Well, at least evil didn't triumph.
As in Jaime & Cara.
After winning like five legs of the Race, overachieving siblings Tammy & Victor proved that being fit and smart and nice and mindful of bringing shame to your parents is the path to victory. So they're a little boring. When you win a million dollars (or whatever you get after taxes), being vanilla matters little.
That the cheating tiny stuntmen brothers Mark & Mike got eliminated is a surprise only to my colleague Robbi Pickeral, who actually bet me a quarter that they would catch up, despite the fact that they had received about a three-hour penalty last week.
The first team left Bangkok at 9:36 am; they left at 4 in the afternoon.
No, the action last night was about the Margie & Luke/Kisha & Jen situation. Which got crazy.
If you've ever considered trying out for "The Amazing Race," you probably have a list of skills you need, a list of things you should bring, a list of things you'd get your partner to do, a list of things you absolutely wouldn't do, not even for a $1 million.
This week, with just one roadblock, the Race probably added to 3 of those lists.
After a rest in Salzburg, the next stop is Bucharest, Romania, where we
learned that the first clue will be found at the gymnastics center
where Nadia Comaneci trained.
The first to leave is the overachieving sibling team, Tammy and Victor. Tammy talks of Victor's intelligence; he has a fine mind, she admits. But she also notes his reluctance to admit he's wrong. Thus Tammy provides the narrative arc for this Tammy/Victor episode.
Mr. Fine Mind has a smart idea right away; he suggests they get their plane tickets before they get on the train.
Our Guy Luke, aka the show's first deaf contestant, says he doesn't want to rely on his mother Margie for communication. He wants to know what the other teams are saying. It makes me wonder why he never learned to lip read. Will this experience change that?
Yippee, 'The Amazing Race"is back. Now I can have exotic staycations!
The mix of teams is familiar with a few interesting characteristics thrown in. It's too early to care about names, so we'll proceed with just their labels:
The obligatory blonde team. This time they're flight attendants who think because they are blonde they can practically get away with murder in foreign lands. This is not the first time a blonde team has expressed that kind of sentiment. Do blondes really think they are that
desirable or is it just a defensive move against charges of dumbness?
The overachieving siblings. This time they're Harvard lawyers, although there's a nine-year age difference, so they don't seem unnaturally close.
The mother & son. The son is deaf and doesn't read lips, so he'll have to rely on his mother, which is a pretty typical mother/son relationship, no?
