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20 hours ago, ML89 said:
I forget what other season Phil named, but in his interview with Chris and Alex of season 2 on his Bucket It podcast, he said this season was one of the hardest.
I'm not surprised, because one of the things we didn't see in this past leg was that while Nicole was running up the clock tower stairs, Victor was being attended to by medical because his legs were so cramped up from all that biking, and he could barely walk by the time they arrived at the pit stop
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21 hours ago, spanana said:
I know I said this in the other thread, but the majority of the issues Nicole/Victor have is if she's not physically able to keep up with some of the other racers (like in foot race type of thing) or navigational
I saw that as their main issue in this past leg, because out of all 5 teams, the two of them were at the biggest disadvantage with the tandem biking due to the height difference, because from what I saw on TV, Victor seemed to have no problem with the pedaling, while Nicole looked like she could barely reach those pedals, and I suspect that caused most of the difficulty in this episode.
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18 hours ago, fishcakes said:
The border control guy who couldn't do it at all was Art. His legs cramped so bad that someone came out and sprayed them with some kind of freezing gel, but it didn't help. If I'm remembering correctly what happened with him, he didn't seem to notice the hand grabs on the slope. He and JJ ended up taking the penalty and timing out/getting eliminated.
Production must have wanted to increase the difficulty this season, because Art wasn't the only one to cramp up during a leg.
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19 hours ago, Fukui San said:
The others were teams being far worse at something than anyone expected.
I wouldn't say that the detour/roadblock (don't remember which it was) that Maria & Tiffany couldn't complete was them being far worse at something than anyone expected, but rather a fail from production, because they were unable to contemplate that a team made up of two women wouldn't have the physical strength to complete that task, whereas every other team remaining was either M/M or M/F, where the male member of the team could easily knock out that task.
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3 hours ago, Ducky said:
Someone mentioned why not put hay in the sack to cushion the eggs... I wondered about that unless there was a stipulation they couldn't.
Floyd said that when they were biking to the market the first time, he put grass in the basket and then put the eggs in that basket, which also makes me wonder if they were allowed to do the same on the jump back over the ditch, and just didn't choose to, or they flat out weren't allowed to do that until they'd gotten the eggs in the bike.
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On 6/21/2019 at 12:41 PM, spanana said:
I They seem to be fine with Leo/Jamal and Becca/Floyd in the real world. They were hanging out with Leo in NY at the start of the season.
Yeah, and Becca & Floyd really didn't take that U-Turn personally, because they understood that it was just a way for Victor & Nicole to save themselves, and they also knew how hard it was to U-Turn a team they were close to. And the friendship with Britney & Janelle is also still going strong, because I remember seeing Brit show up for Victor's proposal to Nicole
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7 hours ago, smartymarty said:
Never ceases to amaze me how many people are not familiar with rowboat (and canoe) basics. Seems it should be obvious which end of the boat goes first. Victor and Nicole needed to switch places. (I mention canoe because on this and Survivor I see people attempted to row canoes when what they need to do is paddle [more of a vertical push into the water than the horizontal that is done with rowboat oars].)
No kidding. Even Chris couldn't get some of the boating done right, and you'd think that someone who's used to vacationing on lakes and being in the outdoors would've known how to row a boat.
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3 hours ago, LadyChatts said:
@green I had always hoped Mama Paolo would come back and race with DJ. Maybe she'd get to go to New Zealand instead of Phoenix this time.
I'd rather see her race with Brian, because I never liked the way DJ acted so disrespectful to her
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1 hour ago, biakbiak said:
The UTurn is part of the game and probably save Leo and Jamal. If they hadn’t UTurned Nicole and victor there is a good chance that N/V wouldn’t have uturned Team Fun and given how badly they screwed up the boat task they probably would have been eliminated. When choosing between two teams to UTurn choosing the one who had no problem Uturning you over one who didn’t seems like as good a deciding factor as anything else.
I get that the U-Turn is part of the game, and I didn't mind them choosing to do that specifically. Like I said, it was more the general celebrating/gloating about Nicole having to do the U-Turn on her birthday that made me not an Afghanimals fan this leg.
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2 hours ago, HeShallBMySquishy said:
Also, wasn't it Floyd who asked if there was an easier way down?
That was Nicole who asked the question, and I don't blame her, because having to bike almost everywhere that leg must be seriously exhausting, especially when she seemed to be having the hardest time even reaching those pedals.
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21 hours ago, eel21788 said:
Yes. The back person's stride has to match the front person's exactly. It is a task I have never been able to master even if I was riding with someone of my own height.
