Well, yes, because Sophie isn't a complete fucking idiot. What would she (or anyone else who wasn't into the prayer) have to gain by refusing to go along with it, or making it clear that she didn't believe in it? The appreciation of atheists on the Internet?

In praise of the teams, while they did resort to Google, at least none of them just sat in the cab and yelled "TAKE ME TO A COMPUTER" over and over and then blamed the cabdriver for not knowing where to go, like that team a few seasons ago.

I think the fear is less about speed limits and more about killing people. And I think it's reasonable. I mean, by the seventeenth time Ernie and Cindy's cab driver managed to miss the turn, I was ready to strangle him just watching at home. No way should anyone be behind the wheel of a car in that kind of frenzy.

If I were already at the store, sure as hell I'd go in and look, but I'm pretty sure the guy they asked SAID that it used to be a Home Depot. If I'm looking for a former residence and I'm directed to a former Home Depot, I would have looked for a second opinion before driving all the way out there.

Would you be equally pleased if they all just stopped five minutes from the end of the leg and drew straws?

I agree, it was a really disappointing way to finish (and I was annoyed by the teams cheering themselves for making it into the finale through absolutely no accomplishment of their own) but I don't think the producers had any options, although maybe in the future they'll try to pre-empt the chance for this sort of…

Seriously. I would love to do the Amazing Race, but I know I couldn't bungee jump or do some of the other extreme tasks, so I DON'T APPLY FOR THE AMAZING RACE.

We were PRETTY sure that had to have been the case, but I don't know why they don't take three seconds to explicitly say so on the show.

Oh my God, Jeremy and Sandi would be SO much more interesting if they were psychotic. Calling those two psychotic is an insult to every dating couple who ever screamed their way through the race.

It counts for SOMETHING.

"Reggie" didn't seem right, but I accepted it because it makes so much sense as a name for the bizarro Jerry.

I really want Coach to get voted out before Brandon, just because Brandon would be SO lost without him and I think it would be tremendously entertaining. They're just like Johnny and Denny.

Your argument seems to be "He's good at strategy even though he's never been able to do anything remotely strategic and instead has been forced to just hope he doesn't get voted off." What are you basing that on?

Well, either way, they wasted the idol unnecessarily.

I'd sure vote for her to win. I mean, unless she was up against Rick.

But the 5:30 non-express bus arriving so soon after the 4:30 non-express bus is because Bill and Cathy are such great racers, right?

"The bus departures were frequent enough that there was some bunching off
the Jesus Dudez massive lead, yet infrequent enough to leave gaps in
the racers." Except that the bus ARRIVALS completely negated those gaps, as one of the 5:30 buses arrived before the 4:30 bus, and the other 5:30 bus clearly arrived much less…

That was SHIT. As soon as they got on the buses to Bangkok, all the tasks they'd just done back in Phuket became completely meaningless, and everything depended on a) the apparently random order the buses arrived in Bangkok, and b) their cabbies, even more than usual, because the sole "task" in Bangkok—throwing some…

It's because he's pretending to be a tourist so he can date that woman who works at the tourist center.

Semhar was at least interesting — her casting doesn't bother me at all, and I'd have been glad for her to stay longer. It's the women who literally do NOTHING but lie around in their bikinis all season that irritate the hell out of me. The sooner they get voted out, the better.