Yet Another Non-Elimination!

Episode 4. Yet again another disappointing finish. How many times are we gonna have a non-elim round? Right now, it’s one every other episode. At this rate, we’ll take at least another 14 weeks to end the show. At my calculation, the finale will be 8th March 2007. All those with short attention span or will be missing shows going overseas, you might as well stop watching now.

Congrats to Andrew and Syeon for being 'Team number... ONE'. However, they only get bragging rights, nothing else.

I think it’s the editor’s fault that this episode is just too much. Everyone running around, but don’t know who’s leading. After buying plane ticket, next thing you know, they landed. Didn’t even notice anyone fell down. Editors should slow it down; focus some on the drama too! And by the way, it’s cruel for the models to push girls down and say that it’s funny.

No, its not OK to push little girls down.

Beef and beauty made a silly mistake of taking the conventional ferry rather than the express one. And it cost them first place. Only thing, before that, they were laughing at the other teams when their express ferry over took the other teams in the normal ferry on the way to see dangerous animals. Its all karma. But too bad, the winners did not get another Sony Handycam or any other prize.

Riding the JetCat could have given Beef and Beauty bragging rights.

Oh Laura and Andy. Not only are they the most boring (view the audition video) and unlucky team in the race, but they are turning evil. See them hiding all the maps? Too bad their evil plan did not work out. The others still manage to get where they are suppose to be (only the taxi drivers got it wrong). See, its all karma. For being evil, Laura had to fall, and apparently dislocated her knee cap. Now they can’t run, so they can take all the time they want to look at maps.

Are they truly the unluckiest couple alive? Arriving at number 7, again?!

Again, the “best friends” team are afraid of something. Surprise surprise! They’re not afraid of dolphins, they’re just afraid of enclosed spaces – i.e. claustrophobic. It caused them a 4 hour penalty – on top of being the last team to arrive on the pit stop. Unfortunately for us, Allan said “I am pleased to tell you, that this is one of the several predetermined non-elimination leg of the race” (and I think he took like one minute to say that line). Come on, its time to kick teams off! Let the race get more intense!

The producers love watching Howard and Sahran suffer all sorts of phobias.

I’m beginning to suspect that the people behind the scenes (producers, editors, script writers, etc) are all "good friends", like Howard and Sahran. Not only did these two undeservingly get the non-elimination round, but they are the only team who won any prize for reaching the pit stop first. Then again, their expressions on camera are excruciatingly funny.