Whew! What a hornet's nest this turned out to be. I know Jackie personally and I know she is not mean-spirited or prejudice or insensitive as some people took her to be. Luke is a grown man. By this age he should have been exposed to all kinds of frustrating situations. This isn't about him being deaf. It's about him melting down with frustration so easily. It was sad to see the melting down and it was also entertaining. That's why they put it on the air. That's why we watch the show. Both seasons we have seen him, he has acted very immature and his mother has encouraged his dependence on her. He's deaf. Get over it. He didn't need to hear to do the challenge. He needed to calm down and pay attention to what he was doing. Of course, it's just my opinion. I'd like to see Ron and Christina go next. Not because Ron is older, but because I can't abide the way he talks to his daughter. Don't hate ... just enjoy the show for what you get out of it!

hi. please leave jackie alone, i am deaf and have follow her blog on here and on her other one as well and she has never been one to speak ill of some one and never had a bad word for their disability toward a person. but i do have to amitted that even i do not like how luke act or his behavior toward things. i do agree in some ways as most have said here that he is sheltor or need to be more mature and grow up and not act like that when a challance come along. i also agree with the comment from joyce n about how luke has play act and how he is. she is right that he will need to one day learn how to live in a real world and not have it handed to him.
i am lucky as i learn how to over come having no hearing and live most of my life alone so i wish he will some how learn that way too. as he so embrasses alot of us deaf people and make some's think that how we all act when something hard come along.

go go Kynt and Vyxsin !!!!!

Hey, this is a race. We can all--Jackie included--cheer for or against whatever teams we want.

I'm sure people pick their favorites for a lot of different reasons. And I'm equally sure that the vast majority of people would never cheer against a team just because a team member has a physical disability. But on the other hand, I don't think you should be probhibited form cheering against a team just because of a physical disabiltiy either.

I root for the teams I enjoy watching, based on their behaviors and personality. I like teams who don't belittle and blame each other, who don't whine and pout, who can find humor in stressful situations, who are kind to the other teams, who are considerate toward the native civilians they encournter, who appreciate the different cultures. That meant I was rooting for Zev and Flight Time at the end of the tea-tasting challenge, because I like their team approaches and behaviors. I was not rooting for Luke,, because I didn't enjoy watching his immature behavior and approach.

Im soooo happy M/L are gone! So tired of Luke's cry-baby antics! Drinking tea is sooo hard! Grow up! You are on a reality show! If drinking tea makes your cry, you are not cut out for TAR!

It's ridiculous to think that Jackie was making any reference to Luke's deafness in her statement about his frustration. If, after watching both seasons with Luke, you don't see that his frustration is a regular event with him, then you need to watch again. Marge is the culprit in my eyes. She needs to learn to let him fall and pick himself up when things don't go his way. He acts like a frustrated child and he is obviously not a child. Marge won't always be there to hold and console him and she's doing him no favors with her over-protectiveness. Yes, they have a loving relationship but allowing him to grow up and accept that life can be tough would serve him immensely in the future.

Jet and Cord/Zev and Justin are my faves and I'm glad to see that Kent and Vyxsin got their act back together this week.

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Are you people insane? She wasn't taking glee in his misfortunes, per se, she wasn't thrilled that he is deaf... he's an immature little twit who, along with his mother, has cloistered him into his own world. In his first season it was specifically revealed that Luke doesn't even bother to ty to learn to read lips. He and his mom are very content for him to remain closed off from everyone else... shocker, then, that this undeveloped social personality has trouble when trouble presents itself. He doesn't have the socialization to be able to suck it up. It wasn't just this task. He's broken down at least 3 times this season, and that's kudos to him, in that it was about twice as good as his first outing.

If another racer had a penchant for being a douchebag and ran into a challenging task, would Jackie have been wrong to hope that the previously displayed douchery popped up again and bit him? So, why was she wrong and so malicious for hoping that the little boy who cries at the drop of a hat would crumble? She wasn't saying "I hope he goes blind, too." So what the hell are you guys talking about?

It's not that Jackie dislikes him because he's deaf. She dislikes him, presumably, because he's an annoying, childish, tantrum thrower.

Me? I didn't like him because he was deaf.

I kid.

btw, am I the only one who misses Bombay and Calcutta?

I don't know anyone who is hearing impaired, but I can't imagine the frustration that Luke was going through. The others had their teammates giving them constant reassurances throughout the challenge. Luke lives in a world of silence, and had to watch others succeed where he was failing. I do think he is very emotional, but isn't that what women are wanting in men now - more emotionally available?? Why is there double standards? I thought he showed true strength in continuing the challenge after watching everyone else go, and knowing they would probably lose anyway. I love tea, that's all I drink, but I can't imagine tasting that much tea and not being sick. Also, with all the other smells, it was probably very hard, shown by the fact that the other teams struggled as well. To take such glee in Luke's failure, show's the reviewers prejudice, ignorance and just plain meaness! I'm used to better from Jackie.

I don't understand why the tea road block was so difficult. Did they have to drink all of the tea in the cup before they could submit it is a choice? Is that why Flight Time seemed to miss his mouth and pour it down his shirt when he was drinking the tea?