One Million Dollars Slides Away From Mika & Caanan

The amazing race seems to be the best reality show this fall season. Survivor is a bust in my opinion, this season. TAR seem to have nice teams, that do nice things. However, that is exactly what the fans seem to be complaining about they don’t like to see nice people. I for one beg to differ, I have enjoyed watching the teams be competitive but not cutthroat. Perhaps as fans we will never be happy with each season. While it may give us something to wag our tongues about, having a ruthless cutthroat team only makes our mouths run and gives us reason to dislike and hate others that we don’t even know.

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This season most teams seem more focused on their game and race and not what others are doing. It is refreshing to say the least. They are in all reality counting on their endurance to make it in the race and not plotting or scheming other teams downfall.

To date six teams have been eliminated. Erica and Lisa, whom swear they quit and they were note eliminated. I wondered why they needed to go on TAR if they were only going to quit at the starting line. It could be that they knew they were going to be eliminated at the start, so they opted to quit before Phil could say ” I am sorry to say, you have been eliminated from the race”! Pretty cheesy on the Yoga instructors part in my opinion. It simply does not make sense to quit at the starting line.

Garrett and Jessica were the first/second team to be eliminated.  ( The yoga instructors were technically the first from the starting line) Garrett and Jessica  lost the foot race just by a smidgeon.

Marcy and Ron were the third team to be eliminated, a nice couple but the simply had a bad leg of the race in week two.

Zev and Justin who seem to be one of the teams that fans favored, also had a bad leg and were thus eliminated in week 3. They had lost a passport. Fans were not happy about this elimination.

Lance and Keri was mercifully eliminated week four, much to the delight and gleefulness of most fans. TAR fans could not stand this couple at all. I couldn’t even stand their voices. They basically get on ones nerves watching them in the race. However, they resigned themselves to their doom of being eliminated and went out gracefully.

This past Sunday, Mika and Canaan were eliminated. They didn’t have to be, only Mika gave into her fear of heights. Mika must have been there over an hour refusing to go down the slide. She clearly and obviously had a deep fear of heights, she had a fear of water and the sharks being thrown into the mix was not exactly helpful to calm her frazzled nerves and fear.

I know some folks thought she was being a big baby, however, she was clearly not only frightened, she was absolutely terrified of her fears. Mika also had to face not one fear but two fears, in the heights and water. Most people would have taken the plunge and looked their fear dead in the face, in Mika’s case their chance at winning a million dollars slid away from them. She simply was not prepared or ready to face her fears.

The Globetrotters of Big Easy Lofton and Flight Time Lang, seem to be one of the teams that the fans really like and favor. Last night the trotters had a real bad leg of the race. First the cab driver whom said yes he knew where to go brought them to the wrong place. Then Big Easy had a brain freeze when he was not reading that watch right to open up the brief case. However, the trotters made up for that faux pas, when the boys from the hood showed they knew how to do math. When other teams needed to help each other and another team gave up. They showed their great friendship when they didn’t get on each other with this bad leg and when friend to friend encouraged one another. They thought they were done, but Mika’s fear granted them a reprieve,much to the happiness of most TAR fans.

A few fans had an issue about the fact that the trotters uped their game a tad and said to Mika not to go down the slide thus playing on her fears. However, my question is ” what would you do if you were in this race, had a bad leg and knew that if you didn’t get to the mat first, you were done for and your chance at winning a million smackroos was but a fleeting thought. In my opinion the trotters did not do anything more in this competitive race then the Rob and Amber’s did, in past seasons. In fact Rob and Amber were notorious for trying to make the other teams lag behind. Yet the fans loved them, why, because they were competitive. I think most of us would have did the same thing, if we were in the exact same position as the trotters. As one fan said, the trotters didn’t touch her, they didn’t yell at her etc.. they simply did what they needed to do to be the final team to stay in the race. Had the cab driver not goofed, the trotters would not have been so far behind.

Furthermore Mika had all the time in the world before the globetrotters arrived, she was absolutely not going down that slide. As another fan said, she had already made up her mind not to go down the slide and in my opinion way before the trotters arrived. No harm, no foul on Big Easy and Flight Time’s part. Mika did not even go down the slide after the trotters went down and after Caanan went down. I personally thought it was unfair that she got the two minutes to decide, since she had all the time in the world before the trotters arrived. Furthermore when the trotters got there, it was basically over for Mika and Canaan, they could not have beaten the trotters in a footrace to the finish line.  It really did not make a diffrence what the trotters, or anyone else said, Mika simply was not going to go down that slide. Again, she has a real fear and one that I am compassionate towards how terrified she seemed to be with her fear.

In ending Mika’s fear won out and the person responsible for being eliminated is Mika and even Canaan, he wasn’t exactly helpful trying to shove her down the slide. Having said that, I also understand that Canaan was attempting to do all he could to get her to go down and we can’t hold it against him. Mika clearly has a deeper issue and fear of heights and even water then people think. IMO something drastic must have happened to her in her lifetime to make her that petrified.

Until next week TAR fans.

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