Race Across The World - Season 4 on BBC 9PM every Wednesday *** CONTAINS SPOILERS ***

Anyone else up-to-date on this? The mum and daughter still seem to hate each other and I was finding the daughter really rude this week. They have come out and blamed it on being hungry.

poshrule_uk wrote:Anyone else up-to-date on this? The mum and daughter still seem to hate each other and I was finding the daughter really rude this week. They have come out and blamed it on being hungry.

Yeah, I can see those two properly exploding at one another at some point.

Convinced Alfie and Owen are likely to win this overall now, they seem to be operating on the same level as one another, and have struck a decent balance of race mode and taking the time to make sure they're both seeing/doing stuff they want on the way.

Bit disappointed by Betty's reaction when her brother wanted to go see some Muay Thai. She goes on and on about wanting to get him to try new experiences, and then rolls her eyes at something he's clearly passionate about, and can only see in that way in Thailand. At least she did go, but it certainly showed a bit more blinkers on her than I think we've seen before. There's obviously something that happens to these two next episode as well based on the quick preview, wonder what actually goes on?

Very impressed by Viv and Stephen confronting the dolphin watching expedition. If I'd suffered a stroke after getting hit on the head doing that before, you'd never get me on a boat again!

Looking forward to the next two legs, I'm pretty unfamiliar with Indonesia, so I'm looking forwards to seeing that, and how the teams deal with the inevitable island hopping towards the end. Beyond some collapses in personal relationships and finances, it should be a closely run thing I hope.

Betty swimming:
Betty losing the passports:

The boys absolutely smashed this leg, looking forward to seeing how the other teams react. I think Stephen and Viv are going to kick themselves for dawdling and still spending heavily when they get to checkpoint.

Impressed that Eugenie and Isabel managed to keep a lid on their bickering, but they still can't resist winding each other up, can they?

Knoyleo wrote:Betty swimming:
Betty losing the passports:

The boys absolutely smashed this leg, looking forward to seeing how the other teams react. I think Stephen and Viv are going to kick themselves for dawdling and still spending heavily when they get to checkpoint.

Impressed that Eugenie and Isabel managed to keep a lid on their bickering, but they still can't resist winding each other up, can they?

Betty
I can't believe she lost the passport and even more so I can't believe they got it back. Sometimes luck is on your side and it would have been a gooseberry fool way to go out.

Do we think the boys have a big lead as we didn't see the other teams come in? I'm thinking so and I'm expecting a minimum 24 hours.

I can feel the tension every time Eugenie and Isabel are on my TV. Did you pick up that she went to private school. That might explain her attitude but maybe I'm being judgemental.

Caught up with this week's episode last night. I'm seriously concerned Betty and James are going to crash out without any money left for this last leg. Otherwise they'll be losing so much time finding work they'll be dead last.

All to play for between Alfie and Owen, and Eugenie and Isabel. Both teams will have a fire under their arse after this leg. I suspect Stephen and Viv are probably too far behind (although we still don't know by how much) to catch either other team, but they only need to get lucky with a connection, or splash some of that cash they've saved to make up some ground.

Congrats to Alfie & Owen on their deserved win, but that honestly felt like one of the last exciting finales I think we've seen.

I know the show often ties progress to checkpoints behind transport routes with few crossings, or fixed times to bunch teams back together and keep it competitive, but that final bit felt like a bit of a contrivance.

I really felt for Eugenie & Isabel as well. Imagine missing out on £20k by just 8 minutes on a 50 day race, I'd be furious!

I thought that was a thrilling last episode, yes the other two teams were out of contention but there was only 8 minutes between first and second and it could have gone either way. One wrong decision and it could have been curtains to Alfie and Owen.

I was wondering how Betty and James made it to the end considering they had hardly any money.

Celebrity version coming soon as well

poshrule_uk wrote:I was wondering how Betty and James made it to the end considering they had hardly any money.

Agreed. It felt like the cutting here did them a disservice. There was still a story to be told here, and it'a a shame it didn't make it on screen.

Happy with the end result. Felt that they deserved the win. Yet again, another fab series! Looking forward to the celeb series, even if it's not quite as good as the main program.