Chris was on a very tight schedule to get married. He had to drive 5 hours, just to catch a plane that would then take him to San Antonio, which is where his wedding was. After the ceremony he would spend one night of post-matrimonial bliss with his new bride, and then fly back to finish his competition in the challenge. Although he would miss his wife, the chance at the money would mean a lot for when he was trying to start a family, because waiting tables at the Forbidden City is just not going to do it. But before Chris got to leave, the rest of the guys decided to throw him a bachelor party, which of course means there will be stripper. And just in case you were thinking about saving money and having your bachelor party in Santa Fe instead of Vegas or Tahoe, you were snapped back into reality at the sight of the stripper the guys got Chris. Perhaps they didn't want to spend a lot of money because they knew Chris wasn't going to like it, being all pious and such, but if they spent more than $20, I hope they got some change back. Maybe it's just me, but I like my strippers with more boobs, less FUPA.

So, thanks to Chris, the guys actually had some interesting back story, but as always the girls were much more interesting. Katie and Arissa were talking about the game, and in particular how much they wanted to win, but you knew there wasn't going to be a lot of silence with Coral and Veronica still complaining about the ouster of Rachel. Stupid arguments(surprise!) were being thrown around from either side. Veronica and Coral said the team could have used Rachel's strength, and Coral further argued that Rachel's disqualification didn't even make any difference in the outcome of the challenge. If you take it that way, you can argue that Rachel's strength didn't make any differences in the outcomes of any challenges either, since her strength didn't help them win any challenge. The only challenge they won, Ruthie, Robin, and Veronica were at the helm. Katie tried to pass of her vote for Rachel as some sort of greater plan to help others. By getting rid of Rachel, she would give some of the newer people a better chance at winning and breaking alliances, as if that isn't the exact outcome she wanted for herself.

The problem with the RR/RW challenge these days is the complete lack of creativity in any of the challenges. This time, we had another challenge involving bathing suits and the lake. Always looking to be cost conscious, they pulled out the same scaffolding used in the first challenge, but instead of hanging punching bags from it, there were several ropes spaced along either side. One row was for the guys and the other was for the girls. Team members had to swing from the first rope to the last, and the side with the most members making it all the way across would win, with the tiebreaker going to the team who completed the task in less time. As you can imagine, this challenge had no strategy involved, but we are still forced to name leaders, which were Theo, Brad, and Shane for the guys, and Katie, Ibis, and Ruthie for the girls.

Also, I know that "concise" is probably too much of an SAT word for anybody making the show to care about, but why does Jonny Mosely have to read ten pages on air to make sure we know what is going on? Aren't we just about to sit and watch what happens? And do we really need to have names for them? This week's name "SA-wing" (imagine you are Garth Algar saying it), was so very unoriginal, and even though the names do get a bunch of chuckles from our challengers, it's not worth the pain we get as they try their very best to be punny about the naming.

Posted by J-Unit on November 29, 2004 11:04 PM