S33.E10: No Room for Error/S33.E11: In the Hands of the Amazing Race Gods LIVE CHAT

[Whimsy]

Season finale

Original airdate 3/2/22

This is your LIVE CHAT thread for both hours 

[Lantern7]

Thread for both episodes?

Bright side: better vibe for this finale than last time.

[Lady Calypso]

I'm excited for this finale! Finally get to live chat here after getting lucky enough to watch a couple of hours earlier.

Luckily, I have no ill will toward any of the teams left so I will not be upset at anyone winning, not even Ryan/Dusty.

[PaperTree]

Cool.  I have a good friend whose parents are Portuguese immigrants.

[Lantern7]

Heh.  Phil said “penultimate.” That’s an underused word, isn’t it?

[Browncoat]

This should be fun.

[iMonrey]

Again with the two roadblocks, again with the group starts.

[PaperTree]

Arun's middle name is "Luck"

[Lantern7]

1 minute ago, iMonrey said:

again with the group starts.

I’m thinking that won’t last past this season. Special circumstances and all that.

1 minute ago, PaperTree said:

Arun's middle name is "Luck"

I’d think it would be “Lost.”

[Zonk]

Kim and penns impression of the finish line clappers: everything I needed today.

[EllenB]

People might be interested in Ryan/Dusty because of Ryan's backstory. So why can't he ever get a word in edgewise? 

[iMonrey]

I wanna know how they determined that the flight attendants should leave first, then Kim and Penn and Arun and Natalia should leave together and Ryan/Dusty last by themselves. Was that arbitrary or based on the times between their finishes on the last leg?

[Thalia]

LOL on Kim and Penn's imitation of standing at the finish line, watching someone else win.  

[Lady Calypso]

1 minute ago, iMonrey said:

I wanna know how they determined that the flight attendants should leave first, then Kim and Penn and Arun and Natalia should leave together and Ryan/Dusty last by themselves. Was that arbitrary or based on the times between their finishes on the last leg?

That's how they finished the last leg. FA get an advantage for being first by leaving 15 minutes ahead. Ryan/Dusty leave 30 minutes after FA.

[iMonrey]

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That's how they finished the last leg. FA get an advantage for being first by leaving 15 minutes ahead. Ryan/Dusty leave 30 minutes after FA.

So why? None of the previous fist finishers got to leave by themselves. This is the first time they've done that. 

Also? Spotting the flag was way too easy. They did something similar in the past but needed binoculars and really had to search.

[Lantern7]

Maybe Ryan & Dusty have been chugging Red Bull all this time. 🤷‍♂️

Edited March 3, 2022 by Lantern7

[Lady Calypso]

Just now, iMonrey said:

So why? None of the previous fist finishers got to leave by themselves. This is the first time they've done that. 

Also? Spotting the flag was way too easy. They did something similar in the past but needed binoculars and really had to search.

It's because there's only four teams left, that's why. It makes sense to give first place a slight advantage because they can still have three start times with no issues.

[Browncoat]

Wow!  Arun and Natalia turned the correct direction!

[Pepper the Cat]

I’d be going in circles for sure.

[Lady Calypso]

Oh wow, Ryan/Dusty didn't get to the roadblock before the others!

 

[Lantern7]

The only explorer I’d recognize would be Vasco de Gama.

2 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

Wow!  Arun and Natalia turned the correct direction!

Huge shock. I think when Arun was born, his first pictures showed up on milk cartons.

[Thalia]

"I would have gone on that boat!"

 

[iMonrey]

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It's because there's only four teams left, that's why. It makes sense to give first place a slight advantage because they can still have three start times with no issues.

It doesn't make any more sense than having groups of two. Seems pretty arbitrary to me. I mean, if they'd been giving first arriving teams the same advantage all along then sure but this just seemed random.

[Pepper the Cat]

That’s a pretty short row. I was expecting a much longer one.

