Thread:UnderdogFan28/@comment-4742462-20151204023419/@comment-4742462-20151205011138

@UnderdogFan28, I think a portion of the writers think that the show is at it's best when it dives into black comedy which I honestly think becomes more and more off-putting with each new season. And sadly, a portion of the fanbase seems to likes the apathy inducing black comedy it's had in recent years (especially 2013-2015). Like I said, I never saw the episode (and I refuse to) but I have heard and been told about how bad it was and yeah it really isn't fun to picture Carrie being injured by getting a nose bleed or kicked in the face by a horse... Devin getting hurt repeatedly just made me roll my eyes and groan with how it was tediously dragging their plot out, but seeing that happen to Carrie is cringe worthy (even if I hated both characters).

I liked Sanders because she seemed like the sensible one, but I hated MacArthur because I thought she was very annoying and off-putting with how she struck me as a non-antagonistic Jo who happens to enjoy farting (I have a very low tolerance for toilet humor). Her also accidently breaking Sanders' arm had the opposite effect on me in which I considered that to be the point where she crossed the Moral Event Horizon (even if breaking her arm was accidental) and become Unintentionally Unsympathetic for the remaining episodes. So as a result, I would've rooted for Sanders separately but I couldn't when she was partnered up with the person who dragged their entire team down.

The finale was better than the ones for Action, All-Stars, and Pahkitew Island (which I honestly hate more than All-Stars's finale), but it was also boring and underwhelming enough to be classified as a bad finale especially since I kept zoning out while watching it because it gave me no reason to care. The best part of the episode was honestly the scene with the already eliminated teams as I thought the Tennis Rivals' comment was pretty accurate to how I felt in terms of it being a snore-fest and it was also one of the very few times where I agreed with the Ice Dancers on something (which was them commenting that the finale was terrible without them even though it was already bad to begin with).

I honestly never cared for the Surfers to begin with, but yes they definitely got worse as they went on to the point where being (undeserving) finalists was enough to nosedive them as the 3rd worst team on my rankings. I thought they would've left shortly after the Australia episodes since it gave me the impression that they would make it that far for the sake of having Geoff meet up with Bridgette (part of me thought they were faking us out by saying she wouldn't be in it), only for said meetup to never happen and the team ultimately going on to prove that they were about as relevant as the LARPers or Fashion Bloggers (as in completely irreverent despite being finalists).

Your 3rd reason for why you didn't like the team is essentially why I don't really like Geoff very much anymore, he failed completely as a character when he lost his common sense from World Tour and dumbed down to shocking levels (even in Island he wasn't the smartest competitor, but he was never THIS stupid) and partnered up with a flatter, stupider, and more annoying clone of himself. I'm in the small minority who says that Geoff also suffered badly in the spinoff like Noah and I really used to like both of them too.