Originally Posted By Rsey103 The cowboys need to get over their homesickness and mentally go over every leg of the race in case there's a big memory challenge coming up...
Originally Posted By Rsey103 I like this final 3. Caite needs to redeem herself publicly, which she will do to a degree by being the last woman standing and finishing the Race. Jordan has gotten to live out his dream of being on TAR and crossing the finish line with his brother. The cowboys will get a well-deserved win, I predict. Cord will go home, marry his fiancee, buy a house with the prize money, and go on a honeymoon with the trips he won on The Amazing Race. Yes. I like this final 3.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I only like that Brent and Caite are still there, as there's someone to root against as well as for. I'd be fine with either of the brother pairs winning; I think the cowboys will, unless there's some mental challenge they just can't figure out. The funny thing is that Caite keeps talking about how the fact that she's still there "proves how smart" she is, but truth be told, most of the things that need to be done don't require a lot of brain power. And every time she opens her mouth, she just shows once again that, although she's not quite in "dumb as a stump" territory, she's not exactly part of anyone's brain trust either. And Brent is even worse; petulant when things go wrong and a bad sport - like the world is out to get him or something, when most other people take the harder challenges for exactly what they are - harder challenges, not somehow somehow unfair to him personally, which is always Brent's attitude.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss I hope the cowboys. But I'm sure the producers concocted a final that will keep it close enough that it could be anyone's game.
Originally Posted By quincytoo Yea, I thought she was a little over the line, scowling away and not clapping then attacking them like that. As much as I didn't like Caite I thought at least she handled it well.
Originally Posted By DlandDug The cowboys could have won, but for their innate politeness. Rather than waiting while Brent was spinning, spinning, spinning, he would have been perfectly justified to step forward. Brent would have probably been knocked aside and pitched a fit, but with a million dollars at stake, it would have been worth it. But the cowboys did get to do what they wanted, and left with their character intact. So I guess that's good for them.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 It was Jordan who was spinning spinning spinning (Brent was directing Caite). And they got to their goal by inching forward anyway. That didn't eat up that much time for them. (Also, I think one of the rules of TAR is that you can not interfere with another team physically.) What ate up much more of their time was not recognizing WHY Jordan was spinning when it came their time to decipher the spinning message. They admitted as much. Brent and Caite (surprisingly enough) figured it out much quicker and nearly caught up to the cowboys at that point. Also, I thought what the cowboys did at that leg (speaking loudly and trying to throw off Dan giving instructions to Jordan) was just as iffy a move as cutting in line via backpack (which didn't end up putting them much ahead of the cowboys in the plane anyway - being smart enough to ask for first class did). I would have been happy with either of the brother pairs winning. Both had conducted themselves well up to that point, and each had one iffy moment (fair play-speaking) last night. As long as it wasn't Brent and Caite, I was fine with it.
Originally Posted By Wendy Pleakley Dan and Jordon have said they won by about 25 minutes and the airport line cutting had ZERO impact on the end result. It was the first class upgrade that did it, along with the Cowboys inexplicable inability to figure out why the brother was spinning.
Originally Posted By Rsey103 I didn't enjoy this finale---it didn't play out according to the script in my head. <ha> It bothered me that the brothers cut in front of the cowboys at the airport---but, yes, they all got on the same plane. When it got to the end of the season, the better team didn't win....
Originally Posted By trekkeruss The thing I was most surprised about was that Dan and Jordan were (apparently) allowed to use their notes in the puzzle detour. I had always assumed these puzzles had to be done from memory alone. Did they just memorize their notes, or did they actually look at them during the puzzle? I don't recall.
Originally Posted By Rsey103 It looked like they were using notes during the challenge. I've never seen a team use notes before. Maybe there was no rule about it at all....
Originally Posted By Dabob2 If they'd done something illegal, they'd have been penalized (like when the team walked instead of taking the funicular). And truth be told, it wasn't a hard memory challenge. I think I could have remembered which team was eliminated in which order.
Originally Posted By TINK-MOBILE They are always watching for stuff like that, so it must have been o'kay...