[bearcatfan]

14 minutes ago, Lantern7 said:

Heh.  Phil said “penultimate.” That’s an underused word, isn’t it?

When he said it I recalled the Supernatural episode where Sam yelled “no one uses penultimate!”

[DEL901]

I think Arun may have chosen wrong….

[Lady Calypso]

Just now, DEL901 said:

I think Arun may have chosen wrong….

He did. So he'll have to row back, which means that Arun/Natalia could very well not make it to the final leg if Ryan chose right.

[Browncoat]

I think I could have done it without going in circles, but it would have taken me a while.  It might have taken me longer to figure out the explorer's name, especially if Da Gama and Magellan were already taken.

Edited March 3, 2022 by Browncoat

[Thalia]

Anyone else sitting here googling names of people on boats?  Just me?  Uh, never mind.  :-) 

 

[DEL901]

2 minutes ago, Lantern7 said:

The only explorer I’d recognize would be Vasco de Gama.

Huge shock. I think when Arun was born, his first pictures showed up on milk cartons.

I recognized him and Magelllen.

[SG429]

Rowing challenges always surprise me with how few people know how to row a boat.

[EllenB]

Just now, DEL901 said:

I recognized him and Magelllen.

I wouldn't be able to come up with too many off the top of my head - those two and Vasco de Gama popped into my mind - but I think I'd recognize others if I saw the names.

[Browncoat]

Just now, SG429 said:

Rowing challenges always surprise me with how few people know how to row a boat.

I have never rowed a boat.  I've paddled canoes and rafts, though, and I've seen people row, so I think I could figure it out.

[Lantern7]

1 minute ago, DEL901 said:

I recognized him and Magelllen.

I didn’t see Magellan.

*rewinding*

I think if that was his name, it was spelled differently.

[Browncoat]

I think Magellan's name was the Portuguese spelling.

[Zonk]

2 minutes ago, SG429 said:

Rowing challenges always surprise me with how few people know how to row a boat.

It's really not that hard to figure out usually, but I think if you are under preassure, especially in the penultimate leg of the amazing race, you might get frazzled fast.

[bearcatfan]

I can row a boat but I would be guessing on the explorers. On vacation when I was about 9 I had to row back to the dock when my dad’s friend couldn’t figure out how to do so. 

[Lady Calypso]

Oh, so Ryan got it wrong too! Unfortunately, with how lost Arun is with the paddling, he probably will get it before Arun.

Oh, wait, Arun found the right boat!

[Lantern7]

Just now, Browncoat said:

I think Magellan's name was the Portuguese spelling.

“. . . but in the Latin, ‘Jehovah’ starts with an ‘I’!” Gotcha.

[Browncoat]

Oh, Arun, it's not your boat until you are in the boat.

[Thalia]

1 minute ago, Lantern7 said:

I think if that was his name, it was spelled differently.

I was sitting here thinking that in the US we must be used to the Spanish spelling and not the Portuguese.   PS, Poor Arun.  

 

[PaperTree]

Ryan took Aruns boat.  LOL!

[DEL901]

Kim wasn’t a good rower, but she figured out pretty quickly that you sit with your back to the pointy part.   

[Pepper the Cat]

Filling in a stencil? That’s lame.

[iMonrey]

So they both get to paint together? And all they have to do is fill in the lines? WAY too easy.

[Lantern7]

Dude. Natalia is right friggin’ there. Show a little decorum.

[Lady Calypso]

Just now, iMonrey said:

So they both get to paint together? And all they have to do is fill in the lines? WAY too easy.

Yeah, but they still have another roadblock before the pit stop, so maybe that one will be harder?

[Browncoat]

Paint by number.  Should be more challenging than that for the penultimate leg.

[iMonrey]

Oh I thought this was the 2nd Roadblock.

I actually feel sorry for Arun.

[Lady Calypso]

I think Arun got the right explorer this time, so hopefully they can kind of catch up.