Episode Report Card Miss Alli: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Personal Dynamics A-Go-Go
By Miss Alli | Season 1 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.02.2001
And that sequence, my friends, is what you get for having Jerry Bruckheimer as your executive producer. It's too fast, it's too full of slam-cuts, and it's totally overdone, but it's not boring.
Team Guido are the first ones to put their sword on the table. (No, literally. Get your mind out of the gutter.) "Team Guido, reporting for duty," Joe says insufferably. They jump up and down and hug. Whatever.
Drew finds the stairs. "I found it, Kev! I found it!" Emily is still lost. Drew realizes he has some idea of where he's going, but he's still going to have a hard time figuring out how he's going to get back out. (That's just how I feel when I drive into downtown Minneapolis. Everybody tells me "In on 5th, out on 6th," and I still get lost every time.) "Ask Emily what the swords look like!" he calls to Kevin. I'm not sure I get what he's asking or why, particularly, but I still love Drew.
Drew and Emily find the swords. "Oh, my gosh!" she yells. She also figures out that perhaps they can use "those pole things" to grab the swords. "Drew!" Kevin yells. "Drew!" "Yeah, we got 'em, Kev, we got 'em!" Drew and Emily carefully pull two swords through the bars.
Frank and Margarita run up to the entrance. Well, Margarita runs. Frank asks her, "Is there a reason why you're running?" She inexplicably decides to say, "Because I feel like it," rather than the more obvious, "Because it's a race, you dope." Honestly, what happened to Mr. Move-It? When did he become Mr. Casual-Stroll, anyway? Frank takes the torch.
Paul and Amie show up, and I realize that, in some incredibly strange way, I have developed a weird affection for them. I'm stuck with this grudging admiration for the fact that they screw up over and over again -- they NEVER seem to do the right thing at the right time, and they get screwed with the constant cab problems -- and yet here they still are. It's like they endure forever, no matter how much bad stuff happens to them. And that is why, with great appreciation for yolliebear, the poster who said this long before I would ever have thought of it, I christen Paul and Amie "Team Cockroach." And I mean that with great affection. My giving them this fabulous name means, of course, that they will be eliminated next week.
It appears that, rather than untying the swords like everyone else did, Drew and Emily burn through the ropes with their torches. Hey, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Then we get the best teamwork shot yet, with Drew and Emily running side by side, him with both torches, her with both swords. "Take the elevator to the Coliseum floor!" Kevin calls out with a grin. I love Drew, but I think I double-love Kevin. Drew and Emily are reunited with their partners, who rejoice and congratulate them. They turn in their swords. "Welcome to El-Jem," they are told. Kev and Drew are named team number two, and Nancy and Emily team number three. Kevin rubs Drew's head. "We don't care [who's second and who's third]," Emily grins as she and Drew clasp hands and then hug. The two teams have a big group hug, and right now, I'm just loving these four folks to death.
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