Last Sunday's Amazing Race ...
Question: Last Sunday's
Amazing Race was the biggest farce I have ever seen! I will never believe that Rob and Amber would come in last for any reason other than something beyond their control. It was amazingly clear to me when they spelled Philippines incorrectly (as I might have) that they were just making
obviously ridiculous mistakes. The whole thing was ridiculous! My intelligence was insulted. Do you think that they bring certain people back for ratings, knowing that they will not let them win?
Answer: Let them win? What show are you watching? There's no question Rob and Amber were brought back for ratings (not that this all-star edition is going exactly gangbusters), which is why I was actually more amazed that when Rob and Amber stepped last on the mat, we didn't magically learn that this was somehow an earlier-than-usual nonelimination round. I'd bet the show's producers regret losing this team so early, though as I noted in my
Dispatch earlier this week, and I'm sure to few readers' surprise, I don't agree and I'm happy to see the last of them. For now. From where I sat, Rob and Amber simply had a very bad spell of continued bad luck on this leg. It happens in this game. Until they hit the team challenge, they were doing just fine. And while it may have been "amazingly clear" to you that the misspelling was the problem, Rob and Amber didn't see it. Again, it happens. Why feel more insulted by this than when other teams screw up? But after allowing a number of teams to pull ahead during that botched challenge, they made several more mistakes (including missing a clue box) that they weren't alone in making, all of which put Rob off his game during the mail-sorting challenge (a task the more focused Amber should have done) and allowed the ultra-annoying Charla and Mirna to miraculously pull ahead. Do I sense a conspiracy here? No. And neither, from what we saw on the show, did Rob and Amber. They accepted their defeat gracefully. Why can't you?
