User blog comment:Blueant22/Ridonculous Race Review/@comment-11883116-20161113142129

What I love about Don is that he remains mostly realistic host. His role is to explain challenges and comment on some events. He doesn't have any God-like privileges Chris had (such as eliminating anyone whenever he feels like it). He also remained mostly neutral and only favored final 2 teams (possible foreshadowing?) and disliked Ice Dancers, Goths, and Vegans. This is way better than Chris whose opinions about almost everyone are clear. Keep in mind that in real world host cannot express too many of his personal opinions. I also loved Don's jokes.

I actually liked Leo's interactions with Dave. But I agree he was more tolerable here. Still, best choice for a first boot ever.

I expected Rivals to be eliminated early due to their age. I kinda hop their friendly rivalry would be explored more instead of turning them into Statler & Waldorf. I especially thought their friendly rivalry would be the reason of their elimination due to doing something stupid because of it, like they did in the first episode.

Yep, Geniuses got even less screen time than the first boot pair and their whole role was the irony of their elimination (which I personally liked). Poor Mary especially, at least Ellody spoke more often.

I didn't care about the Vegans, but I admit it's hard not to feel sorry for them. In a show where for a change almost every pair got their happy ending (except Ice Dancers and them), they had it the worst out of anyone. Jeez, the creators must have hated the writers they were based on.