Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Philimination And Philimination Accessories
By Miss Alli | Season 12 | Episode 8 | Aired on 12.29.2007
In a surprisingly endearing little moment, Nate has his arm on Jen's arm, and he says, "I love you." With tension but not a lack of affection, she says, "I love you, too." And then she turns to him, and it's like he's going to give her a smooch, but instead, he kind of cracks up and says, "We are just not good at stressing out." Hee. If they can start laughing at their own ridiculous behavior, that's going to go a long way toward making me dislike them slightly less.
TK hands in his receipts and forms to the foreman, and he and Rachel receive the clue that sends them to the pit stop. And I will say on their behalf: WOO! Because they'll just be all, "Groovy." Phil explains that the teams are now headed to Bandra Fort, which is the pit stop for the leg. Last team to check in just might be eliminated, possibly. They get a cab.
Nick returns next and hands in his paperwork. He and Don leave for the pit stop. Ron gets his second receipt. In their cab, TK and Rachel are excited, but in Don and Nick's cab, Nick looks like hell after dragging those tanks, and he's saying that he badly needs water. Ron finishes up and returns to Chris, and they leave for the pit stop.
Kynt and Vyxsin reach the Roadblock, and at the mention of the strong back and good navigational skills, they immediately assign the Roadblock to...him. Really? Isn't she clearly more physically powerful than he is? Because...I think she is; I really do. Nate and Jen appear at the Roadblock, and Vyxsin says to the camera, with total resignation of the "I can't believe I didn't say anything to stop that nonsense" variety, "We should have U-Turned Nate and Jen; we U-Turned a team that is probably ahead of us." Well...yes. You did. And they are. And not just "probably." The funny thing is that after the fact, they had this whole explanation where they figured that they, and Nate and Jen, were AHEAD of the pack instead of BEHIND the pack. Which this utterly belies, because her despair here indicates that she doesn't for a minute believe that this is the case, and nothing about being behind Nate and Jen makes a difference in that calculus. They knew they were running close with Nate and Jen; if they thought Nick and Don were behind both teams, there's no reason Nate and Jen showing up would change that, you know? I mean, don't get me wrong -- they're not the first team to rationalize their departure. At any rate, Jen takes the Roadblock for herself and Nate, and she's off.
Nick, looking like hell, makes the cab pull over so he can throw up, but I think it's really just dehydrated retching. He needs some water, for reals. He looks...gray.