The Amazing Race Canada - Is That A Peacock?

 

Discussing Ep. 8.10 - It's down to the champion of champions now. All the teams that are left, with the notable exception of Beveron, have all finished in first place at one point or another. Who among them will be eliminated this week?

Flying to Pearson via Air Canada?!? I'd have laughed if they got bumped off of their flight and then were left waiting at Pearson for hours on end, given what I've heard about both the airline and the airport!

CoBren make a good point. There are five teams but only one episode left where it's down to the final three. So even though it was not explicitly stated, it could be that there will be a double elimination. The stakes just got even higher!

I'm envious! I've always wanted to do a driving school like this where you have to go around obstacles and be able to stop on a dime! And driving one of those sports cars looks like real fun too!

And it looks like some of the racers are envious too as it's Marika, Brendan, Craig, Franca and Veronica specifically who have to do this challenge! Is it because the other team members got to do the last road block? I can't remember.

Wait...these cars are automatic transmission? Sigh!

I suppose it makes sense since hardly anyone drives standard anymore. Still, I think it would have been an interesting challenge having each of them learn to drive stick and then get through the race track.

CoBren might have gotten their mojo back. They leave in first place. I said that their near defeat in the last leg might very well motivate them to recapture their former glory!

These guys were seriously crowing at a wild peacock? 😂

So Franca was quick enough but she didn't stop in the box. So now they have to go to the back of the line. That may cost them in the end.

And Franca ALMOST screwed it up again! She had to make it in under 2:30 and she makes it by one second! I'd have laughed if she had to do it over again.

"Because Team Franella failed the challenge, I'm pretty sure we're going to be on the second plane." - Catherine

"Sorry, not sorry." - Craig

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I love how Craig is still harbouring ill will towards Franella for them destroying the Froadali Alliance. Maybe it's Catherine's good nature that she seems to want to see Franella succeed but Craig is clearly over the whole thing and couldn't care less about them. I love it!

"Every second counts, especially in this leg of the race." - Franella

And yet...AND YET...what is that beside Franca? 

It looks like Franella went through a Tim Horton's drive-thru to pick up coffee and an ice cap! 

THEY WENT THROUGH A DRIVE-THRU TO GET COFFEE!!! 

THEY...ARE IN...A RACE!!! 

Even though they are in last place, what the hell are they doing getting stuff from Tim Horton's?!? And then they have the gall to preach that 'every second counts?' 

I'll forgive them if they got the camera guy something too.

I love the fact that Beveron and Franella now have to share a flight together. I hope drama ensues!

I should hope all the racers know how to swim because if they don't.....this challenge will sink them!

So the Face Off is a modified game of snooker. I'm already dreading this as the preview from last week had JeM just having a mental breakdown over this game. Thing is, not everybody knows how to play pool/snooker.

 I love the awkward interaction between Franella and Broadway. Like I said, Catherine, at least, seems somewhat willing to engage with them. On a side note, the fact that Franella are not good swimmers may hurt them further. However, if either of them are good snooker players, they can possibly make it up again.

"I can't tell if Beverly is yelling...I can't tell if Nella is yelling. All the voices are starting to sound the same and I'm hearing multiple numbers." - Franca

I wouldn't think that Beverly and Nella sound the same but perhaps they do from a distance. At least she didn't say they all sounded like Craig!

I'm tellin' ya...they got their mojo back!

Sounds like the spiel that I got at work in terms of qualities we want to see in a workplace culture. It's all well and good but at the end of they day, they're all just buzzwords and are there for show. At least at my workplace, it's like that.

Oh, this is no good! They lost to CoBren and now they're seemingly losing to Broadway. And to make matters worse, Catherine has never played before! This does not look good! And Jesse keeps screwing up the last shot.

So if they get one wrong, they have to do the obstacle course all over again to be told what the values are. I like CoBren's strategy of having one memorize 3 and the other one memorize 4 because that's just a lot of work if they get it wrong each and every time.

You've got to be kidding me!!! They lost to CoBren, Broadway and now they're losing to Beveron?!? What is this curse that has fallen upon JeM? At least Jesse is keeping his cool in this. If they lose to Franella....then all hope is truly lost!

I love Beveron's face when the guy asked them what values they learned and Veronica realizes that all those words the soldiers were shouting wasn't simply to 'encourage' them! 😂

And they got their mojo back!

Beveron attempting this challenge 3 times may be what dooms them. Both Franella and JeM surpassed them as a result of them having to do the obstacle course 3 times already.

Okay...that was close! Wow! So it's CoBren, Broadway and JeM that make it to the final 3! 

Whew! That was intense!

THAT IS COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLS&*T!!!

SO IT'S NO LONGER THE FINAL 3 BUT NOW IT'S THE FINAL 4?!?

SO FRANELLA GETS TO ADVANCE AND COMPETE WITH THE OTHER TEAMS?!?

WHY?!? BECAUSE THEY CRIED?!? 

WHY CAN'T THIS STUPID SHOW STICK WITH THE ESTABLISHED FORMAT?!? WHY CAN'T THIS STUPID SHOW STOP WITH THE SWERVES AND THE SECOND AND THIRD AND FOURTH AND FIFTH AND SIXTH AND SEVENTH CHANCES?!?

FRANELLA DIDN'T DESERVE TO ADVANCE... THEY LOST. 

THEY LOST!!! FAIR AND SQUARE!!!

THEY LOST!!!

THEY WENT TO GO GET A COFFEE!!!!

I AM SO DAMN PISSED!!!

I mean, in some ways, I feel bad for Beveron. Why not let them advance too since this stupid show is being so gracious? Even though they didn't deserve to advance either, why not just throw all the rules out and let them compete in the finale as well? Why have them compete at all if this show is just going to allow all the teams to advance regardless of what position they end up at? 

Overall, this was a nail-biter of a show. That snooker thing almost did JeM in, while CoBren got their magic back. 

But this 4th place inclusion in the final 3 just ruined this episode for me. Franella did not deserve to advance. They just didn't.