and Hera were quite a bit behind.
Unfortunately, I didn't manage to see the episode (Kim had a _lot_ of work to do that night, and she's found that even just hearing this show in the background makes her tense and distracted). So I don't have a clear idea of what the soup was (and thankfully, I got to miss the vomiting... and the apparently unsatisfying episode structure and outcome). I'll miss Gus and Hera, even though they seemed destined for elimination before too long regardless.
Steuard
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