Thread:UnderdogFan28/@comment-4742462-20151204023419/@comment-26910203-20151205003027

Ugh, I wrote a really long and lengthy comment but it seems to have disappeared so I'll make this one brief out of frustration

@TheDipDap1234, this fandom has a tendency to overreact and it was really notable with the Goths elimination, everyone declared the Goths bad characters and El Bunny Supremo a horrible episode quickly following that. Personally, I wouldn't have felt any differently about someone else returning especially someone who didn't make the top 8. It just seems really unnecessary and I can't recall the Amazing Race doing something similar ever. The Goths were hilarious but the type of character they are doesn't lend itself to a Top 5 or Top 4 in my opinion.

Meh, I didn't like Bahamarama, I liked the tension between Josee and Jacques but it never amounted to anything and seemed to be dropped completely for conveience of the plot. I also enjoyed most of the character interactions, I say most because Geoff and Brody were hardly existant in the episode which is a big fail with four teams left. Aside from the godawful elimination, the challenge was underwhelming, the few jokes (cause it's a penultimate episode) fell flat (doubloon joke was cringeworthy) and the ends didn't justify the means (tension dropped completely, Sisters story felt unfinished, Surfers were brought back for nothing worthwhile really). That being said, it was among the one of the only ones I disliked aside from Brazillian Pain Forest and Last Tango.

@ThomasVeggieDramaFan, I agree with everything you said about Last Tango, it essentially was a torture porn. I'm not sure why the writers think pain automatically equals funny but they did the same with Tyler in The Ex-Files. The problem arises when it is either repetitive or used to literally dethrone and undermine anything of worth such as character development (and Last Tango is supposed to be D and C's turning point/defining episode), compare Carrie getting kicked in the face by a horse after falling in love with Devin again to the Darjeel With It use of pain- Devin injuries being used to satrisize how the relationship went all season.

I liked the Cadets and they were the only ones I was rooting for in the finale which was okay, not bad, not great, it did a lot of cool things (Sanders defining moment was in it) among sme things that were a bit dissappointing. Yeah, and as you can tell I did not like the Surfers, I liked them in the beginning but they got worse and worse as the season went on for me. I'll give you the short version 1. No development besides the bromance, the "test of friendship" was poorly written as was the MacArthur/Brody "relationship"  2. Identical interactions..they interacted with a lot of characters but man were they all similar 3. Unfunny stupidity (stupid also doesn't equal funny) with no redemption (TDI and TDA Lindsay is an example of a good fleshed out stupid character), Dude Buggies and the finale show that they really shouldn't have won 4. Annoying and grating (self explanatory)