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Quote from: Neobie on April 17, 2009, 12:03:39 PMAAARHHHH! That's my street! *dies. repeatedly.*Very well-played, show! Highly recommended episode, even for those who haven't been following TAR:I. (It's the 1.01.54 clip on their website.)Here's a local's take on how it stacks up against the other Hong Kong episodes...TAR 2.7 7/10: Great showcase of Hong Kong's blend of new and old, featuring herbal recipes and fishing junks juxtaposed with cargo ports and skyscrapers. Also, the awesomeness of "Did you ever think in your life you'd be in Hong Kong?"TAR 2.8 8/10: Visit to Tin Hau was pointless, but... lions versus dragons! Limousines to the airport! And Oswald/Danny stumbling upon Hong Kong's biggest claim to fame! Aah. Delicious.TAR 11 2/10: Too much dawdling on stunts, and inventing fake "traditions". Goes against entire spirit of The Amazing Race. FAIL.TAR:A 2 0.5/10: Thanks, show. Go all the way to Hong Kong for product placement and a pointless task. Half a point because Hong Kong = money, and they got that right.TAR:A 3 6/10: Campy tasks, but can see how handbags and gutting fish are part of the locale. Fortune cookies, though? Disappointing. (Announcement: you will find more fortune cookies in any store in San Francisco's Chinatown than you will the whole of China.)TAR:I 1.7A 8.5/10: Hong Kong as crowded busy money-making metropolis. Correct! The subway beating the taxi. Finally! Dumping them in the centre of town with no regard for spoilers. Yes! Good use of culture: the absence of 4s, ping pong and much more. Upping the herbal tea, yet staying perfectly acceptable bounds! Drawback: They're force-fitting that FF into every locale now.Damn. Previews look badass!Anyone want to weigh in on the portrayal of your city/country in TAR:US/TAR:A/TAR:I?PS. I was/am totally that nerdy kid with the glasses. Minus the ping pong prowess.Just looking at your posts, it made me so much eager to return to HK! (And yes! I'm returning there quite soon!!! I just hope any race would be filiming! Last time I returned there, TARA3 was filming on the very exact day I got lost in Central and in Mongkok - I was almost there with the racers and the clueboxes the whole time and didn't even see it!)Just with the tasks and WIKI, I'm more than happy to see other sights and sounds of the place other than what we usually go to...And Neobie, I quite agree now that TAR:AS HK leg was the worst of all complete Hong Kong legs.And TARA2's Hong Kong drop by was the worst drop by to another country made by any race together with Germany during their season.I'm quite eager to watch this show already!!! I just couldn't understand a thing Just looking at the wiki makes me so excited to watch this!I wish our US TAR would be equal to their greatness! I also wish TARA (whom they have the same producer in Israel - McKay?? Am I right??) be as good as this one, because they just proved that they could really make quality television!
AAARHHHH! That's my street! *dies. repeatedly.*Very well-played, show! Highly recommended episode, even for those who haven't been following TAR:I. (It's the 1.01.54 clip on their website.)Here's a local's take on how it stacks up against the other Hong Kong episodes...TAR 2.7 7/10: Great showcase of Hong Kong's blend of new and old, featuring herbal recipes and fishing junks juxtaposed with cargo ports and skyscrapers. Also, the awesomeness of "Did you ever think in your life you'd be in Hong Kong?"TAR 2.8 8/10: Visit to Tin Hau was pointless, but... lions versus dragons! Limousines to the airport! And Oswald/Danny stumbling upon Hong Kong's biggest claim to fame! Aah. Delicious.TAR 11 2/10: Too much dawdling on stunts, and inventing fake "traditions". Goes against entire spirit of The Amazing Race. FAIL.TAR:A 2 0.5/10: Thanks, show. Go all the way to Hong Kong for product placement and a pointless task. Half a point because Hong Kong = money, and they got that right.TAR:A 3 6/10: Campy tasks, but can see how handbags and gutting fish are part of the locale. Fortune cookies, though? Disappointing. (Announcement: you will find more fortune cookies in any store in San Francisco's Chinatown than you will the whole of China.)TAR:I 1.7A 8.5/10: Hong Kong as crowded busy money-making metropolis. Correct! The subway beating the taxi. Finally! Dumping them in the centre of town with no regard for spoilers. Yes! Good use of culture: the absence of 4s, ping pong and much more. Upping the herbal tea, yet staying perfectly acceptable bounds! Drawback: They're force-fitting that FF into every locale now.Damn. Previews look badass!Anyone want to weigh in on the portrayal of your city/country in TAR:US/TAR:A/TAR:I?PS. I was/am totally that nerdy kid with the glasses. Minus the ping pong prowess.
