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‘Amazing Race’: Another roll in the hay

November 9th, 2009, 10:00 am · 2 Comments · posted by The Watcher

Lena and KristyFor the second week in a row, we were treated to a less-than-thrilling episode of “The Amazing Race” Sunday night - until the contestants rolled into rural Sweden for a second visit to the fateful hayfield of doom.

We first met the field in season six of “The Amazing Race,” when sisters Lena & Kristy were eliminated after Lena spent eight hours fruitlessly unrolling bales. I felt bad just watching the rerun.

Sunday avoided such a tragedy, but the randomness of the task still kept the drama going until the end. The fortunate Flight Time & Big Easy came in first, and the seemingly unlucky Gary & Matt came in last - only to be saved by the expected non-elimination.

The past couple of episodes have seemed unusually low-energy and dull for this late in the Race. Since Mika refused to go down the waterslide, most of the drama seems to have drained out. Perhaps that’s because the remaining five teams are all likeable. It’s less fun without a team to root against.

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 2 Comments

  • EatingFool says:
    November 9, 2009 at 12:35 pm

    Watcher - I don’t like the new redesigned site. I always pictured you as an Antonio Banderas type of international man of mystery but alas, you look like me. Still, your keen observations are well beyond mine so I defer to your thoughts.

    Last night was a good episode and while watching it, I also thought that I like all of the remaining teams so the winner doesn’t matter all that much.

    The only thing that stuck in my mind is the complete lack of understanding by all the teams that the hay bale event was one of the most famous in TAR history. I was also perplexed by pretty boy refusing to do the task and his girlfriend had to do it. It reminding me of Sara (one leg) and her boyfriend who did jack during their season.

    Still, I was impressed with Gary on the bales and I would’ve been disappointed had his team had been eliminated.

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    • The Watcher says:
      November 9, 2009 at 2:41 pm

      I’m not sure who that generic, middle-aged dude in the page header is. I think it’s a piece of clip art the editors found. The Watcher prefers to remain a shadowy figure.

      I agree about Cheyne wimping out on the bale-rolling. Very uncharacteristic of his behavior so far. I still like those two to win.

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