Gypsies are completely undeserving of their win - Expedition Impossible (2011) Discussion

[–] ciara99 13 years ago

Uh, wrong. No Limits lost because instead of following the instructions to get to the check point they just decided to follow the other teams who had already MADE it to the checkpoint and were on to the next part of the challenge.

Also saying someone lost just because they had disadvantages is such a oxymoron. Yes, they had disadvantages, and that's why they lost. End of story. The Gypsies won because they were the best team, and honestly, I doubt they'd lose even if Ike's ankle hadn't been broken.

No one forced No Limits to compete. They chose to compete with a very capable blind guy and then chose to compete with a guy with a broken ankle.

Also, No Limits actually had knowledge of the Moroccan lockbox prior to even going into the challenge, so didn't they actually have an advantage? Yet The Gypsies still beat them. I think it was a pretty fair win.

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[–] SheWorksHardForTheMoney 13 years ago

The gypsies won 9/10 stages and they're undeserving? Wow! I'm not sure if you're just bias, a hater or a fool. No Limits should consider themselves lucky because they caught a major break by having a local girl completely show them the correct path. Can you imagine if Fab 3 had caught that break? No Limits have nothing to complain about. If anything the final stage was definitely designed to help them with the types of challenges presented.

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[–] excalibur1814 13 years ago

"Gypsies are completely undeserving of their win"

I may not have heard a more stupid comment in all of imdb.

If you win, you deserve it (Unless you cheat)

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[–] doucette_kelly 13 years ago

How can you call this a competition show when the same team keeps winning and getting head-starts?! Aren't you supposed to win with a head start?! Booorrrrring!

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[–] bing-57 13 years ago

Well, I think I did predict on day one that the team with young and fit males would win. And what happened? The top two teams were all young and fit males.

This show won't be back for another season.

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[–] HermioneO 13 years ago

uh ... no

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Get over it

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[–] tody711 13 years ago

The Gypsies are professional travelers. They have a web site where they have bragged about roughing it in 45 countries. I don't think the other teams had that kind of a background. Unless the show can find a way to cast more even teams forget about it...

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[–] old-dutch 13 years ago

I wasn't going to pile on, but as another has already said, one of the dumber statements ever to be found on IMDB.

That said, No Limits (who I wanted to win) did have that chance. Unless the editing was extremely altered, there was one point where the Gypsies and Fab 3 got hopelessly lost. During that time No Limits did find the first correct door, and had they deciphered the map correctly the first time, they would have won. Instead, their opportunity disintegrated when they too took the wrong path, allowing the Gypsies to retake the lead.

I liked No Limits a lot, but you can't take anything away from the Gypsies.

"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows him" ...Obi Wan Kenobi

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[–] bing-57 13 years ago

> Unless the editing was extremely altered, there was one point where the Gypsies and Fab 3 got hopelessly lost.

As I recall, the Gypsies actually found the right door but decided to pass it by so that Fab 3 wouldn't see it. Then they couldn't find the door again. It would have served them right to have lost to No Limits because of that. It's like the curse of throwing a challenge on Survivor or Big Brother.

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[–] tino_wallace 13 years ago

Not taking anything away from the Gypsies, but this has to be the most lopsided reality TV competition i've seen. ABC did a very poor job casting them to compete against the other teams.

It's obvious that they had hiking, kayaking, and experience traversing various types of terrains. No Limit also had similar experience but not to the extent of the Gypsies and they also had a blind guy which slowed them down a little bit(even still they were clearly one of the top 3 teams).

I liked watching the show, but didn't enjoy it as much as most b/c I knew the Gypsies would win every time and they did except for once, including the final. Even when they started with the other teams they would always be ahead of them by the first check point.

Take the Gypsies out of this, and replace them with an "average" team in the sense of this competition and this show gets a lot better.

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