just a little news update from today, on ynet [title is "chicki chicki check in", as a gesture to Hannah & Margalit], here's the link: http://www.ynet.co.il/art...0,7340,L-3723739,00.html there are some pictures of the team and Raz & GF on Ben Gurion airport in Israel. according to the article, the teams are flying to a secret destination where the final will take place. the pics are from this saturday, so i guess they are racing right now, kind of exciting, isn't it? i'm happy the final won't be totally live. there was a show in israel a few years ago called "racing to the apartment". it was very similar to the amazing race, but the race took place only inside Israel- it actually was a low budget version of the amazing race. on this show, the final was all live and it was just awful, horrible! i hope the final won't ruin the whole show... BTW, TARI subtitles are on their way... they will be published starting on july... it will be worth the wait! we've already started working on it. this week, i believe that there will be the last non-elimination leg.
thankyou georgia for putting my my post from sucks here!I hope that many TAR fans from all over the world will watch the Israeli version after it'll have English subtitles.
I don't know if I like or hate that final commercial... So the Final 3 are being flown from Israel to New Zealand just to fly to Europe?
Happy 2500, cdfe88! (I'm an '88 too!)I swear, you guys are nuts. 2500? 7000? I've been here since we were looking for helipads over Sao Paulo and I'm not even past the Devil's number...
LOLit does look too complicated...maybe their already filmed the morning part in new zealand when they read in the envelopes where is their final destination a few months ago, and the cut will be on the flight part, so it'll look like teams are flying from NZ to final destination, but it's actually the flight from israel to the final destination.or that the final destination will be NZ and they won't have any new destination on the final (that sucks...). i wish it could've been final in Israel, but i know it can't be. our country is so small that two seconds after the finish line will be done, there will be pics all over the internet.you must understand that our country is so small that everyone saw at least 1 reality contender on the streets incidentally.i can tell that i was bumped to someone from Big Brother Israel in the streets of Tel Aviv, and saw 2 competitors from Israeli SYTYCD (1 at a resturant, 1 at the mall), LOL.my sister, BTW, saw Hadas from TARI on student day in Tel aviv a few weeks ago.
Quote from: Tusha on June 06, 2009, 01:00:03 PMLOLit does look too complicated...maybe their already filmed the morning part in new zealand when they read in the envelopes where is their final destination a few months ago, and the cut will be on the flight part, so it'll look like teams are flying from NZ to final destination, but it's actually the flight from israel to the final destination.or that the final destination will be NZ and they won't have any new destination on the final (that sucks...). i wish it could've been final in Israel, but i know it can't be. our country is so small that two seconds after the finish line will be done, there will be pics all over the internet.you must understand that our country is so small that everyone saw at least 1 reality contender on the streets incidentally.i can tell that i was bumped to someone from Big Brother Israel in the streets of Tel Aviv, and saw 2 competitors from Israeli SYTYCD (1 at a resturant, 1 at the mall), LOL.my sister, BTW, saw Hadas from TARI on student day in Tel aviv a few weeks ago.i think top 3 teams and Their respective cameraman flew to New Zealand, and Eliminated Teams and Raz Flew To Europe. i think that make sense!!!
Those who went to the recent WWDC were able to be part of a revolutionary new iPhone experience - at least tThe Amazing Race Israel”. But the stream only worked with iPhone OS 3.0.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKUio-8665YSo you will want to know what that means for us - the average iPhone user. Well, several things - firstly, the iphone OS 3.0 is being released to developers today. That means that we can expect a pretty quick response from at least some TV stations around the world and be able to subscribe to their networks in the near future.It also means that we should see the iReshet app released any day now - as the promise at the WWDC was that the iReshet app would be released soon after the iPone OS 3.0 had been released. Reshet is the top/ most successful channel in Israel - you can get a preview of the quality of their shows in the above video.Finally, the app will allow live TV application for both the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch. So keep an eye out for this app - if only to get a look at whatis in store for us with live TV on the iPhone.