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Wednesday, September 08, 2004 |
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Amazing Race 5 - Episode Ten | |
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What an exciting episode! Uber cool destination, excellent challenges, Colin apologizing! LOL right, I didn't think any of us missed the sarcasm, Colin. And of course, there was the question of To Yield or Not To Yield. I'm going to keep this brief. The teams left Calcutta and headed for New Zealand. There was a tonne of footage from the airport which were confusing and unnecessary, IMO. At this point I was on the edge of my seat to see : a) whether Colin would make a stop over in Kuala Lumpur (which he thankfully did not, although I think he may have used some of our airspace. Ick), and b) whether the spoilers have nailed it (the NZ spoiler which I will post at the end of this entry). They got to New Zealand, they made fun of the Yield feature and they had these awesome challenges! The New Zealand sledging looks like a cross between whitewater rafting and surfing. It certainly looks difficult (but fun!) so kudos to teams who did that challenge (especially the Moms).  The other detour led them to Hell's Gate. How appropriate. There, they had to retrieve some clues hidden beneath the large pool of hot mud. It wasn't exactly as fun as the volcanic mud that the Pagongs and Tagi had fun with on Pulau Tiga, and it was pretty much the same as the challenge from last season's Amazing Race (where they had to find clues hidden in high piles of cowpile). Somehow, if that happened I think Brandon and Nicole would probably chicken out. I thought begging for money in India would humble them somewhat, but I didn't think that happened.  Identical twins.. covered in mud.. somewhere out there, you just know a perverted old man is busting his nuts The final challenge before the pitstop was the best (and most fun) I've seen so far. They arrived in a hilly location (I was half expecting to see Tinky Winky, Lala, Dipsy and Pop out from some hole in the ground) and had to get into a giant plastic ball and roll down to the hill to the pitstop like a tiny hamster. And it looked bloody fun, dammit. The parts where they slipped out from the ball made me think of giant ugly babies being pushed out from a gigantic plastic vagina. Not that I've actually seen the real thing. And I know babies come out head first. I'm just saying. Forget it. Okay, I'm done.  *makes mental challenge to go for this Zorb thingy if I ever reach New Zealand* Colin and Christie finished first (again!), and the Moms finished second (WOOHOO!!). Brandon and Nicole finished third followed by Chip and Kim. The twins came in last, and unfortunately this is a non-elimination round, so they were eliminated. I like the twins. However, I don't think they are excellent racers, but they've been very lucky in the game. Unfortunately luck can only get them so far. Sorry to see you go, girls. NOW, it's time for a special shout out to the Spoiler of The Year. No, not you Chill One. You SUCK. There are certain ethics to spoiling a reality tv show, and despite the fact that you have a book out and everything, you know squat about it. Anyway, I would like to congratulate Constipated Flandangle who's provided us Sucksters with the most interesting (and accurate) spoiler information of the season. This was posted before the first episode started and there have been many debates on how legit this spoiler info was. Well based on tonight's episode, you can probably answer that yourself. BRAVO CF! "constipated flandangle MESS member (2/20/04 9:34 pm) Reply ezSupporter *Spoiler* Final 6 (5? You decide) in NZ 21/2/04 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 teams arrived at Auckland International Airport on February 21st 2004. How do I know? I was there. I was informed that a TV crew would be filming, but had no Idea it was for the Amazing Race until I asked someone (who worked there) who had asked the camera crew. They came off various flights, Including the KE823 from Korea, a Singapore Airlines flight, and an Air New Zealand flight from either Hong Kong or Singapore. There were at LEAST 500 other people waiting for loved ones, and the airport was extremely crowded but I was right up the front and just watched out for every time the camera men started running to the arrivals area. It was like watching a movie in an overcrowded theatre. There were 6 silver Land Rovers in the airport car park as well as the usual yellow/red/yellow flags. All the contestants had dirty belt bags on. A couple of Airport workers who were totally in love with the show followed the crew around and were talking about it, but not too many friends/loved ones/ or other passengers seemed to care too much about the show. At approximately 11am, The first team arrived. It was a male/Female team. She had long blonde hair, and he was taller than her (no more details known about these 2) I did not get to see them, But they were spotted by a friend. They were leading the pack. They got out of customs between 11:30 and 11:55 am. At approximately 12pm the second team arrived. ANOTHER male/ female team. She was slightly taller than her male companion. She had just below shoulder length mousy brown hair. Nice tan. VERY beautiful. Black short shorts and a black tank top. He was slightly built, with a semi mullet haircut (Not really a mullet) and he had a southern accent. They were filmed talking to a worker, and he had to sign a release form to allow his face to appear on TV. She wanted to go to the toilet. The cameraman followed her. He got directions from the worker (I think) About an hour later team 3 arrived. An african American couple. They were both wearing blue bandanas I think. They left pretty quickly. He was of quite a large build, she was rather small, but very pretty with long black hair. Team 4 arrived not long after- They reminded me so much of Zach and Flo, even though I didn't really hear them say anything. They were a bit panicky "Where'd they go? Where are the others?" They asked a few people if they had seen anyone with a camera crew...of course everyone said yes. He was tall with blond curly hair and she was short, with long brown hair. Team number 5 ran right through the arrivals doors. They were major panicking. Two pretty much identical twin girls. Think Kelly Goldsmith, but thinner. There was a guy running around them, I don't know if he was a crew member or what, but he kept darting everywhere they were and it made me think he was one of the team members. But I'm sure he was just a crew member. The final team to arrive were the soccer moms. It was a nice change considering all the teams beforehand were young male/female couples. They were really really nice. One even asked ME how to drive through roundabouts (In NZ we drive on the elft hand side of the road and go through roundabouts in a clockwise direction) They seemed sort of athletic. Well, they were your average soccer moms. One had a short blonde bob ( I even heard her name! It was Karen!!!!) and the other had shoulder length brown hair. By the time they arrive, 2.5 hours after the first team, the location camera crew had gone, and it was only their personal camera crew they were waiting for. They got directions from an older guy (A pacific Islander) while waiting for their camera crew who were in quarantine. He gave them the wrong directions. Once they had left, the young worker guy informed the Pacific Island man that he had given them the wrong directions, and the PI guy ran out of the terminal to tell them the right way. They were really, really, really sweet, and I hope they don’t get eliminated tonight or tommorow, whenever the next elimination is, because they left the best impression on me. Even the proucers and crew that were there seemed to really like them. And that’s that. The location camera crew left for rotorua immediately after the twins arrived. Apparently they almost had an accident (them or the team in front of them) A few teams went the wrong way, probably not the soccer moms because they were given the RIGHT directions after being given the run around. This is all I can think of at this moment. If I think of anything else, I will post it. Oh yeah, I’ll match the contestants with their pics when they are released. Edited by: constipated flandangle at: 8/12/04 4:37 am" 0 Comments: |
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