A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

WE DON'T DESERVE TO WIN. WE DON'T WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM: If you were to ever choose to skip an episode of The Amazing Race 6, this was the one. Other than the oddity of Freddy's glasses and his team's decision to wear their medals to the finish mat, this was a poorly-constructed leg that failed to bring the funny. Or the fun. Or much racing. May I vent?

• Last week's Fast Forward gave Lori and Bolo about a forty-minute advantage on the pack. That's it.


• The leg started off with a task that required teams to show up, sleep in the streets and bunch up, then take a flight with little ability to separate yourself from the other teams, then show up at another easily-located spot, sleep in the streets and wait for the next clue. Had they either (a) had some nighttime task in Budapest or (b) an earlier hours of operation for the morning task there, there might have been some chance for a little meaningful separation.


• Because the Fast Forward didn't allow multiple teams to make simultaneous attempts and was not difficult to perform, there was no drama whatsoever. It was just a matter of showing up first. Compare it to the multiple team chase at the Marrakech rug mart in TAR3 or the Momily/Team Guido battle in TAR1, where winning the FF was really a battle.


• Another Detour where the choices are Do Something Macho or Find Something, Wimp -- only the Find Something option didn't take very long and failed to punish the team(s) that attempted it.


• The Roadblock -- which, by the way, is a task only one team member can perform, and no team member can complete more than six Roadblocks during the entire Race -- really allowed no room for teams to separate themselves. Only driving did.


• Finally, if you haven't seen the episode yet, and only knew from the previews that this leg of the Race started with just six teams and ended in Corsica, with all of Asia and Australia/New Zealand left to traverse, how would you figure this leg ended? Yep.

If there's something good about this episode I'm missing, please share.