Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Goodbye, honeys
By Miss Alli | Season 2 | Episode 11 | Aired on 05.07.2002
As Cha-Cha-Cha starts its descent, Boston is right on their tails, and obviously chooses to Drop. Chris interviews that they knew they were in last place, so they needed to pick up some time. At the bottom, Cha-Cha-Cha unhooks and starts heading for the clue just as Boston starts dropping. The quick Boston descent puts Chris and Alex on the cave floor just a little behind Danny and Oswald, and it's clear as soon as Boston is unhooked from the equipment that they're moving a lot faster than Cha-Cha-Cha. They run up the rocks toward the flag.
"Paige is an extremely tough girl," Blake says. "She has absolutely overcome every physical challenge, and has done some of them even better than the guys." They climb out of the cave on a ladder, and at the top, they emerge in a field of green.
Oswald is struggling a bit with the climb toward the clue. I think the vertigo and the heights have taken a toll on him, and he's not very steady on his feet. Put that together with a scramble across what Blake described as some pretty slippery terrain, and it adds up to a tough go for Oswald. Chris and Alex pass Cha, just at the spot where the clue is. "We just passed right by 'em while they took their sweet time and sissyfooted around the whole cave," Chris smirks. Dear Chris: You are fired, and your Boyfriend Contract is revoked. Sincerely, Alli. (Those of you who said it would never last were right.) Seriously, I'm not branding the guy a horrible person, and I don't know exactly what's going on in his head, but "sissyfooting" is a highly suspect choice of words, and it looks even uglier when you put it in combination with (1) the smirk; and (2) the utter lack of grace involved in crowing over the situation at this point. So…yeah, it's that he said "sissyfooted," but to me, it's really the context as well. Not a good moment.
Boston emerges from the cave and gets to their camper, and Chris manages one more reference to how much ass they're kicking. Shut up, Chris.
Cha-Cha-Cha climbs the ladder out of the cave. "What fear of heights? What are you talking about?" Danny says encouragingly. "What fear of..." Oswald repeats, and breaks off as he looks down. Aww. When they emerge, Danny is full of praise. "You rocked," he says. "No, I didn't," Oswald frets. He voices over that he was feeling guilty about not being as quick in the caves as he would have liked. Interestingly, he attributes at least some of it to being "emotionally drained."
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