Pass the smelling salts

[jaina]

ohmygodohmygodohmygod I have seriously NEVER been that nervous for an ending EVER. Even including the nailbiter Sox-Yankees playoff games this fall. I was SICK to my stomach and then when I saw Brian and Greg running ahead of Ray and Deana I started SCREAMING with joy. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh my God. Wow. Wow.

On another note, I was royally pissed that POW&PQ didn't get a prize for coming in first this time, when Ray and Deana got *cars* for coming in first via a friggin' Fast Forward. I seriously think that if you come in first via a Fast Forward, you shouldn't get a prize. Fast Forwarding itself ought to be prize enough.

Comments

[lurknomore.livejournal.com]

No kidding this was a great episode. Thank whoever's watching these things that Ray and Deanna are gone and the brothers are still around. And there was a sweet, karmic justice that Ray and Deana went from first to last in one leg and that Meredith and Gretchen beat them.

I'm as conflicted as mary_linton about Rob and Amber. They're good racers, they treat each other well, and they seem to be enjoying themselves. They're good television, too. But they don't treat anyone else on the race with any respect whatsoever, and Rob said a couple of things last night that really bothered me.

Although the crap treatment is pretty mutual. If it had been Rob and Amber who crashed, I don't think Lynn and Alex would have stopped - no matter how much they pride themselves on being decent human beings. Really decent human beings don't bitch about others the way those two do about Rob and Amber. Or shriek at fishmongers that they're cheats.

The lions were cool.

[portnoyslp.livejournal.com]

I don't know; if you believe, as many seem to, that Rob is being edited to make him look more like a guy fomenting conflict with the other racers, then you have to believe that Lynn and Alex are being edited to heighten that conflict. We can't really say what they would have done if it were R&A in the crash.

Really, all we can say is this -- Lynn and Alex are racers who were willing to stop and help at an accident, even if it meant dropping two places in the race. Rob and Amber weren't even willing to slow down.

[lurknomore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they should have done what every other team did. Even Ray the schmuck slowed down and rolled his window to see if there was anything they could do.

Phil seemed displeased with them, too.

I still prefer them to Lynn and Alex.

[brightcupenny.livejournal.com]

Lynn and Alex really need to get over their Rob and Ambah fixation. If they did that, I would really, really love them. As it is now, I like them, but with reservations.