Well, here is yet another episode knocked out. This time it is Michael, Emily, and "Uh, a scaffolding?" from the Missing Eye episode.
Overall, this episode ranked quite well despite the final outcome of it.
THE MISSING EYE OF DAVID
MOAT: 8/10
(Credits to "Purple Parrots Fan" for her contribution to this section)
For this moat, the players had to swing across the moat on a rope, one player at a time. Very simple challenge, and very few teams struggled to get across. It was an extremely quick round, and the Blue Barracudas, Green Monkeys, Orange Iguanas, and the Silver Snakes ended up advancing to the Steps of Knowledge. Funnily enough, the order of which teams gonged in was literally Blue - Green - Orange - Silver. The same order in which the teams are first introduced in.
LEGEND: 8/10
In the early 1500's, one of the greatest artist during the Italian Renaissance was Michelangelo. He was so incredible and talented that at the age of 16, Lorenzo de Medici, the prince of Florence, became his patron. Legend has it that one day that Lorenzo came to visit Michelangelo in his studio. He was curious about when Michelangelo would finish the statue of David that he worked on for months. Michelangelo revealed the seven foot statue of a young man named David who was about to battle with Goliath. Lorenzo was so impressed with how life-like the David statue looked that he asked how Michelangelo made it. Michelangelo created the statue by chiseling away at fine marble. Lorenzo wanted to place the statue into the Florence Town Square as a symbol of his power. Years later, during a rebellion, the statue was smashed but later restored. The eye of David broke off and was lost in time.
I enjoyed this legend very much because
Legends of the Hidden Temple never talked about famous artists. They did one legend on Leonardo Da Vinci and that is it. The legend was filled with many different detailed pictures, so it was interesting to watch. Also, the accents in the legend were actually pretty fitting. It was nice that the producers explained who David was too during the legend. I honestly can't find anything wrong with this legend, so I think it deserves one of the highest scores possible.
STEPS OF KNOWLEDGE: 5/10
(Credits to "Purple Parrots Fan" for her contribution to this section)
The Steps of Knowledge featured a slew of wrong answers. Though it was a very interesting round because all four teams managed to make it to the second to last step, making it a very rare four-way tie. This only happened in one other episode, being "The Paintbrush of Leonardo Da Vinci" from Season 1. Anyways, this round is not only notorious for that reason, it was also infamous for the following question:
Olmec: Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel on wet plaster....
Orange Iguana girl: Uh, a scaffolding?
Olmec: That is not one of the three choices.
So the Orange Iguanas certainly blew their load with a stupid answer by ringing in early. But that's not all! Olmec even let two more teams attempt to answer the question, and also didn't get it. The Blue Barracudas and the Silver Snakes guessed Stucco and Roscoco respectively, when the correct answer was really Fresco. At long last, after the Green Monkeys gave out one more wrong answer, the Blue Barracudas and the Silver Snakes eventually made their way to the final step, and advanced to the temple games. This round had both good and bad parts. The good parts were the infamous "scaffolding" answer and four-way tie on the second to last step. But what really drags it down was all the wrong answers given.
TEMPLE GAMES: 7/10
The temple games featured a somewhat rare matchup between the Silver Snake and Blue Barracudas. On the Silver Snakes, we had Emily, who was into cheerleading, and Michael, who was into extreme sports like scuba diving. On the Blue Barracudas, we met Tasha, who was also into cheerleading, and her partner Matt, who played basketball due to his height advantage. The temple games for this episode were entertaining due to the art theme. However, I felt that Michael got the raw end of the deal in the second temple game. The piece that dropped out of his bucket should not have been counted against him. Other than that, this round was entertaining and the last game was both close and unique.
The temple games placed a heavy emphasis on the art theme for this episode. In the first temple game, Tasha and Emily had to create the color Purple and Green. To do this, they had to grab the correct color balls and place them into the correct buckets. The Purple bucket needed Blue + Red and the Green bucket needed Yellow + Blue. The player with the most balls of the right colors after 60 seconds will win. In this temple game, Emily got more balls of the right color and won with a score of 6-4. In the second temple game, Matt and Michael had to jump up onto the ceiling and grab a picture of Olmec and come back down and place it into their bucket. The player that removes the mot pieces of Olmec from the ceiling after 60 seconds will win. The Silver Snakes were shafted in this second temple game. When Michael placed one of his last pieces of Olmec into the bucket, it felt off since the bucket was overflowing. Yet, Kirk didn't count it because it fell out. This gave Matt an easy chance to catch up and win. In the end, Matt won with a core of 8-7. Both teams enter the final temple game with a half-pendant a piece. In the final temple game, the two teams had seconds to climb to the top of 3 giant steps and chisel out a statue of David from marble. The first team to do this after 60 seconds will win. What was interesting about this temple game was Kirk was giving his commentary via a raised platform. Something he never did in any other episode.This temple game was extremely close and the Silver Snakes must've beaten the Blue Barracudas by a hair. Since the Silver Snakes revealed their David statue first, they were declared the winners. The Silver Snakes enter Olmec' temple with 1.5 pendants.
Another interesting note is that once the temple games were over, (before the last commercial break), it showed the Silver Snakes making their way back down to the ground. Usually, the fade out commercial would just show scenery around the temple.
TEMPLE RUN: 7/10
Most of the time the triple captures in Season 2 were entirely the teams fault as the half-pendant was always obvious. Michael and Emily are probably the only team that can get a free pass for their triple capture though. This team pretty much got stuck with a crappy layout. Michael was a very fast frontrunner. He was the only player to pull two books at the same time in the Crypt. The only door open for him was the Troubled Bridge to the Observatory. In Medusa's Lair, Michael experienced some trouble with Medusa's head. After he put both snakes into her head correctly, Medusa's head did not light up the right way. You can even hear the "Let Go!" line from one of the Crypt skeletons while he was completing the objective.
After losing some time with that production error, he is eventually allowed down into the Laser Light Room where he is removed from the temple. Emily follows his path pretty quickly and completes the Laser Light Room's objective. As she enters the Swamp, she gives her...
half-pendant and continues to move on. It took Kirk a few seconds to realize that she didn't have a full Pendant.
When Kirk finally realizes what happens, the run ends with a little over a minute on the clock. Apparently, the half-pendant was in Medusa's Lair but there no sign of it in plain sight.
Despite the bad outcome, this temple run was actually pretty decent. Michael and Emily had a strong performance, but they came up short because the half-pendant was NOT in plain sight. Unlike runs like Nathan Hale and Queen Nzinga where the half-pendant was obvious, this team had bad luck with it. Plus, the temple guard layout was pretty unfair too. Overall, this temple run was pretty memorable and eventful from the production error and Emily allowed extra time despite giving her half-pendant to the Swamp temple guard. Too bad Michael and Emily never found that other half-pendant, or else they would've won in the temple for sure.
FINAL VERDICT: 7/10
(Credits to "Purple Parrots Fan" for her contribution to this section)
Overall, this was a very memorable and quirky episode. It featured a very quick moat, a very interesting legend, close temple games, and a very quirky temple run. The only thing that drags this episode down a little, was the Steps of Knowledge. And even that round is noteworthy and entertaining on so many levels. With both the four way tie, and the utterly ridiculous "Uh, a scaffolding?" answer. Michael and Emily were very good players, and they both moved very quickly in the temple. It was just their bad luck of not finding that half pendant, supposedly hidden in Medusa's Lair, that cost them dearly. If the half pendant had been hidden better, this team probably would've made it to the artifact, and might've even won too. This episode definitely gives you a lot to talk about, and there were really no bad rounds at all. And I recommend this episode to anyone.
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