What a crappy deal!

My fave reality game show? The Amazing Race. To this day, it saddens me to know that the bulk of America has not tuned into this show. The last thing I want is to see this exhilerating realistic show go down unknown. This "reality" show is by far the best of them all. They don't toy and manipulate people's emotions, psyches or lives to create good television programming. It's a true competition where endurance and street smarts are required. It's no Survivor where it's all about backstabbing and manipulation. Albeit, that show is an interesting watch @ times, but really, how often can you watch a show that is so repetitive? According to #'s… many of you can. Granted, the #'s has shown that the #'s have fallen significantly. Personally, aside from this past "All Stars" season, I haven't seen any shows after episode 3 of Season 3.

Anywho, I digress once again. What else is new? Anywho, last year I had read that Amazing Race was doing away with the Fast Forward and installing a new "thing" called the Yield where a team would be able to hold a team back for a given time. Not sure how that was going to work. However, since the season premiere, I haven't heard anything about it… BUT in this weeks ep, it was discovered that the Fast Forward is still in effect. Rather than having a Fast Forward in every ep, they now only have 2 (or was it 4) per season. However, on the other hand, the big twist of this season is that if you come in last in a non-elimination round, you now have to forfeit all the money you have. Not a huge deal, right? The teams would just havta be frugal for the next leg of the race. HOWEVER, the other twist is that they won't get ANY money during the next leg. That pretty much leaves 'em SOL. Eeks! However, gotta say that it def makes for interesting TV! =)