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If you don't count the despised Family Edition, where they camped on Belmont Plateau in West Fairmount Park early in the race. (my preferred association with that spot is lying out there at night to watch meteor showers, which my child then reported in his 2nd grade "weekend news" as "Mee-tee-ers." I was disappointed at how little Philly featured in S8, and excited to see Gritty in the season previews (though I see him interacting with a team of a certain composition, which means I have some guesses as to final 3 placement, sigh). "Gritty: he may be a hideous, deformed monster, but he's our hideous, deformed monster!" --Philadelphians

To be fair, she was the last woman standing (hanging) (clinging) and nobody was going to beat Hunter, as we could see when he hung upside down with only the strength of his thighs--and women often do win that one IIRC. I was quite impressed with her performance, actually, of being the 3rd to last out.

So Cara Maria is supposed to play Kam's game for her now? It was okay for others to say "I can never vote against Rachel so..." [Flora, whomever] but not for Cara to throw her vote away (if the order they voted in was shown correctly, it was obvious Rachel was going in)....I like Kam and Leroy, but that was a bit much! Amused at Jasmine's talking head about playing dominoes at her HBCU. How can Ayanna not tell that Kam is not going to out the people who told what they'd overheard? I am so glad she's gone. I am enjoying Kefla, whom I don't remember, but sorry that Syrus' gorgeous grin is gone from my screen. I liked their "old man buddy buddy" chat.

I forget who it was, but one of the guys said something like "Gracias, mujera!" to the clue-giver at the rope-block, which IIRC means, "Thanks, woman!", when it probably should have been "Senora" or "Senorita." (sorry no tildas) It was funny on half the cluebox-arrivals to see the voladores climbing wearily back up for yet another round, probably thinking "when will the rest of these dinguses get here so we can finally go home and take a nap?" I mean, I'm sure they enjoy vol-ing, but there's a limit to how many times you can have the blood rush to your head in a day, no? (And I would much rather do the hanging/spinning than be the person at the top playing an instrument--the first shot where he was actually standing on top of the pole freaked me out--even later when he was sitting!) Because my brain loves to classify things, I was intrigued at the different ways the teams described the wrestling masks, either by color or by symbol or whatever. It all went too fast for me to decide what I myself would call them! My progeny was sitting on the couch quoting Anna Leigh (disparagingly) every time Mary said something sweet to her dad! I like the two same-sex couples; I think we saw more of the guys (sweet for the one to make his partner's dream his own), and I think the half-Mexican one from the women looks like a brown-eyed Parvati Shallow (from Survivor).

What, you don't enjoy his fashion sense? ;-)

Yeah. His eyes getting beadier and meaner with every second (Jay's, that is, not Kyland's or even Asaf's) and his mouth getting more and more clenched into a straight line were just so telling. And they replayed that bit in the deliberations where he pulls a childish face when Kyland is...just talking. I wouldn't mind seeing Michele without Jay just to see if (as Laurel suggested she hasn't yet) she learns from her mistakes. And at least she owns her mistakes and flaws. Jay is such a hypocrite. "You bring too much drama," said to Big T and Melissa by the guy wearing a marching band uniform. Corey should keep the non-mushroom 'do. James gets the manspreading award. Sounds like the physical distance did him and Moriah in? Whatever, they don't seem too bothered. I agree that Colleen didn't come off that well, but in her clip, neither did Berna, going on and on and on about how horrible Colleen was. Like with Jay, I find Berna a hypocrite and would be happy not to see her again. Awww, Horatio saying he was the most overrated....

I don't like to be meanspirited, but I couldn't help smirking every time Berna's balancing thingies fell down. Her whining was just too much, and her hypocrisy (still not over her bullying Amber B. back in the day, and then whining about being bullied herself). Emmanuel did earn it physically, and I'm happy for his family, and happy for Nurys. I wonder if they weren't allowed to scooch along on hands and knees on the balance beam, like some end up doing on Survivor.

Well, she has dark brown hair--and just seeing her from afar, it could look black. Only one blonde woman this time--I will have a much easier time differentiating!

And it was so obviously planned. They started their dance immediately (with Emmanuel, almost before the words were out of their mouths) and how would Jay and Moriah know when to chest bump? I know there's a "thing" on Big Brother that after one alliance gets someone out, or wins a comp, or whatever, they meet up in the kitchen and do a little dance. I bet Jay thought this would be oh-so-cute to do here. It wasn't. I did wonder if he would accidentally pop Moriah in the nose with his flailing, though.

I'd be happy if Nurys won; Colleen would be okay because she kind of had the short end of the stick with whatever alliance she went with, and she has not been mean; and I'd grudgingly say that Michele deserves it, for pulling all the social strings and doing damage control for Jay's asshattery. That's it.

We just caught up on our saved episodes (I think we were saving them and spreading them out!) So I assume if you're a local (like me) that your friend's daughter is local? I was wondering if they hired Philly kids on location. I called the CPAP machine but I thought surely they would kiss in the Heart--but I was glad it was unpredictable.

Well, I figured, but I don't recall reading them then, and I don't have the brainpower to go back over old seasons, but I figure your posts probably give one the flavor of your recaps, so!

Of course it does. Well, I for one always appreciate your take, even though I value Wes and Devin more than you do, and I watch Big Brother also (but you seem to agree with me that TAR is the pinnacle of reality shows....). I like when you post Erik's cartoons on Survivor threads. It would be fun to see his take on the Challenge eps, but I think he'd better reserve his talents for other things.

At the very least, I think TJ hates it when people throw challenges almost as much as he hates quitters, and I'm sure he could tell that Jay et al. were throwing that one in the soggy truck with the letters, and poor pure Horacio was just too innocent to notice. Teeje sees who tried hard and who throws things. Kyland may go off on the wrong track (when Jay tied knots in the chain vs. whatever Kyland did, for example), but he always tries. So based on that alone Teeje is going to like them better than he does Jay!

And I'm sure if it were Jay and Asaf in the lead at the final, Jay would surely step aside on behal of Asaf's wife and child, right? right? [crickets] He is such a hypocrite. Follows the usual path (for me) of people going downhill in my esteem from one season to the next. Kyland has gone up slightly, Horacio was already pretty high, Ed has stayed pretty level. Interestingly, Nurys has gone up, but I didn't really have a big take on her before. I was prepared to extend a lot of credit towards Moriah because she was done so dirty by Fessy (whom I don't like), but meh. ETA: LOL at TJ being amused by Zara writing that James was dead to her in her journal.