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The PR snark is flying. Loved this on TWOP:
"The contestants are released from their cages and let free in the wilds of Rodeo Drive with the promise of working with a world-famous designer. They are all excited until they realize it is just stupid old Michael Kors. Tim pretends it is all huge and exciting, but doesn't manage it very well. Then Michael makes the designers all look at his vacation slide show and tasks them to design outfits around his amazing super awesome life that they will never have."
So... that was just a kindness when Phil said, "You're last to arrive and have been eliminated from the race," right? I mean, wouldn't they have been eliminated for not completing the tasks?
Oh, wait -- when teams have forgotten steps, they had the chance to go back and make them up, as long as they didn't come in last after all that, right?
He was just putting them out of our misery.
She completely psyched herself out. I mean, I sympathize, since I have climbed back down the ladder from the high dive, but she just wound herself up past the point of no return.
I'm undecided how I feel about the Globetrotters. I like them a lot, and no one helped them with the briefcase, and part of me feels like, hey, it's not as if they changed the outcome, and it is a race. Then again, it seemed pretty clear she wasn't going to change her mind in those two minutes, so it was pointless to say those things.
I have no problem with the Globetrotters doing what they did- it was the adrenaline of the last minute reprieve, I think.
YAY Globetrotters! I am also relieved that Canaan did not actually shove his girlfriend down the slide.
if you have a paralyzing fear, why would you go on TAR?
I know my limitations. I could never do something like TAR you have to up high and there's no way I could do that.
It's true. I mean, unless your crippling fear is something pretty obscure, like ... fear of wallpaper paste, you're almost guaranteed to be in trouble.
My favorite team is the Globetrotters. For me, they're the most fun and have the most personality, although the father and son are pretty fun, too.
so far, the only thing I would have had a problem with in all the seasons of TAR is the rat temple in India. I could have done it though, I just would have been creeped out and holding my breath.
I don't have the physical strength to do some of the TAR challenges, so that's the real reason I'm not applying for the race. I also can't really do eating challenges. Not at all.