And if even Colin & Christie, who seem to have not that noticeable of a height difference and are both relatively athletic people, had their struggles at first with the bike, I can only imagine how hard it must have been for Nicole & Victor, especially when it looked like Nicole could barely reach the pedals on the bike
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10 hours ago, scrb said:
Becca showed her fangs when she told the guy she wants to throw the egg at him.
That was one of my favorite parts of the episode, because Becca would've been me at that market, albeit with less colorful language than I'd use
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10 hours ago, scrb said:
They're not really that good, not playing political game and making mistakes.
I'm surprised at their missteps in the political game, because Nicole won BB by playing an under the radar political game, so I'd have expected her to handle that part of the race well
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15 hours ago, spanana said:
I spent much of this episode laughing at the ineptitude of Leo/Jamal. I don't begrudge them using the u-turn and voting for Nicole/Victor. It's F5, they voted for them previously and etc. But maybe don't be such cocky bastards about it crowing about how you're going to win the leg only to royally screw up and almost get passed up by the u-turned teams.
Those were my exact feelings on Leo & Jamal. As much as I'm a Nicole & Victor fan, U-Turns are part of the game, so that itself didn't bother me. What got on my nerves was Leo & Jamal gloating about it and seeming like they were rubbing salt in the wound. We get it, you want to win/want revenge, but don't be cocky dbags about it
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4 hours ago, AZChristian said:
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She's the most annoying racer EVER.
I would agree except that this season also featured Rachel, and I prefer Nicole's whining to Rachel being way too over the top/taking everything so personally
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4 hours ago, Bouquet said:
They seem to be panicking and rushing things, afraid of getting eliminated near the end like last time.
And I can see that being what knocks them out of the final leg...a careless mistake caused by rushing things
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On 4/12/2018 at 1:30 AM, bunnyblue said:
Ray and Deana:. I hope once Deana watched the season, she made the definitive break from Ray once and for all.
They got married not long after TAR7 ended, with most of the cast, including Rob & Amber, attending their wedding, but about a couple of years ago, they split up
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On 6/13/2019 at 1:41 PM, smartymarty said:
Chris and Bret should have been the most successful since they got there first, before others picked up coins (unless TPTB threw more coins in after each team finished, but I doubt that).
I think a reason they also failed at that was because the ocean water in Croatia seemed to be freezing, and with Chris being from Oklahoma, he's not exactly used to swimming in cold water and was getting hypothermia towards the end there
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On 6/14/2019 at 1:57 PM, spanana said:
On Christie/Colin helping other teams, I don't remember which team said it, but I remember one of the earlier eliminated teams said that they liked Christie/Colin so much because they genuinely tried to help everyone on the race.
It isn't just the eliminated teams that have said that. Nicole's also said that every single time, C&C, especially Colin, were more than willing to help people out who were struggling, unless it was a situation like with the Reilly sisters, where the two teams were racing to not get eliminated
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23 hours ago, fishcakes said:
I I find Nicole too boring to think about, but it was cute the way she ignored Phil and immediately started snorgling the puppies at the mat.
That was one of my favorite parts too, mostly because I would've done the same and just paid attention to those cute puppies at the mat, forgetting that I was racing for a million dollars.
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59 minutes ago, chaifan said:
and I think Nicole is in Killer Fatigue territory.
I agree, because she's open about the fact that it doesn't take much for her to get rattled/go into anxiety mode, and this can easily knock her & Victor out of the race this late in the game
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15 hours ago, Browncoat said:
I'm getting mighty tired of his man-bun.
Thankfully that man bun doesn't last long, because when he proposed to Nicole about a month later, the man bun was gone
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9 hours ago, scrb said:
I can't tell if Floyd got the shell game thing with the Roman soldiers on the first try or not.
I don't think so, or they would've put "Try/Attempt 1" on the screen, like they always do
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11 hours ago, Lantern7 said:
Also, Victor did The Challenge, and a win by hm means we'd get drowned in a flood of Challengers thanks to the "suggestions" of CBS execs. And even when you disqualify those that aren't American citizens (Kyle, Joss, Bear), you're still left with a near-endless river of assholes. Paulie & Cara Maria racing? If that doesn't make you shudder, then you don't watch The Challenge . . . and for that, I envy you.
I'm with you there, because not only would CBS wanting Challengers on the show mean that Paulie & Cara Maria would sign up in a heartbeat, since Paulie's about as relentless as Rachel is when it comes to extending his 15 minutes of fame, and no thank you on that, but Bananas would also sign up, and he's another one I want off my TV for good.
Meri Brown and her Wet Bar of Tears
in Sister Wives
Never underestimate people's needs to get rich quick...Kody & Robyn would gladly welcome Meri on their planet if it means Robyn can keep her celestial shopping sprees for all eternity