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A floating village and two beautiful temples play host to the racers.
by Diana Steenbergen
US, October 27, 2008 - Seven teams remain this week as the racers leave New Zealand for Cambodia. Usually the move to Asia leads to meltdowns from at least a team or two, but for the most part the teams keep it together during the episode, even when dealing with broken boats and constantly shifting positions in the order.
In last place, Ty and Aja hope for the airport to work its magic as the great equalizer, and it does work for the other teams, but sadly not for Ty and Aja. With the other six teams arriving in Cambodia at approximately the same time, the race was on for who would finish first. However, with Ty and Aja essentially out of the picture, there was no real sense of jeopardy for any other team, even when they performed poorly at certain tasks. The editors did their best to persuade us that Ty and Aja could catch up at any moment, but it wasn't convincing.
The teams encounter some delays throughout this leg, some of their own making, such as Terence and Sarah being pulled over for speeding in New Zealand, and some of the bad luck variety, like Terence and Sarah's boat breaking down. My personal favorite mistake this week was when Kelly and Christy see Ken and Tina shooting hoops and decide they should ignore their current instructions to go to the floating restaurant and just skip ahead to a basketball game. They continue to state they are going to utilize their brain power and they continue to fail at it. It is more amusing since they are pretty unlikable.
Dan and Andrew seem to be experiencing the most stress as they are confused a lot of the time. Dan's arms flapping around whenever they are baffled at what to do next is sort of funny to watch, and they continue to squeak by, second to last again this week. As Dan noted, this can only continue for so long before they actually are last.
A floating village and two beautiful temples play host to the racers.
by Diana Steenbergen
US, October 27, 2008 - Seven teams remain this week as the racers leave New Zealand for Cambodia. Usually the move to Asia leads to meltdowns from at least a team or two, but for the most part the teams keep it together during the episode, even when dealing with broken boats and constantly shifting positions in the order.
In last place, Ty and Aja hope for the airport to work its magic as the great equalizer, and it does work for the other teams, but sadly not for Ty and Aja. With the other six teams arriving in Cambodia at approximately the same time, the race was on for who would finish first. However, with Ty and Aja essentially out of the picture, there was no real sense of jeopardy for any other team, even when they performed poorly at certain tasks. The editors did their best to persuade us that Ty and Aja could catch up at any moment, but it wasn't convincing.
The teams encounter some delays throughout this leg, some of their own making, such as Terence and Sarah being pulled over for speeding in New Zealand, and some of the bad luck variety, like Terence and Sarah's boat breaking down. My personal favorite mistake this week was when Kelly and Christy see Ken and Tina shooting hoops and decide they should ignore their current instructions to go to the floating restaurant and just skip ahead to a basketball game. They continue to state they are going to utilize their brain power and they continue to fail at it. It is more amusing since they are pretty unlikable.
Dan and Andrew seem to be experiencing the most stress as they are confused a lot of the time. Dan's arms flapping around whenever they are baffled at what to do next is sort of funny to watch, and they continue to squeak by, second to last again this week. As Dan noted, this can only continue for so long before they actually are last.
The detour was on the easy side this week, but with six teams so close to each other it was still interesting to see the shifting around of who was finishing first and who was falling behind. And the floating village they were at was fascinating. If only Ty and Aja had also been there, it might have been really exciting. The roadblock seemed very simple as well, although Tina got lost enough trying to find the clue that she and Ken fell in the standings several places. To their credit, they both handled this well as Tina took responsibility and Ken took it in stride. It is good to see that they can work together well as a team even when they are not comfortably in first place. The previews for next week indicate that this might change; we will just have to wait and see.
Nick finds the clue at the roadblock first and cleverly hides it so that he doesn't give away the fact that he has it. Since he wasn't working with someone this time, it didn't bother me like it did when he ditched people in the second leg of the race.
This quick work at the roadblock lands Nick and Starr in first place and they are happy to have done it a second time, proving the first was not a fluke. Ty and Aja are eliminated, to the surprise of no one, and their farewell speeches are very sweet. Aja is adorable when talking about Ty; her whole face lights up. And Ty has made the decision to take the long distance part out of their relationship. Although they will not be a part of The Amazing Race any more, I wish them the best of luck!
Nick finds the clue at the roadblock first and cleverly hides it so that he doesn't give away the fact that he has it. Since he wasn't working with someone this time, it didn't bother me like it did when he ditched people in the second leg of the race.
This quick work at the roadblock lands Nick and Starr in first place and they are happy to have done it a second time, proving the first was not a fluke. Ty and Aja are eliminated, to the surprise of no one, and their farewell speeches are very sweet. Aja is adorable when talking about Ty; her whole face lights up. And Ty has made the decision to take the long distance part out of their relationship. Although they will not be a part of The Amazing Race any more, I wish them the best of luck!
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