smartymarty

I like this idea. I agree with others that, allowed or not, it's not interesting to watch. I don't mind the occasional cooperation at one task, but not the "wait for everyone before we leave," and certainly not the boxing out. Didn't we have one season where 4-5 teams aligned against one? It became really mean. I've played bubble ball. Weight is very important. My friend and I, neither more than 110 pounds, could get a 10 yard running start to drive into another player, and we'd just bounce off of them. So Rod had a great advantage in that the other players likely could not push him over, or not as easily as many of the women. Thank goodness the players eventually let those lighter players score. Remember though, that the GPS generation has no navigational skills to begin with. Angie is old enough to have had to read off maps, but possibly, like me (I'm older than her) still doesn't do to well with it (I usually think I need to turn right when it's left). So Danny may just have better navigational skills than others, though not perfect.

My husband kept saying "obviously the corners have to be pieces with curves." Nobody listened to that, either.

Yes, just ask Richard Hatch, Survivor season 1. From Wikipedia: Hatch was convicted also on January 25, 2006, by jury with two counts of attempted tax evasion and one count of signing a fraudulent tax return for not paying taxes on about $1.4 million: his past Survivor winnings, his $321,000 earnings as a co-host of a Boston radio show, and $28,000 rental property.[36][37][38] According to investigation, he hired two different accountants in 2001 and 2002 to prepare his tax returns that would have reflected his Survivor winnings. Rather than file either return, he filed a return that did not reflect the winnings.[39] He pleaded guilty to two of those counts before the conviction.[40] He served 51-month sentence in federal prison, particularly Federal Correctional Institution, Morgantown,[1] and his release was under three-year supervision.[37]

I thought they read the clue as seeing "each team member" had to pick up a set of balloons. Therefore both should have carried 3 sets, one of each color.

My strategy in picking a team to go all the way this time was to look at the size of the backpacks. The smaller, the more organized and understanding of the rigors of the race. We'll see if my theory pans out.

Really needed to see this episode to become interested after the first episode. Almost want to re-watch E1 to remind me what happened. Kind of hate flashbacks for this reason -- no reason to remember much from the first episode without the context of the second. I'm having no problem with NK's appearance, other than occasional amazement at how tall she is compared to a co-star. Curious why Hilary is cold to her.

Or that the pollution had to be in everyone's drinking water for the lab to obtain it. Couldn't they have found a way to collect the runoff before it reached the drinking water? I wasn't necessarily disappointed with the season, giving up on the mystery though fairly soon and just enjoying Jodie Foster's acting and the scenery. During the last episode, however, I did comment that I did not care whether any of the characters lived. It had just gone on too long.

And why was it assumed that if the Ukrainian daughter had gone exploring through the vents, that she had absolutely seen the murder? She could have been anywhere on the boat, or even not in the vents at that time. Isn't Rufus the only one who knows that Imogene smashed the watch and deleted the security footage? If so, then why didn't the Interpol lady gasp when Leila said she saw Imogene doing that from the bar cart? And what about the link between Leila and whoever got the governor to order drinks to that cabin? And all those people climbed down the stairs into the bowels of the ship? Does anyone work down there? Seems to be empty, therefore maybe the family could have spread out a bit. I'd think that the parents would have kept their daughter from exploring considering their supposed dire situation. Just watching now to find out who did it, while enjoying clothing and ship porn.

The show made a point of pointing out that the only time a VP was picked from the opposing party was Lincoln picking Johnson "and you know how that turned out" was the rejoinder (Johnson was impeached).

Completely missed the "stealing from them" part. I'm guessing then that is how he got her to help him with the investigation?

Well, I detected Frankenstein, not necessarily Phil Hartman's rendition. The monster who must be taught how to be civilized, and also who is kind to the little girl.

There was an advertisement for a conference regarding dolls.

I worried about the same thing, but then thought I saw a second trapeze set-up. Weren't the slips for one-two-three at the Space Needle, not the trapeze?

Right. It was the only boat around, moored, but nobody fishing or swimming from it. They should have been able to see it.

Someone above stated that one does sophisticated math to be a software engineer, but my memory (albeit from the 80s) is my computer programming professor pointing out that programming is really logic, not math (despite our high school guidance counselors asking about our math grades if we were interested in programming). A computer engineer (such as my brother at Intel) would need math skills, because that has to do with the hardware, not software. Like the horse-bike detour, this roadblock seemed to also be to bring racers to one of the iconic castles rather than being about the task to be performed there. Remember, that beyond being a race, this is to expose the racers to the world.