I don't understand why so many folks here at the KT are rooting for Rachel and Brendon when so many folks here at the KT were so adamantly against Boston Rob and Amber when they were on TAR. The folks who were against Rob and Amber kept saying that because she'd won $1 million on Survivor that they shouldn't be on TAR. Well, Rachel won $1 on Big Brother, so why is it ok for her but not Amber? I think that some of the reasons they've gone to India so many times are that seeing the plight of the people who live there might awaken a humanitarian spirit in those who watch the show; the country can certainly use the money the producers pay in order to film in the country; the show undoubtedly uses (and pays) local folks to work behind the scenes while they are "in county" which is greatly needed; and there are a lot of local customs, etc., that make for good challenges. I like the Kentucky guys. They are having a good time, they're not giving each other grief, and they're playing fairly. And speaking of Boston Rob and Amber, Rob showed a lot of smarts when they were on. Remember the challenge where they had to take a specific number of hardbound books from some store and deliver them to a library and put them all on the shelves? They had to use a handtruck to move them from one location to the other. Well, Rob figured out how to stack the correct number of books on the handtruck so that they only had to make ONE trip between the two locations, while all of the other teams had to make at least two trips. Then, there was that awful meat-eating challenge where one team member had to eat an incredible amount of really gross stuff. If you didn't finish a challenge, you had to endure a two-hour penalty at that location before you could move on to the next task. Well, Rob knew that there was no way that he could eat that stuff, so he said to Amber that all he had to do was officially say he was sitting out the challenge, then wait a few minutes and then talk one other team into sitting it out, too. Because he had started the penalty first, it would guarantee that at least one team would be behind them so they wouldn't get eliminated. He had no trouble at all convincing another team to sit out that challenge, and I think at least one other team decided to sit it out, too. So... Phil made a big mistake on this week's episode when he said to the team who had the two-hour penalty at the pit stop that this was the first time in TAR history that a team that had to wait through a penalty hadn't ended up being eliminated -- because Rob and Amber did it during their season.

I think Lindsey or whatever the quitter's name was could see the writing on the wall and wanted to put herself out of her misery when she knew she didn't have an alliance to count on anymore. She was spewing out the nasty stuff and couldn't take it when Trish gave back as good as she got. Bullies are like that. And threatening violence, that made her look immature and out of control, not a good example for her daughter or any young person. If you can't have a disagreement without feeling like you're going to "go off" on someone, you need anger management classes and therapy. I don't care much for Trish, but making fun of her appearance was a cheap shot and Lindsey was doing it from very early on, not just last night. So buh-bye, glad Jeff didn't talk her into staying. I wonder how silly Alexis felt last night, watching the show, after her declarations that Jeremiah was paranoid and that Tony and Wu had NOT given him the clue just to set him up. LOL Tony's working it pretty hard, scrambling around. It's working pretty well for him, but one of these days the others will realize he's a threat. I like Kass and the nerdy guy, Spenser. And Sarah, the other cop, to win, either of those 3. Island life seems to be agreeing with Kass, she was looking pretty good night.

I like pretty much all the TAR teams. I’m not a huge fan of Cesar & Ricky, who have had the lead 3 times now. They seem overly confident, and I don’t see them as all that capable above the others really. I also didn’t get why Danny’s Mom kept insisting she could do all the challenges either, when she didn’t seem suited for them. Maybe you’re correct, schoolhouse, and Danny is keeping his turn until the end. Not that I think he can do better at any of the physical challenges.

OMG! An ALL woman + one guy team....and they WON! YAY!!!!! Then the blindside....good job! Mary is awesome! Loving THIS season. Well played!