The Amazing Race 16 - 3/14/2010 - (Live Commentary/Discussion)
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I'm impressed with the World War I detour, pretty elaborate setup, and hard to do either one with so much noise and action going on. The U-Turn has to suck too, cause I wouldn't be any good at the coded message one. Brent and Catie are making some stupid decisions as of late, and they seem like they aren't as aggressive as they were at the beginning of the race.
They seem to change the rules frequently. I thought that when a team was last in a non-elimination round they had to be first in the next leg in order to stay.
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That U-Turn was deadly. Ouch. What a way to be eliminated...
Probably the worst time to get U-turned. Trying to decipher a morse code message amidst the constant noise was next to impossible. And I think it also hurt them that they had seen the other message and kept interpreting the morse code as something similar.
WAY TO GO COPS!!! That guy was getting annoying with his cockiness and I am glad he and his wife got eliminated.
The cops and the cowboys are my two favorite teams. I hope one of them wins!
The cops and the cowboys are my two favorite teams. I hope one of them wins!
It does suck they got eliminated on that, but if you think about it, it was a pretty good move overall. Joe and Heidi had a good shot at being a final three team, so the cops just increased their odds of making the final round significantly; I think there are three clear favourites, two maybes, and two doubtfuls. So definitely a good call.
That aside, the leg was pretty cool. I enjoyed the WWI detour (even if it did reveal that most teams know nothing about history
), it was a much more elaborate set-up than most detours. Also, I like that their in France, since I know just enough French to pick up how laughable everyone's pronunciation is. 
That aside, the leg was pretty cool. I enjoyed the WWI detour (even if it did reveal that most teams know nothing about history
), it was a much more elaborate set-up than most detours. Also, I like that their in France, since I know just enough French to pick up how laughable everyone's pronunciation is. 
Based on just this episode (but backed up by previous episodes) I want the lesbian couple to go out (but would like the whiner one to suffer further discomfort first).
Your in a race for $1 million that involves various stunts, don't say crawling a hundred yards isn't what you signed up for.
Your in a race for $1 million that involves various stunts, don't say crawling a hundred yards isn't what you signed up for.
^ Yeah, they really annoy me. And I kept wishing they had chosen the Morse Code challenge... somehow, I think that the one woman would have quickly realized why smart teams chose the straightforward physical task over the potentially very time-consuming mental one. I think, though, that their infighting will probably kill them at some point before the last leg.
I thought it might be a waste of a U-Turn - don't do it to just push a team back a few spots. Do it to eliminate them or give you breathing room from possible elimination. Turned out to actually be too much for Joe and Heidi to overcome. Sucks to go out that way, but it is part of the game. I wouldn't have wanted to figure out the morse message on that leg.
Remember when the models wanted to show us how they were unfairly labeled at the beginning of the race? Turns out that label was dead on. Miss South Carolina, apparently you are exactly who you were on stage that night. If only they had maps in Africa...
Remember when the models wanted to show us how they were unfairly labeled at the beginning of the race? Turns out that label was dead on. Miss South Carolina, apparently you are exactly who you were on stage that night. If only they had maps in Africa...
The morse had to have really been rough.. they had more than a three hour lead over the last place team (who also had the speed bump). I would have liked to have heard the message just to know how fast or long it was.
Is it just me or are there more crybabies in this season? I get sick of hearing all of them whining about the simplest thing. Crawling under wire under fire aint nothing! When I was in the Army I used to do that all the time and if they were really in a real war everyone of them would be laying out there dead.
