Catching up on episode summaries:
The Stone Marker of Leif Erikson -
Average episode. Red Jaguars go to the temple. Cool temple gaurd in the Bamboo Forest. Bamboo Forest was locked, pretty much lost because of impossible layout.
The Snowcone of Mount Kilamanjaro -
Pretty bad episode, IMO. The Silver Snakes were less than impressive in the temple. The frontrunner moved so slow. Hilarious temple spirit in the Dark Forst. It was so premature in trying to grab Casey. As the tree is waving it's arms around, Casey weighs his options and since there was no key in the first tree, he just walks into the spirit tree. Heather runs in... she moves faster than her partner but doesn't make up any time. She finds the key in the Forest, opens the door climbs upto the shrine, but some sort of production error keeps her from entering the shrine. The door leading into the shrine doesn't open. Oh well, they weren't going to make it anyway.
The Lost Lion Tail of Little John -
Most people don't like this episode because the Purple Parrots won only because the Silver Snakes dropped their sign in the last temple game giving the Purple Parrots an opening. Then after all that, the Purple Parrots went on to give a not so stellar performance in the temple. Marie went in first. She went upto the Crypt but was forced down to the Ledges where a temple gaurd pulled her legs out from under her. In the Rock Quarry, Marie missed the bucket twice... I expected better from her since she basically carried the team through the entire show... Anyways, she goes into the Laser Light Room and reveals the white light on the first block (lucky... made up for the time wasted in the Rock Quarry). Was this the only time the white light was revealed on the first pull? Anyways, a temple gaurd in the Swamp takes her out. Claude runs in. He's about to go into the Ledges but changes his mind mid-way down the slide and goes upto the Crypt..... He makes his way to the Swamp at an average pace, finds the hidden half pendant, goes into the Dark Forest, hesitates, gives the half pendant to a temple spirit, finds the key, it doesn't work on the shrine doors, time is running down, busts through the wall, seems confused about where to go next but it doesn't matter cuz time ran out. All in all, i actually like this episode. It was pretty close competitions all the way through and the temple run isn't THAT bad... so whatever.
The Lost Logbooks of Magellan -
What cost this Blue Baracudas team was two unnecessary trips into the Room of Harmonic Convergance. Basically, that decision ended their chances of winning in more way than one. There was a temple gaurd in there that took the frontrunner's pendant. Then it turned out to be a dead end so a lot of time was wasted. He went back into the Pit and tried the Heart Room where he was removed. Heather (i think that's what her name was) ran in at a slower pace than her partner but it was acceptable. She tried the Room of Harmonic Convergance as wel, but it still didn't work. She eventually makes it to the Pirate's Cove with time running down. It looks like she could make a last second grab, but a third temple gaurd removes her from the temple all together because she only had a half. So as i was saying, going into the Room of Harmonic Convergance cost them because there was a temple gaurd there, and honestly, i don't think there was any chance of them finding the hidden half pendant. Even if they did have 2 full pendants, they wasted so much time in that room because of the dead end that there wasn't enough time to grab the Logbooks and get out.
The Secret Map of the Bandit Queen -
Great episode even if Miriam did stall before going into the Dark Forest, 'nuff said.
The Lucky Pig of Amelia Earhart -
Kirk seemed to have an unusual amount of energy in this episode. It was definitely one of Kirk's personal best episodes. Anyways, Kristin of the Blue Baracudas volunteers to go first. She meets a temple gaurd in the very first room. She has trouble climbing the walls in the pit and wastes a good 40-or-so seconds. She then slowly makes her way across basically the entire temple. When she gets to the Dungeon, she has trouble finding the breakable wall... i thought that was funny. Anyways, there's like 10 seconds left as she's entering the Swamp and Kirk is getting really excited. He actually starts yelling and it sounds like he's straining his voice, but it added to the excitement. He was like "MAYBE SHE CAN GET A LAST SECOND GRAB!" and it looked like that was possible...until a temple gaurd emerged from the popcorn. The second player didn't even get to go into the temple because there wasn't enough time... Tough luck... he was a really supportive partner too.... I actually don't hate this episode even though the frontrunner basically did 2:58 of it without reaching the artifact... I was rooting for the Parrots in the temple games though.
NOTE: This was easily a harder layout than "The Lost Fountain of Youth" episode. The Shrine-Tomb passage didn't open in this one whereas in the Water Bottle episode, it did and the temple gaurd located right before the room where the artifact was located basically made for the same outcome.
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