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As always happens with a recap episode, as it started I wished it wasn't one and within two shakes of a lambs tail I was chuckling away happily, suddenly remembering what I'd totally forgotten.
How's Ryan and Chuck for being serious blasts from the blast? What I don't get is that they were faves of mine and I forgot they existed completely.
Seeing them again I was forced into being brutally honest with myself about how huge they are - there's just no way they'd have lasted the second leg if they'd stayed, which means their going when they did was purrfect.
I also felt less sentimental about the Lesbo's than I did when they were around - espesh because we hadn't seen them apologising to Rob. I couldn't
believe the way Bianca caved in so easily - they defs deserved going for that.
The most hysterical of it all was the way Rob didn't even give a smidgen of a suggestion that he was gonna apologise back, even though he knew he was wrong.
He didn't need to either - he didn't ask for an apology and didn't want one. I'll never forget him saying that what he liked about the Lesbo's was the way they fought with him. I actually reckon he was a bit disappointed in them that they accepted defeat so easily.
My best out of everything was him saying to Amber: "Love me, have fun with me, don't come last." It wasn't unseen footage but the first time it didn't strike me with a tear plop the way it did now.
It's such a fab way of summing up exactly what both racing the Race and living is all about. It's such a simple thing isn't it? If you do those three things, in that order, there's just no ways you can't be happy when you get to the end - no matter where you come.
I love how the tone of the "don't come last" is so important too - like the way Rob says it in contrast to the way the Ray Pig says "Stick a fork in us". Does it mean Ray doesn't really love Deana or does it mean he does but in a different way or does it mean he doesn't know?
Speaking of whom/which (?) - that he doesn't know how to drive was defs confirmed in Jozi. Hehe, it's brilliant that he can't. The only possible reason is that he's too terrified - which is so pathetically ridiculous it's obviously true.
I also had a very hectic moment of crisis with the two of them when Ray said something in some very unseen footage and now I can't remember what it was. It was one line that I so didn't expect from him - it was very horrible with how it gave me twinges of wanting to be on his side.
Same thing with Lynn and Alex and seeing them repeat "Survive that" to Rob and Amber and "Scary-scary" in Jozi. I don't understand it works that I was irritated to epic proportions the first time and yet this time, it was replaced with brief moments of fondness for them.
It's also not like I don't really, genuinely detest them though. When they were having their bitch-fest milking the goats I couldn't stand them more than ever. How interesting is it what Rob said about them being so together and not having difficulties?
Alex's name confuses me - being Lynn's toyboy he should be called Lynn instead. I could imagine Lynn ( the actual butch one) being very rich and saying Alex doesn't need to work.
Unlike Ron would need to say to Kelly if they were married 'cos she wouldn't want to work. Instead she'd spend all her time cooking for him in between judging beauty pageants.
Even if she looked like a beauty queen there's just no ways she'd enter them if they got married because she's so special everyone's looking up to her to be a good example. I was finished when she said it - what was she thinking? It's such an eeeuw thing to say.
I used get irritated when I heard someone going on about how they're an example or role-model but now it's seriously eye-rollingly embarrassing. It's like saying: "Look at me, be like me because I'm better than you."
The trouble is of course there's so much unblievable pressure on anyone in any sort of public situation to be the perfect example of whatever the current popular opinion is, that it's understandable that peeps feel they need to say it.
That's what was so groovy about the brothers - they have such an open honesty about themselves and everyone else.
They also make it all look so easy, showing that it is possible to be that way always and that it happens when there are absolutely no issues in a relationship at all. I reckon this must come from them looking so similar and no-one ever knowing who's who, so that nothing they experience matters to only one of them.
Unlike Meredith and Gretchen where everything only matters to her. I was hoping to like them more seeing everything they've done again because they're olds and I feel I should but then I found myself chortling away at Gretchen's screams from down the caves.
I also realised why it is that Gretchen’s voice annoys me so much - it's that she uses it to boss Meredith around
all the time.
Even though he could speak up if he wanted to and it's his fault, I feel sorry for him that he's always got to be telling Gretchen how wonderful she is and she only says it when things are going her way. If you ask me it's all as a direct result of his name and wouldn't have happened if he'd changed it when he was eighteen.
I don't think Rob nor Uchenna know his name yet either - I was looking out for someone besides Gretchen and Phil saying it and didn't hear anyone even give it a whisper.
How's Uchenna's eyes for being hysterical? Seeing them progressively widen from day one over and over again was brilliant, showing just how much of an actor he actually is.
I reckon it's partly for the cameras and partly because it's part of his personality and what he usually does just generally. I'm conivinced he used it at the beginning to hide aspects of who he is and that more and more it's revealing who he really is.
I dunno, it's very strange to explain. Sort of like explaining how I felt when he said what he said about being in Africa.
I found myself getting quite emotional when he said it as it struck me how much what he was feeling was about belonging. It's such a cool feeling, when you know where you are couldn't be more right.
Like I'm sure the brothers were feeling the night they spent with the blondes! There's just noo ways they didn't get steamy sex that night. I'm pleased they got it before they left - which is of course where it's ended and gonna begin next week.
With five teams realising they're getting closer to the million bucks. Bring it
on.