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The Amazing Race - Season Finale 2009 - Live-Blog

Who am I cheering for? Not for the brothers! For all her caviling at Brian, I quite like Ericka (he cavils, too). And for all their apparent emptiness, Meghan and Cheyne have impressed me at times, especially Meghan, who has faced tasks she wanted to give up on, and then found a way to prevail. So let it all begin! As it will shortly.
Here we go!
I am thinking I miss Gary and Matt. Oh well.
Everyone heads to Las Vegas! I assume the apparently disparate parting times all mean the same flight, as usual. We shall see. Too bad they are leaving Austria.
Is it sunny at any time of year in Austria at 3 am?
Graceland Wedding Chapel? Can there be a task there with an Elvis? Useless stop - everyone is there at the same time, of course.
Oh oh rappelling down the hotel face - face first? Ericka is great - she takes it. Brian cannot even watch; it is pretty cute. I am pleased to see Sam and Dan not able to keep up.
Ericka is terrific! What an awful task and how well she takes it on! Meanwhile I think Cheyne should have given this job to the always more capable Meghan.
I do not quite understand this Cirque du Soleil task but it looks as if it may equalize teams fast, or just produce random results. That is NOT good at this point.
Well actually bouncing up to get the flowers seems pretty fair. This is now fun to watch. And as ever, Meghan, initially utterly frustrated, figures it out. Much as one might want to mock her, she is VERY consistently resourceful, and she has brains that combine with physical skills.
Sam and Dan continue their policy of not thinking for themselves, but simply sucking off others.
Rats! The next task seems like one of those that, depending on how the show sets it up, could be stupidly arbitrary, and reward neither intelligence nor diligence. Of course, we do not get to know. But counting out exact change surely depends on the distribution of key coinages.
It IS An amusing point that finding the right place to go was tricky.
Watching it for a few minutes, I have decided this is not ludicrously wrong in its effects. It is an entertaining and roughly fair challenge.
Sam and Dan made it clear they deserved NOTHING when they did not know Wayne Newton's name. Sick.
And justice was served! Meghan and Cheyne were clearly the just winners of this season! Meghan was REALLY capable in the face of a variety of challenges.
I do not take too many reality shows seriously, but this one asks people to extend themselves, and in pairs.
And they largely do.
Congratulations Meghan and Cheyne, and also Sam and Dan, and Brian and Ericka! Thanks for letting me intrude into your lives for the last few months.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 7:27 PM