Tuesday, November 30, 2004

NOW YOU UNDERSTAND THAT "NEEDLE IN A HAYSTACK" EXPRESSION: For this week's obligatory TAR thread, you can discuss the following: a surprising penalty imposition, the idiocy of several team's detour choice, the joy of Hours of Operation, the simmering hate we all feel for Jonathan, the return of the Yield, and tonight's unusual (yet somehow moving) Phillimination.

I'd also like to submit this, based on the first three episodes--this season's challenges are better, but the players are far less interesting. I'm still having trouble discerning between "dating/models," "engaged/models," "formerly dating/models," and "models/models," but the challenges and general race structure have been even better than last season--lots of self-navigation, clever challenges, and a minimal premium placed on finagling flight updates.

Finally, tonight's episode demonstrates why being first to a roadblock may not be the best thing. This week, the first team could easily have been fooled by the clue into thinking it was a physically "easy" task, and, as we saw, it clearly was not. Further, the later teams had a number of search spots eliminated for them, making the task (theoretically) easier.

Further commentary is a spoiler, so take a detour over to the comments.

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